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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?

2006-12-10 [Hedda]: Eh? You can update when-ever you want...

2006-12-10 [wheelsy]: Alright. But what happens to the new pages, do I just do the exporting myself?

2006-12-10 [Hedda]: Yes, just select "Exported" in the form where you're creating the page.

2006-12-10 [wheelsy]: Alright, could you please export the pages for me? I'll export the other whenever I create them.

2006-12-10 [Hedda]: I did ;) I thought you agreed in the previous comment... <img:drunk.gif>

Only the pages you're the last author of though.

2006-12-10 [wheelsy]: What one aren't I?

2006-12-11 [Hedda]: I don't know. It was too complicated to figure out. Me lazy <img:img/mood/5_1116340164.jpg>

Maybe none.

2006-12-11 [wheelsy]: I'll figure it out and then fix them if they aren't. <img:mood10_gif.gif>

2006-12-11 [zoloftzantac]: It should be easy for you to tell for yourself in your notes :p

2006-12-11 [wheelsy]: True, I shall...

2006-12-11 [zoloftzantac]: ;)

2006-12-20 [Fallen Solider]: The Boondock Saints @ Wiki is up and running. Its both a fanclub, organization, and a movement. Simple, but clear (=^)

2006-12-20 [zoloftzantac]: I think your wiki page needs some help ...

2006-12-20 [Fallen Solider]: Now its fixed. Go check it out sometime =)

2006-12-21 [zoloftzantac]: make a link like this [The Boondock Saints@wiki] ;)

The Boondock Saints

Some people are to lazy to go luck otherwise

2007-01-28 [unkownuser989]: i made a page:
http://www.elfpack.com/_ugly
i hope it gets some hits!

2007-01-28 [zoloftzantac]: ummm ... okay o_O

but how is google gonna find it? you need some search words and image discriptions

2007-01-29 [wheelsy]: How do I go about search words?

2007-02-08 [shinobi14]: Hey check mine out. Its an info search for car spec. and my opinion. Its just up and running today, but it seems to be a popular subject, and im really interested in them. It was originally for all the car fanatics on EP, but it would bring a lot of people flooding into Elfpack. Have a glance through. Hope it gets some hits! For Elfpack's sake...
Car Mad!!!

2007-02-08 [FireGypsy]: Ehh, too many toys, not enough muscle ^_^

2007-02-08 [shinobi14]: Hey hey. Different people like different cars, did ya check the Super Cars? They would wipe the floor with any muscle car... In fact, the Americans have made it in there!!! 2 muscle cars, i see. Just smarter muscle, not clumsy muscle. ^^
Go on. Check.

2007-02-09 [FireGypsy]: Neat, I still like good old american muscle cars ^_^ Imports are alright if the owner knows what he/she is doing, but it mostly consists of dumbasses in civics. Besides, if you want a fast import, it takes a LOT of money to make one fast. You want a supercar? Good luck finding 3/4 of a million to buy yourself one ^_^

2007-02-09 [shinobi14]: Ahhh... And there lies the problem. Though the actual wiki is fairly neat, right?
Ive tried.
Hey! I know you! You are the Chemistry teacher at the college, right? And a very high ranked person! Wow. Ur a hippy... Thats so cool.
Back to the cars, if you wanna good, old fashioned american muscle car, try and find one in one piece. ^_^

2007-02-09 [shinobi14]: OK. Ive added a link from my wiki to the muscle car wiki. So now everyone is happy... Although that page isnt exported like mine... =(

2007-02-09 [FireGypsy]: I don't really want to find a good old muscle car in one piece ^_^ I want to restore and rebuild one!

2007-02-09 [shinobi14]: Wow. Ur really good, for a girl... Not many girls I know are into mechanics... But i guess you're the exception tho. Nice. And ur into Chemistry aswell. Woweeeee!

2007-02-09 [FireGypsy]: I <3 Chemistry ^_^ Twas my favourite class in HS.

2007-02-09 [shinobi14]: I wanna be a pharmacist, so Chemistry is kinda my thing...

2007-02-09 [FireGypsy]: Pills eh?

2007-02-09 [shinobi14]: Not how it sounds... I get such weird looks wen I say im interested in drugs... NO, MORON. NOT TAKIN DRUGS!! lol

2007-02-09 [FireGypsy]: Haha!

