Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Welcome to The Grand V7ndotcom Elursrebmem Hotel

The V7ndotcomTest continues with a new NUMBER TWO. Remaining at number one is the super cleaver Hotel site which features the actual URL and, I think, is run by Dave Naylor's group. DaveN is *easily* among the handful of super elite SEO guys, and I'm sure he'd agree he may be the best in the world, running his SEO empire from an ISP he owns over in Leeds, England. Fine fellow in person, though he's known to be a bit ... aggressive ... in pursuit of the perfect ranking for his clients.

The top FIVE from Google about noon on Feb 28.

V7ndotcom Elursrebmem
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Monday, February 27, 2006

v7ndotcom elursrebmem interest is waning

Based on technorati's graph of the use of the term v7ndotcom elursrebmem interest in the contest is, understandably, waning. Also interesting is that this term, easily one of the most referenced "new" word combinations online, is NOT suggested by the Google suggestion feature in the toolbar. CF NEWER proper noun combos like American Idol contestants. This may mean that Google has altered the way the algorithm treats "v7ndotcom elursrebmem"or it could simply be that they block some terms (as they do with porn related terms in the suggestion box).

Scoble checked in on the contest by linking to one guy who was then disparaged by other contest people. I wish he or another A lister would blog a lot about it to see if blogs remain a potentially very important source for linking. Anil Dash won the nigritude ultramarine in that fashion. I complimented him about it at MashupCamp and he said it was actually annoying because - I think this was it - he got so many junky and annoying mails following the "win".

Saturday, February 25, 2006

v7ndotcom elursrebmem tag at technorati

I'm wondering if Jim's success in the V7ndotcom contest is more related to his Digg dominance than other approaches. Challenging the whole contest is the fact that Google is likely to adjust things manually to prevent this from revealing too much about the algo. Good question for Matt, who sure must be busy these days declaring things about the algorithm for the upcoming case USA vs Google.

Here's a test of technorati tag for the term. v7ndotcom elursrebmem As many people as are in this contest it's becoming clear to me that there are probably only a few hundred SEOs who are really up on the news and changes enough to have a good shot (I'm NOT one of them and don't consider myself an SEO). That said Anil Dash proved that you don't need to be an SEO to rank very highly when he won the last big SEO contest.

v7ndotcom elursrebmem

Thursday, February 23, 2006

http://www.jimwestergren.com/v7ndotcom-elursrebmem/

Jim Westergren is back in the lead in the V7ndotcom test contest and he's admirably shared what many whould consider a white hat SEO strategy below. I'm not sure if Google would agree or not about this being white hat, and I'm anxious to ask Matt Cutts about all this the next time I see him. I've been concerned for some time that Google's ferocious defense of the algo may lead them to consider many normal forms of linkage like paid links and link trades "link manipulation" and downrank the sites.

Here's his strategy from his blog (yes, I think he's being totally honest about this but you can never know for sure.


  • Take my domain that ranks best with Google (domain age, TrustRank, PageRank) and before the start of contest increase the link popularity gradually by placing permanent links using my link building team. Done
  • Prepare the blog post with a valuable resource of the contest as a link bait and make it all ready so I just have to replace the KWs.Done
  • Right after KW announcement, blog the post and submit to digg.com. Done
  • Put an internal link in the footer so that PR from all posts flows to this page. Done
  • Get enough diggs to get on the front page and ignite the big increase of natural backlinks.
    Failure, non-SEO diggers reported the submission even though I got 56 diggs.
  • Follow up the increase of backlinks by simulating a natural gradual increase using:
    (This data was deleted, sorry)
  • Monday, February 20, 2006

    elursrebmem

    v7ndotcom elursrebmem is the term that will define SEO for at least the 15 minutes of fame it will confer on the winner of the V7 contest. Unfortunately, the Alien Connection makes the contest a dangerous and ill fated application of technology best left to those from other worlds.

    v7ndotcom

    The v7ndotcom contest is probably the biggest SEO event of the century, and the best bet is currently on ... no surprise here .... the URL with the name "v7ndotcom elursrebmem"

    Today I met the winner of the last contest, the illustrious Anil Dash who is here at MashupCamp in Mountain View. He won the "nigritude ultramarine" SEO event by asking a bunch of his blogging compatriots to link to him. Not clear if that would still work, but in any case he said he's not playing this time!

