Despite the seo angels trying to sabotage it The Nigritude Ultramarine contest had only 210,000 pages indexed. v7ndotcom elursrebmem is already at 2.5 Million.

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I’m offering everyone a free link in Frog Engine’s V7ndotcom Elursrebmem Section if they are obviously sites for the contest, and they are giving out live links to v7N

Even though he has said he wouldn’t get involved, here he is writing about the contest:

Danny Sullivan speaks about the current results for v7ndotcom elursrebmem

John, thank you for your time to give us this interview. What have you been doing lately?

First, thank you for taking the time to interview me.

Since the latter part of 2005, I’ve gotten back into the Internet marketing thing full time. Most of my time is spent developing v7n.com into the website it should have been years ago. We are adding new value to the site - more features, more activities - on a weekly basis now.

I look forward to v7n keeping and maintaining its previous traffic levels and usefulness.

You have been absent more or less for about a year. What has motivated you to come back full force?

The Sea of Japan.

In 2003 and 2004 we grew by leaps and bounds. But with growth comes headaches, and I succumbed to burn-out somewhere in the beginning of 2005. I essentially walked away from v7n and left it in the hands of employees.

In late 2005 however, I spent some quality time on the Sea of Japan. I had time to reflect on my life, and it occurred to me that I had wasted a lot of what God had given me.

It was a rebirth of sorts for me, and I became determined to see this community - the v7n community - reach its full potential. We’d gotten to where we were by being genuinely concerned with the well being of our members, and it’s something I’m now committed to.

My opinion may be biased, but I believe that v7n adds something special to the Internet landscape. Our members are top notch people, and they care for one another.

What do you consider your biggest accomplishment so far and what do you want to accomplish in the future?

My biggest accomplishment – my children. They’re absolutely beautiful.

Professionally, I believe that V7N would have to be the one thing I’m the most proud of. I’ve put a lot of work into it. I’ve put a lot of my life into it, and when members say “Thanks, I’ve learned so much” it really means a lot to me.

Looking into 2006 and 2007, I believe that V7N is in a great position to start offering webmasters more tools to build their businesses. I believe we can offer many services for free that other sites charge fees for. I believe the key to success here is in offering more webmasters more of what they need, and not charging for it.

Who has inspired you when it comes to running your business and creating a company like yours?

My father. He was a successful businessman, but he didn’t chase the money. His advice was, “Whatever you do, do it best, and success will follow.”

What do you say to those who are critical of you? How do you feel when you’re publicizing a contest and there are some who are right away jumping on you and making a name for themselves by using yours?

There will always be folks like that. But it’s a short term strategy which doesn’t really build a positive brand.

When we look at how Greg Boser has promoted himself, it’s always by being obnoxious. But it’s the easiest thing on the Internet to do - and Internet critics are a dime a dozen - and most folks see right through it. The simple fact is that most folks in this industry don’t give a rat’s tail about the politics.

The SEO industry is full of politics, and there are different ways of dealing with it. I called Doug Heil up a year or so ago, and we talked a bit, and I’m genuinely convinced that we could never see eye to eye. But I don’t run around ragging on Doug Heil personally. It wouldn’t be professional, and although I may not respect his professional opinions, I respect him as a person.

And let me take this opportunity to say that I don’t take any of what Greg Boser has done personally. When people contact me and express concern over this “war of the SEO’s”, I’m somewhat amused. I’ve attacked several clowns who I believe are nothing more than scam artists and borderline criminals, but you don’t see me doing background checks and asset searches on Greg. If Greg Boser wants to offend me, he’ll have to try harder.

Where do you see search engine optimization headed in the future?

I’ve long been critical of most search engine optimization. Any sort of on-page optimization which places search engine rankings over the marketing integrity / brand integrity of a website is a mistake. You don’t see strong brands using cheap SEO tactics, and that’s because cheap SEO tactics are not compatible with strong branding.

What would you think if you went to the Google home page and saw “Search Engine” on the index page in heading tags, italics, and bolded font? Your perception of the Google brand would be drastically altered, and not for the better.

In my experience, strong brands opt for pay per click advertising before they opt to trash their pages with bloated keyword density and the like. One thing many amateur SEO’s can’t seem to understand fully is that brand, not search engine rankings, is the ace in the hole. Build a brand and consumers will search less for “generic” and more for “your brand”. If you doubt me, look up and compare the search count for “soda” and compare that to the search count for “Pepsi” or “Coke”.

