Seocontest2008 organized by UK Webmaster World is an international competition amongst webmasters, seo experts and Internet warriors with subject of search engine optimization, aiming the target to reach with contestant's website the Top #1 rank on Google's search engine results page. The seocontest2008 started on Feb. 1st 2008 and will end on April 1st (no, this is not a Fools' Day Joke!) at 01:00 PM UK time. The owner of the winning page will be awarded with a cash prize of $1000 to be transfered via PayPal.
However the $1000 prize is attractive, but the main win will be to gain the reputation as Search Engine Optimization (SEO) specialist who proved his ability amongst a large number of other professionals.
As of today (March 15) there are 129 contestants from many countries.
The keyword used in seocontest2008 is 'seocontest2008', a very unique
word that has been never listed on any search engine before the contest
has been launched.
Many different strategies are adopted, and one of the contestants even declared, his strategy is simple: "Links, links, and links!". All kind of SEO techniques will be used, except Black Hat techniques as cloaking. Page redirect 301 is also forbidden, as it would eventually mask the fraud of redirecting the new participant page to an older, already ranked page.
Seocontest2008 is a challenge, and is also an experiment, which will reveal at the end the most successful way to reach the non-plus-ultra goal of any SEO: top rank on Google.
Seocontest2008 fans will eventually have the chance to get the secrets of the participants in attaining high SERP ranks.
And
all contestants will win, they'll win a great experience and a measured
knowledge about today's top edge search engine optimization technology.