shopautodotca seocontest Day 5

wow sorry for not updating yesterday. The shopautodotca seocontest is going crazy right now. All the sites in the shopautodotca seocontest are fluctuating like crazy right now. I think it has to do with the timing of the cache copies of each site. This shopautodotca seocontest site in particular is doing some crazy stuff. The other day the main page dropped out of the index, yet the subpage of the first post stayed in. WTF! In all my years of SEO I've never seen anything like that happen, but it did. So I dropped down to like mid 90's in the ranks for shopautodotca seocontest. Now the main page is at least back in but its only ranked #20 and i still have a cache date of May 25th (the first day). I don't know whats going on but this is definitely a weird situation for me. I've never been in an seo contest before so i hope this normal. :)

On the absolutely side of kick ass news, Jon's shopautodotca seocontest site jumped into the #4 for the terms "shopautodotca seocontest" spot on its SECOND DAY! That is amazing. However his cache date stayed the same, his 301 redirect seemed to have made him flux down to the third page. I hope it's just a fluke. It probably is, but at least there is some hope, if he can make it into the top 5 in such a short amount of time than he should have no problem doing it again. Hopefully after my cache date updates I can jump in there to.

Yesterday I decided to start my linking campaign. I managed to get about 20k backlinks all with the anchor text similiar or exactly to shopautodotca seocontest. If at least 1% get credited by the end of the contest we should be easily number 1. I'm seriously wondering though if my blogspot account strategy was a bad idea. I've never had a legit blogspot account before. Only a ton of spam which works great. Who knows? Tomarrow if things are still subpar I may decide to pull out the big guns. We'll have to see. :)

Good luck everyone!

Shopautodotca Seocontest

This is my entry for the Shopautodotca SEOcontest. It's a contest sponsored by Shopauto.ca. I'm entering this contest on May 25th, 2007. The contest started on January 15th and ends on June 15th. So as far as SEO contests go I'm way late. I really don't plan on putting a ton of effort into it. In fact I'm just going to do this to help out my buddy Jon Waraas (you should check out his SEO blog it's really great). The site he is using is Shopautodotca SEOcontest. So far it looks like his strategy is to setup shop on an older 2 year old domain with some old link authority. He put his page on a subpage of his site rather than a subdomain which I think is a solid strategy due to the fact that he's entering the contest just as late as I am. By using Blogspot I'm utilizing an old authority domain with my subdomain. This is sometimes a decent strategy although blogspot has been known to get spammed quite a bit so it has been devalued as far as quick indexing goes. His strategy will probably work much better than mine, which is why I'm helping him instead of him helping me.

I could go with the good ol' proven strategy of buying a domain for all this but frankly with only 3 weeks to go it wouldn't be prudent. I would have to find a way to push a ton of authority to a brand new domain very very quickly. It almost wouldn't happen. So instead I'm just going to throw up a little landing page and see what happens. Hell, maybe if I'm lucky I may even help ShopAuto sell a few used cars. :) I'll be honest I've never really checked out their site before, but they seem pretty cool for an automotive site.

Was there a particular reason why I mentioned autos and the car stuff? Well actually I wanted my content to be perfect so I did a little bit of LSI to mimic to Google that my content subject coverage matches what they consider to be relevant to the term "Shopautodotca Seocontest" If you don't know what LSI is, you may want to check it out. In fact if I did it all right I should of made sure to mention the plural forms of cars, autos, and check this for a kick: shop clothing. haha

Thats all from me for now. :)