Ok, finally got my entry page made GlobalWarming Awareness2007 as entry in the SEO World Championship 2007.
My host was very slow on this one, and took almost 24h from I registered, to I got the domain *grumble*. BUT, now the page is up.

I am very pleased about the subject they choose for this competition, as it combined 2 of the things I have used years of my life on.

• Web development by living - SEO as a hobby
• Atmospheric Environment that was a part of my education as a laboratory technician at Department of Atmospheric Environment (ATMI)

The system I run, is a CMS I have developed from scratch and tuned over the years to fit my needs. It is not 100% SEO fine tuned, but I think it is better to go with my own code than some free source that might be better in SEO terms, but doesn’t represent me the same way.

The coming days / weeks I will gradually submit more and more content to the website, as I get them written. I don’t want to reuse anybody else’s texts, but rather make my own, and own conclusions to the Global Warming issues we face today.

I have set up a contribution page also at GlobalWarming Awareness2007 Contributors, for those who offer their help to me either by valuable information, tips, or quality backlinks. If you want to help our, feel free to throw me an e-mail and I’ll get back to you.

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Ok, while I wait for my new domain to get activated *tap tap tap* I might aswell make a quick update on the ongoing Directorycontest.com competition I’m participating in with my directory at: Directorycontest.com

I have been at 7th position the last couple of days and that is just awsome! The directory is something I started out just for fun and have grown to become quite a good resource for webmaster seeking quality backlinks.

Google results show some good and strong directories at the first positions, and is returning 335.000 results on the term “directorycontest.com” atm.

I expect the directoryowners will get a little crazy the last 20 days in stuffing backlinks to their listing to get into the prizes, and that is pretty unavoidable, as the rules allow offsite backlinks.
I wish the competitors good luck and personally hope I can end within the first 10. We’ll see what happends :)

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Forgot all about the email request I made for the SEO Championship 2007, and just got an email today about the startup.

We are happy to inform you that the official keyword phrase for the SEO World Championship 2007 has been released.
The selected keyword combination is:
“globalwarming awareness2007”
We wish all contestants good luck! 

 

Best regards,
GetUpdated Internet Marketing
http://www.seoworldchampionship.com/

That is great. Always been a sucker for competitions. Registered the domain I will give it a shot with: http://www.globalwarming-awareness2007.dk and expect it to be active sometime tomorrow.

Result pages:
globalwarming awareness2007 on Google
globalwarming awareness2007 on Yahoo
globalwarming awareness2007 on MSN

You can also find the official leaderboard here

Will try and make a clean informational page on my own cms, and slowly build some more pages into it as I get the time.

Ahh, it must be time for a little update here in 2007.
I have been very busy with some client tasks the past days and will continue the next couple of weeks with their projects.
Nevertheless, I keep my focus on the directories, and try to review as much as possible to keep the queues stable.

Late 2006 and start 2007 have shown me very pleasing results throughout all my directories. More of my backlinks are catching on, and I am getting better and better SERPs for my “niches”
I can mention a couple for Global WebLinks here - Google search on:
Quality directory - Rank #2 (84 million results)
SEO friendly directory - Rank #6 (1.6 million results)
Family friendly directory - Rank #2 (4 million results)

And for my detail pages, I rank extremely well on multi-word searches.. This is a clear sign, that what I have been doing the last year, isn’t to bad after all
Traffic for Global-weblinks has risen to around 1000 uniques a day, and improves daily.

Same on my Danish Regional Directory, which has around 2000 uniques these days. 95% of all searches go directly down to the detail-pages as I had worked on they should. (You can read my post about rel=”nofollow” flag for info)

Other news updates are:
Im participating in a couple of contests, and its going ok there to.
One is the “directoryranking.com” which shows the best directories for a predefined listing, and woups, I rank #1 on Google with Global-weblinks.com on a standard listing
The “directorycontest.com” is a bit harder, and I’m ranking 15 atm. 1000*factor more pages trying to rank for it, and I belive alot of the best sites, are trying to drive insane backlinks to their pages, so lets call it a SEO contest, and not Directory Contest.
I will probably do the same as eveyrone else is, and drive some hard backlinks to the detail page, as it is allowed in the rules.

Recently got interviewed by talkdirectories.com, a new Directory forum on the net. You can find the complete interview here:

Well, I guess this goes for my first 2007 post, and when I get the client tasks done, I will be back and updating you some more

Just a very quick update on the recent contest I have decided to participate in Directorycontest.com/
Looks like I jumped up to a 12th place on the first crawl/indexing Result page. Thats quite ok. Now the detail page just has to get a little time to suck the wonderful juice out of the internal links strengths, and I should rocket up on 1. page

If I wanted, then I could have tweaked a real nice category with both keywords “directory” and “contest”, but dont think its wise to turn it into a 100% SEO contest.
This IS about finding the strong directories, and not the best SEO experts.

more info will follow as I get the results pages checked

Further update 15. dec:
I have not been able to find anything in the rules about number of entries pr. person allowed, so decided for the heck of it to add my brand new paid directory AllUcDirectory in the directorycontest.com
I do not expect anything from this at all, and cannot expect anything from a site less than a week old.

Further update 30. dec.
Have been working alot the past few weeks, and have just made a check on the rankings again and will update here:
www.global-weblinks.com fell 2 places and is at 14th position
www.allucdirectory.com has climbed to 29th position

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I just found this Directory Contest through my favorite forum DP. Its a great competition between directory owners, to show how good and strong their directory is.
Winners will be the top 10 directories that show up on Google search on the Directory Contests webpage “directorycontest.com”
End date for the contest is February 6. 2007, 10 AM P.S.T

Prizes are donated by several sponsors, and the total prizesum keeps going up as more sponsors join in.

1. Prize $2000
2. Prize $400
3. Prize $200
+ alot of other goodies. See the current prizes here

I love this. After working hard all year with theese directories I own, I can finally put one of them to the test. I’m gonna use Global WebLinks Directory as my entry. (The wise thing might have been to put it up on my strongest directory Danskelinks.dk, but I really like to try my international directory on this, as it is my plan to improve this directory alot in the new year and it will be my Flag Ship )
The directory have had a really hard ride after I made a complete site structure change this summer. Google did not like that change, and I was out in the void for 2 months, and now … slowly … returning to what I would expect of my directory. Traffic is going up by the day, and my audience is turning over to “normal people” from SE and not just webmasters looking for a free link.

Only sad thing is I first spot this competition now But I’m sure it will go ok
If you own a directory, then join this contest. I really recommend it!

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