SEOContest2008 News

As many websites in the contest were stuck with results with cache dates of September 17 and some on page 1 had dates of September 21, even with frequent Googlebot visits and sitemap downloading according to their numbers, no cache changes were observed. But now many sites have September 23 cache dates, but still no major jumping around in the SERPs. Just a few adjacent position switching. With only a 5 days left before the contest ends, it looks like we are no longer going to see any major change and probably the current people on page 1 are already the winners of the Isulong SEOph contest.

The last Google Dance was August 24, to August 26, where the results of Isulong SEOph has been jumping all around the place, and this reshuffling of Google is known to happen every month. This has not happened yet this September but a few changes are starting to happen, along with some fluctuating PR in soe other websites. Looks like tomorrow might be disco time for Isulong SEOph.

The SERPs just seem to be stuck at the current rankings today and we are barely seeing any movement. The cache dates get updated way delayed. but it seems to happen to this query only on Google.com.ph:

http://www.google.com.ph/search?q=isulong+seoph

During the majority days of August, the SERPs were changing more frequently and you can see how Google.com and Google.com.ph only has slight differences. And for every change in Google.com, you see the corresponding change in Google.com.ph.

And right now… every since August 26, the SERPs are not moving at all. Even if Google.com changes, you see no corresponding change in Google.com.ph, only for the query of Isulong SEOph. Or maybe I am just imagining things. I really don’t know. Other queries seem to have newer cache dates every if it is for the same site.

Check results for Isulong only:

http://www.google.com.ph/search?q=isulong

Check results for SEOph only:

http://www.google.com.ph/search?q=seoph

Check results for SEOph Isulong:

http://www.google.com.ph/search?q=seoph+isulong

Check results for isulongseoph together:

http://www.google.com.ph/search?q=isulongseoph

Check results for seophisulong together:

http://www.google.com.ph/search?q=seophisulong

But then again, it can be a data center propagation delay. But since August 26, hmmm I think that is too long already. Could it be the Google people are aware of the contest and is delaying things a bit to avoid the link spamming all over the place? What do you think?