Seo Contests

Contest Starter: concours-seo.com
Seo contest running dates: September 1, 2006 - January 2, 2007
Total Prize amount: 950 euro
Search engines used: Exalead
Keyword Phrase: Loupanthere
Places Paid: 15
Monthly Results Prize: none
Final Results Prize: * Gifts offered by the Sivit company:
o 1 pack 600 one year old Mo of a value of 132 EURO HT
o 1 pack 150 one year old Mo of a value of 35 EURO HT
* Gifts offered by the Visialis company, editor of SpyWords.com:
o 1 pack 400.000 one year WFP of a value of 120 EURO HT
o 1 pack 100.000 one year WFP of a value of 30 EURO HT
* Gifts offered by the Yooda company:
o 1 licence for the SeeUrank software of a value of 550 EURO including all taxes
* Gifts offered by the Packref company:
o 10 packs referencing out of 800 directories of an unit value of 45 EURO including all taxes
Details and Rules: Launching of first contest SEO on the search engine Exalead, I (Deleter23) invite you all to take part in it. This contest is opened with all and all, professional and amateurs of referencing. What a contest of referencing? The webmasters set on optimization of sites (SEO), referencing and positioning in the results of search engines clash from time to time in a friendly tournament (most of the time) to place its site the first on the results of a search engine, on a given request (generally completely imaginary, eccentric and not-competing (at the beginning because that often leaves very extremely!). Why a contest SEO? For the pleasure, on the one hand, of playing to seek which small parameter, which subtle refining will tip the scales and of making you take some places By curiosity, also, to include/understand how the search engines, at which speed they index, etc function Object of contest SEO With time, one starts to know them, these engines, and it is always same the rengaine: same methods for the same types of sites Same winners Contest-SEO innovates, since it will be the very first contest of positioning carried out on Exalead! Exalead is the engine elected 2nd better technology of research and 2nd better site of research to the "Gold Abundance". The request: To gain this contest, you will have to be positioned on the request "loupanthère" at the date of the 01.02.07.
Main Contest Page: http://www.concours-seo.com

Contest Starter: Cpays.com
Seo contest running dates: August 1, 2006 - February 1, 2007
Total Prize amount: $20,000
Search engines used: Google, Yahoo, MSN, MSN.fr, MSN.co.il
Keyword Phrase: Cpayscom2 Online Casino
Places Paid: 1-10
Monthly Results Prize: At 2 points in this SEO challenge, there will be an extra check-up, where participants can also win prices if they have the #1 position at MSN.com:
October 1 – 2006, 12:00 (GMT) : $1,000
December 1 – 2006, 12:00 (GMT): $1,000
Final Results Prize:
This Second CPayscom SEO contest has a $20,000 prize pool. Any site that will reach the following positions on February 1, wins:
#1 MSN: $10,000, #2 MSN: $2,000, #3 MSN: $1,000, #4-#10 MSN: #100, #1 MSN.fr: $1,000, #1 MSN.co.il: $ 1,000, #1 Google: $1,000, #1 Yahoo: $1,000,
Details and Rules: 1) Create a new page or use an existing page and optimize it for the search engines for the winning keywords. These keywords will be revealed at August 1 at 12:00 GMT exactly.
2) Add in a clearly noticeable section the following code: I'm participating in an online casino SEO challenge for online poker rooms and flash casinos.
Main Contest Page: http://www.cpayscom.com

