If you would have asked me last week at SES what I felt my chances were for winning the HatBait contest put on by Li Evans and Search Marketing Gurus, I would have said "slim-to-none". Come on... these sorts of contests are always popularity driven and seem to only be between "A-List" SEOs. However, all of that seemed to have changed once I walked into the office on Monday morning, and found that several of my colleagues, and even a few clients, had placed votes for me (thank you to those of you that did by the way).

Well, as it turns out, in addition to my "I've Been... HatBaited?" post last week, Michael Roebuck, who was also a participant (#86 on the list), had sent out a company wide email asking for votes on my behalf. I'm pretty sure that he did this as a joke and as a way to draw attention to how ridiculous I looked wearing both a "Joker" hat with my infamous FireFox baseball cap, (we do play a lot of pranks and so forth here in the office), but looks like the joke is on him. His email gave me the few extra votes needed to beat out a very funny "Pretty Princess" Neil Patel. Sorry Neil. Some how I get the feeling that you've already come to terms with loosing and have moved on.

Putting aside all of the recent controversy, I had a blast with the contest! It certainly helped liven up my work week, which usually consists of being knee deep in website code. Thanks Li.