Since this Oes Tsetnoc site jumped to position one I decided to share first round of stats, not so detailed one. Stats are general and basically are almost not telling us anything. Next stats will be published at the end of the month:
And here are the stats for my Oes Tsetnoc entry after 11 days are passed.
Currently this site is holding first place on the Google, number 16 on Yahoo and N/A on Bing, luckily last two ones are sucky search engines 
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Our Alexa rank is 3 704 746 and raising.
We have 15 indexed pages on Google and 6 indexed pages on Yahoo.
We have 204 backlinks on Google and 610 backlinks on Yahoo.
We have 350 visits and 750 views in the first 11 days.
Most visitors came from India then Bosnia and USA.
Oes Tsetnoc site generated 770 impressions on Google Adsense and earned zero bucks.
Thats about it. I have yet to implement doubling apostrophe fix, image optimization and then to add some images.
Yes Oes Tsetnoc is ranked first on Google since this morning. I needed 11 days to accomplish this. Competition looks harder then in Sulumits Retsambew even few strong competitors from Sulumits are not in the Oes Tsetnoc search engine optimization contest. Probably my friends deserving thanks for this position . Its becoming enjoyment to work on something which become recognized not only from search engines but from people too. I must admit I got that flame again . I announced possible quiting from the contest if my position improve, but that is only because I see when I am doing futile efforts and I hate being inefficient.
Google indexed Eleven thousand pages (11 000), which is already much better then few smaller contests I saw.
Bad thing in the contest is that people are not so active on the oes tsetnoc contest forum, they are playing but are not involved in the Buzz around it.
Here are the current top 10 entries:
1. www.oestsetnocs.com
2. www.oestsetnoc.com
3. www.joomlaxtreme.com/oes-tsetnoc
4. www.oes-tsetnoc.blogspot.com
5. www.pakistans.com/oes-tsetnoc/
6. www.thetechhub.com/2009/09/oes-tsetnoc-chance-to-with-100000-in.html
7. www.jumptags.com/tags/oes%20tsetnoc/
8. www.kikolani.com/fetching-friday-resources-mashup-911-oes-tsetnoc-clydesdales.html
9. www.slideshare.net/Hellas/oes-tsetnoc
10. www.twitter.com/oestsetnoc
I noticed that I experience doubling apostrophes on my certain blogs. After I researched this I concluded that doubling apostrophes is only happening on WordPress blog located on same server. After further researching I concluded that Magic Quotes are causing this.
So problem is not WordPress related but server related, and magic quotes are something normally turned on shared hostings because of security issues. In new versions of PHP magic quotes will not exists anymore.
Luckily we can disable the magic quotes on one of the following ways. If you are running SUexec you would need to edit php.ini and if your host don’t have SUexec running then you can probably turn of by adding certain values to your .htaccess file.
.htaccess turning of is easy. Just open your .htaccess and add the following line
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off
save the file and voila everything works. However on certain host this will not work and you will get the server error. Solution is to edit php.ini, and since you are on shared hosting you can’t do that, so you will create the php.ini file with the following line.
magic_quotes_gpc = Off
Now save the file and copy it to all folders that use php scripts. It’s a lot of job but once you finish it your posts and apostrophes will stop doubling.
Now I need to deploy this on this blog too .
Here is day 10 of Oes Tsetnoc seo contest. And after bad start we are finally advancing as expected. Yesterday this site jumped to position 5, this morning it jumped to position 4 and now we are second.
Nice. Now I only need to think of how to overtake that exact match .com. I noticed that slideshare is incredible strong, maybe strongest of all web 2.0 sites, I made simple slideshow and its already on the 5th position.
Google show now 9390 indexed pages, new people is joining in and competition will be tougher and tougher.
I converted Net Builders banner to lead referral link so I can see will this contest entry give any members to the best webmasters forum around. Off course since now I am near the top that have sense. Since visits will now double for the asked Oes Tsetnoc keyword.
Heading to link building
Few hours ago I made post where I am feeling sorry for myself and my Oes Tsetnoc entry because Google started to burying deep down with no apparent reason. I thought I even got penalized because bunch of my friends gave me links. I felt very paranoic but it looks its heresy to doubt in Google powers. We jumped incredibly from position 46 to position 5.
For Oes Tsetnocs we are at the number 1, and previously we where nowhere for search with that additional S. This is very good news and very motivates me to keep going. However .com looks very stable and reminds me on old times 
I also prepared few blogposts that should serve well as link baiting for forum guys. But will not publish them yet.
Now back to the normal and fair link building.
