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Google has changed, so this is pretty much not working anymore. Contest closed.


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This is a contest always open for any Elfpacker to enter. You just have to create an interesting wiki-page that draws attention to Elfpack, and you can win donor-privileges (for you or to give away).



Rules


§1 The goal is to create an interesting wiki-page that makes non-Elfpackers come to Elfpack.

§2 The page should be somewhat "Elfpackish". That means that it should be fun, cool or just interesting for people who are likely to become Elfpackers. It must not contain any porn, racism or other unwanted stuff (Ask [Hedda] if you're unsure!).

§3 If your page has attracted approximately 1000 people to look at Elfpack, you'll get the prize of a donor-privilege for you or one that you can give away.

§4 The wiki-page must of course be exported, otherwise it can't be found by non-Elfpackers.

§5 [Hedda] will try to spot popular pages, but comment on this page to be sure. If you do and your page is good enough, you'll get some help to make it known.


Hints


Try to make a page about something that no one else has done a page about! Of course your page will be extremely popular if it's the best page about "sex", but it's very unlikely that you'll succeed in that. Here are some examples of pages that are successful:

www.linkmeet.com/_rydstider - It contains all the opening hours in a suburb of the town Linköping in Sweden. It gets about 5 hits a day, which would have given 1000 hits in only 200 days.

www.cathug.com/3 - It contains an image of Lilo having sex with Birk. It and it's subpages are getting 4000-8000 hits a day from Google's image-search. 

www.cathug.com/_cat%20names Contains a list of cat names. Gets 50 hits a week.

Scak gets 10 hits per day for some strange reason...

AC3 has a lot of photos that have generated some 133 hits from new people in a month.

Some other pages with over 10 hits per day:
http://elftown.eu/_Perverted%20Jokes
http://elftown.eu/_medieval%20ranks
http://elftown.eu/_eye%20tutorial
http://www.linkmeet.com/_fat (People are searching for "Fat people", "Italian guy" or "Finnish girl" in Google's image-search. The first will get unlucky though as "fat" here is "(beer) barrel(s)" in Swedish, not fat.)
http://www.writersco.com/_Canadian%20Agents

So there are many ways to make something useful and unique. Anything from lists of bands playing Emo Japanese Metal to a photo album of all the flowers you can find in the streets of Manhattan. If have something good about a few (2) very specific keywords, it can often be one of the best pages in the world about that particular subject.

More ideas: Describe your school with pictures. Or your village. Make sure to name the wiki-page well. Like for example Elfpack University Photos.

Some tips on Search Engine Optimizing: http://elftown.eu/_SEO%20HOWTO


Current status


2006-12-06 The contest has begun.

2007-07-04 [Whiskers] won a donor-prize prize for his excellent page Dir en Grey Translated Lyrics.

2008-10-04 [Velvet Dreams] won donor-prize prize for his fancy page Gothic Fairy Adoption Center. (Google's image-search happily took that bait)

Write a comment about your wiki-page project, and you'll get some feedback!

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2006-12-07 [zoloftzantac]: scak rocks! :p it might have helped that I made a wikipedia article about scak that linked to the page, but those bastards at wikipedia deleted it -_-

2006-12-07 [Hedda]: Things always get deleted by the (English) Wikipedia-maffia. You have to submit everything many times before they actually give up and thinks it important enough...

scak is on the 133th place if your search for "scak" on Google <img:mood17-gif.gif> That's kind of low, so the scak fans have to make more links to the page...

2006-12-07 [Hedda]: Aha. Scak get hits because of an image from onlybigdicks.com that no longer exists on the page...

2006-12-07 [zoloftzantac]: ...

2006-12-07 [zoloftzantac]: *goes to Urban Dictionary instead*

2006-12-08 [FireGypsy]: Well let see here.... I have Cool Shades, which is pretty popular, its too bad that pictures aren't being put up on mainstreet because people forget about them. Elfpack Weekly Puzzle was going pretty good untill I got a job, now I am slacking hehe. And I think that is about all the interesting wikis I have made O_o

2006-12-08 [FireGypsy]: Wow, I just did a google search and Cool Shades is the FIRST Non-official page to come up in the search!! (Searching for pages that link to elfpack.com, which end up being elfpacks own pages) I am soooo cool!

2006-12-08 [Hedda]: Elfpack Weekly Puzzle has the problem that you're always changing the content there instead of have an index-page with the riddles on subpages. It makes it impossible for people googling for the riddles to find them.

2006-12-08 [FireGypsy]: I do have the riddles on the winners pages. But meh! lol!

2006-12-08 [Enneigard Rebirth]: yea!!! scak got 10 hits!!!

2006-12-09 [zoloftzantac]: *kicks [Enneigard Rebirth]* oops, sorry, force of habit *^__^*

2006-12-10 [Hedda]: Sonny <3 isn't exported, so it can't be a Google Bait.

And which keywords would it trigger?

2006-12-10 [wheelsy]: So we have to export all pages of the wiki?

2006-12-10 [Hedda]: Yes, of course.

2006-12-10 [wheelsy]: Oh wow, that'd be to much for my wiki Children of Bodom United...

2006-12-10 [Hedda]: [wheelsy]: I exported all the pages that you were the last editor for and had "Children" in it's wiki-page name.

2006-12-10 [Hedda]: I could export all the pages you've made, if you want that.

2006-12-10 [wheelsy]: That's a lot of hard work for you to do, since it is a band wiki.

2006-12-10 [Hedda]: No, it's not hard work for me to export all the pages that you have written. I'll just write a command <img:mood17-gif.gif>

The question was if you minded to get all of them exported.

2006-12-10 [wheelsy]: Alright, but is it alright if I just update it before you export it?

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