SEO competitions are the kind of nerdiness we can get behind

It’s funny that on the same day Derek Powazek unleashes a controversial post on SEO, Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists (make sure to read his follow-up too), we get an e-mail about an SEO competition.

Turns out our friend Dan Grigsby has challenged his UMN students to get the highest Google search result for the term Zompire Dracularius.

Joseph Husby, an enterprising young fellow, turned to the nerds for help. What a smart guy!

So here we are helping Joseph get the word out about Zompire Dracularius, because an SEO competition is just the kind of nerdiness we like to support. You should too!

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2 Responses to “SEO competitions are the kind of nerdiness we can get behind”

  1. Joseph Husby  on October 14th, 2009

    This is really awesome – I didn’t expect such a wonderful writeup from you guys! Personally, I’m very white-hat in my SEO efforts for the “real” websites I manage (www.hostasdirect.com and http://www.rosevillelutheran.org are my main ones), and would normally consider this a type of black-hat SEO.

    But, for such an obscure term as “Zompire Dracularius”, to offer any meaningful content to website owners with embedded links would just be pure BS. So I decided for this project to resort to “spamming” around to obtain links. And since Dan took time during class to explain your business, I figured I’d give it a shot and turn to the good nerds at the Nerdery!

    Thanks again for helping make http://www.zompire-dracularius.com the #1 result on Google!

    Sincerely,

    Joseph Husby

  2. dcgrigsby  on October 15th, 2009

    Hah, such an enthusiastic youth! For the record, I’m not suggesting people behave badly. There’s value in understanding how Google decides what’s relevant. When you take 50 kids that have never thought about this kind of thing before and give them terms that previously didn’t exist in Google their sites, collectively, become the internet in microcosm. Lots of learning.


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