2007-02-09 [zoloftzantac]: Drugs are bad, mkay?

2007-02-09 [shinobi14]: Oh yeah. Very bad. Never even tried em in my life... Worst drug ive ever taken is alchohol or Codeine...
Hey! Aren't you the creator of The Hi Society?? or was that [Dea]?
That is such a good idea, and is helping get alot of "Hi" and "Ur hott" messangers off my back. Thanks!!

2007-02-09 [FireGypsy]: I like ganja ^_^

2007-02-09 [shinobi14]: Ye you must have been smoking something when you decided to do that firedance. I watched it on U-Tube. Very skillage. Is that something you do often???

2007-02-09 [FireGypsy]: Yup, I do it all the time. I perform down at Clearwater Beach on Saturday nights ^_^

2007-02-09 [shinobi14]: Wow. Thats talent. Very impressive. Bet you cant do that drunk ^_^

2007-02-09 [FireGypsy]: HAHAHA! I am BETTER when I am drunk/high! I have performed so fucked up and never hit myself! XD I am the HIT of parties!

2007-02-09 [shinobi14]: Ill have to rent you for a night. LOL Sounds like fun ^^

2007-02-09 [FireGypsy]: I am available for hire ^_^

2007-02-10 [shinobi14]: Ye, but with a careful look at our houses, u see ur in Florida and im in North Wales. Sadly for me, it aint gonna happen. But id love to see ya someday...

2007-02-10 [FireGypsy]: Ptthhhhppptt!

2007-02-10 [shinobi14]: Dont look at me in that tone of voice!!!

2007-02-10 [FireGypsy]: It smells a funny colour!

2007-02-10 [zoloftzantac]: Hi [shinobi14], I saw your app for crew, good luck ;)

That wiki was made by my friend [BlindGuardian]

2007-02-10 [shinobi14]: Thanks [zoloftzantac]. Ive just checked out [BlindGuardian]'s house. Her new baby is adorable!!
And thanks for the good luck, too. Ill need it. There are plenty of other candidates that have a better chance, but I really want to make a difference like you guys, you know?

2007-02-10 [zoloftzantac]: You seem cool, if you want to help out then just look around. There are lots of semi-official jobs/tasks that you can get involved with to get you feet wet ;)

2007-02-10 [shinobi14]: LOL thanks, ZZ. Who actually picks the guards wen it comes down to it? Is it [Big Brother]?
Might have to find one of these "semi-official jobs" then. Get my hands dirty... ^_^

2007-02-10 [zoloftzantac]: Nope, the crew don't pick who becomes crew, only the queen bee does ;)

2007-02-10 [shinobi14]: oooooooo... *lightning flash*
Queen bee, eh? Wow. Odds are against me.
Meh. All i can do is my best. ^^

2007-02-10 [shinobi14]: How long have you been a Guard for, then [zoloftzantac]?

Oh, and if i remember right [FireGypsy], arent you off down to Clearwater beach tonight?

2007-02-10 [FireGypsy]: I usually go, but my friend's birthday is today and tonight we are going to celebrate it ^_^ We will be going to Ybor for the nigh parade and hope we dont get shot! XD Then we might go camping in my friend's backyard with a bonfire so that I can still spin ^_^

2007-02-10 [shinobi14]: Oh yeah. And u do it sooooo well ^_^
Hope you dont hurt yourself...
Party + Drinks + Loads of people + Camping + Fire dancing...Hmmm...
Nothing could possibly go wrong there. XD

2007-02-10 [FireGypsy]: Nope, I am a party animal ^_^ I do things better fucked up!

2007-02-10 [shinobi14]: Good good. Then at least Burnouthappy wont be burninouthappy. Lol. Exellent. XD

2007-02-10 [FireGypsy]: XD

2007-03-01 [Hedda]: American Muscle Cars is getting close! 25 hits last week.

Even more donor-privs to [FireGypsy]. Want something else this time?
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2007-03-01 [FireGypsy]: How can you see how many hits a wiki-page has? Haha sure i'll take something else XD How about a Guard position eh? Lol!

2007-03-01 [Hedda]: I have logs, of course. So I can see what people are looking at, where they come from and where they are from.

