Marhgil Macuha – SEO Contest Update

Posted on December 31, 2007
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Marhgil Macuha ContestIf you’re a regular reader of Monetize Your Blog, you’ll know that I’ve entered the Marhgil Macuha Mini-SEO Contest. This was not so much a money making opportunity for me (although there was $150 at stake) as a way to pick up some extra search engine optimization tips.

Apart from the contest being a shameless effort on Marhgil’s part to increase web site traffic (which I suspect worked), it was a good way to test my SEO skills against other bloggers. You can read my Marhgil Macuha SEO Contest entry here.

The keyword for the competition was Marhgil Macuha. This had the advantage of not having much competition in the search engines before the contest. And because the term was specific to Marhgil’s blog, it gave everyone an equal opportunity to rank on the first page – nobody except Marhgil himself had any authority for the term before the contest.

So How Did I Go?

My entry debuted on the first page of results in Google for the term Marhgil Macuha. Indexing took just under a day. Since then, my entry has bobbed up and down on page 1 and 2 of the search results. The highest position I have seen is 6, with the lowest being 16.

My entry is now floating around position 9 or 10 and has done for the last week. With only 4 days to go, it’s unlikely I can reach top spot.

Was This A Good Way To Make Money While Online?

As I said before, this is not the way to make big money online. The $150 prize money would have been a nice bonus, but what I’ve learned about search engine optimization strategy is worth more than that. So, while I wont earn money directly out of the contest, there have been other ancillary benefits.

Did It Increase Web Traffic?

One of the benefits of entering the contest and ending up on the front page is increased web site traffic - Google has sent me a lot of Marhgil Macuha traffic. I assume that these visitors are other Marhgil Macuha competitors sizing up the opposition. Normally I would have said this traffic was not very well targeted, but Marhgil does run a “how to make money online” blog. And from my stats I can see that many of them hung around for a while, with some even returning over multiple visits. I guess everybody wants to learn how to make money blogging.

I will write about the SEO techniques I employed for this contest in an upcoming post.

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One Response to “Marhgil Macuha – SEO Contest Update”

  1. Arab Aquarius on January 6th, 2008 6:07 pm

    I agree with you, the information and experience you gained is more important and on the long run more worthy.

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