Welcome to the Larry Invitational March 30, 2009

You take great travel pictures? You have awesome recipes? You’re passionate about reducing global warming? You’re wildly addicted to reality TV?

If you’re reading this, and you received a verbal invitation to participate in the challenge from me or from Andy, here’s the rules:

• Create yourself a blog (on Blogspot, on WordPress.com, I don’t care where; host it yourself if you’d like).
• It must be a new blog you create for this challenge.
• Blog as much as you want, on your own time, starting no earlier than Friday, April 3rd, after you go home from work.
• The challenge ends the morning of Sunday, May 24th. The winner is the blog with the highest Google PageRank when I check them that Sunday morning.
• Do whatever you like to increase your PageRank. Do not presume that any tactic is off limits (other than NSFW content, or blogging about the company, as specified below). The whole goal is to see who can achieve the highest PageRank.
• The prize will be something on the order of a $25 gift card, plus bragging rights.
• If you tell coworkers about your blogging, don’t tell them it’s for a challenge.
• Do not work on the challenge during your work hours.
• Don’t blog NSFW content. Nothing you wouldn’t want a company executive to see.
• Do not mention our company, or the parent company, on your blog, or anything about our products. In other words, do not blog about work.
• You may use a pseudonym on your blog, but when the challenge is over be prepared to answer questions or do a write-up for interested company executives about what you did to achieve your PageRank results. Expect that your blog will be connected to you, and seen by executives and coworkers.

If you’re down with these rules, welcome to the Larry Invitational! Create your blog and give us the url in the comments below.

Tips:

• Add this blog to your feed reader. I’ll post the PageRank standings on occasion during the challenge.
• If you want to track your own PageRank, or that of the competition, the SearchStatus extension for Firefox is what I’ll be using to determine the winner.