subject: The Seo Contest To Show Off Your Skills [print this page] SEO means search engine optimizationSEO means search engine optimization. The people who are new to this concept might need a push to get started. There are so many websites over the internet. Each of these sites would have a reason for their being. Majority of these sites are selling products and services. Now the question boils down to how to get people to visit their site. Like in the case of a real business you would have show windows, attractive boards etc that would allure customers to entire in the shop. The online stores would use keywords to route the traffic towards their end.
When an internet browser logs on to look for some specific information like for example hiking tools; the first thing he would do is that he would get to a search engine and would type the key words, which in this case is hiking tools. The search engine would look across the web for the key words. The sites that would have the keyword would be listed as a web link as a result of the search. Now, the internet browser would most likely look at the first 10 links and would change the keywords or start a new search in case he doesnt find what he wants in the first 10 links. This means that the 10 companies, the links of which are there as the 1st 10 in the bracket would get the opportunity to have this potential customer. This is the reason why people kept focus on the keyword to ensure that they get a better rank in the search engine result, which would route maximum traffic towards their site and hence SEO.
There are SEO content that are organized to see which company is top ranked when it comes to SEO. Companies like yahoo, Google, MSN and like would be the once who would be participating in the same. The first SEO contest was Schnitzelmitkartoffelsalat in Nov 2002 by a German webmasters. There after there has been a trend for the same. The idea or the concept around the same is that the SEO contest organizers like Oes Tsetnoc would either give a product or service or an idea to be promoted within a stipulated time. The contestants have to do the same by making their websites search engine optimization friendly. Later, the data collected would tell you the winner in absolute terms. This is a competitive way of keeping the competition up and at the same tile letting the world know who the best is when it comes to SEO services.