What is sulumits retsambew you ask?

sulumits retsambew:

    (Sul-ah-mits retz-am-bow)  An antigram of  "Webmaster Stimulus". Sulumits retsambew is the targeted keyword term in the latest SEO contest being promoted by Will Spencer and company over at NetBuilders.org "The Better SEO forum" (cheap plug for a good site).

NO this isn't an anagram.

An anagram is a type of word play,  the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; e.g., orchestra = carthorse, Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one, A decimal point = I'm a dot in place. Someone who creates anagrams is called an anagrammatist. The original word or phrase is known as the subject of the anagram.

NO this isn't a palindrome.

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words is generally permitted). EXP "Was it a rat I saw?" <<read it backwards.

An antigram is a word or words that are presented backwards from the original word or phrase without changing the order of the letters or puncuation. EXP "wiki doog a" would be "a good wiki", "webmaster stimulus" is "sulumits restambew" and so on...

About this seo contest:
The gist of the sulumits retsambew SEO contest is (as with most SEO contests), to get a page to the top of the SERP for the term that is targeted, in this case "sulumits retsambew", for natural search results, not quoted. Whoever can land on the top 3 positions of the 1st page in Google for sulumits retsambew, wins! Because results may vary from server to server on Googles search network, Will has made it clear that he will use results from various Google servers to be fair about the whole thing.

According to the netbuilders.org website:

Net Builders SEO Contest Rules

Goal: To win, you must place first, second, or third in Google's organic SERPs for the targeted keywords. Indented listing do not count -- each domain can win only one prize.

Start Date: 15 March, 2009

Finish Date: 15 August, 2009 - High Noon GMT

Prizes:

First Place: $1,000
Second Place: $500
Third Place: $250

Contest Entry

To enter the contest, you must post the domain you are entering into the contest in a message here at NetBuilders.

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.

Targeted Keywords: The targeted keywords for our contest are "sulumits retsambew" (without the quotes)

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Any person (not employed by Google) is invited to join the sulumits retsambew SEO contest regardless of experience in the marketing and optimization field.  Being such a late comer to the sulumits retsambew SEO contest, I thought it would be fun to see where a purely organic optimization could land this page against all the others who started weeks ago with dedicated domains and sub-domains. Rather than using a dedicated URL such as Sulumitsretsambew.com, Sulumits-retsambew.org, Sulumitsretsam.org (which is still available BTW), ...etc or a subdomain naming scheme such as sulumitsretsambew.mydomain.com, I'll run with this simple little page.

I'll only be using natural methods to promote and market "sulumits retsambew" in my quest to grab 1st page SERP. To be honest I'm not sure how much time will be devoted to this because it's more of a curiosity than a priority. I'd greatly appreciate it, if anyone would like to help me out in this adventure. Please tweet it or use whichever flavor of social bookmarking site you'd prefer. You'll be helping me to prove that high SERP can be acheived through completely natural channels.

 

My progress in the sulumits retsambew seo contest

Update for May 10th 2009:

First things First
Happy Mothers Day!

Considering that I joined the sulumits retsambew seo contest almost 7 weeks after the official start, I was pleasantly surprised to see that I am already 34th (page 4, 4th position SERP) of more than 275,000 returns in a Google search.  Keep in mind that I'll only use organic content driven optimization with an article here and there to send a link back to this page.  I'm not sure how many people are playing this game, but of the nearly 10,000 pages returned for "sulumits retsambew seo contest" being 12th isn't a bad start, IMHO.

Some of the sites that I've managed to hop over are keyword oriented domain names that use some form of sulumits retsambew inside the domain itself (sulumitsretsambew.org, sulumits-retsambew.com ...etc), while others are using multiple instances of sulumits retsambew within the file naming/paths such as sulumitsretsambew.mydomain.com/sulumitsretsambew/what-is-sulumits-retsambew and so on. Shwew that was a long url to type!

I'm also finding some very creative ways that the term sulumits retsambew is being used in content. For example one site has a complete history of a ficticious character named what else, but Sulumits Retsambew. He was born in 54AD complete with a chronology of Sulumits life. I'm almost positive it was taken from one of the Fatima prophecies. Then there's another clever person claiming it to be his family name and that his Uncle, also by the name of Sulumits Retsambew is a worldy and colorful person complete with a short history of his life which also includes images. I forgot to check for alt text on those...  

UPDATE for May 13th 2009:

I've slid just a bit from 34th to 38th position today (sigh), but I'm happy to be where I'm at in such a short period of time on just a page added to this website.

