Final Five for $10,000 SEM Scholarship

Andy Beal at Marketing Pilgrim has announced the five finalists in the 2007 SEM Scholarship Contest. There were 20 entrants, each tasked with finding ways to attract the most unique visitors to their article hosted at the MP blog using any combination of SEO, PPC, social marketing, word-of-mouth, etc in 4 weeks.Â Out of those participants, the following articles made the cut:

AIDS Clickathon – A Viral Marketing Strategy to Fight the HIV/AIDS Virus in Africa – Paul Steinbrueck
Have Your Top Competitors Do Some Of Your SEO For You – CK Chung (aka Kid Disco)
The 7 Deadly Sins that Hurt You as an SEO or SEM – Daniel Tynski
Big SEO Projects – A Strategy To Get Them – Marios Alexandrou
Increase Conversion Rates with the Google Website Optimizer? – Jeff Horsager

The winner will be selected by the votes cast from the following SEM industry searcherati:

Kim Krause Berg
Jim Boykin
Rand Fishkin
Andrew Goodman
Michael Jensen
Kalena Jordan
Jennifer Laycock
Todd Malicoat
Boris Mordkovich
Lee Odden
Elisabeth Osmeloski
Neil Patel
Barry Schwartz
Brett Tabke
Laura Thieme
Aaron Wall
Winners will be announced Monday, May 21st.Â I’ve been tasked with casting my vote by Friday. Which article would you vote for?