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How To Get Googled, By Hook Or By Crook
Mr. Christmas Lights continues: "So some folks in the SEO community decided to have a 2 month contest where they made up a nonsense keyword phrase (nigritude ultramarine), and they will award a iPod and a 17" LCD (big spenders, eh?) to whoever ends up #1 in Google a month and two months from now - read more contest details at Dark Blue's SEOChallenge and follow the progress at www.seochallenge.com.
As you can imagine, there will be all sorts of wild web pages out there - for example, take a look at this "optimized" URL for nigritude ultramarine : www.nigritude-ultramarine.com/nigritude-ultramarin e/nigritude-ultramarine.asp and I'm sure there will be plenty of other entertaining entries - you can do a Google Search yourself to see who's currently on top.
Note to Slashdot Editors: I have NOT entered the contest - buncha SEO pro's are involved and a hobbiest (at best) like me (who doesn't stray over to the dark side - I like Google! ;-) would get spanked."
How about posting an article on slashdot? That will get you on google in no time flat!
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Nobody cares about the rankings on froogle. Poor google.
where flamebait is +5 funny and funny stuff is -1 flamebait
The current 3rd result showcases the "Nigritude Ultramarine Fighting Force" who are "doing our part for the department of homeland security." Actually, I suspect they might be even more capable than said department...
He say 1 and 1 and 1 is 3, got to be good lookin' cause hes so hard to see...
Who gets the prize money then? :-D
Everybody, link back here!
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It is a good thing that no google engineers read slashdot.org, and that even if they did, they would never want to mess up a competition between people who professionally abuse their service regarding who is best at it...
If I were google, I would wait until the day before the deadline and then link the top hit for nigritude ultramarine to google.com.
In fact, to help them, I suggest that everybody who thinks that "SEO pros" are a life form somewhere below pond-scum and above spammers, ought to help them. nigritude ultramarine.
Is it just me or does the name nigritude ultramarine seem a little racially suspect. hmmmmm?
the famous Weapons of Mass Destruction.
bbspot once had the top hit for the word "the" from google. talk about power. "the"
Amiga Lover: Yahoo still contains a page of mine that's 18 months gone as the main link to my page. Talk about out of date.
Perhaps they saw your login name and assumed you wouldn't mind?
I prefer this one: The Nigritude Ultramarine Blog
I'm not a member of the silly SEO guild, but all my Nigritude Ultramarine can be yours! I have started an auction on eBay - anybody who seriously wants to win can pay me $1 (or whatever it comes to), and in return I will give them a few hundred links from my reasonably well-ranked sites.
You shall have my sword... I will fight for your honor!
Is it? My Slashdot ID is lower than yours, so I am right. Take that, Windows-using infidel.
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One easy way to grab attention is to intentionally inject commen spelling errors into your webpage.
I don't recomend this. As easy and as tempting as it is Google feeds the correct spelling.
On that note I do get the highest ranking for "Linux Destro" A mispelling of Linux Distro (Not for long.. Noticed the error and plan to fix it.)
Now for a funny.. Take a look at the winner for the correct spelling.
It's not RedHat.
I don't actually exist.
If I were you, I'd go for it! Remember you have to do a few things per the contest rules per the link above, but in case you are wondering, I have ZERO issues with you taking the credit and walking off with the prize(s) if you win - after all, it is YOUR web site! ;-) You have a good chance of taking it - unless someone gets a link from a Page Rank 100 page - after my article submission, I realized this is a pretty funny link that I forgot to add.
I would totally mod-up your post, but I'm a schmuck ... so hopefully someone else will for you (although obviousely you can do so yourself) as I bet a buncha Slashdott'ers would also say go for it!
alek
P.S. Actually Timothy, if you do win, can I ask a favor and get a couple hours heads-up if you guys Slashdot my Christmas Lights again? I'd like to warn the neighbors before the lights go beserko, and also monitor things when the deluge hits - X10 is a bit squirrly, so even with some multi-threading, I'm going to be pushing it with the 1 (versus 5) second throttle this year ... and it's hard to test this. BTW, if you haven't tried it, you might get a chuckle out of the Javascript pop-ups if you click from Slashdot on my Christmas Webcam link.
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> Ow, I always though google was programmed in Python.
Why? I've never heard stories about it being programmed by little girls.
The downside is that I am now going to have to find a new name for my nigritude ultramarine paint. Such a nigritude sea blue, no other name really describes it. Not to mention all the legitimate search engine optimising companies I have already paid in preparation for the launch. Sigh... ---
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I actually googled for 'ass ramming uncle fuckers' and it took me to linux.com
You dont need to see why a phrase is in top position at the moment - as there is one factor that trumps all - anchortext (the text used as the link).
Does that mean that if one performs a search for "click here" we can find the least functional web sites?