SEO Dance

What would you do with $300? I can think of at least a dozen ways I would spend $300 right now. Sadly, I will have to keep dreaming because I am not eligible for this 451Press contest but readers are.

All you have to do is comment on any 451 Press blog during the month of August for your chance to win $300, $200, and $100. Each comment earns you one entry into the contest. Winners will be chosen at random from all entries.

So, get started right now. Finish this sentence, “If I had $300, I would..”

The contest is over and the winners have been announced.

Our comment contest has officially ended with 4,182 comments. Thanks to everyone who joined in on the commenting fun. Here are the winners:

**Grand Prize**

($500.00) - Babylinda (Comment left on musicbender.com)

**Additional Winners**

($100.00) - Alu (Comment left on watching24.com)
($100.00) - mrjuandrful (Comment left on 1pstart.com)
($100.00) - Sara (Comment left on fictionscribe.com)
($100.00) - Chris - (Comment left on cinemahype.com)
($100.00) - CPA Mom - (Comment left on britneyspearswatch.com)

Congratulation to all of our winners!

Threadwatch has just announced a new SEO contest. The requirement is to snag the top 1 on Google for the keyword “Dave Pasternack” on March 1, 2007 Eastern time.

Now if it’s Threadwatch that gets the topmost position of the Google SERPs during that time, the next site that ranks the highest for Dave Pasternack will win.

The prize? $1,000 from Threadwatch.

Here’s how to join - Threadwatch SEO contest.

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As a part of our blog network promotion, 451press bigwigs came up with a comment contest for non-451press bloggers who read our blogs. Yes, it’s for you our dear visitors.

If you’ve been a lurker on my blog it’s your chance to win $500.

451press will award six prizes to the six randomly chosen comments from this month. There will be one (1) $500 cash prize and five (5) $100 cash prizes. We will contact the winning commenters using the email address they enter with the comment. Comments made through January 31st will be entered in the contest and the winners will be announced on February 1st.

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SEO Philippines co-member Benj Arriola, an SEO expert, sent this info to the mailing list regarding the Vorgermilten SEO contest.

It is a request for bloggers to post something about this SEO contest with a contest page that has suddenly disappeared from the web just a few days before the contest ended. Benj is supposed to win the contest but with the contest page’s disappearing act, how does he claim his prize? Here is Benj’s post:

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There’s the linkbait, drinkbait, sharkbait, all kinds of baits.

And one has just become more creative with a hatbait. Search Marketing Gurus’ Liana Evans is the brainchild behind this fun linkbait in the form of voting for your favorite hatbait pictures. Pictures of many of the most prominent search engine marketing experts holding the linkbait posters have joined. So who do you vote?

Aside from the main winner, here are some possible additional awards:

If there’s enough comments on the picture, perhaps will bestow an “honorary” HatBait.com award …. like “Most Tortured HatBait Participant”, or most “OxyMoronic HatBait Picture”.

Who will I vote? Who else?!

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Search Engine Journal has again opened the nominations for Search Blog Awards for 2006.

Here are the categories for this year’s Search Blog Awards:

* Best SEO Blog
* Best SEM Blog
* Best Search Agency Resource Blog
* Best Link Building Blog
* Best Social Media Blog
* Best Search Engine Corporate Blog (owned by the search engines)
* Best Contextual Advertising Blog
* Best Affiliate Marketing Blog
* Best Search Engine Community/Forum Blog
* Best Web 2.0 Blog
* Best Search Linkbait of 2006

Why isn’t there a category for Best Search Engine Blog from Blog Networks? I’d surely be nominating a lot of blogs. Hehe.

Nominations and voting details here.

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Internet marketing experts Aaron Wall, Lee Dodd, Dave Taylor, and Jeremy Schoemaker will be holding an online business event namely Elite Retreat Conference. The conference, which will cover a wide array of search engine optimization, social networking, and monetization topics, will take place on December 18-19 in Marriott RiverCenter San Antonio, Texas. Attendees have to pay a whopping $4,850 each but will acquire business wisdom from the top four internet marketing gurus AND get the following stuff, too:

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Straight from the Wordtracker’s Keyword Expert newsletter, here’s an SEO workshop contest that the competitive SEO folks out there can join:

If you are a Wordtracker fan and can make use of some skills sharpening, you might be interested to win the following prizes:

- A 5-day intensive SEO Mastery Workshop plus hotel and travel
- One of four annual subscriptions to Wordtracker.
- One of ten monthly subscriptions to Wordtracker.

All you have to do is to write an essay of 200 words or less on why you’d like to improve your keyword research and SEO skills.

Here are the contest rules.

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It’s been a month since I posted the details of the Philippine SEO Contest 2.0. So what have all the Pinoy SEOs brewed to earn a good search engine position for this contest?

No screenshots this time. One of the Ituloy AngSulong participants was geekly cool enough to provide a quick count of this SEO contest topnotchers.

3 months to go! Good luck, everyone!

Will be posting some of the participants’ unusual SEO techniques soon, if any.

