This is scary enough for any one. Few of my top sites including this received several SQL Injections mainly from URL or comments. In fact I have to restore one of my site which has been developed using ASP and MSSQL. This site is receiving MYSQL Injections through comments, but i believe Wordpress is secured enough to handle this. I am sorry to say but I believe I should not participated in contest like this where people are using unethical methods to blow up the competition.

Where the IT world is heading on? What values you pass on? I have also encountered server load problem earlier, where my host warns me about the sudden increase in server loads, resulting server timeouts. This is something childish or I can say not at all the ethics of internet business.

This poem has been written by a 9 year old girl, Thanks Maria for your wonderful contributions to seocontet2008, I am looking for more poems like this. Please read the poem below and feel free to add your views.

Do you hear?
What People Say?
This contest rises day by day.
SEO’s are working hard with a wish to rise.
The competitors are learned, noble and wise.
Our Organizers are kind, generous and fair.
Full of zeal and loving care.
The contest Marches on ahead.
It works for every one, it’s rightly said.
“It’s full of fun, Skills are sound and Google is the best”

cheers to seocontest2008.

Ways you can Optimize Your Website For the Search Engines

You have launched a wonderful website and wondering how Search Engine Optimization (SEO) affects your Website’s online success?

Search engine optimization or SEO is gaining a more balanced image on the internet, and most internet web users are getting a good look at how effective it is. Many online professionals are better informed nowadays that web traffic can mean faster income or more effective ROI.

Search engine optimization or SEO methods are diversified, and multiple organized campaigns are sought after than those done one at a time. Executing one SEO strategy might not be enough to guarantee good exposure and search engine position. Several strategies are often preferred than just sticking to one campaign.

The On-page optimization and off-site marketing optimization of a website are mostly among the better combinations to gain better placement on the search engines.

Many factors affect how a site is going to be analyzed and ranked by the Search Engines; different strategies addressing specific areas of ranking concerns can have effective results, rather than employing a general approach.

MSN, Yahoo and Google are the three most important search engines that web developers and SEO managers visit frequently and verify for search results. An excellent search ranking output from a webpage should translate to better traffic and visibility among these search engines, which can only be achieved if each search engine has been studied thoroughly, their requirements understood and properly met.

Another approach is to set up a ‘listening ear’ to what web users want to read or see on your web page, which is valuable in fine-tuning your overall search engine approaches later on. Finding out the type and number of audience can also help you step-up more effectively the advertising and promotions of your web page.

Undoubtedly, world trends and users’ interests can impact your site’s rankings.

One of the most important factors for Search engine optimization is to gauge the search potential of a website by estimating the number of its one-way links. The well known link development movements are the following:

* Exchange links or Two-way Linking

Sites can exchange links and share visitor traffic with other websites. It is essential that the two websites that are planning to trade links are of the same category or contains the same topical content, so as not to be penalized by the search engines.

* Inbound links from One-Way Linking

Traffic coming from direct links that go to your web page is weighed more, especially if it is passing from an authority web page. Search Engines present high regard to direct links.

* Content composition

Content and keywords or key phrases are the driving force of the Search Engines. Optimized and quality articles or content are sought after online. Composing content and articles for sites that follow the keyword density requirement and other SEO rules of a particular Search Engine helps in improving a web page’s SEO score.

The internet offers tested and proven techniques on how to succeed at optimizing your website. There are scores of strategies you can employ, but the steps presented above are the “baby steps” you can take.

On you own, you are now ready to fully optimize your website for the search engines and acquire fresh influx of traffic to your site. Experience success enjoyed by others before you, through proper search engine optimization. Good luck! with Seocontest2008

Also read: Better Search Engine Placement through a Combination of SEO Strategies

How long have you been doing SEO? If you’ve started doing SEO during the reciprocal linking boom, when Search Engines were very lenient with the quality of reciprocal links obtained or provided by different websites and blogs, then you’re sure to cringe a little bit when you hear that reciprocal linking is breaking down rapidly like the Earth’s ozone layer.

Reciprocal linking used to be viewed as one of the most important SEO strategies that could land a website a ballpark rank on the top Search Engine Results Pages or SERPs. Of course reciprocal links were always regarded as 2nd rate only to one way or direct linking strategies.

