Written on October 29th, 2007 at 03:10 pm by Darren Rowse
Competition Winner for PageRank Slam competition
Last week in the wake of all the Page Rank changes that were going around I decided to run a little competition to see who could Create the best Slogan/Banner/Button for bloggers caught up in all the changes – particularly those getting deranked.
Brian from Teaching Sells kindly offered a 3 month subscription to his great teaching course for the winner.
There were over 140 entries to the competition and there were many that were worthy of being selected as the winner. Many were very amusing and kept me quite amused over the 24 hours that we ran the competition.
But there can only be one winner and I’ve decided that that person is SportSayer who put together a bunch of clever page rank buttons for bloggers part of the Google PageRank Victims Anonymous.
Here’s one of them:
There were many other great entries and I encourage you to check them out in the comments section of the competition post.
31 Responses to “Competition Winner for PageRank Slam competition” - Add Yours
Joe
October 29th, 2007 3:27 pm
Great contest Darren, I wish I were a better designer. Google moved my page up a bit, so I’m not too upset about it :-). However, I can see how others would be, and how irrelevant they’re making it!
Off to check off more of the entrants!
SportSayer
October 29th, 2007 3:41 pm
Wow, I actually won!!!
Everyone, feel free to use any of the buttons on your site. If you want to, you can link it to http://www.SportSayer.com (my new site that goes live Nov. 1) or if not, that is cool too.
Out of curiosity, which was your favorite button? Mine was probably “Has Been” followed by “Victim”.
Thanks for having the contest Darren.
Etienne Teo
October 29th, 2007 4:27 pm
It was something interesting and nice, i have stumbled this post!
Tom Hanna
October 29th, 2007 5:20 pm
I kind of liked the “WTF?” button and the backwards Page Rank.
Simonne
October 29th, 2007 5:26 pm
Ha, ha! Congratulations to the winner. My favourite was “Has Been”.
Daniel Larsson
October 29th, 2007 6:36 pm
I love the WTF button, ‘unfortunately’ all my sites went from PR0 to PR4-5 last update so maybe a ‘PR(x)=Priceless’ would be in place?
Daniel Larsson
October 29th, 2007 6:37 pm
I am also requesting a ‘I work on my blog 24/7 and all I got was this lousy PR(x)’ button. Id use it;..
D
Lodewijkvdb
October 29th, 2007 6:57 pm
Congrats! Those are very creative buttons. Although tonight I got a PR higher than 0 for the first time since I started blogging over six months ago. So my button should be “Has been 0″ :)
Maybe I can sell a couple of links now ;)
markowe
October 29th, 2007 7:45 pm
Ahh, rats, I was too slow for this. Was going to submit my ‘Google Pagerank going off the scale and leaking out’ spoof from a few months ago: http://future-phobia.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-will-soon-increase-pagerank-to.html
It’s all a bit silly though, really – I have had PR go up and down and back up again over the summer while traffic has steadily increased on my key sites regardless. Poo poo to Pagerank, I say.
Max Powers at http://ConsumerFight.com
October 29th, 2007 7:54 pm
Congratulations to SportSayer. I loved it. Maybe a new career in blogging humor?
Caroline Middlebrook
October 29th, 2007 8:02 pm
Congrats to SportSayer, I love the black hat / white hat ones – very funny.
Well damn, better go buy Teaching Sells now :-)
Dan Schulz
October 29th, 2007 8:02 pm
Congratulations, SportSayer. You’ve earned it. :)
SportSayer
October 29th, 2007 8:15 pm
Hey everyone, thanks for the kind words,
I have added some new buttons (5 as of now) and added some new captions/alt tags to all of them. (Hope you like them).
Steven Wilson
October 29th, 2007 8:22 pm
Hi Darren
Loved the idea of the contest with all the hype going on the last few days over PR.Congrats to you slayer for winning this contest.I liked the wtf logo the best.
Steven Wilson
Beau
October 29th, 2007 8:50 pm
SportSayer
Very funny. Went very well with my coffee this morning.
Juggling Frogs
October 29th, 2007 9:27 pm
Congratulations, SportSayer, those were great!
There were so many fantastic contributions, I was giggling (and refreshing my browser) for days.
* MISS UNIVERSE
October 29th, 2007 10:37 pm
Who came in 2nd & 3rd places?
Chris Jacobson
October 30th, 2007 1:00 am
It doesn’t matter, he said there can only be one winner. lol
Sangesh
October 30th, 2007 1:14 am
Hey,
Congratulations, SportSayer for winning the competition.
cheers.
FIRE Finance
October 30th, 2007 3:05 am
Congrats SportSayer, extremely creative entry!
Brian Purkiss
October 30th, 2007 4:38 am
Those are great!
I love them!
Bravo SportSayer!
Latinbombshell
October 30th, 2007 5:33 am
Those are ALL so great! Alas, I wd need one that says “never was” :-)
Lily
October 30th, 2007 8:56 am
These are hilarious! Well done to the winner.
I’ve just had the exciting news that my site has finally made it off the 0 mark – and then trying not to be excited about it cos what does it all mean really anyway!
Audrey the Coffee Sage
October 30th, 2007 9:43 am
haha! I loved every one of them. They all fit me perfectly. A most original contest.
Lincoln
October 30th, 2007 10:51 am
I don’t know about you, but I thought the Google ads at the bottom were hysterical:
Page Rank 5 Available: Don’t just buy it, win it!
High PR! 100 Submissions! Get High PR and High Traffic to Your Site!
:-D
CyberCelt
October 30th, 2007 11:45 am
I wish I had seen this sooner. I developed a Ban Google banner, free for the asking:
http://cooladz.com/ban_google.jpg
Blog Opinion
October 30th, 2007 5:59 pm
Congratulations SportSayer ! Nice PR buttons :)
Adriana
October 31st, 2007 5:41 am
these are so great! I love the “no crying” one lol
Mark
October 31st, 2007 5:56 am
Lol, the IRONY. Can anyone say LINK LAUNDERING? Ahahha, at least his PR problems will be solved!
Shawn Farner
October 31st, 2007 5:05 pm
I have my entry, albeit a little late :-) This might be for the more “to the point” bloggers.
http://www.beerpizzatech.com/2007/10/i-set-my-clocks-early-cause-i-know-im-always-late.html
Maria
July 9th, 2008 3:05 pm
Congratulations to the winner!
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