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Why I Don’t Participate in SEO Contests

Brandon — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:32:29 +0000

For many people, showing their skills in a SEO contest might be good for their ego, but beyond that, there isn’t much to be gained. There have been a few contests that offered a cash prize (usually less than $500), or a small prize like a TV. Are these prizes worth spending time on?

For me, these prizes aren’t worth the time and cost I would put into a SEO contest. I pay my link builders well to get me results. If they don’t get results, they don’t stay on my team very long. As of today, I have 5 link builders that have been with my for over 3 years. Others have come and gone, but most of them stick around. I pay better than everyone else, and I expect them to build links just like I train them. Basically, they’re very valuable to me.

If these prizes were comparable to what I could earn promoting my niche sites, or my client sites, I would drop everything and join a SEO contest. Until that happens, I’m following the money, which is link building for my clients who demand results and my niche sites which make me a steady passive income every month.

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Alex Dombroff Contest! Win $100 Easily!

Brandon — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:17:11 +0000

UPDATE:Alex Dombroff Contest is over.

Background: A friend, Alex Dombroff bet that I couldn’t rank better for his name than he could. Of course I can, he just didn’t realize who he was up against!

Then I told him that my readers could easily spank him for his own name, Alex Dombroff, in the search engine rankings. He disagrees (and still disagrees!).

So I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is and give you $100 if you are ranked #1 for the phrase “Alex Dombroff” (without quotation marks) in Google on April 15th. That is a little more than two weeks away so you’d better get to work! What better way to celebrate the US tax day than we a SEO and SEM contest?

You can use any method you choose, Squidoo, Blogspot, Craigslist, etc. You must link back to this post about the contest and leave a comment tell me what site you’re promoting. There are even a lot of great Alex Dombroff domains available still!

How to Enter contest in 3 easy steps.

1. Create a website or page (any site, any page, any domain).

2. Link from that page to this contest page to prove your ownership.

3. Post a comment in this post linking to your entry page.

Pretty easy! Winner will get $100 Paypal (or other method of money transfer) on April 15th. Good luck, let’s show Alex Dombroff what we can do!

Update: Obviously I won’t win my own contest, so if this page is ranked #1 then the winner will be whoever is next highest behind property I own.

Update 2: Hey Alexander, if you’re reading this, just wanted to say, “I told you so!”. Did you check out Alexander Dombroff in the serps yet?

And The Winner Is…

Brandon — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:09:46 +0000

After a pretty long and drawn out discussion on how to pick a winner I have decided to let this random number generator pick a number. I’ve attached the screenshot as proof that David Culpepper from Mississippi is the winner!

Congratulations David, I’ll email you to verify that the address is correct and I’ll ship the iPod today (if UPS is open) and Monday if not.

Thanks to everyone for participating. Look for a Microsoft Zune contest in the very near future.

Random number generator:

Comment matching the number:

Here is David’s winning entry.

Thanks again to everyone who entered!

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Last Chance to Enter, Drawing Tomorrow!

Brandon — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:48:38 +0000

Today is the last chance to enter the contest for the custom iPod Shuffle!

Get yourself entered and quick!

Win an iPod Shuffle just for linking!

Brandon — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:21:18 +0000

Want to win an iPod shuffle from me? All you have to do is link to this blog and link to my sponsor. You must link to this post and any post from the sponsor you would like.The winner will be selected randomly August 1st, 2007. Watch the video above for more information. The sponsor is Business-Cards-Free.com. Here are a few linking examples.

I just found out that Brandon Hopkins is having a contest for an iPod shuffle. All you have to do is link to him and link to this site about free business cards and you’re entered. So now I’m entered.

Brandon Hopkins is giving away an iPod shuffle on August 1st. To enter just link to his post and to the sponsor site about free business cards and you can win.

If you want to win a free iPod shuffle, just link to this site and this site about business cards and you’re automatically entered.

The winner will be randomly chosen based on trackbacks to this post. If you enter the contest and your trackback doesn’t show up within a day or two, email me with your post url and that will enter you as well.

Jim Boykin says, “Brandon Hopkins is cool!”

Brandon — Wed, 30 May 2007 18:41:28 +0000

As I said yesterday, “Technorati thinks I’m cool”. Today it’s Jim Boykin’s turn. He thinks this blog is so cool that he is offering me a free We Build Pages wall clock!

Jim, thanks for the wonderful opportunity to get a wall clock. I don’t really need another wall clock, but I would like some free ($720 or so) advertising for a certain problematic website I have. It won’t rank for crap and I can’t seem to get the stupid thing linkbaited.

So here is my official entry to the Jim Boykin $720 in free ads contest. Since you’re going to choose based on who knows what, I think that I should win because I have a new (28 day old) baby that needs a new pair of shoes! (No, she doesn’t really wear shoes yet, but I’ll invest the earnings and buy her two pairs when she’s 5 years old.

Contest: How Would You Spend $100 – Win $150

Brandon — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:19:38 +0000

It’s contest time!

Let’s imagine for a moment that you aren’t a millionaire and you only had $100 to spend on SEM (search engine marketing).

What would you do? How would you spend that $100?

All you have to do is send me an email with the best way to spend $100 marketing your website. The website could be new or old, but you can’t spend over $100 exactly on your marketing.

You could have articles written, buy PPC ads, buy a site review, whatever. Make sure you give me some details because I might be using your idea in a future post.

If you are the winner, you will get your choice of spending $150 on this site. $150 will get you the following:

Complete Site Review (1 review)

Contextual links (2 links in either one or two posts, your choice)

Sponsored Posts (3 total sponsored posts)

So all you have to do is send me an email with your best marketing idea under $100!

If you win I’ll contact you to get some info on claiming your winnings.

SEO Authority Contest – Free Entry!