Thursday, July 8, 2004
Blog wins SEO challenge
The recent SEO Challenge asked contestants to exploit Google's page ranking algorithms in order to get their page to the top of the search results list. The challenge was made a bit tougher by the fact that contestants had to be the number one result for the term "nigritude ultramarine."
After two rounds of competition, which included just about every linking strategy possible, the winner, Anil Dash, succeeded by using a very simple approach. He posted a comment on his blog and asked his readers to post a link to their own website.
With so much emphasis being placed on SEO, it is nice to see that community-driven content can still win out over the sometimes underhanded tactics that others often use in an attempt to get to the top of the list.
The recent SEO Challenge asked contestants to exploit Google's page ranking algorithms in order to get their page to the top of the search results list. The challenge was made a bit tougher by the fact that contestants had to be the number one result for the term "nigritude ultramarine."
After two rounds of competition, which included just about every linking strategy possible, the winner, Anil Dash, succeeded by using a very simple approach. He posted a comment on his blog and asked his readers to post a link to their own website.
With so much emphasis being placed on SEO, it is nice to see that community-driven content can still win out over the sometimes underhanded tactics that others often use in an attempt to get to the top of the list.
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