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  Lightbulb SEO affiliates I challenge you!

Any good at SEO?

Fancy a free holiday?

Plus a load of commission?


Then I challenge you! This is open to anyone and will go out in the month end newsletter but you get a nice sneek preview...

Overview of it is, if you can rank number 1 in Google UK for ANY of these terms:

Venice hotels, Paris hotels, Nice hotels, Prague hotels, Brussels hotels, Naples hotels, Amsterdam hotels, Rome hotels, Milan hotels, Madrid hotels

Exclusively promoting Alpharooms.com as the accomodation provider - well send you there! So number one on "Rome hotels" and well send you to rome for a week!

And if you dont quite make it to number one, get in the top 5 and well send you a case of champagne!

Just to make you aware that we have great product in these palces, we cant guarentee anything but if you get to number one, or even in the top 5 for any of these terms you should be making loads of sales! And at 7% you'll have lots of spending money for your free holiday!

Full Terms and conditions are below, any questions please post here and ill answer (as chances are someone else will have the same question)



Terms and conditions


• To claim a prize your site must be listed in the top 5 natural positions on Google UK (www.google.co.uk) without using any paid advertising for any of these search terms; Venice hotels, Paris hotels, Nice hotels, Prague hotels, Brussels hotels, Naples hotels, Amsterdam hotels, Rome hotels, Milan hotels, Madrid hotels.

• All affiliates must use legitimate optimization methods to improve site’s rankings.

• If your site reaches a position that makes you legible for a prize it is your responsibility to inform daniel at alpharooms.com of your site and affiliate ID, it will be from this date that we begin monitoring your sites position.

• You must maintain the number one position for a minimum of 2 weeks (14 days) to win the 1st prize.

• You must maintain a position in the top 5 listings position for a minimum of 2 weeks (14 days) to win a case of champagne.

• To be legible for any prize during this promotion you must exclusively promote Alpharooms.com as an accommodation provider on the website which achieves the position to a reasonable degree, this can be checked with daniel at alpharooms.com

• Promotion begins on June 1st 2006 and ends October 1st 2006.

• All decisions will be at the discretion of Alpharooms.com and prizes will not be negotiable. If you would like to check the legibility of your site please email daniel at alpharooms.com



1st prize: A fantastic holiday for 2 people to the destination that you have achieved the number one position on the natural search listings on Google UK.

Prize includes Flights, 5 night’s accommodation in a 4 star hotel, and transfer from the airport to your accommodation.

• Flights will be arranged from the winner’s local airport, where possible to winner’s destination.
• Transfers will be arranged from airport to hotel. Return transfers will not be provided
• The prize consists of a 5 night stay for 2 people in a 4* Hotel, on a bed and breakfast basis.
• Winner must allow a minimum of 4 weeks between booking and departure dates
• Prize hotel is selected by Alpharooms.com.
• Prize is subject to availability and exclusion dates may apply
• No extras in the hotel or at any point in the holiday are included in the prize. All extras including meals must be paid for by prizewinner
• Prize is valid till May 31st 2007. Flights and Hotel must be used and travelled by then.
• The prize can not be exchanged for cash. Value is 0.001p

Top 5 position prize

• Winners will receive a case of 6 bottles of champagne.
• Champagne will be delivered up to 30 days after winner is contacted.
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I could well be up for the challenge

Just to be clear - does it have to be just Alpharooms on the site as accommodation provider or just Alpharooms on pages for the cities targetted for SEO ?

And I presume we can promote other merchants on the same page(s) for other items than accommodation (i.e. flights etc ?)
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>> if you can rank number 1 in Google UK for ANY of these terms:

Whoa... THAT'S an ask.... Speak much Russian do you?

>>All affiliates must use legitimate optimization methods to improve site’s rankings

*snicker* Nice get out clause. Excepting a few authority domains, I don't think there are ANY clean domains in the top 10 for any "* hotels" phrases. There's a LOT of link buying / link spamming in that area.
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Well the challenge is set, so I look forward to seeeng what you can do!

Its the page that ranks top, so if www.yoursite.com/paris_hotels.html comes at the top of google, we would need to be the onlky accomodation provider on there for you to be legible to win.

Yes not a problem with flights etc.

We just want to be promoted to a 'reasonable degree' a bit vauge I know, and im happy to check any pages you want for this, but we just dont want you getting to the top, making loads of commission on flights, insurance, car hire etc and having a piddly Alpharooms.com link at the bottom and then us sending you on holiday!

Any pages that need checking just fire them over once there up

Also, nothing to say the same affiliate cant string together a nice little trip around europe if they get top for all the terms!
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Absolutely great idea Dan
Unfortunately I'm not hardcore SEO enough for it, but bravo on a great promotion
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I like the idea but I feel I should mention that trying to create a brand new website to rank top 5 for these terms is impossible:eek:

Terms like Paris Hotels are considered competitive and therefore anyone trying to rank for said terms will be put in a sandbox for 6 -18 months. Even if you get out of the sandbox after 6 months you will be up against sites with over 10,000 backlinks and the age factor on their side.

Sorry to be so negative but I would hate to see some people create new sites with the aim of completing an almost impossible challenge.

However... If you already have a powerful(ish) travel website then it is a nice little bonus and I applaud the creativity.
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hi deano6410,

well it is a challenge! Its not impossible though, anyone with some other sites already live with a bit of history can easily get out of the sandbox in weeks just by linking to the new site from existing sites - trust me, ive done it

Im looking forward to seeing what people can do, as lets face it even if you do only just make it into the top 5 the sales your going to be able to pull in are going to be huge, so its just another incentive to push you into making loads of commission from us!
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Do you have to live in the UK to qualify for this challange. I live in Canada so do i qualify.

You guy mentioned google sandbox what does that term mean.

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You guy mentioned google sandbox what does that term mean.
Here is the definition about sandbox
http://www.web1marketing.com/glossar...Google+Sandbox

but if you're good at SEO you shouldn't worry about sandbox

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Hi Mr. Bailey sorry answered your PM before I saw this!

Art - I take it you'll be having a go
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