Contest Starter: Directorycontest.com
Seo contest running dates: 6 November 2006 - February 6th 2007, 10 AM P.S.T.
Total Prize amount: $2,600
Search engines used: Google.com
Keyword Phrase: DirectoryContest.com
Places Paid: top 3 plus various other prizes to be announced
Monthly Results Prize: none
Final Results Prize: 1st Prize: $2,000.00 in cash
2nd Prize: $400.00 in cash
3rd Prize: $200.00 in cash
various other prizes will be announced as well.
Details and Rules: In order for you to participate, all you need to do is list this blog anywhere in your directory. The listing has to be a regular listing or a featured listing and cannot be a sitewide or a homepage listing. On February 6th 2007, 10 AM P.S.T. we will search Google for directorycontest.com/ and whichever directories are coming up, are going to win the prizes. The first 10 directories are going to win prizes, we already have assigned cash prizes to the first 3 and there will be many more cash prizes as well as other prizes given. You are allowed to get extra links into your category, even name the link http://www.directorycontest.com . So you can blog about it and link to it from your blog or wherever, if you think it will help you beat the really strong directories, then go for it!
The category can’t be named http://www.directorycontest.com or Directorycontest.com and the title of the listing for http://www.directorycontest.com needs to be “Directory Contest”, “DirectoryContest.com”or “Directory Contest - DirectoryContest.com”.
The Sponsors:
Jeff Behrendt - Aviva Web Directory - $1,000 + Aviva Directory Tshirt + free listing at Aviva Directory
Jamey Perkins - Bloggeries $350.00!
Pete - Forplex Business Directory - to be announced!
Chris Hoffman - $250, a free listing in Alive Directory, and a free copy of the award-winning Blaze Media Pro software.
Aaron - Swap Links $200.00 Eric The Future of Link Building $100.00 and 15 Blurbs across his blog network worth $40
Coolwebs - $70 as well as 3 permanent featured listings in www.DirArchive.com CReed Fizzuck $100 and 10 Keyword Tags at Fizzuck.com
Crazy Zap - $50 in cash, a 5 link website review here (worth $30) and 3 listings in the directory attached to the website reviews site (worth $75) Whatifind - $50,- in cash + a link at http://www.dirspace.com worth $6,- and a review at http://odproject.org/directories.html with several deeplinks worth $30,-
Shenron - $50 in cash 1 featured link and 1 regular listing at Squidlink - Premium Internet Directory
Manish: $60 Cash , Sitewide link on Mathukiya directory worth $45, and $30 Credit for Manual directory submission (170 Manual Directory submissions)
Main Contest Page: http://www.directorycontest.com

