SEO Contest suggest your own rules

[seorulz]

Originally Posted by Resonate

We could do it based on a points system for the first 10 places in each search engine:

• 1st = 10pt
• 2nd = 9pt
• 3rd = 8pt
• 4th = 7pt
• 5th = 6pt
• 6th = 5pt
• 7th = 4pt
• 8th = 3pt
• 9th = 2pt
• 10th = 1pt

At the end of the contest positions arte taken from all three search engines & points are added depending on the members entry so if i got

1st in Google = 10pt
7th in Yahoo! = 3pt
2nd in msn = 9pt

So i would total of 22pts for my entry.

If we cant get a script, we could possibly do it manually from the given search string at the time, screenshot the top 10 results on the search engines

Great idea, the net, after all is global and made up of many different search engines and their own theories therein. By taking into account only one of them, does not, in my opinion, give a cross section of results on the web that the public actaully see. Its a bit blinkered not to take into account that other search engines exist and that the do actually get large amounts of viewers.

[seorulz]

Originally Posted by Resonate

Great idea but impossible to put into effect!

Who can tell if one entry is run by one or three people, i had no idea that sphere entry had 30 ppl in it. Theres just no way of telling.

Exactly. There is no real way to police a team and individual contest. Anyways, in reality, its the real world everyone is up against normally and so why not in the competition also.

[temi]

Originally Posted by Resonate

Great idea but impossible to put into effect!

Who can tell if one entry is run by one or three people, i had no idea that sphere entry had 30 ppl in it. Theres just no way of telling.

But you can state in the rules that its an individual rather than a group contest if you want to exclude group.

But I have a felling people like to work in group, for example, I think Zoli will be entering the forthcoming contest with a friend.

[ced]

It's difficult to judge the difference between an individual player which is helped by his friends, and a real team...

I want to say it's not a so easy way to play in a team :
But, by the past, we losed with v7ndotcom and globalwarming.
But with this contest, we win with the sphere...

It's difficult because seo contests need an organisation which would be able to win... and this is not so often...

I've forgot a point which would be nice on a new contest : The chosen words !
In france, we like to chose funny words like "stork eater" or "spationaut troglodyte" ... It's more funny to make this kind of site, because participants can draw new pictures and it makes sense ...

[temi]

Originally Posted by ced

In france, we like to chose funny words like "eater stork" or "spationaut troglodyte" ... It's more funny to make this kind of site, because you can draw new pictures

We would bear this in mind when choosing the word, the only thing is that, whatever work we come up with, if a search is done for it in Google, it should return zero results.

[BenjArriola]

I suggest a keyword that is not SEO related. Because I do not know what to do with the site again when it's over. *LOL*

I liked the Global warming one the keywords were: globalwarming awareness2007 and it had zero results when the contest started. Today the site still exist. I changed the name, changed the URL, and it is still alive and is monetized with only Adsense and is surprised it does well. One month of it pays for the hosting the whole year and the domain also. So everything else is passive income. Even if it is small, I am doing nothing so it is still good.

And if the keyword is SEO related, I just have too many SEO related websites already. Too hard to maintain as they compete with each other. But then again, that is just a suggestion. You may follow it or not.

@ced: If you were the same team with sphereseo in GlobalWarming, I was still going as myself and won that contest. So teams can work sometimes it does not. Although as every SEO contest passes by, I am sure each competitor gets better every time and learns from their mistakes.

Honestly if another SEO contest comes out and the Sphere team is participating, with the v7n, globalwarming and seocontest2008 experience, you pretty know what to do already. And beating that is too tough. So maybe I might decide on teaming up as well.

Even if you put a rule that teams are not allowed, I think it will be hard to monitor that and teams will still exist.

I think if the team culture starts to become a trend, the Indonesian team will be also hard to beat I guess. With MES and Pogung teaming up.

[MES]

Thanks Benj for considering us as "a hard team to beat".

I think it's good if you and me create ASEAN Team with Indonesia, Phillipines, and other ASEAN countries join in

Well, we can create "United Nations online" too if needed

[ced]

It's a good idea !
Benj and Mes, If you want, we could join a team called "blue seo helmets" on the next contest.
(just for fun indeed ! but... why not share some ideas from over the world ?)

[KingPin]

Look like I will be on my own and not in a team oh well, more spoils for me when I win

KP

[BenjArriola]

Originally Posted by KingPin

Look like I will be on my own and not in a team oh well, more spoils for me when I win

KP

LOL That's right!