SEO contests can help you with your search engine optimisation. If you want help, you might consider doing this on your website or blog. The theory is simple and there are many ways to do it. Get other people to do your SEO for you and the one who does the best job at getting you exposure online wins a prize. The value of the prize could be negligible when you contrast it to the value of the SEO work you’d have done yourself or paid for. And, a prize could be a business write-off as well.
How do I do an SEO contest
There are various ways to do this and you might want to put some research into other seo contests to see what rules might make sense for yours but one of the common ideas is to come up with key phrases you want to rank for. The person that gets to the top of the search engines for getting you there wins. They can do it through an Adwords campaign, through blog commenting, creating their own blog, forum postings with your link in signature lines, etc.
Doing on page and off page SEO is good for your online business. While you can have a contest or pay someone to do SEO for you, learning as much as you can about search engine optimization on an ongoing basis is definitely valuable.
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Hi Sean,
I’ve never heard of an SEO contest. Is this something that is still used? I’ve been trying to learn to do my own SEO but it would be interesting to see the kind of results that someone else could get.
I guess a commenting competition isn’t a bad idea either for SEO, but I don’t have enough posts online to do that yet
Same here Renee. Traffic would also be a big factor. I wouldn’t want to have a comment competition and only have 5 or so people commenting…
Hi Renee and Cemil,
Me too but I still think we could come up with some kind of competition that would benefit our business. I see quite a few bloggers getting people to submit blog posts to them and using them as guest posts.
The blogger chooses the winner according to who gets the most RTs. I think this is a great way of getting traffic and encouraging people to vote for their favourite post. I’m thinking of giving this a go after the competition is over.
Just checked out the article about SEO Competitions on Wikipedia and a resource article on Wired. An interesting history and description of tactics. The Wired article disclosed the winning tactic that won the second round of 2004 “nigritude ultramarine” competition by SearchGuild, considered to be the mother of all SEO competitions. The second round was won by Anil Dash by virtue of a single post on his blog in which he asked his readers to link from their own sites.
Now let’s see. What could I give for the winner of an SEO Competition. Hmmm, maybe I could offer a signed virtual copy of a Grateful We’re Not Dead CD that was never recorded and never released.
What a timely read as I am involved in a fantastic SEO contest – which finishes tomorrow! I really hope that the person who is running the contest gets good SEO from it while the participants value the education they are receiving from the guru!