The 25 hits are only hits that came from Google's image-search. I haven't looked at how much Elfpackers look at it. 

2007-03-01 [FireGypsy]: Ohh ^_^ I see

2007-03-01 [shinobi14]: I have to admit, its a good wiki, Sasha!

Not my tastes anyway... But good all the same. XD

2007-03-01 [FireGypsy]: I need to add more substance to it though lol!

2007-03-01 [shinobi14]: a bit more wouldn't go amiss, true.

But not much. Maybe some description of the engine... like on mine. >.< (i know you dont like it...)

2007-03-01 [FireGypsy]: Some dont come with a specific engine, some came with different ones. I would have to go research it all again.

2007-03-01 [shinobi14]: You mean you dont know your cars??

But thats true. Its weird with these silly american cars. >.<

2007-03-01 [FireGypsy]: No, it's just a matter or preference. Some people like big engines, some like small, such as in your case XD So the cars came with a few different sizes, and no, I havne't memorized all the engines that came with every muscle car lol!

2007-03-01 [shinobi14]: I guess im a geek then. XD

And my cars are small engined, your right. But they are as fast as your silly truck engined cars, and alot more economic ^___^

2007-03-01 [FireGypsy]: Truck engines? Not exactly ^_^ I just like 6-8 cylinders, they sound mean, look mean, and are very fast if you set them up right! Your cars sound like bumble bees =) and require computer mods and turbos/blowers to be fast.

2007-03-02 [shinobi14]: You can make any car sound like almost anything witrh the right exhaust... My bro's car (he is a chav) is a Vauxhall Nova, 1.1 Litre, but it sounds like a Ferrari! Thats because he spent loads on a new exhaust system.

Still crappy, though. XD

Nu-uh, they can be modded in so any different ways, engine upgrades, nitrous oxide, comp chips, plus tons of accesories like cool air intake systems and turbo chargers. XD

2007-03-02 [FireGypsy]: Exactly! In order to make a 4 cylinder fast, you NEED to upgrade the engine, buy $500 chips for the computer, but a $2000 nitrous kit, $2000 supercharger/turbe (and you need to rebuilt the engine for those) and so on. Whereas I can buy an 8 cylinder, put high compression pistons in it and a cam, and BAM! Just as good as a the 4 cylinder that you just invested over $6000 to make fast XD

2007-03-02 [shinobi14]: Not to mention the "looking good" side of it...

Muscle cars are ugly. Apart from the Shelby and the Ford GT.

And it is possible to spend that much money on a car, yeah, but with your gas-guzzling engines, you will have to pay the same amount as my mods as your petrol bill!! (you americans call this substance "gasoline", the hydrocarbon.

Petrol.

2007-03-02 [FireGypsy]: Dude, mustangs suck. And ALL muscle cars are BEAUTIFUL! And who the hell cares about gas!

2007-03-02 [shinobi14]: Beautiful???
Meh. You just insulted the pretty ones, dudette. ^___^

2007-03-03 [FireGypsy]: Not beauitful, beautiful!

2007-03-03 [shinobi14]: Thats what I said... >_> <_<

2007-03-03 [FireGypsy]: Not the first time ^_^

2007-03-03 [shinobi14]: *looks at first time*

Nope. Looks good to me! Lets get of this subject, shall we? XD

2007-03-03 [FireGypsy]: You little sneak! XD

2007-03-03 [shinobi14]: Maybe... Ill never tell. ;)

Snitch!!! lol

2008-09-24 [DeeJay™]: are all exported wikis entered into this by default? or would one have to declare their wiki beforehand?

2008-09-25 [Hedda]: Basically every page is included as I look at which pages that are well visited by new visitors. But you should tell us and you might get some help.

2008-09-25 [DeeJay™]: oooh.. how do you do that? xD
do the rest of us know? or just you?

2008-09-25 [Hedda]: I check the logs. They aren't public information.

2008-09-25 [DeeJay™]: okay, cool :]
well, i would hope that the new 'Top 10' would draw a few folks into EP. it's filled with songs this week ^^

2008-09-26 [Hedda]: You can use the stumble-button and make links to it from other sites. Link to the exported wiki-page, because it's shorter and generally better.