    Friday, February 17, 2006

    v7ndotcom elursrebmem, Alien Astronaut

    v7ndotcom elursrebmemThe v7ndotcom elursrebmem contest is an elaborate and expensive hoax to hide the public from the terrible truth. v7ndotcom elursrebmem, or "VE" as his alien friends affectionately called him, was an Alien Astronaut from a distant planet and one of the Aliens involved in the Roswell, NM galactic traffic accident incident.

    Thursday, February 16, 2006

    Here are Google's top 5 contenders in the V7ndotcom Elursrebmem contest.
    Notes follow each entry:

    V7ndotcom Elursrebmem
    Make the most of your stay at The Grand V7ndotcom Elursrebmem Hotel ... Ensuring all guests are logged in at both Elursrebmem and V7ndotcom!! ...
    www.v7ndotcomelursrebmem.com/

    It's going to be hard to beat this entry, which owns the domain. I'm not clear if V7N.com is allowed to enter their own contest but they should have registered the term itself to avoid the huge advantage this will have in the contest. Google will logically assume that the domain name owner is the most relevant "entity" for an unusual term, and this team has cleverly called it a hotel to further induce Google into thinking "this is a biz".





    V7ndotcom Elursrebmem

    This is a white hat V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO Contest page, ... Strategy for this page to win the V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO Contest ...
    www.jimwestergren.com/v7ndotcom-elursrebmem/ -

    v7ndotcom elursrebmem news, reviews comparisons and v7ndotcom ...

    Things you should know about v7ndotcom elursrebmem, v7ndotcom have launched an SEO competition based on the keyword v7ndotcom elursrebmem.
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    v7ndotcom elursrebmem

    v7ndotcom elursrebmem information and developments.
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    Also a powerful name -I'm guessing Dave Naylor 's team has this and the top one.

    v7ndotcom Elursrebmem

    v7ndotcom elursrebmem - positioning contest. ... So this is page that is talking about v7ndotcom elursrebmem. v7ndotcom meen what it mean and i'm not really ...
    v7ndotcomelursrebmem.seo-supreme.com/ -

    V7ndotcom Elursrebmem for Celiac CharityReasons why you want this page to win the V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO Contest: ... And if it wins the V7ndotcom Elursrebmem contest, then all proceeds go ...
    www.watching-paint-dry.com/v7ndotcom-elursrebmem

    The former leader? appears to be sinking
    New World Design has entered the contest!

    No offense dudes but the press release is kind of ... funny.

    You are not quoting the modifed rules to allow people to nab the extra cash - I'll do that later but here's what you had:

    The Rules and Prizes for this SEO contest are as follows:

    1. Every contestant’s Web page must include one of the following:
    a. A back link to the V7N home page.
    b. The Official V7N SEO Contest banner (with or without a back link).
    c. The text “We support v7n.com” on their Web site.
    d. Indented listings in the search engine rankings will not be counted.

    Wednesday, February 15, 2006

    Here's a nice summary of the V7ndotcom elursrebmem contest at the Wall Street Journal:

    http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113995925243274011.html?mod=todays_free_feature

    Interesting that the tactics Jim W appears to be using are fairly straightforward including linking from an old page with some PR and creating a rich, informative blog about the contest with many instances of the word.

    v7ndotcom-elursrebmem II

    Well, here is the second post reporting on the v7ndot contest where I try to figure out what links are required. I think a link to the amazing Matt Cutts was one of Greg Boser's requirements but I can't remember what the V7N.com people wanted, so with the next posts I'll figure that out.

    I've really been intrigued lately with how rapidly Google indexes blog content. Where it can take a new page of a site months to be indexed, my blog posts seem to make it into Blogger index within a day and to the Google index within about 48 hours. This is spectacularly fast, and indicates they must have some form of "trust" of certain content over others or people could spam the heck out of the blogs.

    v7ndotcom elursrebmem

    I have little hope of winning the v7ndotcom elursrebmem contest but I am going to use this v7ndotcom elursrebmem blog to keep track of what's going on with the contest because it's a very interesting experiment.