Serps Competition
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The Serps Competition is a competition based on
search engine optimization.
The competition originated in the Usenet newsgroup alt.internet.search-engines,
loosely based on Googlebombing, the basic idea of the game is to achieve
the highest Google placement for a given keyword within a set time
period.
Serps was chosen as the keyword for the initial competition, primarily
due to the fact it is an acronym for
Search Engine Results Page. Not a well known word, except by
SEOs, this meant it was not a particularly competitive target, allowing
for the tracking of competing sites to be reasonably easy.
The competition officially began on January 16, 2004, and ended April
16. There was no entry fee and no prize, and the competition was open to
all.
Another well-known SEO SERPs competition was the "nigritude
ultramarine" SEO Challenge. The objective was to rank as well as
possible on the search engine Google
for the gibberish phrase "nigritude
ultramarine". This phrase was chosen because there were no existing
rankings for that phrase; thus it provided a "blank slate" for
competitors to prove their SEO skills.
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