Net Builders SEO Contest

**mixke** · 17 March, 2009, 18:29 PM

Originally Posted by Cleo

Hey I am so new to this that I am afraid of breaking any rules with Goggle or other search engines by using this Fictitious character in my entry in the Sulumits Retsambew contest entry here: Sulumits Retsambew

cool, how you managed to made it up? And you even have the 'to be continued' thing.

I've been trying to cook up a story but no luck

**BenjArriola** · 17 March, 2009, 18:37 PM

Originally Posted by mixke

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Originally Posted by BenjArriola
Knowing that Google can show different results at different locations, from where will the final results be viewed at?
From 1st post of this thread -
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Originally Posted by Will.Spencer

Determination of Winners

I will determine the official winners by using a manual search to google.com. As Google returns different results from different data centers and to different searchers, the results you see may not be the results that I see.

Now my question is, where is Will.Spencer? City & Country.

**Will.Spencer** · 17 March, 2009, 19:12 PM

Originally Posted by bhartzer

There may be an issue, but let's see what happens: Google is doing so much "personalization" nowadays that by the time the end of the contest comes around, it may not have to do with our typical "seo factors", the winner might just be the site that Will likes the best and has visited more often.

I will log out of Google to remove all personalization factors.

Even now, I log into Google with Firefox -- but I use Opera when I want "real" search results.

Originally Posted by afzee

Is there any set of guidelines or rules we need to follow apart from those mentioned in threads...

No sir.

Originally Posted by BenjArriola

Now my question is, where is Will.Spencer? City & Country.

I am extremely mobile. I plan to be in Singapore on 15 August, but I will use Google.com instead of Google.sg for search results.

**cgjerdetu** · 17 March, 2009, 20:53 PM

One way to make sure you aren't getting any personalization in your search is to strip the results by adding this code at the end of your search &aq=f&oq=&pws=0&pwst=1 &hl=all

Or a friend of mine created a SEO It! bookmarklet that you can use in firefox. This might eliminate the chance of getting personalized results.

It really does work and is helpful when checking SERPs also strips out some of the sponsored results as well. Just a thought for checking final results.

**bhartzer** · 17 March, 2009, 22:29 PM

>> I will log out of Google to remove all personalization factors.
That's fine and dandy if you log out, but by August that may not be possible.

I suspect that personalization is coming a lot sooner than we think. That's all I'm saying about that.

**Shenron** · 17 March, 2009, 22:55 PM

Originally Posted by bhartzer

>> I will log out of Google to remove all personalization factors.
That's fine and dandy if you log out, but by August that may not be possible.

I suspect that personalization is coming a lot sooner than we think. That's all I'm saying about that.

Any public PC can do the trick.

**Coastercraze** · 18 March, 2009, 05:15 AM

This contest is quite fun even though its like only a few days old. I've already moved up to the first page

and added a few things like Google analytics.

**Lalucochin** · 18 March, 2009, 07:17 AM

My Sulumits Retsambew Slide just went down a position to number three. Now I need to optimize that again back on track. Optimizing Web2.0 is a thing that needs more attention towards ! I like the idea of this contest..It is just 2 days into the contest and it is getting tremendous popularity. I have't got a reply about the Scorecard/Leader ? Can you just answer to my question, Mr. Will ?

**Will.Spencer** · 18 March, 2009, 07:28 AM

Originally Posted by bhartzer

That's fine and dandy if you log out, but by August that may not be possible.

I suspect that personalization is coming a lot sooner than we think. That's all I'm saying about that.

That's spooky -- but very possibly true. I can always install a new VM with no cookies (etc...), but it may not be so easy to prevent Google from knowing me by my IP address.

Originally Posted by sulumits competitior

I have't got a reply about the Scorecard/Leader ? Can you just answer to my question, Mr. Will ?

I think that's going to have to be a "best effort" thing. Although... it doesn't have to be me who does it -- anyone can publish an unofficial scorecard.