Vorgermilten – A Fake SEO Contest?
By Benj Arriola - Posted on Thu Nov 23, 2006Vorgermilten claims to be the highest paying SEO contest to date. Based on the official rules of the Vorgermilten SEO contest, all contest entries must link to OfficialAres.com displaying the following text:
I am taking part in the highest paying Search Engine Optimization Contest to date. The contest is sponsored by Ares. Ares is a free peer to peer file sharing program that let’s users download unlimited free files. Please help me win this contest by giving me a link on your site.
Where in this website, OfficialAres.com is an imitation website of AresGalaxy. Ares software is a spyware-free and adware-free peer-to-peer file sharing program that is open source. And OfficialAres.com is giving away a modified version of Ares pretending to be the latest version. And with this version comes along with its own nuisance adware.
Clearly, OfficialAres.com does not seem to be a legitimate company, although it claims to net $23,000 a month and was even selling the website on DealASite.com for $550,000. If this site makes good money, why sell it? The offer on DealAsite.com has expired already on September 22, 2006 with no buying offers. But imagine of someone did buy the site in September, and based on the Vorgermilten contest rules, the SEO contest started June 1, 2006 and ends on December 31, 2006. Who is going to continue the contest? Why sell the site in the middle of the contest? It seems the contest was created to increase the popularity of OfficialAres.com to increase its value so it may be easier to sell.
Meanwhile on the McAfee Site Advisor website, many of the Ares downloadable files from OfficialAres.com are marked as adware. According to McAfee, AresLite.exe, AresMusic.exe and AresP2P.exe are the nuisance-free software. But Ares.exe, AresGalaxy.exe and AresLite.exe are the software that contains unwanted programs which are the modified versions of the former 3 mentioned.
If the Ares software of OfficialAres.com really seems to be a fake software, many other people are saying the SEO contest is a fake as well. The Vorgermilten contest claims to be giving away $10,000 and a 1 year SEO contract to the website ranking 1st place on Google.com. Although anyway you look at it, contest sponsor OfficialAres.com is distributing the fake Ares software, but does that mean that Vorgermilten is a fake SEO contest? If his website really earns $23,000 per month, then $10,000 should not be a hard price to pay to the first place winner of the Vorgermilten SEO contest. For the competitors, it will probably be a gamble for them. Even if they get a winning spot, they are not really sure if they will get their prizes. For some SEO contest competitors, they are not giving full attention to the contest and are just going with the flow and checking where the rankings lead them without any pro-active effort in improving their rankings. If ever they go up to the winning spot, they will just consider themselves lucky if ever they do receive their prizes.
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November 25th, 2006 at 11:07 pm
[...] Meanwhile another ongoing SEO contest, Vorgermilten, is taking place and will end on December 31, 2006. Although research by many SEOs has been showing some proof that Vorgermilten contest is a fake contest. Check it out yourself and you decide if Vorgermilten is a fake. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
January 23rd, 2007 at 2:44 pm
eto my support for you benj – http://alfredo.palconit.com/archives/ituloy-angsulong-a-month-away.html
January 23rd, 2007 at 3:05 pm
[...] I will also start promoting my site for keywords “Web Designer”. I don’t know if I will ever make it to the top but let’s see na lang this December 2007. I will not join the SEO World Championship baka fake contest na naman yan like Vorgermilten and I can’t accept the car, dagdag gastos sa gasolina lang yan. Anyway I am giving away free links to this post so if you like, please post a comment and place your Ituloy Angsulong entry link on the comment page. One link per poster lang ha. Thanks! Like this article? Share it with everybody.
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