19th of Aug, 2008 lead teams from all over the glob have participated in this BUSBY SEO CHALLENGE competition, and all of them are trying their best. “The Sphere Team”, has been so far the best during the competition. The Strategy they used during the competition is a bit unknown, but they did well is what we should complement. Google employees should have also kept a close eye analyzing, what’s SPAM and what’s not. If they have allowed this team to move forward and rank high, mean they have implemented the right ways.
We researched some of the ways they adopted, and found them fine. Other teams who also leaded well during the competition, did a good job. There also were few good SEOs who persistently made it to the top position during these 90 days. We’ve have released the overall ranking report just few days before.
Again the questions to be asked is
- Who will win the race?
- Who will strictly adopt Ethical Strategies?
- Who will Compromise?
Again it’s to be seen the GOOD wins or the EVIL.
All I know is, GOOD will win in a longer duration, because it’s always seen that GOOD keeps smiling at everyone and then shows it’s real strength. I have a deep feeling that there’s a CAT some where in the hiding, who will come out all of a suddenly from the DEN and reach the top spot, what do you all say?
Tags: Ethical SEO
We had a quick check to who are ranking in Google Australia, we saw the following results.
1. http://www.sphereteam.com
2. » http://www.sphereteam.com/busby-seo-challenge-vs-kabonfootprint/
3. http://morgan.ad-addict.org/
4. http://me.edu.au/b/busby_seo_challenge/
5. http://me.edu.au/b/busby_seo_challenge/entry/edf_and_busby_will_work
6. http://www.globalwarming-awareness2k7.info/busby-seo-challenge.php
7. http://www.born2buzz.com/
8. http://www.seoforum.net.au/seoforum/showthread.php?t=136
9. http://www.stan-eo.com/stan-busby-seo-challenge/stan-answers-busby-seo-challenge-sexo-seo
10. http://www.hotfrog.com.au/Companies/Busby-SEO-Challenge
I just saw this http://nelighyoungmens.com/Pig%20Contest.jpg, and thought it should be not something new to the participants at Busby SEO Challenge. Well, there are participants who are trying hard to stick to ethics and some don’t mind this.

So, let’s not make BUSBY SEO CHALLENGE a pig mud wrestling. Let’s play fair.
Tags: BUSBY PIG Wrestling
This time there are lot of participants from INDIA who have participated in the competition held by BUSBY (busbywebsolutions.com). Indian participants could not make it to the top 10 but will certainly do it by the end of the month. Again, this time key lead participants are not involved. There are lot of first timers like me, who are here to learn the art of Search Engine Optimization.
We have ranked our website seashellwebs.com at #27 and then went back out of first 100. Then after a week we gained our rank and stayed around #50 on a persistent basis.
We are not here looking to win the competition, but to gain knowledge and understand different ways those everyone adopt. We are also looking out to innovate different approaches to rank a website among the top spots.
If you are looking out of render our SEO services please call us on 91-22-40022547. We will be happy to Optimize your website.
Tags: Search Engine Optimization, SEO, SEO Mumbai
As on 7th Aug 2008, the following web pages are leading in India for the keyword
BUSBY SEO CHALLENGE
| Top 3 |
Position |
| seashellwebs.com | 1 |
| seashellwebs.com/BUSBY-SEO-CHALLENGE.html | 2 |
| maharashtradirectory.com/busby-seo-challenge/ | 3 |
| 3seo.com/Busby-SEO-Challenge/index.php | 4 |
| gidonline.com/busby-seo-challenge/ | 5 |
| blogs.ibibo.com/searchengineoptimization/Busby-SEO-Challenge.html | 6 |
| globalitinfo.com/busby_seo_challenge.htm | 7 |
| www.seocontest2008.in/busby-seo-challenge/ | 8 |
| bangalore.craigslist.co.in/lss/764845853.html | 9 |
| minglebox.com | 10 |
Note: The above list contains, the SEO results of the top 10 web pages listed in google.co.in.
Tags: SEO Leaders, SEO Statistics, SEOs, Top 10
- Visit your country’s flag
- Visit your appropriate country’s google domain
- Check who’s leading in your country for the keyphrase “BUSBY SEO CHALLENGE”, after checking “pages from” your country name
From India, we are leading at the SECOND Place.
Tags: Country-wise listing
| First Place holders | No of Times Stood 1st |
| Team Seosphere | 16 |
| gwaradenn | 15 |
| pogung177 | 5 |
| dewaji | 2 |
| selikoer | 2 |
| ardhinugraha | 1 |

We quickly happen to check the Top SEO performers those did well during the BUSBY SEO CHALLENGE so far. We checked the number of times the great SEO friends did hit the first position till 1st of Aug 2008. It is so far very apparent that “Team Seosphere”, is the best performer having gwaradenn too hitting the first position 15 times.
I personally feel, a good company would check the number of times a person made it to the first place, and not who made it through the finals at the last second. Making through the touch line at the last fraction could be luck. But, persistent performance is what people would like to bet on. What do you all say about this? For me “Team Seosphere” is the winner so far.
Tags: SEO Leaders, SEO Statistics
Google Has started it’s http://knol.google.com.

I just happen to login and use this new tool. I am just trying to understand it.
“The Knol site has one goal: to help you share what you know.”
What all you can do with Knol
- Creating and publishing a new knol
- Entering text into a new or existing knol
- Using the formatting bar
- Listing all of your knols
- Managing your author profile
- Managing versions of your knol
- Specifying settings for your knols
- Inserting Images
- Creating and formatting tables
- Creating links and references
- Working with the HTML source
- Changing your bio/profile
Best Practices: Writing Good Knols
- Things to do
- Things to avoid
- Publishing tips for authors
- Indexing and search
- Internationalization and localization
- Stability, reliability, latency
KNOL(TM) is Google’s replacement for wikipedia.org.
I’ve successfully written my first Knol(TM) article, http://knol.google.com/k/ganesh-j-acharya/search-engine-optimization.
Tags: knol, new concept
