The Seo contest: V7ndotcom Elursrebmem
You are completly normal if you dont recognize this word: “V7ndotcom Elursrebmem”
It is a made up keyphrase for what I have heard the biggest SEO contest so far.
Make a search on Google.com for that phrase and you will discover that over 3 million results are displayed.
Search engine optimization contests are growing rapidly in popularity and I can understand why, there are several reasons on why to be interested in these kind of events. Well of course that depends on who you are 
but if you are in to SEO you should pay some attention and see what kind of techniques people use to rank high.
The Contest
Ok! the major idea about this is to rank the highest for the exact term “v7ndotcom elursrebmem” and who ever ranks nr 1 at may 15, 2006 wins 4000 dollar + an Ipod 
Nice huh!
But its not that easy to win! There are a lot of people in this contest with good SEO skills and people sitting on networks with hundreds of sites…
So the basic idea, I mean the masterplan which every one is using out there! is about recieving incoming links with the words “v7ndotcom elursrebmem” somewhere in the anchor text. Now this is a tough cookie because Google looks at how well related your backlinks are also, which means you cant just have any websites linking to you. You got to have related backlinks, and make link exchanges with sites that are using the same keywords etc as you are.
I hope and I really hope that Google is ranking websites after how related the backlinks are, this would mean that buying expensive high pagerank links from unrelated sites would be way old fashioned and no longer considered to affect your ranking in such a dramatic way as it does today.
One thing is for sure I worked on getting a lot of related backlinks to my V7ndotcom Elursrebmem site and it seems that it is paying off, currently I am ranked nr 2 out of 3 million results
If you want to take a look on how a contest site can look like, knock yourself out: V7ndotcom Elursrebmem
Another question that came to my mind during this contest was: What is spam? yeah, what is spam? nobody knows and nobody can explain? Is spam repeting the same procedure more than once or is it simply writing or showing something that is unrelated on any website?
Feel like I have to make a post later about the subject spam and spamdexing! For those who dont know spamdexing is when you fill Googles index with lots and lots of junk sites…
So would a Dmoz clone be considered as spamdexing or might it even be called spam lol …. Well yeah some say so but why then do Google themselves have a copy of the Dmoz directory with indexed pages?
Well lets not think about that there are plenty of other things to do instead!
See ya! / Marcus
March 30th, 2006
This is a presentation of Linkvault, a smart link program!
Linkvault is a program used for building links to your website and is made in a smart way!
To start with, I only know about 2 programs that can offer this kind of service for you and best of all it is free to use!!!
The 2 programs are Linkvault and Coop
This post will only be about Linkvault but I am planning to write another post for “Coop” as well since they both are 2 really good programs to join.
If you are like me, which means that you have some experience about the web and have seen hundreds of those ads for linkprograms etc! You are problably feed up with all the bulls–t!
Most of these programs are pure crap and can actually do more harm to your site then good!
Usually what they want you to do is to put a code in your website and you automaticly have the largest spammiest linkfarm on the web….
The problem with these codes is that there are hundreds of sites out there showing exactly the same text and desription for the links which means you are running a great risk of beeing hit by Google´s duplicate content filter!
Also a lot of webmaster are putting these codes at the worst places you can think of, so often you end up with your link on a pagerank zero page! And that sucks! We can all agree on that..
Linkvault and what it is all about.
Ok! basically you got to have site in PHP or ASP to make this work, but don´t be afraid setup is real easy and will be well worth the small effort
One thing that surprised me about Likvault is the perfect control you have over your operation, all info you ever need is displayed in your admin panel.
Here are some of the benefits for the Linkvault program
Know exactly which URL´s linking to you
Receive info on which date your links was added
See what anchor text your link has on the pages that are linking to you
You will know the exact number of links you are getting
These are some of the ones I was impressed by..
Here is a pic that shows how it looks in your admin panel once you get going with LV..
Some more facts about LV
It is all about give and take really, you put text links on your site (choose between 1-5 links) and later on other sites in this large network will link to you.
Once you activated and finished the setup you are given a certain amount of vaultage, this “vaultage” will later be divided on all your sites that you want people to link to. So the more vaultage you have the more links you will recieve…
There is a limit though on the number of links you can recieve/day and that is 20! But think about it, 20 links/day over a long period of time sums up in pretty large sums of inbound links..
Hear this the links are also fairly related to your sites content, when you are creating ads you have to choose what your page is all about. I was excited because they made a category completly for SEO and webmarketing websites…
Linkvault also has a forum that you can even reach from your admin menu where people discuss general and technical questions about Linkvault so if you would run in to a technical problem that place can help you solve the problem.
Recommendations on how to use Linkvault
As I mentioned earlier in the text it is all about give and take, to really take advantage of this program you need to offer something good yourself.
The “Vaultage” is calculated from the number of pages you have indexed in the search engines and also the value of the indexed sites.
You should use a strong domain with many sites indexed and display ads sitewide that way you will recieve a lot of vaultage and in the end get a lot of related backlinks.
Of course your backlinks are not 100% related every single one, but as far as I have seen it is looking good.
Submit only quality sites! Each submitted site is human approved and ODP clones and General Directories are not allowed in the program..
Languages
Sorry! I tried it with a swedish site and the textlinks on my swedish sites are in mixed languages…
Most of the sites (almost all the sites) in the network are in english.
To think about when you are using Linkvault
Do not use it with any other text ad program with the same purpose as linkvault, like Coop for example.
Other than that I guess there is not really much general fact left to add.
Give Linkvault a try.
I strongly recommend this!
If you have any general questions pls leave a comment, for more technical issues check with LV´s forum.
See ya!
March 9th, 2006