UK Webmaster Forum SEO Contest - Starts 12 February 2011

[temi]

Webmaster Serve - UK SEO Contest
SEE UPDATE THREAD HERE
After carefully planning, lots of delays and hesitation, Webmaster Serve UK SEO Contest is finally here. Over a period of 3 months you have the chance to show that you are the best SEO guy around by optimise a web page or a website to rank number 1 for keyword/keyprase we will announce shortly.
Google.co.uk will be used to determine the winner at 12.00 midnight on 11th of May 2011. All through the contest, you can see your position on at our leaderboard which can be found here. So that you do not need to read through a lot of rambling to get to the meat of this contest, I have posted the salient point in the form of questions and answers below. If after reading though you still have some questions, please feel free to contact me by posting on this thread or contacting me by PM.


When does it start? The contest start at 12 midnight on the 12th of February 2011.
What is the keyword i need to optimise: The keyword will be announced at midnight of 12th February 2011.
What are the prizes:

What is the prize?
Cash Prizes for participants are:
Winner: £1,000.00 Cash
2nd Place: £200.00
3rd Place: £150.00
4th Place: £50.00
5th Place: £50

• All contestant gets David Armeland's brilliant SEO book: SEO Help
• All participants gets certificate of participation showing their position in the contest.

UK SEO Contest Rules

• In the first instance, you must register to participate.

• URL of the page/site used for the contest must be in English.

• Sub domains of well known bloging platforms such as wordpress.com, bloggers.com etc are not allowed.

• Your contest url homepage must provide add one of the suggested baclinks to the url indicated, the link MUST be a dofollow link.

• If you use an existing domain, the page, sub page or domain used must not have any backlink at the start of the contest.

• ONLY white hat SEO techniques are allowed. You will be disqualified if you employ black hat SEO methods.

• We allow only one entry per participants.
• We reserve the right to reviwse or amend these rules.
• If there is need for adjudication on any matter, decision of the contest organisers is final.
• You may not use signature/link from this forum as part of your promotion strategy.

Why should I participate in UK SEO Contest?
Here are some reasons you should take part in this contest?
* Good for your CV - If you are a you SEO consultant, you can impress potential employers by adding the fact that you won this contest on your CV.
* You get £1,000 CASH!!!
* You get respect from you peers
* You show that you are one of the best SEO consultants around.
* Warm glow of satisfaction that usually comes with being a winner.




A BIG Thank you!
First of all, we will like to thank all the participants, without them, there will be no contest. We are grateful to the following people and companies for making it happen.

• David Armeland SEO - Online Marketing & SEO
• Velnet UK Ltd Leading UK Web Hosting Company
• Boss Cart Ecommerce Shopping Cart Services
• Sports Dating UK Online Dating Services
• Camping Online Ltd Camping Equipment & Accessories

Would you like to sponsore our next SEO Contest?
We hope to run another SEO contest after this one, you are very welcome to help organise or sponsore our next event or even this one. You can contact us using any of the following:

• Via personal message at this forum – Please send a message to Temi
• By email : Please use the contact form found here or the one found here and make your message subject UK Webmaster Forum SEO Contest .

[scamanti]

can i join this contest? i'm not UK person.

[temi]

You are very welcome to join, its for both UK and non-UK SEO guys, so welcome aboard :)

[seoconsultant]

Hi Temi.... I'm ready to Join... I think this humble SEO consultant from Australia can show you UK boys... that even if we just lost the ashes... we can win this SEO contest. LOL

Happy to join... you can check my blog at internetninja.com.au (don't want to steal a link in my first post in this forum) ;)

[temi]

Well, nice to have you on board Gabriel. If you can win the SEO contest, at least you will to someway to avenge Australia defeat in the Ashes test :)

Hi Temi.... I'm ready to Join... I think this humble SEO consultant from Australia can show you UK boys... that even if we just lost the ashes... we can win this SEO contest. LOL

Happy to join... you can check my blog at internetninja.com.au (don't want to steal a link in my first post in this forum) ;)

[nashir]

Thanks Dear, I want to join your contest, Now what can I do before 12.02.2011?

[Tuxxy]

Looking forward to this, not long till the start :)

[Hafsoh]

Thanks Dear, I want to join your contest, Now what can I do before 12.02.2011?

Nashir, please join the discussion in the forum while we awaiting the commencement of the contest.

Thanks

[mronomrene]

Hi,
For the contest, may I register the url site (hxxp://mysite.com) and not page url (hxxp://mysite.com/bla-bla.html).

Thanks

[Hafsoh]

Hi,
For the contest, may I register the url site (hxxp://mysite.com) and not page url (hxxp://mysite.com/bla-bla.html).

Thanks

Thanks for your intrest in the contest, you can register either a page or a site what is more important is that teh site should be in English as said here:
"URL of the page/site used for the contest must be in English"