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Link to Elfpack competition

http://elftown.eu/_Medieval%20Ranks http://elftown.eu/_Advanced%20Pirate%20Lingo http://elftown.eu/_playgans


Other Elfpack Contests

This is a competition for those of you with web-pages, and especially professional webmasters. The goal is to have the highest rating web-page that points to Elfpack and the prize is that you will get a link from <URL:start.html> to your web-page for an entire year.

Rules


§ 1 Your webpage should come as high up as possible on http://www.google.com/search?as_lq=www.elfpack.com on the 2006-12-31 when [Hedda] looks at it.

§2 Restrictions of the page. The page must not:
a) Be an Heddate-site page or an Elfwood page.
b) Be racist, contain illegal material or otherwise be something that I refuse to link to from Mainstuff. Note: I will accept pages that are describing how much Elfpack sucks.

§3 The prize will be a link from the calendar-note about this competition for year 2007. That link will be there for the whole of 2007 in it's entirety! There will also be links from this page to all the previous winners as long as Elfpack is running, and here you can also add a short note about what the page is. This is very valuable for your site! 

The second and third place will also get links from this page.

§4 One page can only win if it hasn't won the last 5 years. "Similar" pages will also be excluded. That includes all personal pages of one person, different main pages on the same site (that is: If someone wins with a MySpace address, then a MySpace address can win next year too, but www.xnetz.com/kalisoniclilo/ can't win if www.xnetz.com has won before, because these pages both belong to [Hedda]) and other attempts to go around this rule.

§5 I'll do my best to find the winners, but please feel free to give me a hint if (and only if!) your page is high up in the search. Non-Elfpacker pages that happen to get high up in the search will be considered as not part of the competition, at least until they come here and tell me that they want to compete.


Hints


So how do you make your page? Well, first you have to have a web-page that Google can read (Like a MySpace-page, a normal website or something like that) and find. Google will find any page that you've linked to from a page that Google has read. And then, of course, you have to have a link to www.elfpack.com
If you write in HTML, this is the code: <a href="http://www.elfpack.com/">www.elfpack.com</a>

After doing that, you have to wait and wait and wait... It takes at least 2-4 weeks before Google's computers are updated generally speaking.

But to get first, you have to have a high rating on your page. One way to get a good rating is to make the page very popular so that many people link to it in their blogs.

Please note that Google has some tricks to ignore things like 400 links that suddenly appear, and things like that can actually damage your rating, at least for a while. It's also better to have links from pages with high ratings and it depends on where on the page the link is.

See also: http://elftown.eu/_Link%20to%20Elftown%20competition


Current status 2006


Currently (2006-06-07) there are no valid pages in the search! The first page is made by [Hedda] and he's of course not allowed in this competition:
www.xnetz.com/kalisoniclilo/

Update 2006-06-27 Still no valid pages are found. It might take time for Google to update its caches, so you should start linking now even if it's 6 months left.

http://search.msn.se/ gives this:
http://foxchild.spaces.msn.com/
http://thenorevardstruelegacy.spaces.msn.com/
http://www.freewebs.com/evankid/
and much more.

Update 2006-07-15 One link found, but that didn't have any link to Elfpack. I conclude that Google's link-to-search isn't working, or working at 5% or so.

Winners 2006-12-31

Winner: http://vampirefreaks.com/u/Lavender-Chaos-Angel [Sonya Blue]
Follow ups:
http://worthlessragdoll.deviantart.com/?offset=75 [The Darkest Star.]
http://teenagers-world.tripod.com/id2.html (Unknown)
http://www.freewebs.com/gashnau/ (Also unknown)


Winners 2007-12-31!!!

http://en.netlog.com/Carny_ belonging to [Fairyland Fanfare] is the only page I can find and I had to do a search for "Elfpack site:www.elfpack.com" on search.live.com to find it as it's not a normal link straight to Elfpack. It's never the less a working link, so she'll win.

Searching for "www.elfpack.com" get some working links however, so these will be secondary winners:
http://www.glee.com/Skittles254/ Is that [Skittles 254]?
http://www.truechristian.com/askpastorjim1105b.html [Nekko fox] sent a nice mail to the pastor... Good work including the link!
http://www.bluesoulsearcher.com/generallinks.html [bluesoulsearcher]'s site's linkpage.





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2006-06-27 [Hedda]: [kittykittykitty]: It might be that Google doesn't find enough links to that page. Or that you have too many links on it.

2006-06-27 [Hedda]: [kittykittykitty]: MSN has found your link at least.

2006-06-27 [Hedda]: I'll use the MSN-rating if Google can't find anything. This function just doesn't seem to work well on Google.

2006-06-28 [kittykittykitty]: Ooooh MSN found me ^_^ Maybe I need more links to EP for Google to find it. I've seen it link to myspace pages a lot in the past

2006-06-28 [FireGypsy]: Ima go try it on my mysapace or something, let me know if it works =)

2006-06-28 [FireGypsy]: myspace is being a complete retard right now and keeps freezing on me and shit.

2006-06-28 [kittykittykitty]: I don't trust myspace since it started sending my messages to the wrong people.... it has waay too many glitches. Kinda makes you grateful for being able to report bugs on EP ^_^

2006-06-28 [FireGypsy]: the only google search ive seen that the links actually come up in are under www.elfpack.com and then at the bottom you click "find pages that contain www.elfpack.com" and some come up that way.

2006-06-28 [FireGypsy]: I dont think it works, i put elfpack all over everything on two different places and i cant find anything but actual elfpack under the searches.

2006-06-28 [FireGypsy]: so it can be a cuthug page right?

2006-06-28 [kittykittykitty]: No, it can't be a heddate-site :P

2006-06-28 [FireGypsy]: does yours show up?

2006-07-15 [Hedda]: Now this comes up, but there is no link to Elfpack here (I have to admid that Google's link-to-search just doesn't work, even if it's a little better this time): http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=16690502

2006-07-15 [Hedda]: As for the prize (A link from this page): That has suddenly become very much more valuable as this page has a ranking of 6 or 7! So if a page it's listed here, it really exist and will be easily found.

2006-07-15 [FireGypsy]: Google sucks lol! I have tried to get like 3 pages up by putting www.elfpack.com everywhere! and linking it everywhere! But no such luck...

2006-07-15 [Hedda]: It will find your pages eventually... Maybe before you die...

2006-07-15 [Hedda]: You need to have a page that a lot of people link to from other important pages. It's not that easy, of course.

2006-07-15 [FireGypsy]: Im trying to get www.myspace.com/ravendark to come up =(

2006-07-16 [kittykittykitty]: So.... if we put a lot of links everywhere, like on EP itself, there's more chance it will come up in the search? :) I have it linked from my house and other profile-type pages. I guess google isn't looking at those either ;_;

2006-07-16 [Hedda]: [kittykittykitty]: Your Elfpack house can be found in a Google-search at least.

2006-08-06 [Hedda]: Still no new results in the search. Google is doing a bad job... :-(

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