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Idea Catchers, a web design and online marketing support company is sponsoring the “Ugly E-commerce Site Makeover Contest” for online store owners, independent retailers, and catalog or mail-order companies with an e-commerce site.

The prize is a custom e-commerce site worth $25,000 and 90 days of online marketing support (probably search engine optimization and positioning, link placements, press releases, blogs, pay-per-click campaigns, email newsletters).

The deadline in submitting entries is on December 31, 2006.

Here are the contest guidelines and where you can enter your site to the Ugly E-commerce Contest.

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RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary is one of the widely-used method of keeping up-to-date with industrial news from blogs or sites and a method for bloggers or webmasters to keep its readers stapled or to generate repeat traffic. If you don’t have an RSS feed to offer to your readers yet, you’re losing the chance of making your accidental on non-accidental readers go back to your site or blog when you update it.

However, since not a lot of people are as giddy on adding new RSS feeds from blogs they visit everyday, no matter how good the content those blogs offer, one has to come up with some way to perpetually increase his blog’s RSS subscribers.

Andy Beal of Marketing Pilgrim is one of those bloggers that know how to up his readership. He has just announced today that he is giving away a free iPod to one of his blog’s RSS subscribers just by subscribing and here are the mechanics of this contest.

I’m wondering, when can I afford to host a traffic-generation contest like that?

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Ituloy AngSulong 2nd SEO Philippines SEO Contest Mechanics

Contest starts October 28, 2006 8:00 PM and ends February 23, 2007 8:00 PM.

The contest is open to all Filipinos. It’s also open to non-Filipinos who can be present at the awarding ceremonies. If a non-Filipino should win and he’s not physically present at the event, he is disqualified from the contest.

For this contest, we’ll have three sets of winners: forty (40) for Google, ten (10) for Yahoo! and five (5) for MSN.

To win, you have to rank from #1 to #40 in Google (http://www.google.com), #1 to #10 in Yahoo (http://search.yahoo.com) and #1 for MSN (http://search.msn.com) for the contest keyword. Each spot has its corresponding prize.

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Ituloy AngSulong is the keyphrase all SEO experts and beginners should work on to make their sites get the top of the 3 major SE’s search engine results page.

This will be the second SEO contest that the SEOPhillppines e-group has organized. The first SEO contest which gave out prizes as much as USD2,600 was for the keywords Isulong SEOPH. Isulong SEOPH is a Tagalog phrase meaning to advance SEOPH (short for SEO Philippines). The first contest resulted to horrendous comment spamming which is what the 2nd contest will avoid with the help of new rules. Uh-oh!

Now the keywords are Ituloy AngSulong, which means “continue to advance.” Quite clever, eh? I have checked the SERPs of Google, Yahoo, and MSN, the 3 search engines the Ituloy AngSulong SEO contest participants will be optimizing for and found no results for Yahoo and Google yet. But, MSN yielded 2 results (one’s indented) for this early bird of an SEO guy. Whin of BicolBusinessDirectory who actually won the 2nd prize for the first SEO contest in the Philippines.

That and see the first screenshot that showed the Ituloy AngSulong domain name already grabbed? Considering that the contest has just been announced yesterday, I bet all the Ituloy AngSulong domain names were already grabbed. SEO experts in the Philippines are this excited! Haha. But no, it’s actually one good SEO tactic to start early, right?

Oh by the way, the SEO contest organizer Mr. Marc Macalua is still looking for more sponsors to make this contest merrier. If you’d like your website to gain quality link building from this contest, join the fun or be a sponsor.

Will be posting more details of this Ituloy AngSulong SEO Contest soon.

Via The J Spot

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Who would have thought I’ll be blogging about Search Engine Optimization in the near future? What? You don’t know what SEO is? SEO or Search Engine Optimization is one of the million mojos that enable Larry Page and Sergey Brin afford to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion.

Seriously, SEO or Search Engine Optimization is all about flirting with the search engines, especially the big ones MSN, Yahoo!, and of course, Dogpile, Google.

Why would you want to flirt with search engines? You want to be found. You don’t want to get lost in the middle of millions of search results. Searchability is the goal of many SEO’s (Search Engine Optimization professionals). But it’s not plain Jane searchability SEOs aim for. It’s high searchability. It’s getting found EASILY. How’s that accomplished?

Do the SEO Dance!

If you have been longing to get your site get that search engine visibility, searchability, sorry, but I won’t tell you how to get your website’s a$s up over the hilt of Search Engine Results Page (SERP).  But I can lead you to resources that can help you with that. Is that OK with you?

Oh by the way, I’m Alfa Mercado. I run a home business managing a team of SEO copywriters. I’ve been in the blogging scene since time immemorial and Search Engine Optimization has been playing in my mind, especially when I joined one local SEO Contest and lost backed out.

I believe this blog will be undergoing some layout change soon. Our mother blog network 451 Press is currently holding a Wordpress Theme contest. Care to join? $2,000 is at stake!

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