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How To Get Googled, By Hook Or By Crook

Posted by timothy on from the googleburg-uncertainty-principle dept.

Mr. Christmas Lights writes "There is a Search Engine Optimization contest that just started up. For those that don't know about SEO, it's basically the process of optimizing a web page and links to insure a high ranking on search engine, with Google being the main search engine of interest. There are countless debates on the best approach. Note that there are 'white hat' and definitely 'black hat' methods (using the later can get you banned by Google - a risk some people seem willing to take! ;-)" Read more on this contest below.

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."

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  1. How to get a first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    By fuck or by suck.

  2. crossconnects by crossconnects · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    when i google for crossconnects, my domain came up 4th

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    no big sig
  3. Mac problems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac with Panther preview (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.

    Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.

  4. Typo in story: Latter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No text blah blah lameness filter blah blah.

  5. The last best hope for mankind.... by Arcanix · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I guess now would be the ideal time to post my site about the real nigritude ultramarine.

  6. Re:Hmm. by treat · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Damn that Heisenberg.

    It's cute to say things like this, but it's important to remember why it's wrong. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is *not* about photons bouncing off of atoms and disrupting them or any such thing, although obvservation altering the subject in this sort of way is important in every discipline.

  7. Re:"Optimization" by silentbozo · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    Having worked with marketers, I often wonder how they sleep at night. Do they deliberately disregard the common good? Have they managed to convince themselves that they are necessary, and even a good? Or are they playing a zero-sum game - "Well, if I don't screw everybody else over, someone else will do it anyways, so I might as well reap the rewards."

    In olden days, these kinds of people would have been dealt with by:

    1. Tarring and feathering.
    2. Being tied to a rail and getting run out of town.
    3. Being thrown in a boat without paddles and left to drift downstream.

    It's only in today's society, where these vermin have so many targets of opportunity (and the veil of apparent anonymity) that they can thrive, and not be thrown out. Even worse, it's only in today's society that these vermin can band together, hire lawyers and lobbyists, and start dictating to the rest of us, what we can do and what we can't do. The Do Not Call list was a good counter-blow, but they're still out there, degrading useful services like Google and e-mail for the rest of us...

  8. definition of n...... ultra.....? by abhisarda · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    some brothas are going to beat you black and blue. :)