Some of the entrants for the “sulumits retsambew” SEO contest chose to use the power of WordPress.com and Web 2.0 to get high ranking for the contest, but now their pages are empty at WordPress. From what I have been told Wordpress has something in the TOS against contests. I didn’t even find the word contest on the TOS, but I did see SPAM. My guess – they see it as spam. Many bloggers have issue with those who do SEO and see all SEO as bad.
What I don’t know is whether Will at www.Netbuilders.org will allow the site to win even if no content is displayed on the page. What do you think? (Please post your thoughts.) My guess is that the banned pages will lose their spots in Google as others build links and content.
Not a lot of change has been happening on the first 2 pages of SERPS with Google, not sure about the pages after that. I have seen more movement on Yahoo.com and Live.com than that of Google.com. I can’t imagine being an “SEO expert” with pages in this contest that are after the 3rd page of results, those “experts” would have to be frustrated.
Since I am talking about “SEO experts” can I rant just a bit? Don’t fall for the line that they will guarantee you top position!! If you are working with a real (by real I mean a competitive search term people actually search for) search term, (you don’t want to rank for sulumits retsambew do you?) then it can take some time and effort to get to the first page of results. The other way they can do this is by a hijacker program. They will ask you to download a program which then allows them to show a website or change the first three results when you are on Google, Yahoo, or MSN. Scams like this have been running for at least 6 years with names like Realname, etc… (DON”T FALL FOR IT.)
I think that the pages without content will go down as soon as Google index’s the wordpress blogs next time. I also suggest other SEO participants to not use wordpress for any current SEO contests as well as the future SEO contests. The TOS of wordpress is more strict. I think till now all the contestants have tried their level best with afzal coming back to first page after dropping back to 3rd page. Mike , Hellas and Sunita was doing their level best as well. Mike has dropped a bit but I am sure he will soon come back. New contestant like Renan, Ardie etc have came to first page but only for few days they could hold their position. I see that the results keep on changing but the frequency of change is little slower.
I guess Deleted Wordpress blogs will definitely go down within few days or may be out of serps. I m one of the victim of wordpress blog..:(
I think – Google was not doing major updates on serps due to the PR update. Not sure.