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September 12, 2006 was the first blog post of MySuperProposal.com. On this website, a certain JP has been blogging about his super wedding proposal to his girlfriend that he was saving up enough money to be able to have his own Super Bowl TV ad commercial which will be his marriage proposal to his girlfriend. His identity was hidden, but the SEO community knew about it as I remember Chris on the podcast of The Pulse mentioned it in one of the shows. Some post of MySuperProposal also had some large amount of Diggs. But I guess he was not able to get a spot on the Super Bowl and opted to get a commercial spot on a favorite TV program of his now fiancée.

And these videos have been posted on a bunch of SEO blogs, mainly because JP was actually SEOMoz’ Rand Fishkin. I am not ever posting his video since is it almost in every major SEO blog. So I will just point you into the direction of other SEO blogs that have it the Rank Fishkin Proposal Video.

But anyway, I want to show something else about Rand. He is pretty popular in the SEO world and top SEO people are known to make some good amount of money. Here is an interview of Rand Fishkin by Payscale sharing his views on the SEO industry.

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This new SEO Contest recently started for the keywords: GlobalWarming Awareness2007. This just started yesterday, January 15, 2007 when the keywords were released at 1pm EST. I was on trying to get the best domains but domain registrations were going on like crazy. In the first 10 minutes, all major domains were taken already.

Currently on the 2nd day of the contest, and surprisingly, it has 12,000+ results on Google already.

Something I have not seen compared to Isulong SEOph, Ituloy AngSulong and Vorgermilten. But come to think of it, this contest, the first prize is a car. And to get this promoted, the organizers actually have a PPC campaign budget to promote the contest whose banner ads were all over Digital Point’s Forum. So I guess we are going to expect the best to be in the contest and that just makes the contest even a lot harder.

For Vorgermilten, assuming the contest is for real, and this SEO contest ends on December 31, 2006, I should be receiving $600 and an iPod if the rankings do not change on Google and Yahoo which seem to appear stable.

But taking a look at Ituloy AngSulong, for the past week, this is what I have been seeing:

• Google: Results are stable. So stable, I do not see any changes happening. Maybe it is also due to the fact that everyone is busy with their holiday celebrations and no one is working on their websites. I barely see any changes in positions.
• Yahoo: The number 1 position dances all the time and makes big jumps too. My site jumps from 1 to 14, to 1 to 22 and back to 1 and some place else. I do not know why, but I think the results that slowly inch their way up have better chances of staying there, than those that jump up and down large steps.
• MSN: Double entries coming out. I can’t remember who was the first one that told me, but I think it is Alfredo Palconit was the first that sent me an IM about it. Then when I found out it was happening with my site too, I showed my officemate who runs free online flash games and was also showing double entries on MSN. Like they appear both on page 1 and page 2 with the exact same URL.