Busby SEO Challenge: My Baptism of Fire
I consider myself a newbie in SEO and it is by chance that I was able to be aware of an SEO contest like this. I was able to know such a contest by glancing over the site of an SEO mentor / friend. I know there are a lot of SEO’s who joined the contest who are far more knowledgeable and skilled than me when it comes to the Search Engines, Web 2.0, and stuffs, but I want to know how far I am with Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing. This is the very first SEO contest I’ll be joining and I’m thrilled just at the fact that I was brave enough to dare join this challenge.
The contest is entitled the Busby SEO Challenge sponsored by Busby Web Solutions. The said company is 100% owned subsidiary of Hire Intelligence International Limited or HII - an I.T. and audio visual rentals and web solutions providers - which is an international and award winning member of the Australian Securities Exchange or ASX.
The Busby SEO Challenge World Cup was announced last 1st of June 2008 and is expected to end 31st of August 2008. Participants are challenged to create and optimize their own websites with the key phrase Busby SEO Challenge. They are expected to rank at the top of Search Engines for the said key phrase until the challenge has been decided upon. There will be three (3) winners who obviously were successful to occupy the first, second, and third spots in the major SERPs for such key phrase.
The Busby SEO Challenge prizes are:
1st Prize: $5,000
2nd Prize: $2,000
3rd Prize: $500
The Busby SEO Challenge contest rules are:
1. Start date is 1st June 2008, 12:00midday, Perth, Western Australia at which point the phrase will be posted on the Busby website.
2. End date of 31st August 2008, 12:00 midday, Perth, Western Australia.
3. Only ethical SEO techniques may be engaged and the judges reserve the right to review the techniques engaged by the winner to ensure they comply.
4. No pornography, no discrimination and no illegal behaviour is permitted.
5. The competition is only open to domain and sub domain names that do not include the key phrase in any form.
6. Only registered entrants are eligible to compete and win the prize. Busby will maintain a list of entrants which can be view on the Entrants List page.
7. Registration is free, open to anyone of any age, gender, race and domicile and can only be made through Registration Process.
8. All entrants pages must have a visible link back to www.busbywebsolutions.com with the following text (including the hyperlink) in Arial 10 font: Participant in the Busby Web Solutions Search Engine Optimisation Challenge.
9. Only one prize per person.
10. Employees, franchisees and licensees of Busby (and each of their family members) are eligible to enter but are not eligible to win any prizes.
For more details about the Busby SEO Challenge, kindly visit this link here.