Posts Tagged ‘SEO’

$1000 SEO Contest, Targeted term: seocontest2008

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

2008 SEO Contest is on! Targeted search term for the UKWW SEO Contest has been announced.

After 2 month of careful preparation highly anticipated SEO Contest for the top prize of $1000 on UK Webmaster World is officially on.

The only requirement to compete for the title and prize money is to be a registered member of UK Webmaster Forum. Participation is limited to 300 entries and filling up fast.

To win in this February SEO Contest members will need to optimize theirs registered pages for the targeted search term: seocontest2008.

Who’s page gets highest rankings on Google for that term at the end of the contest - will take home the cash…

Right now search on Google returns no results for the term seocontest2008 so let’s how many pages will be able to get indexed and ranked for that term on April 1st…

To follow current standings and learn more about UKWW SEO Contest you can visit official SEO Contest page.

UKWW SEO Contest accumulated a lot of interest among webmasters worldwide and UK Webmaster Forum activity has been increasing every day.

In addition to the $1000 first prize three runners up will get cancellation prizes of $100 each.

So if you consider yourself to be SEO expert or just want to test your skills - check SEO Contest thread and register to participate before 300 spots are taken…

Why directory MUST have detailed listing page

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

If you are using latest LinkBidScript version you probably realized that “Listing Details” page has significantly changed. Now it offers extended listing description, custom meta title, meta description and meta keywords that describe listed site, not your directory.

Why do you think it was done? Three letters: SEO…

Every details page is now optimized for specific search terms related to the listed site. To get maximum benefit you have to make sure that submitters provide long detailed description. Look at it this way - if the owner can’t find more than 3-4 words to describe his site why would anyone else want to visit it?

When SE spiders crawl your directory these details pages will be indexed for search terms related to the listed site and you may get top SERP position where you would not even think of.

I regularly analyze traffic statistics and check search terms that brought visitors to my directory. Probably only 20-25% visitors actually came looking for “directory” related terms… That means I actually succeeding in my goal - delivering targeted traffic to my submitters.

Rarely people will go to general directory looking for some specific info. Most of the time they will use search engines and that’s why you want your directory to rank high for as many terms as possible. The best way to do it - with highly optimized details pages.