The contest runs until 20th October 2006, the winner determined by the highest listed site on Google for the term ambatchdotcom seocontest. Additional prizes are also available for the top three places at the end of July, August and September.
my ambatchdotcom seocontest strategies
This page is "informative" about the contest, using the term "ambatchdotcom seocontest" often, without overusing it and making no sense to a human audience, or being regarded as SPAM.
This page lives on a domain which has been in Google for years, avoiding the "sandbox" effect - although that may not come into play with a term that isn't in Google to begin with.
Uses only basic html so the key term ambatchdotcom seocontest isn't overshadowed by extraneous code
The key term has been used in the title, description and keyword meta tags and H1 tags - although supposedly search engines don't use these anymore, they might as well go in.
Page content is updated regularly by including the "tactics" section on the RHS of each page, and that makes my entry more interesting for both human and search engine visitors.
Certain (minor) parts of this page are changed every couple of days to see which version Google has in its cache
The basic content of this page is static to maintain good keyword density for the key term "ambatchdotcom seocontest". You don't want to go changing that too often as it could upset the SERPs!
All pages on this site have their time stamp updated every day to encourage repeat search engine visits.
This site has an xml site map for Google, and a text site map for Yahoo. Both of these are updated daily to encourage repeat search engine visits.
Oh... and it's HTML compliant just to see if THAT helps
The important stuff (I think) is in the linking to my contest entry...
I want Google to pick this site up, and rank it as important for the phrase "ambatchdotcom seocontest". Note: After FIVE days, this objective WAS achieved with this site at #4. Subsequent Note: At the end of July, "unnatural" linking has seen my entry drop over 900 places! Another Note: At Aug 17, I'm BACK into the top 20!
To achieve that, I will :
link to this site from my network of sites... since they have good PR and their pages get spidered regularly, google should pick up new links to my ambatchdotcom seocontest entry quickly.