$1,000 Contest Winning Ideas Announced

Posted by Scott on 14th December, 2007 |    17 comments

Winner: Funnyexamanswers.com with his elementary SEO rel=nofollow tip. After reading this suggestion, I realized that I’m not using rel=nofollow ANYWHERE, and I’ve started paying more attention to where I’m sending link juice.

2nd Place: Domtan. I liked several of his ideas including, turning AllEnthusiast.com into a “mothership blog” (though I’d more likely turn it into an automated content portal, showcasing content on my other sites), putting keywords into logo image names, missing alt/title attributes in images,

3rd Place: Woody Hayday at critix.co.uk. His idea(s): “With photopost you could potentially expand it using subdomains/user content. If you provided a way that your users could create a gallery on theirname.photopost.com this would perhaps add another form of revenue from this product. You could provide this subdomain gallery free and include advertisements for revenue or otherwise charge.

Another Idea I thought of, in a sort of related way would be to provide “world photos” - a site that houses photographs that are geographically linked to a co-ordinate. That way everyone could compare eiffel tower photographs or discuss landmarks.”

I had already thought of doing a photo sharing gallery at PhotoPost.com (either johnsmith.photopost.com, or a huge portal gallery indexing photos from all PhotoPost powered sites), but props to Woody for thinking of this because it’s a very evolutionary idea.

Runner-up ideas that I really liked:

Chipseo with his “I can’t find any about pages on any of your sites” tip. Yes I agree, and this isn’t intentional.

Fili - optimizing robots.txt for wordpress.

Turk Hit Box – Using icons instead of repeat “Very Satisfied”, and “Satisfied” text on ResellerRatings reviews pages to improve keyword density.

From the looks of it, there are an absolute ton of SEO savvy marketers reading W Revenue. I know how to build successful, automated, user generated, and profitable sites, but SEO is not my strength, so this is a great opportunity to exchange knowledge here. If anyone has any follow-up ideas regarding SEO or anything else, I’m more than eager to hear them and your suggestions will be helping all W Revenue readers.

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17 Comments »

Comment by Funny exam answers
2007-12-14 07:18:03

Wow, I sure am glad I sent you that e-mail at the 11th hour, Scott.

Nice idea running this competition, no follow is so often over looked and it’s really nice to see people starting to implement it more freely now to funnel google juice where they want it.

You’ll have to let me know how it pans out for you and this prize comes as a nice birthday present for me as my birthday was on the 12th.

If you need any more SEO related help, feel free to drop me a line and perhaps I can do some directory submission and link bait for you. =)

Comment by Domainholics
2008-02-06 08:31:57

well done mate. Can’t believe you won with that simple tip

 
 
Comment by Freebies
2007-12-14 08:13:16

Thanks for the contest because I got a ton of excellent ideas myself. I can say I was a culprit of a lot of the things that were suggested.

 
Comment by Rock
2007-12-14 12:49:02

All of those sound like some great ideas. They got my own wheels turning in my head too. Time to go check my sites for NoFollow

 
Comment by Woody
2007-12-14 13:34:20

Congrats to the other winners - itself this contest was a good business idea :D Look forward to seeing the results in practice!

.W.

 
Comment by Domtan
2007-12-16 20:49:09

Congrats to the other two winners, and everybody else who contributed. There were many good ideas.

Look forward to the implementations, Scott.

 
2007-12-17 15:04:35

Well done to the winners, I said from the start this was a great competition.

The best bit is that we have all learnt something which we can consider for our own sites.

I wonder how easy it will be to assess the value of this advice? I am sure a paid SEO would have cost you more!

 
Comment by Woody
2007-12-19 05:04:06

just a bit more! lol!

plus scott hasnt paid us yet :0 nudge nudge :D

.W.

Comment by Scott
2007-12-19 05:09:02

I sent out all the payments a day or so ago. Check the address you gave me…

 
Comment by Funny exam answers
2007-12-19 05:32:58

I got paid :D. This is why I never keep money in my paypal account, I am going to end up with $500 in ebay junk now.

Comment by Freebies
2007-12-19 09:20:18

I hear you on that one. If I leave money in my PayPal account, my wife thinks it is fair game.

(Comments wont nest below this level)
 
 
 
Comment by Turk Hit Box
2007-12-20 06:07:12

Well, you should also start by removing plugin bits like Popularity Contest question mark linking to alexking website.

Plugin comments in html:
< -- Powered by AdSense-Deluxe WordPress Plugin v0.8 - http://www.acmetech.com/blog/adsense-deluxe/ –>
< -- all in one seo pack 1.2.9.5 [-1,-1,] -->

 
Comment by Woody
2007-12-23 18:43:54

Recieved - appreciate it :D

 
Comment by Fable
2008-01-04 12:32:33

Congrats to the winners! If only I’d heard about this sooner… ;)

Steve

 
2008-02-07 15:31:55

I can be my own loser

 
2008-02-07 15:32:17

NIce blog, by the way. Good contest.

 
2008-02-18 06:36:55

Heh.. this one was awesome in Funnyexamanswers.com:
http://funnyexamanswers.com/2007/09/30/where-is-the-x/

:)

 
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