Is the SEO World Championships a globalwarming awareness2007 scam? The Sweden SEO company, GetUpdated, is the creator and lead sponsor of the SEO World Championships. They claim the purpose of this championship is meant to further the development of the SEO field. Now that they have released the contest's phrase "globalwarming awareness2007," however, the real purpose of the championships is coming into question.
Clearly globalwarming awareness2007 is about more than just SEO. The expression doesn't leave much to the imagination. They are obviously trying to raise awareness for globalwarming. However, is GetUpdated just trying to use all this free publicity for a good cause or is it something else? Hidden inside the SEO world championship website are clues that might lead someone to think that "globalwarming awareness2007" and not SEO is the real purpose to competition.
Casually stopping by the globalwarming awareness2007 homepage shows what would appear to be an extensive contest. Winners could receive a Citroen C2, a Caribbean cruise, or a plasma screen TV.On the site you can find a very polished video advertising the competition. Up in the right corner of the page is a list of the top three sites. You can't miss the keyword phrase "Globalwarming Awareness2007" bolded and underlined in the center of the first page.
It’s all very professional looking. Of course that changes when you peek behind the curtain. For starters the globalwarming awareness2007 leaders’ board doesn't accurately show the leaders in the contest. The board doesn’t actually confirm that the sites follow the rules of the contests. The only thing this list reflects is the position of the sites found in the search engines. With so much money paid for the prizes and the site, you would think they could have dropped a little extra on the script to weed out bad sites.Considering a contestant had built a better script only five days post the globalwarming awareness2007 announcement, this should have been a no-brainer.
Since we're talking about the rules, they are calling this the SEO World Championships aren't they? You probably need an expansive collection of rules to run something of this magnitude right? Can you guess how many regulations there are? 150? 200? 6325? How about 4. Three of the rules are used to regulate entries and are pretty straight forward. And the final rule is meant to explain everything that remains. As an alternative to taking the time to create their own rules, they let the standard be set by Google's webmaster guidelines which happen to be vague at best. Here is a rather vivid comparison,the page discussing globalwarming awareness2007 actually has more text than the page discussing the rules. What do you think was more important to them?
If you follow the link to the globalwarming awareness2007 forum the participants of this contest are starting to wonder about the contest themselves. The topics of conversation primarily bring to light issues not covered in the globalwarming awareness2007 guidelines. In fact if you look at many of the administrator's answers contradict each other and show a lack of SEO understanding.
Looking at all these facts you have to ask is this about SEO or globalwarming awareness2007?
