There’s an ongoing debate at the SEO Philippines Yahoogroups about what makes a deserving Isulong SEOPH Contest winner.
Point #1: Contestants should not rely on blogs as an out-of-the-box solution. Make an effort to beautify your website entry. Isn’t the Philippine Web Awards doing that for the last 8 years?
Point #2: Do contestants need to be “clean” (read: white hat) in their strategy for Isulong SEOPH? If we were to promote SEO in the Philippines, is it okay if we award it to someone who stuffed his website with nothing but 1,000 isulong seoph keyword and another thousand in comment spams/trackbacks?
Point #3: What can we possibly learn from this exercise? What if the winner employed some gargantuan spammin’ and jammin? Are we telling everyone that it’s okay to spam and jam to get to the top?
Point #4: As one commenter who’s been doing some rounds, “who is benefitting from all these?”, pointing to the contest sponsors that require linkback to their own websites.
Point #5: Why the preference to Google? Personally, I would have gone with Yehey (poster boy for Philippine search?). Patriotic tayo di ba? *joke*
[tags]isulong seoph, seo contest, google ranking[/tags]
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