2008-09-26 [DeeJay™]: uhh.. okay o.o
i'll see what i can find :3

2008-09-28 [Faith.Hope.Love]: You can use the stumble-button and make links to it from other sites.

[Hedda], would you mind explaining this a bit more? I would really like to understand this better. I have tried placing high ranking links on some of my wiki pages, but I haven't noticed a significant difference in how they come up in the Google searches. I try to read everything I come across on this topic, including what you have written in various places, but I don't think I'm getting it entirely. <img:sa-gif.gif> I also use your recommended format with the title and the keywords as well.

http://elftown.eu/wiki.html?name=seo%20howto

2008-09-29 [DeeJay™]: uh, what i did was actually click the 'stumble' button (next to the words 'wiki-page rating'), and write a short review on my wiki, before signing up (got to, unfortunately :\ but watch out for the toolbar they try to install), and then confirm it through my email.
i dont know if it's actually made a difference, mind.. x]

2008-09-29 [Hedda]: [Faith.Hope.Love]: You need to link to it from a high ranked page, before it really makes a difference. It's extra good if it's a relevant page but on a site otherwise not related, I guess. But it's hard to know exactly how Google does this, and they update the algoritm all the time. But if it's easy to find for people reading about the subject everywhere else, then it's probably good.

[DeeJay™]: If the ones Stumbling around like it, then it might become very popular. If not... It will give a few clicks. Many people submitting it is better, I guess.

2008-10-01 [Faith.Hope.Love]: You need to link to it from a high ranked page...

Ahh! The keyword being 'from' a high ranked page, instead of 'to' a high ranked page. Now I understand the significance of getting my Pegasus image linked 'from' PegasusLair2000 to Elftown's Pegasus, because PegasusLair2000 is a very high ranked page. Correct? Hmm..... <img:cheshmak.gif>

2008-10-03 [Hedda]: No, it's not a high ranked page at the moment and I doubt it will ever be. But links are never bad.

www.elfwood.com is a high ranked page for example. If you have a Google toolbar you can see the page-rank of the pages you're visiting.

2008-10-05 [Faith.Hope.Love]: So it has nothing to do with coming up as the 4th listed from the top of the page for "Pegasus Art" for a 'web' search and listed first for an 'image' search (even though the image 'shown' links back to elftown.eu/_Pegasus)? I had a Google Toolbar and I did away with it, not sure why. I'll get it again, because I really like to do searches periodically. I do see Elfwood a lot in my searches. Almost applied there a few times, but I changed my mind. I didn't think my art would be acceptable there. What I find really interesting? Your Elftown photo is on a couple of pages. When I clicked on it, I was taken to my ET house. Hmmm.... <img:BR-GIF.gif>

2008-10-06 [Hedda]: It has something to do with coming up 4th listed from the top, yes. But it's still not a highly ranked page.

2008-10-08 [Faith.Hope.Love]: I see.. I think. ;) I downloaded the Google Toolbar. I see that site is at 3/10 for Google's rating of its importance. Mainstuff registers at the same as well as Mainstreet on ET. I was surprised to see that my ET house has a ranking at all. http://www.wikipedia.org/ is at 9/10, but I kinda' expected this ranking for wikipedia. Interesting. <img:mood-gif.gif>

Off topic: I want to download another browser, because I often use 2 browsers at a time, currently Firefox and IE. I so dislike IE, though. Does Opera support images? <img:c-gif.gif>

2011-10-06 [DeeJay™]: do you think there's a chance of my EP Independent's Top 10: Internet Games wiki being featured? i googled 'top 10 internet games' and it was on page 2 (of over a million pages). i'd imagine 'internet games' would be a popular search, and 'top 10 internet games' is linked from that search as the first one
(e.g. "Searches related to internet games:
top 10 internet games
online games
multiplayer internet games
flash games
etc).
think there's a chance?

2011-10-06 [kittykittykitty]: Yeah I found it on the 2nd page too, nice one C:

2011-11-07 [Stephen]: Is this contest still being monitored?

2011-11-08 [DeeJay™]: is anything..?

2011-11-08 [Stephen]: Lots of things are, now. :P

2011-11-09 [kittykittykitty]: I'm not sure how we see which pages are most popular. Hedda?:)

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