UKWW SEO Contest 2008 version 2.0 Cancelled

It is almost a month since the kabonfootprint SEO contest was announced by UKWW and many of the participants did spend a  lot such as buying a new domain, getting a new web hosting, buying back links and paying to link directories. This cause them a lot of effort, money, time and other resources spent. The other week, UKWW SEO Contest organizer announced that their sponsors all backed-out making the participants very disappointed. In organizing or conduction a world wide competition like this, organizers should make sure of the availability of fund so that they will have no problems later. I understand how the organizers felt about this, very embarassed, but I also understand the “rage” of the participants.

Right now I am designing a mini-SEO contest and I am raising funds for it. Actually I have the funds already but I want more to add on the prize to make it very lucrative so that participants will be attracted to join the contest. I have announced it already in my new personal blog and I will introduce it here officially when I released it on the web. My plan is that I will wait until the Cebu Seo Contest finished before I start my own contest.

Hope that SEO practitioners, NOOB and experts, join the said competition. It will be my pleasure. 

SEO Contest 2008: Kabonfootprint

Busby SEO Challenge is about to come to its end as the day comes. Winners are becoming more clearer each day and the position from top one to ten seems not moving. The leaders are not leaving their tight grip on the ranks. There’s no symptoms of  instability but a visibly strength. As it’s about to exit the limelight of the SEO world (which is by August 31) another challenge had begun. Yes everyone another world wide SEO contest was announced last August 1.

I’m referring to the the contest from UK Webmasterworld, the version 2 of SEOContest2008. The target keyword right now is the word: kabonfootprint its a new word needed to be optimized on your websites.It’s different from the Busby SEO Challenge because kabonfootprint keyword challenge requires participants to have a new website with no cache or backlinks. The hard part of the contest is you will be fighting against kabonfootprint.com, .net, .info and the previous champions of SEO. This will be very hard for me and for other opponent who  can’t affort to have a new domain for the said contest. But still my friend will be very willing to participate and this will be taken as another challenge for him. SEO masters from different continent (Asia, Europe, America, etc.) will be expected to join this SEO event. For other question regarding the said contest rules and details, you can visit UKWebMasterworld.com forum.

Do you know why companies are fond of conducting contest like this kabonfootprint and Busby SEO Challenge? One primary reason is this is a good way of promoting SEO in the world while promoting their own websites. Providing a permanent and strong backlinks that will leave them a great edge against their competitors of the same field. Actually this kind of contest exists for several years from now. Even in the Philippines we have this Bayanihan SEO Contest from SEO Philippines and mini-SEO contest like of Macuha and Pinoy Money Talk. It’s a good and easy investment compare to manual promotion of a website. 

Good luck participants! May you fulfill your SEO dreams with this different challenges.