Traffic has never equaled sales. Branding is much closer to profitability than traffic, and having said that I’ll venture a guess that more money will go to PPC and less to organic search engine optimization.

You’re currently living in Japan. When are you coming back on American soil and will you be going to conferences again?

I currently go back to the States about once a month. I look forward to attending more Search Engine Strategies Conferences and meeting the friends I’ve made online.

After the contest … any plans?

Building V7N and doing some other things I would rather not mention just yet. Look out for lots of improvements!

Who would you like to see win?

A friend. I have so many friends competing in this that I can’t really choose one over another, but it would be great if a friend got the prize money.

Looking back at the past 3 years, what would you have done differently if you could do it again?

I think that it’s easy to mess up in your personal life when you’re doing the best professionally. It’s easy to spend too much time working, and not enough with your family, kids, wife, etc. That is one thing I regret immensely.

In the “other regrets” department, I definitely regret not being more personally involved in the management of our web directories. I was very happy when BlueFind got PR8, and I wish that we had been more careful with it. The folks we had editing it were not as strict as they probably should have been, and it’s entirely my fault for not being more involved. BlueFind got hit pretty hard by Google, and when I took the time to go look through some of the categories, it’s entirely understandable why it got whacked. Some of the crap in there should never have been allowed in, and it’s going to be a lot of work to clean it up and get it to where I want it

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Find some updates and information on the V7Ndotcom Elursrebmem Contest

This interview has been conducted by Mike Dammann, the Larry King of SEO

Is the keyword! Good luck, all!

Here are some of the rules:

1) In order to participate, you need to mention v7n somewhere on the page that is entering the contest.
Check this.

2) As soon as May 15th, 2006 12 noon PST hits, the first 5 pages for the keyterm v7ndotcom elursrebmem in Google will have won. It doesn’t matter if the sites are all owned by the same people or if they are done individually or in a group. Enter with as many sites and pages as you like. This contest will be survival of the fittest and teach us more than any contest before ever did

Read all about the v7ndotcom elursrebmem seo contest!
(Don’t hate me in 4 months )

Discuss v7ndotcom elursrebmem and keep an eye on the Google Base results.

or go directly to v7n and enter the seo contest thread with all the rules and information that you need!

If you own a directory and want to offer listings for contest related sites, List it here and I will add you for free. Check the major Google Datacenters

Psyche!

Not until Sunday, Jan. 15th
12.00 PM P.S.T

Will be announced on v7N’s Internet Marketing Forum as well as
this blog

The exact location is right here

To be exact: When this says noon, the keywords will be here

It’s been quite some time since anything seo related made some headline news.
The last big contest was Search Guild’s nigritude ultramarine contest.
Everything seemed to have ended after that. Until now that is!

John Scott from v7 Networks announced an upcoming seo contest on 12-20-2005 which kicked off a snowball that won’t stop rolling and growing.

First Greg Boser tried to hijack and destroy the contest by offering more money for using the keywords of the contest and “not” linking to v7n as it was part of the original requirement. Read his post and some comments on Web Guerilla where he is trying to play hero of some sort. His friends then offered their own contributions which pumped up his prize money.
They were trying to keep contestants from complying with the now adjusted link requirements that originally asked for a link from the site enterting the contest. A link into a page on v7N.

Instead they asked the contestants to link to Matt Cutts’ Blog instead as if Matt needed or cared about any more backlinks.

What good happened afterwards is that others have added to John’s pot of gold:

Bruce Stone from Skaffe and Sporge added $1k prize money for the winner and this gentleman an iPod.

Shoe Money, a friend of mine and John’s has donated $2k in addition and now the prize money has gone up to $4,000 for the winner.

Where Greg, Oilman and Grehan stand is not quite clear, but no one really cares

So basically here are some of the rules:

Anything goes, anything goes, anything goes

On the 15th there will be an announcement of the official keyphrase.
The contest will be officially over on May 15, 2006.

But since we can’t control the actions and whatever else Greg Boser, Oilman and Mike Grehan who are trying hard to get as much attention as the original idea of John’s is receiving more and more each day.

The anticipation is high! Anyone can enter. You can enter with as many pages as you like.

Do you have some skills?

Then go ahead and get ready for the Biggest SEO Contest in history!!

Good luck winning the grandprize of at least $4,000

And the keyterm to fight over for the next 4 months is …