Contest Starter: macalua.com
Seo contest running dates: October 28, 2006 8:00 PM - February 23, 2007 8:00 PM
Total Prize amount: P 300,000
Search engines used: Google, Yahoo, MSN
Keyword Phrase: Ituloy Angsulong
Places Paid: 40 and consolation prizes
Monthly Results Prize: none
Final Results Prize: Triple Jackpot Prize
* 60,000.00 PHP for the contest entry with the highest cumulative rank
* 35,000.00 PHP for the contest entry with the second highest cumulative rank
* 15,000.00 PHP for the contest entry with the third highest cumulative rank
Main Contest Prizes
Rank Google Yahoo! MSN
1 10,000.00 PHP 10,000.00 PHP 10,000.00 PHP
2 9,000.00 PHP 9,000.00 PHP 9,000.00 PHP
3 8,000.00 PHP 8,000.00 PHP 8,000.00 PHP
4 7,000.00 PHP 7,000.00 PHP 7,000.00 PHP
5 6,000.00 PHP 6,000.00 PHP 6,000.00 PHP
6 5,000.00 PHP 5,000.00 PHP
7 4,000.00 PHP 4,000.00 PHP
8 3,000.00 PHP 3,000.00 PHP
9 2,000.00 PHP 2,000.00 PHP
10 1,000.00 PHP 1,000.00 PHP
Consolation Prizes
In addition, we have the following prizes to be given away:
* Best in Design Award - the contest organizers will select three finalists. The final winner will be selected via an on-the-spot poll during the awarding ceremonies and will receive 10,000.00 PHP.
* Google Bonus Prize - 1,000.00 PHP each for sites Rank 11th to 40th in Google (sponsored by Boris Kerbikov)
Details and Rules: The contest is open to all Filipinos. It’s also open to non-Filipinos who can be present at the awarding ceremonies. If a non-Filipino should win and he’s not physically present at the event, he is disqualified from the contest.
# For this contest, we’ll have three sets of winners: forty (40) for Google, ten (10) for Yahoo! and five (5) for MSN.
# To win, you have to rank from #1 to #40 in Google (http://www.google.com), #1 to #10 in Yahoo (http://search.yahoo.com) and #1 for MSN (http://search.msn.com) for the contest keyword. Each spot has its corresponding prize (see above)
# To qualify for the Triple Jackpot Prize, you must have an entry that’s on the top 40 results of the big three: Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Your entry should also have the required links from LakesideSQL.com, LogoDesignExpress.com and CPays.com. The contest entry page that has the highest cumulative rank on all three search engines will be declared the grand champion. The contest entires that have the second and third highest cumulative ranks on all three search engines will receive the second and third Triple Jackpot prizes, respectively. If you have two or more contest entries (on the same domain) on the top 40, we’ll pick the higher ranking entry for the computations. During the awarding ceremonies, there’ll be a public viewing of all three search engine result pages (SERP) to determine the winners.
To illustrate:
* Contest Entry A is #4 in Google, #17 in Yahoo! and #8 in MSN = cumulative rank of 29
* Contest Entry B is #3 in Google, #5 in Yahoo! and #11 in MSN = cumulative rank of 19 (this is the winner)
# Required Contest Links - Go to the Ituloy Angsulong Link Generator tool for the required contest links.
# For the purpose of this competition, indented listings in the SERPs will not be counted.
# Contest updates will be posted on the following sites: SEO Philippines Mailing List, SEO Philippines Blog, SEO Philippines Forum and Macalua.com.
# VERY IMPORTANT: In order to win, contestants must read and acknowledge the full contest terms and conditions outlined above by posting a “I have read the contest mechanics and I agree” comment on this page. Please include in your comment 1) your full name and 2) your contest entry URLs. Contestants who do not comply are not eligible to win.
# Last but not the least, the contest keyword is ituloy angsulong (without quotation marks).
Main Contest Page: http://www.macalua.com/2006/10/29/philippine-seo-contest/

Contest Starter: Rapidsharetalk.com
Seo contest running dates: Nov 16th 2006, 4:50 am - March 1st, 2007
Total Prize amount: $300
Search engines used: Google
Keyword Phrase: "Rapidshare Forum" AND "Rapidshare Forums"
Places Paid: 5
Monthly Results Prize: none
Final Results Prize: #1 Winner Prize: $200 In Paypal Credit (of course, paid from a verified account (JFYI))
Other Prizes:
2nd place: $50
3rd place: Free Domain Name
4th & 5th places: Free Premium Accounts @ Rapidshare.com
Details and Rules: Note #1: I know the prize funds are a little less than other SEO contests, but to be honest that is everything i can afford now for that website. If there will be more to offer, i will let everybody know ASAP.
How To Start, What Not To Do?
Well, in SEO contests people usually register related domain names and do their best in SEO techniques to mention and link to the targeted domain. Some others perfer to register blogger.com blogs and talk a little about the targeted URL using blog-n-ping technologies.. everyone has his way of doing it.
Please notice that i will not accept entries that:
- have the words "rapidsharetalk" in their names
- have the phrase "rapidshare seo contest" in the names
- Entries with domain names registered before the start date of this thread.
How will the winners be determined?
1- On March 1st, i will access google.com from 10 different IP addresses with different C classes, and different countries. I will query the terms targeted from each of the location and record the results for each IP address.
2- Winners will be the owners of the google links based on their placement on the first SERP. SERP = Search Engine Result Page
Main Contest Page: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=179748

