"the four required words" contest winners

First off i just want to thank Guillaume of The MillionDollarScreenshot.com for running a successful and unique seo contest. I would also like to congratulate all of the participants and winners.

To see the final results visit http://www.milliondollarscreenshot.com/seo-contest/.

Well we wound up finishing #1 in Yahoo, and on the first page in A9, MSN and #3 in google.
So that was cool, im happy about our standings and what i accomplished. It was fun and i learned a few things and thats whats important.

Heres a screenshot of the results page in yahoo, i would list the others but not being first is ugly, lol, jk.

Now that the four required words seo contests is over its time to get ready for the next one, and my next post will explain that so check back soon.

Thanks for everyone who linked to this blog and all that have visited and have been following.

In four days the four words will no longer be required

Thats it four days left in "the four required words" seo contest. So i made have made a silly little mistake, i changed the title a few days ago and took out a "the" and put in a how i already noticed MSN and Google both catching the change but Yahoo hasnt yet and thats what im afraid of. I did change it back to the-four-required-words instead of four-required-words and left the How in there. The reason this worries me is until now i didn't see "the four required words" blog as number 1 in Yahoo, although on the toplist page it was 1 for a week or two, so im hoping Yahoo doesnt update it because i really dont want to lose the #1 spot in Yahoo for a silly mistake.

Although i would have really liked the #1 spot in Google for the icon on The Million Dollar ScreenShot, not even the money just the icon. Arg, anyway "the four required words" blog is #1 in Yahoo, four in Goggle, and like four teenth in MSN. Take a guess whos my least favorite search engine right now, LOL. Any way im not sure if im going to make a post again until May 15th, and just pray and ride these four days out. The amount of results is changing almost daily fluctuating up and down a little, the only real difference was when MSN dropped like 200,000 results. Out went "the four required words" and thats why i changed the title and added the How. Any how, we just have to see what happens. Man im sweating.

"the four required words" - out

Where to find seo contests

After joining "the four required words" seo contest i wanted to learn more about seo contests and if any other ones were currently running. This information i found was scattered and also there is no central place that lists seo contests, so i decided to make a website to bring it all together. At SEOcontests.info you can find listings on seo contests, and for contest starters you can list your seo contest for free to gain more participants and if you need sponsors then potential sponsors can contact you. Its a completely free seo contest submission service, with information on past and current seo contests. For more information visit seocontests.info.

Back to "the four required words" seo contest. I may have mentioned before but i gained a good amount of information and knowledge from participating in "the four required words" contest, and its been fun too.

out comes the clown hats theiving "the four required words"

Well the clown hats are out, and they are stealing my content! Gotta love theives, so this clown hat steals my content and creates a blog then links back to his contest page, COOL! I wonder why the current first place competitor in Google would do this? I dont even want to name his url so i wont. 2 can play at this game, but i wont waste my time.

Besides that everything is going great, "the four required words" blog vanished off of MSN, stayed the same in google and dropped to the second page in Yahoo. What a great weekend, LMAO. Anyway "the four required words" contest is ending in a week and ill do another results report in a few soon.

"the four required words" is coming to an end.....that went fast.

Search results for "the four required words"

Every so often i check out the search results for "the four required words", naturally as i want to see where i stand in the rankings and also where others stand as well as see the quality of their content compared to mine. Needless to say i dont think content and how many words you stuff on your page plays a significant role in where you will stand in the search engine rankings. If it did than "the four required words" blog would be listed first. I just havent seen anyone with the amount of content pertaining to "the four required words" as this blog holds. What i have seen is alot of pages linking to one central contest page. These links come in from old established websites with good backlinks itself, doorway pages from free services like free blog hosts, and alot of free website hosts, and little networks that were built by the seo'er. These little networks can include directories, forums, blogs and linking to eachother and one central contest page. Now the best information for "the four required words" maybe the 5th search engine result down, but the only way you would know it would be to goto the first 4 result pages. This is something people often do when they are looking for anything or researching anything. People are always looking for the best information and often times the best information or what they are looking for isnt within the first few results. The reason for this is competition over the keyword phrase, in this instance its "the four required words", but it can be anything and the same thing applies to everything when your trying to get listed better for specific keywords.

What i tried to do with "the four required words" blog is not to build a little network or have 10 doorway pages to increase backlinks but to have just one page with good content or at least better than whats out their, and to get incoming links but not by creating a bunch of different keyword rich pages for free and linking to my blog. That method while is does to seem to be working will be more short term than long term, and i think the goal is to have your site or blog listed as high as possible for as long as possible. These methods will be weeded out and eventually dropped, and you shouldnt consider using them if your goal is long term. Seeing as how "the four required words" seo contest is short term, and most seo contest run for 1 year max, it might be a good method to use. But not for an e-commerce store whos goal is more long term, and i mean i havent met anyone who just wanted to stay in business for a year, and your approach to search engines should be similar.

"The four required words" blog however will be going and be up for a while after the seo contest finishes. And will carry into the next seo contest i enter, not as a competitor but as a backlink to my competition page. I feel this will be more of a quality relevant link than it would be to just throw up a few doorway pages, and all the time spent on this blog shouldnt and wont be wasted.

It basically comes down to how much you are willing to work and how much others are willing to out work you.

Current standings in "the four required words" seo contest with 2 weeks left

With only 2 weeks left in "the four required words" contest on seo or search engine optimization, the results have been changing almost daily. Here is the current results for the phrase "the four required words" and the image results for each search engine.

The search will performed using the phrase "the four required words".

Results for "the four required words" -

Google
Search:
current results - 76,900
our rank - 5

Images:
current results - 0

MSN
Search:
current results - 220,527
our rank - 6

Yahoo
Search:
current results - 21,000
our rank - 8

A9
Search:
current results - 220,527
our rank - 7

Images:
current results - i couldnt find any

It looks as though A9 has changed since the start of this contest. If i remember correctly when "the four required words" contest started A9 search was powered by google. Also you could search the web for images from the A9 homepage. It seems as though now you cant search the web for images and the search is now powered by Microsoft Live, so the results of A9 were in the beginning very similar to Googles results are now extremely similar to MSN's results.

Ask
Images:
current results - 0

Thats the current results for "the four required words" with 2 weeks left, and still no one has gotten into the images. Its been over 3 months and the images all have produced 0 results. The search results however have changed every few days and it seems results are balancing out as some positions stay the same while others change.

Its May 1st theres only 15 days left in "the four required words" seo contest

Only 15 days left in "the four required words" contest. Currently "the four required words" blog is in the top 10 of the search engines for the phrase "the four required words". We have mainly used pixel ads for gaining links and we have seen some success with using pixel ads in "the four required words" seo contest.

As a question many people had if whether pixel ads can help in seo, and a question we tried to help answer and give our perspective on. "The four required words" was not only a seo contest to us but a test for pixel ads seo. And from what we have seen pixel ads do help with seo. If they didnt i dont think "the four required words" blog wouldnt have ranked as well as it has. Pixel ads are a relatively cheap way to advertise your website for long periods of time. The longevity and fact that they will help you to rank better in the search engines to me seems like a good enogh reason to continue to purchase and obtain free pixel ads, and not just for "the four required words" blog but for any website.