The Seocontest2008 Is It Only Short Term SEO

One way of generating links to a new or established though floundering website is to use a contest. There are many thousands of would be SEO guys all wanting a piece of the action and a contest sparks of a flood of new pages and links to the website in question.

One such contest is the seocontest2008. It is being run by a UK based forum website and are tempting would be competitors with a $1,000 first prize.

The structure is simple; you create a web page and place a link to their site. By optimizing your page, mainly by off page search engine optimisation (link building) you create a network which all points to the page they want optimized. So in effect for about $1,000 they get a website with hundreds if not thousands of links for a few cents each.

This though is only effective short term and it will be interesting to see what happens long term, i.e. will sites keep links etc. Also all newly registered sites will probably be dropped by their owners after a year, so links will be lost there.

All in all though, it is fun and worth tacking part in. So if you think that you can do it justice, remember the term is seocontest2008.