Look It Up For Yourself, not so much about SEO anymore

What I’ve Learned from this SEO Challenge so far….

This Busby SEO contest was looking a little flakey yesterday at this time, between the Busby server being down and just before that people asking if they could use parts of the keyword phrase, and the previous SEO contest winner asking if they could continue using their previous Busby SEO. Well, I believe that unless everyone uses a fresh domain, this contest is already flawed. Luckly the contest mods get the server back up and let them know they at least couldn’t use domains which used any of the keywords and that eliminated the sphere group, who appear to be willing to do anything short of black hat tricks to win.

So what have I learned? I have a website on growing tomatoes with a blog on it. There’s a few innocuous posts on the blog that I didn’t really think too much about. Since I’ve been researching backlinks lately, I rolled over the names and saw they had back links to porn sites!!!! I haven’t deleted them yet since I think they’re funny.

So I’ve learned that probably quite a few blog posts on the web are probably junk to set up back links, which is a problem with Google’s formula. So now I’m going to be spending time going on to blogs and typing in stuff like “Great article”, and possibly squeezing out a question so some one can respond, so I can respond with another backlink!!!! I understand the concept of ranking a site because of backlinks, but it’s too easy to abuse. So I’ve been googling for unused blogs and making silly but kind posts.

Wordpress is another beast.

Good luck to everyone in this Busby SEO Challenge!

Site-whiz