END OF THE WORLD - SEO CONTEST 2012

What term?

  • Real term

    Votes: 44 71.0%
  • Bullshit term

    Votes: 15 24.2%
  • Member names

    Votes: 5 8.1%

  • Total voters
    62
After watching the BBC program about Scientology it would be fun to have page 1 in G full of our sites
 


+++ for "Scientology". They roll out the lawyers on any kind of whim, so the entertainment value is high.

Or, maybe "Matt Cutts". Probably no lawyers, but other kinds of unwanted attention.
 
Personally I'm digging the Ron Paul/Who To Vote For related ideas.

There seem to be a lot of Ron Paul supporters on here, and if WF is gonna take over a keyword it would be cool for it to be something people care about

Maybe an anti-SOPA type keyword?
 
Imo, rather than ranking for Mitt Romney/who to vote for etc, it'd make more sense to rank for a money term. It'd get more people interested, because then afterwards, not only do they have the prizes, they also have a site that's banking.

Ideas:
SEO
Web Design
Games (competitive as fuck, check out the SERPs)
 
Imo, rather than ranking for Mitt Romney/who to vote for etc, it'd make more sense to rank for a money term. It'd get more people interested, because then afterwards, not only do they have the prizes, they also have a site that's banking.

Ideas:
SEO
Web Design
Games (competitive as fuck, check out the SERPs)

no one's going to be ranking for any of those terms with a new site for any solid amount of time in less than a year
 
wait, who's the organizer for all of this? I can't tell from Emp's OP if he just wants to see this happen or is actually organizing the competition. With the talent here, we could have the best SEO competition to ever be run, but someone needs to be in charge who isn't actually in the competition to keep things straight.
 
wait, who's the organizer for all of this? I can't tell from Emp's OP if he just wants to see this happen or is actually organizing the competition. With the talent here, we could have the best SEO competition to ever be run, but someone needs to be in charge who isn't actually in the competition to keep things straight.

+1

Anyone credible volunteering?
Or want to vote for a band/contest leader/organizer?
 
no one's going to be ranking for any of those terms with a new site for any solid amount of time in less than a year
I agree. But you've then built up a solid foundation - the aim doesn't necessarily have to be to rank firstpage within the length of the contest - I think picking some mega hard term might make it more interesting.
 
don't know if you need someone in charge as it were.

Would be easy enough for someone to make a note of everyone taking part and their registered domains - means that person can keep track of who is in the competition?

Other than that because it's a SEO free for all it's just a case of checking results end of the competition to see who's ranks first. You could just add in all the domains to something like Market Samurai with the chosen keyword.. once the contest is over, update the results which ever domain is highest wins.
 
don't know if you need someone in charge as it were.

Would be easy enough for someone to make a note of everyone taking part and their registered domains - means that person can keep track of who is in the competition?

Other than that because it's a SEO free for all it's just a case of checking results end of the competition to see who's ranks first. You could just add in all the domains to something like Market Samurai with the chosen keyword.. once the contest is over, update the results which ever domain is highest wins.

That's why we've offered free SERP tracking for the contest for everyone involved. It's easy for us to create a project called "contest", with a website called "bofu2U' with the URL being tracked within there. Easiest way.
 
ok further idea... Bofu can sort out the rank tracking for the rest of it you could do the following:

Find a independent person not going to take part .. I don't mind offering as it's not a hard job.

You need to narrow down the choice of KW's to try and rank for.. say perhaps 5 or 10.

Once you have these hold a private vote (send a e-mail to the independent) for the KW you would like to pick.

After a couple of days the independent can sort through and pick the KW with the most votes.

^ might seem like a long way to go about it but it should keep it fair as only 1 person will know the KW for the competition.

After the KW is found/picked .. pick a time that will try and fit in with everyone to make a post saying what the KW is. Then the independent can make the post stating the KW.

After this everyone will run around trying to register the domains etc etc etc

From here, depending on how Bofu software works, input all the data to 'a' rank tracker and of course make a note of which domain belongs to whom. Perhaps rather than it being open to everyone it should be done by 1 person only so all the others do not know which domain is taking part in the comp.

After that everyone goes about spamming.. with a bit more spam and a month later run the rank checker, see which domain is highest for the chosen KW and you have a winner!
 
KW= GoDaddy sucks

It's true, it's monetizable, it's not a cakewalk but not difficult. It's funny and they support SOPA.

Not sure if including Godaddy is a good idea but an Anti SOPA campaign would actually be really beneficial and certainly an agenda most of WF would be willing to get behind. If anyone could potentially slow down SOPA through awareness it would be WF
 
Not sure if including Godaddy is a good idea but an Anti SOPA campaign would actually be really beneficial and certainly an agenda most of WF would be willing to get behind. If anyone could potentially slow down SOPA through awareness it would be WF
You're right. I like the anti-SOPA angle big time.
 
If this is a Wickedfire contest let at least one of the mods or admins take hold of this thing, communicate with the organizer and be the judge and bamhammer and maintain integrity hold the prizemoney/goodies offerers liable ( list them properly in new thread ) as well as contestants of the contest.

The Organizer could be bofu2u or anyone could *lead the contest in the right paths by doing thread updates/ communication with contestants etc so the mod/admin doesnt feel burdened and report to the mod.