Promoting a SEO contest

I've heard some do make it a rule; others I suspect hadn't considered it might happen when they wrote up the rules.

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If we don't allow teams to enter then we can know if a team is using the contest as we can log each login to the system. So if a contestant is logging in through 3 different countries every day we can be sure that something is going on

Also I wonder how we can choose teams. I mean most people will have to enter a team randomly, but this wont be fair for most of the contestants....

What do you mean Nick ? what teams ? there is only one team here at webdigity !! are you saying there is a need to have more than one team ?

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In case that we allow teams to enter, we should allow any team. The contest should be fair for everyone who enters

Nikolas, the people who were cheating and working together had one person managing the project - so only one person logging into the account and that person simply coordinated the efforts of all the other members of the team.

Just because the same person is logging in does not mean they are indeed working alone.

$10,000 is a lot of money - it will bring out people who are much more sneaky and dishonest than we are. You're gonna have to think a bit like them to help ensure that you keep the contest clean.

Allowing teams won't prohibit a group from claiming they have 5 people and really having 50. It might make it a more of challenge and limit the cheating if you put some really serious rules in place, say no more than xxx links to the entry or something that would make quality more important then quantity.

From the little I've seen of these contests it seems whoever can get the most backlinks wins - not much a test of SEO rather than networking.

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Michele is right, with this amount of money you get all the black hat seo's on your neck

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Michele is right, with this amount of money you get all the black hat seo's on your neck

yeah. with their blog farms, bots, etc...

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Michele is right, with this amount of money you get all the black hat seo's on your neck

yeah. with their blog farms, bots, etc...

yeah that becomes fun

maybe Nick should reduce the price to $100 and spend the rest for our trip to the wonderful country Greece

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maybe Nick should reduce the price to $100 and spend the rest for our trip to the wonderful country Greece

that wont work for me since im too far away.

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maybe Nick should reduce the price to $100 and spend the rest for our trip to the wonderful country Greece

that wont work for me since im too far away.

yeah I thought about that, but there are always people without a price lol

that wont work for me since im too far away.

Moderators only then

Let me know when we are leaving Olaf!

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that wont work for me since im too far away.

Moderators only then

Let me know when we are leaving Olaf!

yeah maybe we can take a flight together

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LOL, that would be great, but I think the sponsors wont like the idea

BTW I should have released the contest till now (I mean the prerelease part) but with all these ideas, I think I have to reconsider a few things.

Michelle, your arguments are correct, so I guess we will have to allow teams. Maybe teams of 5 persons and for those who don't have team members they will be able to participate alone, or join another team (that will be an administration nightmare for me )

In that case the prize will be won by the #1 team.

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that wont work for me since im too far away.

Moderators only then

Let me know when we are leaving Olaf!

he he he... hmp!

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LOL, that would be great, but I think the sponsors wont like the idea

BTW I should have released the contest till now (I mean the prerelease part) but with all these ideas, I think I have to reconsider a few things.

Michelle, your arguments are correct, so I guess we will have to allow teams. Maybe teams of 5 persons and for those who don't have team members they will be able to participate alone, or join another team (that will be an administration nightmare for me )

In that case the prize will be won by the #1 team.

you can rank both group and single cotestants

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Ranking both group and single wound be unfair. 1 person against 5 would be really hard.

Maybe we can leave that to the users in the end. So you will be able to enter as a team of 5 persons, or as single, or a single who wants to join a random team.

How that sounds?

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I mean that you rank both groups and singles of course it would be unfair, will say youn need a winner for both categories.

If you do so you need to pay the winner a different way like $x for a number of points (counted links what ever)

I don't think that one price is very good, you need to split the money

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One problem is that we need something that is easy to understand. I am not sure we need different categories (teams and singles)

and maybe it would be better to have two prizes. I said one because I don't think splitting $5000 to 5 persons is cool enough.

Arghh, this decision is getting harder every day

I think having 2 or 3 prizes is the way to go because people feel that if they are not good enough they can at least try for the third place but if they know that they are up against a very strong team they might not even try ...

1st 6000
2nd 3000
3rd 1000

would be good if i was any good at seo, however i have seen a contest for $100,000 imagine winning that!

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