Ways to Take Part in SEO Contests!

Ways to Take Part in SEO Contests!

"There are no shortcuts to success." - The maxim holds true everywhere, especially if you talk about search engine optimization. SEO is considered to be one of the most volatile subjects. You cannot follow same strategy for every website. Also you need to update your strategies from time to time. This is all because of mystical nature of search engines. The search engines are likely to change/update their ranking algorithms quite often. So, one need to update the game plan with the changing trends of search engines.

But predicting the nature of the search engines is not that easy. Search engines never disclose the criteria they use to rank the pages. Thus, one needs to keep an eye over the behavior of the search engines. Also you should never be afraid to experiment new tricks to being up the rankings. And if you conduct such an experiment - be sure to share your experiences with others through some blog or SEO discussion board.

To promote the habit of experimenting, many organizations organize SEO contests. Recently, one such event is organized by NetBuilders.org. The contests are required to promote their contest entries for the keyword "sulumits retsambew". Participating in such events will allow the contestants to experiment new methods of promoting websites. And for those who are newbie to SEO can learn a lot while participating in such contests.

There are many ways you can participate in such contests. Even if you don't have your hosting or even a domain, even then also you can participate in the contests. Let me point down some ways using what you can participate:

1) Blogger.com - One of the most popular ways is creating a blog over Blogger.com. All you need to do is register an account on Blogger and create a new blog. And when you register the blog you don't need to buy a domain it gives you a link structure like "yourblog.blogspot.com". After that you can easily post over that blog.

2) WordPress.com - WordPress.com is very similar to Blogger.com in concept but it uses WordPress blogging system. And again you don't need to spend any penny to create the blog on WordPress.com.

3) Twitter - It has been seen that many people use twitter to participate in such contests. This is a pretty good experiment if you want to conduct. And can yield good results if you manage to get a nice amount of followers.

4) Slideshare.net - Slideshare is a very good platform to share presentations. To participate using Slideshare.net all you need to do is create a presentation in PowerPoint and upload that to slide share.

5) YouTube - YouTube is another social media to participate in contest. You can create a video related to the keyword of the contest and participate using that.

6) Squidoo - Squidoo lenses have recently gained quite popularity. A lens is a single page of information. The difference between a blog and a lens is that a lens is a single page and a blog may contain multiple pages and posts. You can create an informative lens over squidoo.com and make it your doorway to the contest.

Remember, there are many other ways also, to participate in a seo contest and I have pointing down a few famous ones. So, you might research more and find some other alternate to enter the contest without spending a penny.

After you create your contest entry you may plan your search engine promotion plan to promote your site on search engines. You can find many tutorials over the internet on how to promote your websites and you can also join some SEO discussion forums to gain more knowledge. Good Luck!

Gautam Chadha is a web designer and likes to talk about current web trends, creating SEO friendly websites, designing wordpress themes, CSS and JavaScript. You can visit his blog cum sulumits retsambew [http://www.gautamchadha.com] contest entry to know more about him.

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