Contest Starter: Threadwatch.org
Seo contest running dates: Jan 23, 2007 - March 1st, 2007
Total Prize amount: $1,100
Search engines used: Google
Keyword Phrase: Dave Pasternack
Places Paid: 1
Monthly Results Prize: none
Final Results Prize: $1,000 to 1st and In addition Threadwatch will also give away $100 to the most interesting PPC ad running at that time, as voted for by our editors
Details and Rules: Threadwatch has decided to get on the SEO contest bandwagon. Whoever ranks #1 in Google for Dave Pasternack at noon Eastern on March 1st, 2007 wins $1,000 from Threadwatch. In addition to the $1,000 prize for the top ranking site, Threadwatch will also give away $100 to the most interesting PPC ad running at that time, as voted for by our editors.
Main Contest Page: http://www.threadwatch.org/node/11507

Contest Starter: SEOworldchampionship.com
Seo contest running dates: January 15th, 2007 - May 1st, 2007
Total Prize amount: $
Search engines used: Google, Yahoo, MSN
Keyword Phrase: TBA on January 15th at 13.00 PM EST - "globalwarming awareness2007"
Places Paid: Top 5
Monthly Results Prize: none
Final Results Prize: 1st prize: A brand new Citroen C2. The winner of our first prize will receive a brand new Citroen c2 from the closest local car dealer.
Cruise 2nd prize: A Caribbean Cruise. The winner will recieve travel checks.
Plasma TV 3rd prize A plasma tv
$500 4´th prize $500
$100 5´th prize $100
Details and Rules:
1. Site must include either a SEO World Championship text link or a banner. (The banner may be linked or not linked)
Text link, copy the code and place it on your website or choose one of the banners.
SEO World Championship
or Banner with link. (available on 2007-01-15) Banner without link. (available on 2007-01-15)

2. Valid contact information must be found on the site, E-mail is preferred.

3. Your official domain must be registered the same day or after January the 15th 2007. (All domains registered before the 15th of January 2007 will not qualify for the competition)

4. Website will not use SEO methods which are clearly not approved by Search Engine Guidelines for example: doorway pages, etc. See Google webmaster Guidelines. (Any participant ignoring the Google webmaster guidelines will not qualify for a prize)

On May 1st, 2007 we will make a search for "the keyword" on Google.com, MSN.com and Yahoo.com and combine the scores and subsequently determine a winner. The score is calculated by giving points to position 1 - 10 in each search engine. You will receive 10 points for a number one spot, and 1 point for a number 10 spot.

For example:
Your website: www.yourdomain.com

Rank in Google: 7 = 4 points
Rank in MSN: 10 = 1 point
Rank in Yahoo: 2 = 9 points
Total points for www.yourdomain.com = 14 points

If 2 contestants would end up with the same Total points then the contestant with the highest rank in Google.com will take the higher position. You can follow the the total points of this contest on our scorecard page.
Main Contest Page: http://www.seoworldchampionship.com

Contest Starter: SeoRace.com
Seo contest running dates: 1 June 2006 at 12noon (GMT) - June 1 2007 at 12 noon
Total Prize amount: $8000
Search engines used: Google
Keyword Phrase: online casino seorace
Places Paid: 1-50
Monthly Results Prize: halfway prize of $500
Final ResultsPrize: 1-$4,000 , 2-$500 , 3-$200 , 4-50 -$50
Looking for Sponsors: NO
Details and Rules: Google Seo Competition sponsored by Cpays
SeoRace.com is proud to introduce our first SEO competition with a $8000 price pool.
We are looking for the best googler and we want to reward you with cash prices.
How do I win
First you have to create a website and target your site for the search term "online casino seorace", and the website that got the best rank in google 1th June 2007 on the search term "online casino seorace" will win first price.
The SeoRace Gooole SEO contest has a $8000 prize pool.
Content Reward, Price $450
If you don't know anything about search engines you still got a chance to win.
We reward the website with the best orginal content, look and design.
This price is to encourage webmasters to create quality sites with good content.
If you belive your site should win the SeoRace Content Reward,
send us an email with your URL to: contentreward@seorace.com
Half Way Price
We also got a half way price for the best googler.
If your nr. one for the search term "online casino seorace" 1. December 2006 you win: $500
Main Contest Page: http://www.seorace.com

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