Comments on: Mr Gary Lee’s iPhone Contest http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2007/07/09/mr-gary-lees-iphone-contest/ Just another Weblogs at Harvard Law School weblog Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:57:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: gaquay http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2007/07/09/mr-gary-lees-iphone-contest/#comment-339 gaquay Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:15:32 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2007/07/09/mr-gary-lees-iphone-contest/#comment-339 nice blog, keep it up. nice blog, keep it up.

]]> By: Sammy Trout Jr http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2007/07/09/mr-gary-lees-iphone-contest/#comment-193 Sammy Trout Jr Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:33:24 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2007/07/09/mr-gary-lees-iphone-contest/#comment-193 I think there is a bigger problem with the contest (I am not sure that Google checks for relevancy as I have seen many high ranked sites with HUGE list of back links that seem to have little to do with the sites' content) Google is definitely unhappy about link selling and it seems to me that a contest is just one step removed from this. Of course, working out that the links were gained this way may not be easy? I sometimes read a webmaster forum and they seem to regularly dream up schemes for getting round Google and getting links (including, increasingly, contests of one sort or another)! I think there is a bigger problem with the contest (I am not sure that Google checks for relevancy as I have seen many high ranked sites with HUGE list of back links that seem to have little to do with the sites’ content)

Google is definitely unhappy about link selling and it seems to me that a contest is just one step removed from this. Of course, working out that the links were gained this way may not be easy? I sometimes read a webmaster forum and they seem to regularly dream up schemes for getting round Google and getting links (including, increasingly, contests of one sort or another)!

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