What is Yoshirolla Kilomantra?

We all know what Yoshirolla Kilomantra is with respect to it being a competition, but it is very interesting to look at what it means overall.  I plan for this to be a three part article on some of the trends and happenings within this SEO competition and their ramifications.

First up, what is wrong with this competition?

Now this might sound like a  bad question to ask, but what about the competition might we be ignoring, or what could be skewing our results. The primary answer is right in front of us – it is the fact we have announced Yoshirolla Kilomantra as a contest period.

It doesn’t take much for one to learn the nature of Yoshirolla Kilomantra if searched, but it does open up some doors which would not be possible in client based SEO campaigns.

The perfect example is many of the interesting and creative inbound links, while forum posts are definitely in the realm, could TV fan site’s link to Yoshirolla on multiple pages and in footer navigation if it was totally unrelated? Is that plausible within the scope of a client based execuation SEM? Somehow I don’t think so.

It then begs the question, what would have happened if Yoshirolla Kilomantra had been a product someone needed to sell for a client – would that client care about where those inbound links were coming from? And the relevancy of those links?

Furthermore what of the location of our pages? As a challenge to myself, the home of my bid for competition was a previously un-registered wordpress account – not a previously established web site. So again, if this were a product, would we be able to attach it to an un-related domain?

In my next article I will try and focus more on the specific techniques and trends competitors are using to rank for Yoshirolla Kilomantra.

Until then,
Michael