Your link to “blasted SEOs” wasn’t written by Ardell. It was written by me. I did link to her article in mine, though.

If you read my blog back for the last few years, you’ll see that I’ve blasted SEO competitions before – it’s not that I think that SEO is a bad idea – it’s that I think that such competitions are a bad idea.

For the record, I was pointed to the competition by Lani A-R from a comment she made on twitter.

I’d never heard of Ardell, or for that matter the sponsors, until the day I wrote the post. I’m in the UK, where we don’t even use the term “real estate” (though we tend to speak enough American to understand it.)

Oh, and I don’t use any SEO techniques myself (unless regular blogging linking back to my main site is ITSELF regarded as SEO), but I do score highly for the phrase “UK property negotiation” on Google UK – 8 out of the first 10 responses link to me