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.)
