Geansai Gorm
Geansai Gorm Geansai Gorm
You’d be forgiven if you thought it was an episode from South Park … no I’m not saying Timmy I’m saying Geansai Gorm. Quite possibly in the same voice as Timmy though you obviously can’t hear it.
Its drawing to a close less than 24 hours left. Which makes it less than 48 hours for me to have the new Task Drop website up and running. As it currently stands I’ve about 22 items on my main work task list and I’m hoping to get a few of them finished off in the next little while. (ie tonight) Doubtful I’ll get much of a chance to do anything further with TaskDrop and I actually expect the person who holds the number 1 place at 9 in the morning to be the one who wins.
Obviously the whole competition has been quite interesting in some ways annoying in others. Its given a chance to see what the competition are doing. Though to be honest if you didn’t already know then you’d probably have had more difficulty than most in the competition. I’ve seen some of the spam techniques used by others and my quite surprised that people still use them. I’m guilty myself of linking from my main sites not to mention my signatures on the various boards I’m a member of (though not actually that many)
However SEO is a weird one. One day the spammer will be number one. The next they’ll take a major hit by google and drop a hell of a lot of places. So far I’ve only had success so to speak.
Unfortunately the competition wasn’t exactly highly contested as well. I’m not sure how many official entries there are ? I counted about 12 or so I guess ? With a lot more Shrapnel from blogs and other peoples wanting their own main sites to do well or gain some link juice from people visiting or commenting on their sites.
My own tactics have also been pretty obvious as well. 1 or two heavy hitting links and board sigs coupled with a few posts on my personal blogs. I didn’t go the route of spamming various sits with pointless comments and links back though obviously if you were selling a proper product its exactly what you’d be trying to do. Though spam is probably too strong a word as its link building within social media.
Anyways I’d better end my small rant. I may post some more I may not. Its dinner time … a glass of white awaits me and a blanquette as well and I think we’ll watch a movie afterwards.
Best of luck to my two favoured entries
Tags: Geansai Gorm, SEO, South Park
November 30th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
South Park? Strange choose of tags!
Best of luck for tomorrow, James. It’s tough to properly do SEO for this competition as you can’t really do any directory submissions, PR releases or link build by approaching other webmasters. Overall though I believe the competition to be a great success and I hope the next one irons out any doubts about rules and whatnot.
November 30th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
It made sense in my head at the time.
Thanks I think I’ve left it too little too late though I may jump up a place or two with my final effort the morning will tell.
The competition was a success I just worry about indexes being polluted out there. Though thankfully geansai gorm isn’t exactly a sought after term.
It’d be nice next time if it ran for a bit longer. Though as people have already stated a lot does depend on if you’ve got the heavy hitting links to call on. Sure you can go ahead and spam wikipedia but that’ll hopefully result in a negative effect on your site as its realised its spam.
Ah well debating what else to do at this late stage
with mere hours to go its all a bit ARGH! shouldn’t have left it till the last minute