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.

Although it would be a pleasant surprise to find out that a second domain somehow helps me win, this second entry is all about a change in tactics. I want to see how tweaking some of the strategies from my first entry would help this second one along. After all, there’s no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way to do SEO; there’s just SEO, and then there’s SEO that gets you to #1 at the end of the day.

This second entry will be my testing ground for a couple of new SEO tactics that I discovered recently. I also want to try mixing up the variables, such as by losing the domain-with-a-keyword tactic (like I did in my first contest entry) and just going with a plain vanilla domain name. Wasn’t experimenting with different SEO techniques the whole point of this contest in the first place? I’m just looking at this second entry as my way of making the most of that unique opportunity.

I’ll keep my first entry for more of conventional seo tactics while this would include some new seo stuff and tricks. Let’s see what works better for me. Moreover, needless to say, I thought of branding my blog too with this contest :p .

I still have to wait and see how things play out. The two domains won’t exactly be starting from an equal footing, and keeping certain factors constant isn’t as easy as it looks. But then again, it may all be worth the effort. For all we know, you might just have finished reading the future #1 pagest kidding but of course efforts are TO GET that sulumits retsambew winner position.

The answer above begs the question of what exactly an SEO contest is. Now, this competition is by no means the first; there have been numerous notable ones in the past, some of them much larger and more prestigious than this one. Its goals and principles, however, remain the same.

As an SEO contest, it’s a free-for-all for anybody who has access to SEO resources. Whoever gets to a certain search engine result rank within a certain amount of time wins; anything else you want to do is entirely your choice. Sites of all backgrounds and home nationalities are welcome to join and compete.

Redefining the Contest

SEO contests are meant to be opportunities for you to try out various SEO techniques in a controlled setting, and to compare how well your techniques fare compared to others’. More recently, many sites have been taking that experimentation aspect just a little bit further.

An increasing number of sites competing for sulumits retsambew are trying out methods that the SEO community has long held to be ‘bad’  or ineffective. And, to the surprise of many, those techniques are getting the pages to rankings that the community had previously believed impossible to reach. It’s groundbreaking, it’s revolutionary and it’s all just part and parcel of an SEO contest. Good luck to all

Chill & Cheers!