Background info on the SEO World Championship 2007
Seo Contests have been around for quite a while, do you remember the legendary “nigritude ultramarine“? The bar has been raised and a more or less official “SEO World Championship” has been formed by a Swedish SEO Company. 2007’s contest, called “globalwarming awareness2007” - that’s the phrase the participating SEOs or SEO Companies are going to optimize for - has been launched on January 15th and will end March 1st. The rules partially differ from previous contests.
SEO World Championship 2007 rules
SEO Contest 2007 rule #1: All sites must have a banner or text link pointing to the contest’s official website.
SEO Contest 2007 rule #2: Valid contact information must be found on the site.
SEO Contest 2007 rule #3: Participating domains must not be registered before January 15th
SEO Contest 2007 rule #4: All sites must comply with Google Webmaster Guidelines as found here
SEO World Championship 2007 prizes
- SEO Championship 2007 winner gets a Citroen C2
- SEO Championship 2007 2nd gets a Caribbean Cruise
- SEO Championship 2007 3rd gets a Plasma TV
- SEO Championship 2007 4th gets $500
- SEO Championship 2007 5th gets $100
SEO World Championship 2007 Winner Selection
The SEO World Champion 2007 will be selected March 1st by the combined Top 10 rankings from Google, MSN and Yahoo.
Rank 1 equals 10 points, Rank 10 equals 1 point, everything in between is calculated accordingly.
Example: If you rank #1 on Google, #3 on Yahoo and #5 on MSN, that would be 10+8+6= 24 points total.
Reasons for running an SEO challenge
Why does the Swedish SEO Company run this competition? They have to pay for all these prizes, what are their benefits, you might ask. It’s quite simple: Off page Optimization by Link Popularity! Through the tons of pages generated by the participants in this contest (already 600,000 as of January 21st, within 6 days), there will be a lot of links pointing to their Competition Website, which will result in a massive SEO for their own site, a gigantic wave of inbound links will boost their Google PR and increase their SERPS ranking. But that’s not everything yet, there’s a second Promotion Wave which comes from the media attention the Contest is getting from other Websites that are covering this Contest as a story. An additionally increasing effect to be considered, is that a lot of the Coverage on the Contest will take place on websites that are related to the Topic of SEO, and these ones are statistically considered to be SE-optimized as well, increasing the efficiency of the Second Promotion Wave.
A webpage, externally optimized by a large contest like that is worth a lot of money, and an ideal platform for Search Engine Promotion purposes of any kind, not to mention the traffic the site will be getting in future.
Chances of becoming SEO Champion 2007
With 1,000,000 competing pages for the competition search term (as of January 25th), chances of winning are quite low when considering the amount of work needed to get on top of the SERPs.