Hydropackulicity

Hydropackulicity-challenge.com is up and running! Huzzah!

If you haven’t figured out what the hydropackulicity challenge is yet, you should take a quick hop over to the hydropackulicity page and read the explanation. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

Okay, are we back? Awesome.

So, here’s what’s going on -

My instructor, Jeff Lin, started the hydropackulicity competition on January 8th, 2012 on the first day of our Web Design and Production class. Many of my classmates / competitors have already started to gain ground in the competition.  Currently, there are 348 results when you do a Google search for the word ‘hydropackulicity.’ My site, the one you’re currently on, isn’t even in the rankings (yet). I know what you’re thinking, “Why bet on a horse that isn’t even in the race,” right? Before you continue that thought, please permit me to let you in on a little secret: This is all part of my master plan.

Now I’ll bet that you’re thinking I’m crazy, and while that’s true, it’s completely irrelevant.

Let me explain.

When you start up a business, launch a website, or seek to promote yourself on the web in any way, do you start out with a clean slate? No. In fact, there are probably already hundred of thousands of others that will appear in a search result when you first start out.

I have intentionally waited four weeks from the start of the competition to show how to rise to the top in a crowded Google search in a scenario that is pretty close to a real life situation in the marketing  and SEO worlds. Over the next few months, you will see hydropackulicity-challenge.com rise in the ranks of Google. Perhaps you would like to be part of the challenge, get tips on increasing your own Google search-ability, or simply just visit the site on occasion for an amusing anecdote. Whatever your reason may be, I hope that you will visit back frequently and spread the word about hydropackulicity-challenge.com!

-GR