• Searchlight, Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2 PM

Ever heard of "Battleship Text Link Buys" or "Spammer Mouse Trap?" Probably not -- but that's because Brian Brown has taken some of the most well-known Hasbro board games and added a search twist, coming up with a list of 10 games to play that only a search marketer could love.

For example, "Battleship Text Link Buys," is a game in which Webmasters seek to uncover their opponent's text link buys and report them to Google. The winner is the one who gets their opponent's PageRank to sink first.

With "Connect Four Reciprocal Links," the goal is to see who can create the biggest reciprocal linking circle, and in "Keyword Scrabble" players take turns trying to create the smallest keyword phrase that garners the highest rank in the big three engines. And last but not least, "Spammer Mouse Trap" lets you take on the role of Matt Cutts, where you have to build traps to catch those ever crafty search spammers.

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