UPDATE for May 21st 2009:

WOW!  That's all I can say. While I'm still sitting in 37th position I can't feel too bad about the lack of downward movement. When I started in the sulumits restambew contest there were just over 270,000 returns for the term. I've expected the returns to climb as the contest started gaining steam, however when I did a search this evening; Results 1 - 10 of about 675,000 for sulumits retsambew. (0.44 seconds) Thats's over 400,000 more pages using the term in less than 3 weeks. The optimization crews are working overtime to win this thing. I guess I should also be putting more effort into it myself, or I could keep working for my clients and watch sulumits from the sidelines ...  I'll take my chances.

UPDATE for June 9th 2009:
 What a difference a couple weeks makes! SEOMe.com is on page 2 bottom today at #19 and this is with nearly zero promotion and weathering a glitch with my 404sef  url module. We've also managed to match this position for the term "sulumits retsambew seo contest", and while it's not the term to win with it still carries a bit of a sideways slurp to enjoy.

Update for June 10th 2009
Too funny, I found a new sulumits restambew entry that copied this page verbatim and gave no credit to me for it.  Tisk Tisk! At least they stopped at my updates which will keep them from diluting my content strength.

Update for June 28th 2009
The SERP is jumping all over the place for many of the players including me. In the last week SEOMe has jumped from 19th to not in the top 100 to 54th, 49th and today 34th. I can only think this is due to so many new pages being added or updated daily.

Update for July 12th 2009
The sulumits retsambu contest is heading into the final month and is now in the home stretch. This page has managed to climb into 22nd overall and I'm fairly happy to be so high with over 1.9m pages now being returned with the term. I'm still hoping to jump back on to the 2nd page, but with so many others now involved this might be a tough nut to crack. My best position to date is 14th which lasted about 3 days and was wiped out when I had to 301 my original path to this page. We'll see how it goes.

Update for August 3rd 2009
There's just 12 days left til the winners are decided in the Sulumits Retsambew SEO Contest. This will be my last post prior to sending this page to a shelf somewhere. With my late start and the new project (http://www.insuranceagency.net), I'm content to still be at #34 as of this writing. While I was able to crack the 2nd page several times,  my lack of time to properly market and backlink this page showed.  So while I'm not thrilled with my results, I'm actually surprised that my hour of marketing and basic optimization worked as well as it has. Considering the amount of marketers and pages that were ultimately devoted to sulumits, I guess I should be stoked.

My forecast is that www.sulumitsretsambew.org will win, www.sulumits-retsambew-winner.com will come in 2nd by overtaking www.sulumitsretsambewblog.com who will have to duke it out and ultimately beat www.sulumitsretsambew.com for 3rd and the final pay spot. Do backlink checks to see why they'll place the way they have.

Cheers NetBuilders, it's been fun. 

If anyone would like to copy any part of this page, feel free to. I won't be hurt if there's no return link, I'll be content to know that what I've written is worth reposting on other pages. As I've said from the beginning, I'm not shooting for top 3 (although that would be great).  I'd simply like to qualify as an honorable mention for starting really late, not using a domain or sub-domain name with sulumits restambew in it, zero marketing or backlinking (other than an article or two) and still crashing the 1st or 2nd page.
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Observation:
One scenario that seemingly runs through most SEO Contests is that they are based solely on a keyword phrase and anything goes. Anyone who joins early enough will have a decided advantage if they can register a domain using the keyword phrase. This absolutely skews the results and doesn't really tell us who has the best skills at marketing a website. I tip my hat to netbuilders.org for putting up $1750  for their sulumits retsambew SEO contest, however I can't help but consider that a true seo contest should prove a professionals actual marketing skill by removing domain names, path names and existing page rank from the formula to decide on the winner. Let's face the reality of it, to show who is truly the best you'd have to start with a level playing field and IMHO, one that can't be swayed by outside factors such as timing.

I'd be interested in establishing a contest where domains are generic numbers and/or characters with a set span of time to rank highest for a keyword phrase.  If domain names, paths and pagerank are removed from the formula you'd be left with a purely content and marketing driven contest. This is something that I'll be pondering over the coming months and just maybe you'll see a new SEO Contest somtime towards the end of the year or first part of 2010.  Based on the purity of marketing and content development skills, I think this would be a building block event.

Please share your thoughts with me on this idea.  If I have enough interest I'd be willing to throw some cash into it. If anyone would like to get into the sponsorship/partnership end of such a contest (could be really good for exposure), please contact me and let's talk.
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With regards to sulumitS retsambeW;
As you can see I started with nearly a 2 month handicap (disadvantage), so this should be interesting to say the least. More content to come as time permits.  If anyone would like to help me prove the virtues of organic content based Search Optimization (and the power of gratuitous begging) please copy the following line and post it wherever you can  , without spamming of course.

Check out the <a href="http://seome.com/sulumits-retsambew"> Sulumits Retsambew SEO Contest</a>

Cheers everyone
Steven