The Busby SEO Challenge competition was a great way to discover and learn Search Engine Optimization for every newbie SEO enthusiasts like Bloggista.com, a Busby SEO Challenge participant to the hotly contested Busby SEO Challenge competition organized by Busby Web Solutions, an SEO Company based in Australia.

Many Filipinos joined the Busby SEO Challenge which ran for about 3 months. The goal - rank first in Google Top Page when the key phrase Busby SEO Challenge is searched. Teams from Indonesia ranked solid in first place, a day before the Busby SEO Challenge officially close.

The top winner wins USD5,000.00 while the second and third runner-ups get USD2,000.00 and USD500.00 each respectively. Check back this post as I will be posting the winners and top 10 best performers once the results are out.

Busby SEO Challenge winners:

1. Imfreakz
2. Sphereteam
3. Pogung177

One big lesson learned from this competition was Teamwork. Others resort to obtaining thousands of backlinks by all means - some I personally doesn’t want to do at all - which borders to SPAMMING just to get backlinks.

Anyways, a big congratulations to the winners and to all the participants of the busby seo challenge contest. Hopefully next year, Busby Web Solutions will again run this event so we can participate.

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(Photo Credits: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) Recently, most of my blogging friends enjoyed one hell of ride with traffic and revenue with their SEO tactics and efforts on the 2008 Olympics Results and Games Updates. Due to so many things to do at my new office, I have only a few minutes browsing to the stats and some blog posts and had not much time doing my own optimisation. But still Google and Yahoo did brought in some favorable traffic on Olympics and I am very happy with that already.

However, there are some Olympics events I couldn’t afford to miss watching - and today I was lucky enough to be just at home and was glued to the TV Coverage on RPN-9 / CS Sports channel on the two events I was hoping I could catch on.

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Today, I am launching “officially” the Sponsorship to the Best Definition of Bloggista Contest announce a week ago. It’s good to know some people and parties are actually interested in making a Sponsorship of the said contest and a big thanks to everyone.

As announced, there will only be 3 Major Sponsors and 5 Minor Sponsors that can be accommodated so as not flood the participants with so many links on their sites. For those who still want to sponsor (EC credits, hosting, domains, etc.) even if you’re not included in the Major and Minor Sponsors, I will still include your link as Sponsors however, the participants have a choice not to include it in their posts - hope it’s okay.

Now what you’ll gonna get as a Sponsor:

“What you’ll get? Quality backlinks from 5 of my ranked sites (well, they’re just PR2-PR3 but it should be fine anyway), backlinks from participants, and RSS subscribers for Major Sponsors and the chance to be part of this historic event (LOL). The best offers get the slots.”

Interested to be a Sponsor?

Contact Bloggista! Sponsorship slots are limited and are open until 31-Aug-2008 only. So shoot your most generous gesture and join the fun.

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To start with, the Best Definition of Bloggista Contest kicks-off this week, with USD100.00 prize for the Winner (may still increase as we are adding generous sponsors for the contest). So join the fun, and give your best ‘Bloggista’ definition.

As you may have noticed, there weren’t much updates to this blog in the last two weeks, first, because upgrading and transferring to a new host proved to be a challenge for the newbie Bloggista. The new host still got some glitches, and the biggest one is the inability to display the subdomain Bloggista.com blogs which include the TeamNoobs entry to the Busby SEO Challenge. Hopefully by this week, this should be resolved.

Secondly, Bloggista was down with FLU last week - and the best way to recover was to sleep and rest the whole time. The flu became worse during the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs of 2008 presentation of winners and eyeball - where I was already shaking and felt the chills getting more intense halfway of the event. For the rest of the week, it was a combo of very high fever with chilling, dry cough that shook even my brains, running nose and backpains, muscle pains - there was pain all over my head and body, even in my bones. I rarely get sick - but when I do, it’s like ten times over. Whew.

So the flu made me missed lots of opportunities last week - I missed the IMMAP Event where I won a Free Delegate Pass (worth over USS300.00), I missed optimizing for the 2008 Olympics Results, Updates and Sports Events, including the Olympics Medal Standings. My friends, however, made it to the SERP’s and I am so proud of them! I also noticed that Google AdSense earnings of the Olympics-related clicks are relatively higher. I even saw an earning of US$8.80 for just 10 clicks on one of my sites. Amazing!

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Update: Entries are still accepted until 20th of October. So get your definition posted on your blog now.

Now that this blog has been successfully (whew, it was a painful one) transferred to a new host, Bloggista.com is giving away prizes for its first ever ‘grand’ contest – The Search for the Best Definition of Bloggista.

Recently, Definition-of.com has added in its database the word Bloggista, but the definition has to be enhanced or improved - thus the rationale behind this Contest.

Here are the mechanics:

1. Give your best definition of the word “Bloggista” (noun) not exceeding 50 words and not exceeding 3 sentences.
2. Provide a sample usage of Bloggista in a short sentence.
3. Post your entry in your Blog and leave a comment on this post with the URL of your entry.
4. Also include at the last part of your Post the following:

This is an entry to the “Search for the Best Definition of Bloggista” sponsored by:

Bloggista.com

Sponsors (check back for the final list of Sponsors). Don’t worry, sponsors will only be limited to the following:

Major Sponsors:

1. Ruby of Pinay Mommy Online
2. Bong (JB) of ReapMoneyOnline
3. April of BlogAffiliateMarketing

Minor Sponsors:

1. Riyanne of Blogging From Scratch (for the logo/banner design)
2. Michael of Technology and Reviews
3. Frank of Tech Jaws
4. Paul et al of Classifieds Philippines
5. Pinay Mommy of Mommy Earns Money Online

Don’t have a blog? You can sign-up one for free at Bloggista.net - Your Free Wordpress-powered blog.

How to determine the Winner?

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