Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization And Some Silly Personal Stuff…

One of the interesting things about SEO contests is that they’re always very, very dynamic (scary too lol). Because sulumits retsambew is my first contest I’ve ever entered. Since they’re basically competitions of rank, it’s exciting to watch how you could have one set of Top 10 pages one day and have a whole other set the next. Sulumits Retsambew is no exception and last 15 days have given interesting shocks and surprises everyday.

This piece of news should come as a surprise if you’ve been keeping tabs on the contest: SulumitsRetsambew.org was dethroned. Hellas lost his sleep and rest :p. The Bosnia and Herzegovina-based ex-first ranker has been knocked down one step to rest at page 3, then page 2, then lower page 1,and good news, he is back today. But I’m sure it was a bad time for him.

It’s done a pretty good job for the first several weeks of the contest, quickly garnering the top spot and holding on to it for a relatively long time. Now that he’s back to first place, though, the contest is up in the air again.

Asia is still holding on to its dominance in the contest, particularly on Page 1. For almost the entire duration of the contest, most of the Top 10 pages have come from Asian countries. At the moment, it doesn’t seem like that trend will let go anytime soon; Asia-based sites still have a strong hold in the first few SERPs.

.biz entry is surprising everybody with #2 hold as the rumor is of site being offline and out. My first sulumits retsambew entry is back to #3 after 17 days. mygulfcoastbeachteam.com, sulumitsretsambew.com and Firtown.com are doing real good but fluctuating with their positions pretty frequently.

Slideshare’s entry is back to page 1 after a drop but now it’s not in top 5. Good job by sulumitsretsambewblog.com as I notice it making a jumpr from page 3 to 1.

Social networks seem to be an emerging trend in the SEO race to #1. While the initial Top 10 lineup was composed primarily of blogs and news sites, more and more social network pages are creeping their slow but sure way up the search engine rankings. Only time will tell how well the social networking shtick will hold up in this free-for-all SEO contest.