Blackhat SEO – Esrun

Well Jeremy from Shoemoney.com has decided to run another competition. His last one was for people to outrank him for the term ‘shoemoney’ on the major search engines(Yahoo!, MSN and Google). This competition was ended early due to huge amounts of complaints being set to his webhost with regards to a spam situation created by the competition(e.g people were spamming out using his name to try and outrank him. I won some money out of this competition with top 10 ranks in Yahoo, MSN and I was first on Google UK.

His new competition is to win $100 by guessing how many spam comments his blog will have automatically blocked by 12PM 9th of September 2006. Now it looks like Jeremy has decided not to accept the comment I made on his post about this competition. I would have thought he’d have learnt from the last competition and thought more carefully about the results before offering competitions. The cut-off time is the last minute of the 8th September 2006 which means anyone who puts in their guess now has much less chance of winning than someone that does it at the very last second before the cut-off time who will see how many spam complaints have already been blocked. Another problem is that people may decide to put in an extremely high guess and then just spam the blog themselves to increase the count to their estimate! Yes its only $100 but people will still do it.

Jeremy may be smart when it comes to pay per click arbitrage and building up media around his life but when it comes to competitions he just doesn’t seem to put much thought into them.

Anyway best of luck to Jeremy, I hope this competition goes better than the last one.