Page 6 - The serious Nigritude Ultramarine thread.

Here is the article (printed w/o permission).

I think my Slashdot writeup was better! ;-)
alek


A Contest to Gain
Top Rank by Google;
No Cheating Allowed

By KEVIN J. DELANEY
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
May 21, 2004; Page B1

Nigritude ultramarine. If it sounds like gobbledygook, why does a Google search on the term return about 160,000 results?

An online ad company and a search-themed Web site are sponsoring a contest that shows how easy search results can be manipulated. The winners: sites that rank highest in Google searches on June 7 and July 7 for the "invented" term (actually a play on Dark Blue Sea Ltd., an Australian company that is a contest sponsor).

Web site owners try diligently to boost their placement in online search results. Clever types try to exploit the formulas that Google (www.google.com) and others use to rank sites, but the search engines often catch on and tweak their methodology.

In the current contest, entrants can try to boost their rankings by getting other sites to link to their "nigritude ultramarine" pages, or create sites that do so. They also must avoid running afoul of Google systems that penalize tactics such as linking from bogus pages. Google declined to comment.

As of yesterday, the top-ranked site included gibberish like "nigritude ultramarine mrunderhill."

Yes ol mr. xmas lights is a much better writer.

Hulk agree "Mr. Christmas Lights" not bad for a Puny Human ;-)

Hulk still standing by with Hulk Bomb to support Team Seochat
Hulk concerned Hulk Bomb may fizzle if Puny Human zoolie wait to long.
Hulk read that Puny Human zoolie confused by Google behavior.
Hulk also confused by Google behavior.
Hulk try to SMASH Google for Team Seochat, but Google Strong.

If you though SEOChat would get out of hand check this forum out http://forums.merkey.net/

LOL some of that is too funny.

Hulk, rz has not been posting much. Any idea where he may be? I sent Zoolie looking for him, but no response. We are going to have to do whatever and everything soon for nigritude ultramarine.


PK... that is TOO FUNNY!! Yo Moderators... visit the forum link on PK's post.

Hi SEO_AM!

Relaxzoolaner is still out there, I got an email from him a few hours ago.

Maybe he is on a forum break?

nigritude ultramarine update---

the seo dream team nigritude ultramarine page has emerged into the google index.
finally.
we are currently at #20.

http://www.google.com/ie?q=nigritud...G=Google+Search

...time to make the move to the top!

I have us at #21 for nigritude ultramarine, #20 for nigritude, and #23 for ultramarine. We are positioned... it is time to move in for the kill. Go Nigritude Ultramarine Dream Team!!

its time to turn seo_am into seo_pro!

Hi,

I thought he called himself SEO_AM because he prefered doing SEO during AM hours. :-)

Now I get it.

seo_am(ature)
seo_pro(fessional)

:-)

Now you have gone and broken the code. Now nobody is going to listen to me except Zoolie... and he won't even come when I call him. Watch... come boy, come!... see?

Hi SEO_AM,

I will always read your post, atleast all your posts with the words 'demon' or 'demons'. But to find these words I guess I would have to read trough them all. Catch 22.

Sorvoja, I, as well as many others, when I first came to SEO Chat knew next to nothing about SEO. Now I am no longer next to it... I am getting to know it. Many thanks to all the real "pros" on this board. :smile:

Hi SEO_AM,

I know the feeling when the very few weeks I have been a member of this forum I have learnt more about SEO than I thought was possible. I also like the relaxed and playful atmosphere that does exist here. :-)

I live and work in a small country with very few search engine optimisation companies (less than 10), there are only about 8 million indexed pages under the Norwegian top level domain (.no) and only about 7 million Norwegian pages indexed. So optimisation is very easy in Norway, hopefully I will do more real search engine optimisation (for English keywords) in the future.