SEO contest hotting up

The potential title of ‘Ireland’s greatest SEO’ is attracting a lot of interest from people. With over a month to go, here are just some of the sites i’ve come across so far that (as far as i understand) have obeyed the rules…

• bluejumperinirish.com
• taskdrop.com
• mybluejumper.com
• greybandit.com
• bluejumper.net
• bluejumpernews.com – your favourite geansai gorm site
• personinireland.com

There are a lot of sites with ‘geansai gorm’ in the url – which isn’t allowed. Most of those are subdomains or directories though from free hosts – technically does that count as a ‘new domain’ or a valid one? I don’t know – a grey area perhaps.

Anyway, i can definitely take that lot above at the minute 😉 My bluejumpernews.com isn’t indexed at the minute, but expect to see it in google shortly and rise steadily. I’ve spent a good chunk of today working on it and optimizing it for google and picked up a few nice tips in the process. The code is still a bit bloated and not really something i fancy tackling but i’ll do a bit more homework on that and see if it matters much – i suspect not.

BlueJumperInIrish.com is in the lead at the minute and off to a flying start. Really simple blog, not much padding, proper permalink structure, loads of content so far, clever domain name, stingy on the outgoing links 😉

Not surprising really, as it’s blackdog’s baby 🙂 No matter what happens, it’s gonna be a fight to the finish and whoever wins it will have worked for it 😉 As per usual i’ll keep you guys updated on all of this.