An SEO contest is an activity awarding prizes that challenges search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners to rank themselves among the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN using certain keyword(s). This type of contest 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 SEO competition may hold the activity without promotion of a product or service in mind; or they may organize a contest in order to market something on the Internet. Participants can showcase their skills and potentially discover and share new techniques for promoting websites. from wikipedia

in 2008, there are 2 seo contest from Busby WebSolution that located in Australia, first contest try to compete with keyphrase "Busby SEO Challenge" and the second chance is optimizing your website how to get position in Google data center at 31st januari 2008 (12:00 midday) Perth, Western Australia with keyphrase "Busby SEO Test". for this contest Prizes will be awarded to the contenstants whose site is ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th on the finish date