by Marcus Westberg on April 30, 2006
in General
Exciting stuff!
Only 2 weeks before John Scott announces the winner for the V7ndotcom Elursrebmem contest!
The question now is who will win? No one knows the answer for sure and the top 10 sites are all good contestants with a good chance to win!
SEO is not easy at all! and I thought that determing the winner would be easy with one month to go but I changed my mind when I realized the power of 301 redirects! Recently this domain was down because of a webhost rape procedure! but meanwhile i redirected my v7ndotcom contest site to a domain that had the SERP position 10 and it just flew up to number 4!!
If I get my Swedish teammate to partner with my site I strongly believe that SWEDEN will have both 1´st place as well as 2´nd place in this contest!
Not entirely true since I had a lot of help from my friend Steven Hargrove and he is not to be forgotten!
All these small details count at the last two weeks of the contest and I wish all contestans good luck!!!
I have had fun! I hope you also had fun with this V7ndotcom Elursrebmem contest!
by Marcus Westberg on April 30, 2006
in General
What a waste of time
This blog has been offline for about 2 weeks due to (I would call it) sabotage from an inresponsible webhost admin. The problem is now fixed and this domain has been transfered and is now officially hosted on Godaddy.com which I find is a good host. A lot of people complain on Godaddy.com but I never had any problems with them so far and they have good support so I´ll stick with them.
Google removed some of my pages from this domain from their index but luckily they have not yet removed my SEO contest page: V7ndotcom Elursrebmem contest.
I had to redirect my contest page to my other contest site: V7ndotcom Elursrebmem dot nu during the downtime and because of this the .nu domain ranks at #4! Amazing how much a redirect actually can do.
Before the redirect the .nu was ranked #10 so it was a big jump.
However my main contest site fell down to rank #6-7 but I hope I can get it back up to nr 4 again.
My main goal right now is to stay in the top 5! I have to be realistic, the number one spot is kind of unreachable espacially after beeing offline for 2 weeks.
Depending on how my webhost (the one who disabled my domain without notifying me) is handling the situation from now on I will later decide on what action I will take against them. The least I could do is to WARN!! everyone else about them if they dont answer my questions.
Their support is currently choosing only to answer a few of my questions (the questions they feel is easy to answer) and I honestly have no clue what will happen to the rest of my sites I have hosted there.
There is also another incident with this host that happend about 6 months ago and it is important that I tell everyone about it so no one else would be loosing money that is rightfully theirs!
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IS THERE SUCH A THING AS A PERFECT HOST?
I guess we will never know
