That SEO contest
Yesterday Damien’s SEO contest came to an end and google has been very nice to my entry mybluejumper.com . The basic rules of the competition were to:
- rank highest for the term [geansai gorm] on google.ie
- domain name had to be new
- .IE domains were not allowed
- no keywords allowed in the domain name
And here are the results:
Hats off to the other guys who but in some great efforts. I counted around 15 entries, all though I am not sure if some of them were created by the same person.
A longer post will be following in a few days hopefully. Where I will be outlining some approaches I took to things (obviously some things I won’t be discussing). As I am a great fan of stats, here are some:
- Overall I had unique visitors 788 to the website.
- The resulted in almost 6, 000 page views.
- The busiest day (besides December 1st) was November 16th where 73 visitors came and looked at my entry.
- 531 people visited via the keyword “geansai gorm”
- strangest keywords were “photosesion dublin” and “gigs in kerry”
- google delivered 601 visitors
- windows live gave 40 visitors
- yahoo sent 20 visitors
- 2 people came via MSN search
- 17 blog posts were created
- google indexed 36 individual pages.
- 232MB of bandwidth was used by visitors
- 7MB of bandwidth was used by googlebot
Daily search positions of the entries can be seen here.
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3 Comments
Gavin December 2, 2008 -
Well done Paul. Was a good match and I was hoping for either you or James to come in with the win. Thought Cormac did a great last dash with his Irish entry.
Paul Savage December 2, 2008 -
Cheers Gavin, it was a friendly (enough) event. And it’s always good to get my name out there a little more. There were some great entries and well I guess my early start (I think I was the first entry to be indexed) paid off.
Paul
Dara December 3, 2008 -
Well done Paul. You were there from the start and steady throughout so a worthy winner. Hope it generates plenty of new business for you. Thought I had you pipped with 48 hours to run but got whacked at the last minute. Time to retire now as a bungee jumper! Mach’s gut.
Dara