White Hat/Black Hat: Incentivized SEO Competition?
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General Idea:
Rules: The winner is the person who ranks highest for "Random Easy to Rank for Key Phrase"
Prize: Some cool prize
White or Black hat?
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I don’t see any problem with SEO competition in general but i guess there are few things that should also be considered as important:
- Only white-hat tactics will be used to build links and content to the website
- No low quality link building should be done
- Content should be unique and original and should create to enhance user experience and not search engine experience.
I also feel that instead of measuring 1<sup>st</sup> page ranking as an indicator, the success of the project should be based on number of leads a project generates at the end of the project.
Hope this helps!
I think with the ideas given above.. i don't see any point where this competition go black hat!
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