Well the news has broken that Peter Drew has entered the ambatchdotcom seocontest contest.
At least one person said outloud - who the hell is Peter Drew? I had the same question but instead of asking, I followed the links that Age Magician provided and found out for myself.
Turns out that he is the creator of some software that auto builds blogs for adsense - the claim is that the software can automatically build 70 blogs per hour! Wow. I might even look into buying it but given that the price is not easily accessed, my guess is that it's not $29.95!
The other item of interest is that his other site for another related software - something to do with Keyword locating I think, seems to be in partnership with the contest bigshot, Kelvin.
The question in my mind, is this fair?
Well, ethically.... no.
If a major company is running a contest, the fine print almost invariably states that the contest is not open to employees or anyone affiliated with the company. This Peter dude is very obviously affiliated with Kelvin.
On the other hand, Kelvin presumably has no control over Google and the bottom line is that Google will declare the winner by it's search results.
So, while it's obvious that this guy is going to have a massive advantage through his blackhat techniques - he already has over 8000 backlinks to his contest site which is nothing more than a bunch of "ambatchdotcom seocontest" 's, there is no real basis for anyone to request that he be disqualified from the contest.
Is this a planned move on Kelvin's part? Has this been the plan all along, to prove the worth of the software, to create all these backlinks to his site with some backend deal with Peter Drew to potentially take all 3 winning positions using his software to build a massive amount of backlinks that is unrealistic for the average participant? Who knows.
Am I giving up? Not yet. But I will definately be watching the movement on this. Peter's site is already in 5th spot with a page full of nothing - I can imagine what will happen if he adds some content. Or, maybe, this is proof that content is NOT king - another topic for another entry.
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