SEO Competitions

Search Engine Optimisation Competitions

We put the lo-down on the latest SEO "craze"!

Search Engine Optimisation Competition. Search Engine Optimisation Competition. Search Engine Optimisation Competition. Annoying yet? NO, that wasn't a mistake, we really did say "Search Engine Optimisation" 3 times, now 4 in 2 lines, well, that's what Blogs, Forum's and more could be turning into in the future, that's if you don't agree it has started already.

So, what is the basics of a Search Engine Optimisation Competition?

Search Engine Optimisation Competitions have famously been ran be isulong seoph, v7n and ambatch seo contest to name a few. From my point of view they are an absolute nightmare. If you didnt pick it up from the first paragraph of this article, it often results people spamming their anchor text keywords with the keyword the competition has "set", and whoever ranks in certain positions on certain search engines (normally no.1 on Google), then you win a prize. Sounds good? Well, theres likely to be thousands of people aiming for this prize, all perfectly optimising their websites for it, so of course there's going to be forum spamming, blog spamming, all in the aim to get more backlinks with their chosen anchor text.

What do the runners of the competition get?

Well, that's the clever part. OK...so the runners of the competition set a random keyword for people to try and optimise for and win the prize on offer, and the runners of the competition just get to give some prize money, and basically lose out? WRONG!. The runners of the competition (unless stupid), require all participants, using the site they are optimising with...link back to the competition site. So, here's the scenario. Lots and lots of sites, all highly optimised, all gaining increasing links pointing to them. All them highly optimised, high potential pr sites are linking to one site, so for a $400 dollar prize or whatever, these competition runners are getting thousands of dollars worth of exposure and link activity. Not as thick as they look these forum owners.

The future of Search Engine Optimisation Competitions...

Without a doubt, I think there's a big future left for SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), Competition's. More and more companies are getting into search engine optimisation, particularly internet marketing, but still involving SEO, day by day. This is because the realisation of the size of the internet market is getting clearer and clearer that it's becoming bigger and bigger. So, with these companies getting into SEO, they are going to be looking for ways to exploit areas to get the cheapest attention possible, cometh the Search Engine Optimisation Competition. Not only is there people willing to offer the competition's, but there's also thousands of wanna-be webmasters and SEO's who want to prove they have got what it takes to earn something from the competition, and that's the main reason the competition runners earn big style - because 99.9% of the people entering the competition, aren't going to stand a chance.

Overall, Search Engine Optimisation Competitions of today and the past are just the tip of the iceberg. There's going to be bigger prizes, bigger entry numbers and a whole lot more spamming. Be prepared!