http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/02/11/jason-calacanis-accepts-neil-patels-seo-challenge/ Emerging Media Strategic Planning, Web Analytics, Change Management Leadership, Business Speaker Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:20:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/02/11/jason-calacanis-accepts-neil-patels-seo-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-23058 WebProNews Video Blog » Blog Archive » SES: The Neil Patel Challenge Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:31:07 +0000 http://daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/02/11/jason-calacanis-accepts-neil-patels-seo-challenge/#comment-23058 [...] Calacanis did accept the invitation to the challenge and told Patel to prove his point. In an interview with Webpronews at the SES conference, Patel talked to us about the whole ordeal. It has been over two months since the outbreak of the challenge and, so far, the traffic on Calacanis.com has increased 25 percent. The results are not entirely accurate, since Calacanis wrote about the Oscars the day before the challenge was scheduled to begin. If he had not written about the Oscars, the traffic increase would have been up some 40 percent. Based upon the percentages, Patel has won the challenge. However, Jason Calacanis has yet to come clean and post his end of the bargain. [...] [...] Calacanis did accept the invitation to the challenge and told Patel to prove his point. In an interview with Webpronews at the SES conference, Patel talked to us about the whole ordeal. It has been over two months since the outbreak of the challenge and, so far, the traffic on Calacanis.com has increased 25 percent. The results are not entirely accurate, since Calacanis wrote about the Oscars the day before the challenge was scheduled to begin. If he had not written about the Oscars, the traffic increase would have been up some 40 percent. Based upon the percentages, Patel has won the challenge. However, Jason Calacanis has yet to come clean and post his end of the bargain. [...]

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