Welcome to the archive, if you are interested in past seo contests you can find all you need to know here. SEO contests are categorized by year, and start date of that year. Details of past seo contests include contest starters, prizes, running dates and more. Simply click on the link below for the year you would like to view.
The first recorded SEO Contest was Schnitzelmitkartoffelsalat by german webmasters. The first tracked seo contest was in 2004 so that is as far back as the archive will go. Schnitzelmitkartoffelsalat (literally "Schnitzelwithpotatosalad", schnitzel with potato salad) is a German phrase that is used to test the operations of search engines and the methods of search engine optimization. It was first mentioned on November 15, 2002 by Steffi Abel in the newsgroup de.comm.infosystems.www.authoring.misc. It was an phrase that had no meaning and had not appeared in the Google index up to that point.
The goal was to examine the way Google read different types of HTML construction. Eventually, it became used in an unofficial contest to see which sites could receive the higher rankings. It has also become a synonym for expressions that cannot yet be found in search engine indexes.