Who can Join?
- Open to All Filipinos all over the world.
- You can group together as a team, or join as individuals.
- To Join, Please email us your NAME, EMAIL, WEBSITE ENTRY, CONFIRMATION URL, REQUIRED LINKS USED and REFERRER (if applicable).
- You can have as many website entries as want.
- If you think one contestant is not a Filipino, report it here.
What are the Rules?
- DOMAIN
- All domains are in (as long as it is registered within this year and before September 30, 2008)
- Keyword on Domain: You are only allow up to 2 keywords only on the domain name.
- No subdomains (meaning, this is not allowed: http://entry-keyword.example.com/)
- Keywords on Directories are OK (meaning, this is allowed: http://www.example.com/entry-keyword/index.html)
- Keywords File Names are OK (meaning, this is allowed: http://www.example.com/entry-keyword.html)
- You must own the domain (meaning, sites like blogspot.com, wordpress.com etc. are not allowed)
- Please create a page (name it whois.html) and place your Name, Email and Website.
For example: Juan De La Cruz, juan@delacruz.com, http://www.juandelacruz.com/
- Upload it on your contest domain, For example: http://www.juandelacruz.com/whois.html
- LINKS
- You must place at least 10 of the required keywords on your contest entry page. View the required links here.
- The required links must not be used twice and keywords and links must be unique.
- The required links must be immediately visible when viewed on a 800x600 screen resolution.
- Please follow this link format
<a href="http://www.requiredlink.com/required-link.html" title="keyword">keyword</a>
- There must be no NOFOLLOW on the required links, meta data and robots.txt
- The required links must be evenly distributed throughout the page, as long at it follows rule #3.
- The required links must be placed on the contest entry page all thoughout the contest duration.
- ALLOWED PAGE DETAILS
- We will only allow STATIC PAGES (meaning it has no programming backend and it is purely HTML).
- If a dynamic entry page disguises itself as a static page (like .php changed to .html) please report it here.
- There must be no mention of the word "SEO" or "Contest" on the entry page source code.
- Please add Google Analytics tracking on your pages. We will use this to determine the site with most traffic.
- ALLOWED SEO TECHNIQUES
- You can use ANY and ALL MEANS NECESSARY to get your site rank on top of the search results. In the real SEO world, we can do anything to get the rank and traffic we want on our sites. It's all a matter of the risks you are willing to take before Search Engines ban your site. Blackhat? Whitehat? Greyhat? Anything goes. Just make sure you don't be penalized by Search Engines or your rank will drop.
- DON'T FAKE IT
- Make sure you create real traffic and real leads. We can check on our end which ones are fake. We encourage all participants to be honest in getting their target results as in the real world, fake traffic and fake leads mean nothing and it will only hurt your business and your clients.
What are the Link Requirements?
You can choose at least 10 of these keywords to be placed on your website entry page.
- buy promotional items today!
http://www.branders.com/account/login.jsp
- corporate gifts
http://www.branders.com/s/corporate-gifts.htm
- corporate gifts
http://www.branders.com
- promotional items
http://www.branders.com/s/promotional-items.htm
- promotional items
http://www.branders.com
- promotional products
http://www.branders.com/s/promotional-products.htm
- promotional products
http://www.branders.com
- business gifts
http://www.branders.com
- logo pens
http://www.branders.com/s/logo-pens.htm
- company shirts
http://www.branders.com/s/company-shirts.htm
- employee gifts
http://www.branders.com/s/employee-gifts.htm
- wholesale t shirts
http://www.branders.com/s/wholesale-t-shirts.htm
- cheap promotional items
http://www.branders.com/s/content_links.html
- marketing products
http://www.branders.com/s/product_information.htm
- business promotional items
http://www.branders.com/media/
- become a promotional products affiliate
http://www.branders.com/affiliates/index.jsp
- marketing promotional items
http://www.branders.com/sitemaps/sitemap_category.html
- custom promotional items
http://www.branders.com/sitemaps/sitemap_subcategory.html
- advertising promotional products
http://www.branders.com/sitemaps/sitemap_products.html
- promotional awareness products
http://www.branders.com/category/promotional_items_Awareness?catid=504305
- trade show giveaways
http://www.branders.com/category/promotional_items_Trade_Show?catid=83401
What is the Keyword?