Nonetheless they gained prominence for a couple of years due to the link neighborhood boom and the many revisions on various Search Engine algorithms which supported the procedure. Many SEO managers used to advise their link building teams to focus on getting reciprocal links with authority sites, bearing relative or categorical semblance to their project website. And many websites did get a boost in their rankings after getting a few indexed links over a period of time, from their categorical neighbors. There also came a time when a website’s Google PR determined the requirements for reciprocal links.

So many variations in strategies were implemented to get as many reciprocal links over a period of time, while evading the sandbox penalties. And for a time, this situation pleased many webmasters and SEO managers.

However, as the Search technology evolves and Search Engine algorithms get their seasonal overhauls, some SEO strategies come under fire. Reciprocal linking strategies are starting to get the “hot seat” treatment from many online groups.

At this point when reciprocal linking is starting to become merely a generic activity done by scripts or automated systems, and where SEO managers are diluting their linking pools with low-quality and non-authority websites, the backlash of several Search Engines toward the reciprocal linking strategies is severely affecting a lot of people. Spamvertisers tend to pollute a website’s link directory with a lot of useless or poorly conceived links that tend to increase a website’s chance of getting closer to a penalty than lifting it to the top ranks.

Search Engines are tired of seeing webmaster or SEO managers who exchange links just for the sake of exchanging them, without giving value to the content of those they trade with or how it may affect different users. Thus several Search Engines have started a strict campaign which will continuously scrutinize all reciprocal linking strategies.

At this point, webmasters and SEO managers have no choice but to adjust to the new development and start building one way linking strategies with their categorical neighbors instead of focusing on the rapidly deteriorating reciprocal linking conditions. And it seems to be for the best.

This will blow your mind away, this husband is sick, he should have asked her wife to take the car. After all wife is more important than a car! watch this guys!

Husband Vs. Wife - Funny videos are here

This is not surprising why everyone on the earth wants this delicious burger, but watch out, learn what a rotten burger do to your health. so be careful choosing the right burger for your taste buds!

We are delighted to present Blue Britiania theme to mark this occasion of Seocontest2008 and to celebrate our 4th Anniversary of our establishment. We had Sanjhi, who is a new designer in our team, he will be responsible for developing new SEO themes for us in near future.

This is the first theme designed by Sanjhi, to encourage him we have decided to distribute this to all the members of UKWW forums. Below is the screenshot of Blue Britiania, Your views and comments are highly appreciated as it will help him to improve and develop great themes for community in near future.

View Demo here | Download Theme here.

The first month of seocontest2008 is ended, now we are moving towards the final month of this fantastic contest. The beginning of march shows major shift in rankings, and winning to this competition is more stiffer. The first 10 results shows new challenges by the team from Philippines. They are now gaining 1st and 2nd spot while team from Bulgaria move down to 3rd spot. Checkout the image below (as on 1st March 2008):

Our site has long way to go, we are currently reached to 38th spot at UKWW list of top 100 websites, still a long way to go! Meantime please download the followings:

• Contestant ranking status as on 29th funerary 2008
• List of 121 participants as on 29th Feb 2008

A million thanks to seocontest2008!

The last day of leap year bought some luck for me. At least I am able to figure out many unusual things which I will post later, the first one is problem with my server. I am using a high class web monitoring service, but i never received any alerts. These things damage your rankings and i learned a lesson that I need to have more efficient web host in near future.

I am just lucky that I am using Google’s webmaster account where i found the problems with my site, where spider have some problems to crawl my site, I have reported the same to my host and awaiting their reply, but now server is just fine! I am switching to internetseer monitoring service. checkout the image below to read the error message:

We have reached half of the way, the target is clear and deadline in 1st April to decide the winner! I want to congratulate all who are participating in this fantastic competition for completing the first month of seocontest2008. Now we are heading towards final showdown, where every one need some luck along with skills. This is a leap year so here is a Good Luck horses shoe for all of you in advance:

In spite of my bad English (A big thanks to those supported me and encouraged me to write on) I tried my best to create relevant channels where I have tried to mix fun with seocontest2008, added lots of videos, SEO Tips section, Random thoughts and news channels, which I hope you found an interesting read. I have also created Blue Britiania theme for this UKWW Forum’s contest and hopefully I will use the same for my upcoming blog later on. This theme is dedicated to UKWW contest and contestants and it’s my way of saying thanks to the UKKWW team who are wonderfully managing this fun filled contest.