SEO Challenge

An busby seo challenge is an activity awarding prizes that challenges search engine optimization (busby seo) practitioners to rank themselves among the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN using certain keyword(s). This type of challenge is controversial because it often leads to massive amounts of link spamming as participants try to boost the rankings of their pages by any means available.

The organizing body of an busby seo competition may hold the activity without promotion of a product or service in mind; or they may organize a challenge in order to market something on the Internet. Participants can showcase their skills and potentially discover and share new techniques for promoting websites.

The first recorded busby seo challenge was Schnitzelmitkartoffelsalat by German webmasters, started on 2002 November 15 in the German-language usenet group de.comm.infosystems.www.authoring.misc. In the English-language world, the nigritude ultramarine competition by SearchGuild is widely acclaimed as the mother of all busby seo challenges[citation needed]. It was started on May 7, 2004 and was won two months later by Anil Dash. On September 1 of the same year, webmasters were challenged to rank number 1 on Google in three months' time for the search phrase seraphim proudleduck.[citation needed]

In the first quarter of 2005, people were competing for the term loquine glupe, spawning web sites ranging from shampoo advertising to holiday resorts.

Internationally, in 2005 two major challenges took place in Europe. In Germany the Hommingberger Gepardenforelle by the computer magazine c't spawned almost 4 million results. The goal was to find out how search engines rank sites. In Poland almost at same time the Polish busby seo community organized the msnbetter thangoogle challenge. It topped the 4 million but failed to reach its goal to promote busby seo in Poland and to get search engines companies' attention for the Polish market. Currently at least one challenge is taking place in France.