Abalastow Compendium

Dan Grigsby is having an SEO competition in his entrepreneurship course again this year. This is the same class that I took last year, creating abalastow-compendium.org as my entry into the competition. This year their words are Zompire Dracularius.

While I don’t think Abalastow-Compendium.org has much Google juice left, I have agreed to lend a helping link to this Zompire Dracularius site. Good luck!

I know it has been a while since my last post (in fact, I had not planned to post again). However, I am involved in a new venture that I am hoping to call upon you for some help in the department of page links.

The venture is called VendBox. I am working on this project with a team of other individuals: a businessman, another electrical engineer, and a mechanical engineer. We are developing a vending machine to distribute free samples. The idea is that this vending machine could help companies distribute samples in areas where traditional methods do not work. Feel free to learn more about us at our VendBox website.

To help me out: create a link to our VendBox page, http://www.vendbox.com, with “VendBox” or “Free Samples” as the text. One way to do this is to copy and paste the text shown below into an html page:

<a href="http://www.vendbox.com">
VendBox</a>

If you do feel like lending a link, I will be very grateful. As always: let me know if you would like a link back.

Thanks.

Thank you!

For about the past month, your links have pushed me up to the number one Google search result.

But don’t remove those links yet — the competition is far from over. I’m sure my classmates will be upping their efforts in the final stretch, so I’ll need your help now more than ever.

Encourage your friends to get involved by linking to Abalastow Compendium.

Remember to let know if you would like me to link back (be sure to indicate with what text you would like the link to have). Thanks again.

Wikipedia has a great article on how Google PageRank works. It seems that to get the top search result for the key words Abalastow Compendium I need to:

1. Get as many people to create links to this blog as possible. Over time, Google will notice all of these links and consider them as votes for the importance of this blog.

2. Get those links to include the words Abalastow Compendium, like this: Abalastow Compendium. Google will consider this a vote for my page being an authority on Abalastow Compendium and will list this blog higher in its search results.

When Google considers all the votes for (links to) my Abalastow Compendium page, it also takes into account the popularity of each page linking to me. It determines this popularity based on how many incoming links point to the given page. If a very popular site like Shopify or Bust Out Solutions were to create an Abalastow Compendium link to my page, I’d get a much larger boost than if I had created a bunch of unused websites all linking to my Abalastow Compendium site.

Again, I’d love it if you would help me out! Create a link on your site to my page and, if you want, I’ll link back to you.

Just copy this html text onto your site:

<a href="http://www.abalastow-compendium.org/">
Abalastow Compendium</a>

Abalastow Compendium is an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) contest in an entrepreneurship course taught by Dan Grigsby. Here are Dan’s notes on this assignment.

The point of the competition is to see who can get the first google search result for the key words Abalastow Compendium.

Help me out! Add a link on your site to Abalastow Compendium by copying the html below onto your own blog/website.

<a href="http://www.abalastow-compendium.org/">
Abalastow Compendium</a>

Thanks! And feel free to leave me any advice on how to get the top page rank.

It appears that the phrase Abalastow Compendium is making quite a splash. Already a Wikipedia page has beed created and taken down for it.

Hard to imagine that just 2 days ago there were no google hits for this phrase.