It would be no exaggeration to say that every year hundreds of seo contests take place around the world. They are usually sponsored by companies that would like to increase their visibility in the search engines. The company that administers the competition comes up with a made-up word that has not existed before the competition started. This guarantees that there would be 0 results turned out in Google which means that the playing field is even.

After a predetermined amount of time – usually six months after the beginning of the competition on a particular day at a particular time the made up word is being looked up pin Google and the website that comes up first wins. Simple as that. In addition the the fame the winner also gets a big cash prize. However more people to do for the fame and not for the money

Sometimes the SEO competitions are country specific. In these cases the word is in the local language. For instance right now a seo competition is going on in Bulgaria. The word is which is (laptops) backwards and on March 31st whoever comes first upon looking up the word in Google.bg will be the winner.

This is not the case for SEO contest when the made up word is in English – basically what happens is that the whole world takes part in the competition. With no doubt contest like these are super competitive. To increase their chances of winning contestants team up. The winning team then divides the cash prize among its members

As I mentioned before even though the cash prize is big people do it mostly because of the fame that comes with it. However both things are inter related. The members of the winning team are contacted by companies that need that type of service.

Most of the people feel that they can\’t win such a competitive contest and don\’t even participate. Opposite to them I think that no matter how good they are in the art of SEO everyone needs to participate. There are so many tricks that can be leanrned in such a competition for a relatively short amount of time.

For instance I am taking part in such a competition right now. It has been a month since it started and I learn things that otherwise would have taken me moths to learn. I don\’t know if I will win (I hope so) but even if I don\’t I won\’t regret I participated