globalwarming awareness2007

Today, 15 january 2007, is the Kick-Off of the SEO World Championship !

I decided to enter after my eye caught an advertisement while i was checking the status of my seo site: http://seo-expert.terrababy.nl/

I was typing the keywords “seo expert” to assure my site was still on the 2nd position when i stumbled upon an adwords advertisement called: Seo World Championship.

On reviewing the site i quickly decided to participate as the starting day was today. I instantly rembered going through the source code of the winners of the previous contest and wanting to participate.

I previously read about seo contests but always disliked the vibe that i got of the sites that organised them. Also, i always had the feeling that these contests were mainly held to increase traffic to the ones organising them (linkbait).

This is my chance to see for myself. At 19:00 GMT+1 the keyphrase

globalwarming awareness2007

was introduced.

A neat new feature of this contest is that if you want to participate you have to register a new domain name, so no one can benefit from domain age.

I started refreshing http://www.seoworldchampionship.com/ at 18:55 or so, and immediately tried to register some important domains, which were, of course, refused.

I ended up with this domain which i don’t particularly like as 2007 is separated from awareness, but i’ll try anyway to go ahead with this one.

My compliments to the organisation of this contest, the keyphrase

globalwarming awareness2007

is great and, because of the non-profit character of it, feels less spammy than for example “v7ndotcom elursrebmem”, a well-known keyphrase from a previous contest.�

Current status:

Google: zero results, Msn: zero results, Yahoo: zero results

Let’s see what happens.