An online casino is offering up and coming SEO gurus a chance to show off their skills by awarding $7,000 to the person who produces the highest ranking for its website on MSN’s search engine.

The search engine optimization contest is the brainchild of BeTheDealer.com, who hosted a similar competition for Google SEO called Fortuno Winnero Google Contest.

With cash prizes ranging from $250 to $7000, BeTheDealer.com, websites that successfully reach one of the top 50 positions in MSN search engine results pages for the keyword phrase “Online Casino BTDino” by the February 26, 2006 deadline will win.

Webmasters wishing to participate must create a new page or tweak an existing page adding the casino’s code into the HTML. On the February deadline, the contest sponsor will search MSN for the phrase “Online Casino BTDino” to see who wins.

"SEO is one of the most powerful ways to promote products online," said Shmuel Ephron, CEO of BeTheDealer. "Our hope is to create an exciting and innovative opportunity for those with the ingenuity to operate these powerful tools."

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