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Have you ever entered an SEO contest/competition? And won? Or just taken part anyway just for the crack of it? Would you be interested in entering an SEO contest to see who can get the most affiliates or earnings from one individual campaign?
Would you take part? What would make a good thing to do anyone can do to make a good SEO contest? With the winner being determined after a set period of time by how many affiliates, affiliate sales or sales they got.
But we all have to be doing the same thing. Using the same method.
That way everyone could take part or more people can enter it.
Push Judgment day to about 12 months up now until New Years Eve. That way, the winner will have something else to celebrate and it's just the perfect day. So that's happening!
I mentioned this in a post the other day about how we should run a competition of some sort as a way to get us really motivated and dedicated to the task which would help us because it can be hard getting into something if you don't have the time or skills even which you can gain and learn by doing that one thing you can't do. Much like doing SlideShare Presentation Marketing which is something anyone can do and tap into and it' perfect for this as well as you can post marketing type presentations to SlideShare.
So the competition I'm thinking of starting will be for to see who can get the most affiliates and how much those affiliates get and how many sales they got for their own services from their marketing efforts on SlideShare and sites like it.
That way, if they're all doing the same thing, it would be fair on everyone and would be down to the persons skills and talents that decided the winner.
Would you be interested in taking part in a competition like this?
Even if you didn't win, you'd still pick up a few skills and probably some affiliates at the same time!
Discuss!!
Let's talk about the rules, the implications.
And anything else you can think of that would apply to doing this.
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Awesome Raz! I do enjoy reading your stories they are most entertaining! I think you should write a book I would definitely buy it! Lol But seriously, it sounds like you are saying that you would very much like to be a part and take part in the SEOClerks contest. Well I'm taking that as a vote anyway! I think I will put something together soon and give people about a month to decide to enter it or not which is plenty of time. Or starting on August 1st, that will give people plenty of time come to learn about it and decide if they want to enter or not. Then the last day will be on Friday December 30th with the winner being announced on NYE. That basically gives people 5 months which is plenty of time to do what's needed to be done. But we'll have to make the rules fair and all do the same thing. I suggest using SlideShare because it's easy to use and get into and they allow marketing presentations. Plus it's something that we can all learn as and do as well. But if you have any other suggestions make them known! :)
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5 months of work on one website for no gain isn't what I really like to do. And even after the competition, if I monetize the website, I'll still have all the new competitors to fight with in the rankings due to the competition
I probably wouldn't join because there's usually no purse to win :( 5 months of work on one website for no gain isn't what I really like to do. And even after the competition, if I monetize the website, I'll still have all the new competitors to fight with in the rankings due to the competition :(
Restricting people to just using slideshare isn't much of an SEO competition :(
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I know, well, we'd have to sort out some sort of prize. Perhaps SEOClerks could give a coupon code to the winner with runner up prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. But you would gain affiliates from all your work. But the point of the competition isn't so much just the winning but rather the taking part and learning something new that would be of benefit to you as well. As the main reason this come up was that some people were saying that it's hard to get into something or choose one thing and stick at it because of all the other things they're doing. So this would give you more inspiration to do that one thing. And that one thing being SlideShare marketing. That way it's fair as well because if everyone is doing different things, they would have much more chance of getting more affiliates than someone else so this would sort of make it fair as we're all on an equal par. :)
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Remember we was saying the other day how it can be hard to find the motivation to get into something either because you're trying to do so many other things at once and can't find the time. Or because you just don't feel like you've got the skills and experience needed to make a start on it. Well this would motivate you more to do that. Plus we'd all be doing the same thing so it would give us all a fair chance and for the first time that one thing would be SlideShare Marketing. Because I think we are all on about the same level when it comes to using that site, more or less, and it's very easy to learn and pick up and do.
Awesome Lynne that's a +1! :)
Well it's not just about winning Lynne it's about taking part and learning! :) Remember we was saying the other day how it can be hard to find the motivation to get into something either because you're trying to do so many other things at once and can't find the time. Or because you just don't feel like you've got the skills and experience needed to make a start on it. Well this would motivate you more to do that. Plus we'd all be doing the same thing so it would give us all a fair chance and for the first time that one thing would be [url=https://www.seoclerks.com/faq/17973/How-to-Use-SlideShare-Presentations-to-Drive-Traffic-to-Your-Site][b]SlideShare Marketing[/b][/url]. Because I think we are all on about the same level when it comes to using that site, more or less, and it's very easy to learn and pick up and do.
Plus we'd all learn some skills along the way learning how to create presentations and how to market and promote them. Which would help in the long run for you anyway because it means you might get some affiliates out of it which could go on to earn you a lifetime residual income. So that's why it makes sense to do this! :)
I will make all the rules of the contest clear. The only thing that might be an issue is knowing what peoples affiliate number count was before entering and on the day of judgement. People would actually have to show them and there's no real way of knowing if their numbers are true and accurate without getting staff to double check. I know that the majority of people who enter would be honest but you know what some people are like lol
Also the affiliates they get from it would have to show as coming from your SlideShare presentation too. Such as how they do now showing you where they came from if you know what I mean.
Actually saying that, I guess they could just enter and then come NYE, show if they got any affiliates and how many by just showing a screenshot of their [url=https://www.seoclerks.com/balance/affiliate]Affiliates page[/url]. Although that could be faked so for members that entered that aren't really well known or popular big sellers, we could just get staff to confirm its correct. But I'm sure it wont need to come to that! :)
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It's really not hard to make simple presentations and the more you do, the more you'll learn and the more you'll be able to come up with amazing presentations and you're bound to pull in a few affiliates from it. Especially since the competition/contest will run for 5 months which is plenty time to get into it. You would learn how to use it to gain affiliates for your SEOClerks, but in the process, you'd learn how to use it which you could apply for using on your own site/blog too in the future.
Awesome Lynne! I think it will be SlideShare then! :D It's really not hard to make simple presentations and the more you do, the more you'll learn and the more you'll be able to come up with amazing presentations and you're bound to pull in a few affiliates from it. Especially since the competition/contest will run for 5 months which is plenty time to get into it. You would learn how to use it to gain affiliates for your SEOClerks, but in the process, you'd learn how to use it which you could apply for using on your own site/blog too in the future. :)
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The competition I was in was a 12 month one and there was no pay out to the winner. You were basically doing the work for a chance to win bragging rights. There was no money, not even a trophy to show you won. There was a forum post on a popular forum letting people know you won this years competition and you were "Elite". I was in it to win it for the first 3 months and I was destroying the competition from the get go. I did what I knew would rank my website for the keywords we were suppose to target and no one could touch me. A lot of people set up one website and did an SEO and Marketing campaign for it. What I did was set up 11 websites then optimized and marketed them all. One of the websites was the one I entered into the competition and the other 10 were set up to be a king of buffer site. I treated them all like my babies and eventually I held 8 of the top 10 listings for the keywords we were suppose to rank for lol
I pissed off a lot of people within the first few months and eventually got burned out because I was doing all this work for no reward. My effort was better put into my clients websites, and that's what I did. I withdrew from the competition because I already proved myself. Everyone was extremely excited and began to move around in the rankings after I was done. What's funny is that my main website was still on the first page after the competition was over
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