The official keyword will be announced Friday 19th September, 6pm Pacific. Here's a clue: It has something to to do with the following keywords:
- Promotional Items
- Corporate Gifts
- Promotional Products
(Update) The keyword phrase is:

What are the Prizes?
- BEST RANKED
- Based on Google US IP (72.14.207.99), Yahoo US Search Results and MSN Live US Results.
- Will award qualified sites belonging to the Top 20 of Google SERP and Top 10 of Yahoo and Microsoft Live.
- A domain can only win once. If the domain ranks on 1st and 5th, it will only claim the 1st prize.
- Indented listing is not counted in the rankings.
| Rank in Search |
www.google.com |
search.yahoo.com |
search.live.com |
| 1 |
PhP 25,000.00 |
PhP 15,000.00 |
PhP 13,000.00 |
| 2 |
PhP 15,000.00 |
PhP 13,000.00 |
PhP 10,000.00 |
| 3 |
PhP 12,500.00 |
PhP 10,000.00 |
PhP 6,000.00 |
| 4 |
PhP 7,000.00 |
PhP 5,000.00 |
PhP 4,000.00 |
| 5 |
PhP 6,000.00 |
PhP 4,000.00 |
PhP 3,000.00 |
| 6 |
PhP 5,000.00 |
PhP 3,000.00 |
PhP 2,000.00 |
| 7 |
PhP 4,000.00 |
PhP 2,000.00 |
PhP 1,000.00 |
| 8 |
PhP 3,000.00 |
PhP 1,000.00 |
PhP 500.00 |
| 9 |
PhP 2,000.00 |
PhP 500.00 |
PhP 500.00 |
| 10 |
PhP 1,000.00 |
PhP 500.00 |
PhP 500.00 |
| 11 |
PhP 500.00 |
|
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| 12 |
PhP 500.00 |
|
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| 13 |
PhP 500.00 |
|
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| 14 |
PhP 500.00 |
|
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| 15 |
PhP 500.00 |
|
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| 16 |
PhP 500.00 |
|
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| 17 |
PhP 500.00 |
|
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| 18 |
PhP 500.00 |
|
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| 19 |
PhP 500.00 |
|
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| 20 |
PhP 500.00 |
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- BONUS RANK AWARDS
- Only for sites that belong on the top 5 spot on all Search Engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN)
If your site belongs on the top 5 spots on all three search engines, you have the chance to win any of the following prizes:
- Overall Top 1 – PhP 20,000.00
- Overall Top 2 – PhP 8,000.00
- Overall Top 3 – PhP 4,000.00
- MOST TRAFFIC - PhP 5,000.00
- Based on Google Analytics Stats (non-paid).
- Will count visits from the US only.
- Will award the qualified site belonging to the Top 20 of Google SERPs.
- MOST LEADS
- We will base this from the Referrer URL recorded on our site.
- If someone registers from your site, we will count that as a lead.
- We will count leads from ALL the registered sites, no matter the rank.
- We will not count duplicate signups, this will only be considered as one lead.
- We will count valid leads from US and Canada only.
Valid means:
Valid Phone and Email.
- We will count the leads from September 22 - December 22, 2008
| Leads |
Prize |
| 500 leads or more |
PhP 50,000.00 |
| 300 leads or more |
PhP 30,000.00 |
| 200 leads or more |
PhP 20,000.00 |
| 100 leads or more |
PhP 10,000.00 |
- BEST BUILT WEBSITE – PhP 10,000.00
- Based XHTML 1.0 Strict Validation Results, YSlow Performance Test Scores and Website Design.
- Will award the qualified site belonging to the Top 20 of Google SERPs.
- MOST REFERRALS – PhP 5,000.00
- Will only count referrals which belong in the official list.
- Will only count referrals which ranked on the top 100 spot on Google SERPs.
| OFFICIAL SPONSOR |

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