It looks like this one is a fake seo-contest.

Sad, really sad. How can this guy think that the online community would NOT warn others about this?

I am glad I did a bit of reseach before starting preparing for the contest.

If you want to help me out in the contest, please bless me with a link or to using the following code: Carcasherdotcom Seocontest

The contest end by the end of the year, so I should have a fair chance at it, and given I am now putting all the link-power I have available into this blog, my Carcasherdotcom Seocontest page should start ranking prettyr soon.

Long live the Carcasherdotcom Seocontest!

Edit: Heh. I have seen through the serps of Google, and are doing quite well with my other contestant site at euroheadline.com, so I guess this on is off..

I won the BTDino contest february 26th. Be The Dealer has still not managed to send the check ($1.500) – or at least I have not seen any check comming from them. Also, I have corresponded with them via mail several times, and actually got a reply from Leon stating that he would ask their financial department if it has been sent.

Now it has gone a week without a word..

Are they so god damn busy over there, that they can’t even be deacent enough to tell me if they have sent the damn check?

What can be done? Any suggestions?

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We still have time, but are very happy holding the second place.

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We still have time, but are very happy holding the second place.

Currently I hold the second place for the key phrase Online Casino BTDino, and I intend to move to the top.. But I really need your help guys!

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What will be interesting to see is how it will change over time.

Thanks John for this wonderful contest. It gives so much interesting data regarding what is going on under the hood of Google’s search engine.

But, on a side note: Would I ever work with a key phrase based sitename? No way! How can you build confidence and credability for a site named v7ndotcom-elursrebmem-some-other-keywords.com?

This tells me that it is gonna take some time until the results could be considered reliable.

I have been working quite hard today, on four different sites, to get them up in the rankings. So far, I have seen one of my sites in the top 400 range. Oddly enough I did not expect this site to rank at all yet.

To me it looks like the first set of data that has been gathered by Google is getting spit out more or less in a raw format.
This also indicates something I have seen earlier, that Google works with the data in several phases.

First phase:
Gather as much data as possible. Spit out the results more or less raw.
I base this observation on the fact that I have a site with a feed from this blog. Look at the feed section on the right side of http://euroheadline.com

The site ranked at 230ish place when I saw the first dataset. At that moment the keyword phrase was only mentioned one time – in the feed text. No title tag, no inbound links. Key phrase in the text one time.

If what I see here is correct, Google does not put much weight on ranking in the first set of results. I have made a similar observation on another occation.

Second phase:
Run data against historical data. Sort the results based on inbound links and the PR they have been given.

In this phase I believe Google starts looking at the dataset through their filters. They wash the set against different filters, and takes out the results that does not belong there. Finally they sorts the records and spits out a “washed” set of data.

Third phase:
Rinse and repeat the second phase.

If my observations are correct, this means a few things.
It means that it is outmost important to be careful on the linkbuilding. If you throw too many links at an url, you will later be cought in a filter when the url is “washed”. It also means that you have no control of knowing when the url will be released from the filter applied to it.

In my understanding of the algorithms, the rulesets of the filters works like a loop. And the url will stay in the loop until it does not trigger any new “if” sentences.

I have seen this happen on on site, that keeps getting thrown back of the resultset as long as I keep throwing new links at it.

So my advice here is simple. If your site is cought by the sandbox, stop generating inbound links for it untill it starts moving upwards in the serps.

OK. That was todays observations.

What do you think? Am I onto something here?

If you want to help us out, please link to the link below in your blog, or on your webpage. I think we will need all the help we can get to have a chance!

The link: http://basicus.com/v7ndotcom-elursrebmem/ Anchor text: v7ndotcom elursrebmem

It is a long time since I felt so excited about anything web-related. And frankly, I have never won anything in my life, except my 3 children and my beautiful and clever wife of course

This contest will be really interesting, since it looks like quite a few people from DigitalPoint’s forums has decided to participate.