Scholarship for Students Interested in Digital Marketing
Every successful marketer was a beginner once, right? We remember how thorny the path can be, so we want to support young professionals at the beginning of their journey and launch the Serpstat Writing Competition.
It’s open to undergraduate and graduate students, and those taking specialized courses in SEO or SEM.
Get $500 and guaranteed digital publication for the best article. Two runners-up will also receive $300 each and the opportunity to be published on our blog.
Application is open now through May 1, 2023.
Who can participate in the competition?
We really appreciate young professionals and want to facilitate their way in the future profession. Thus, the entry is open to all students who want to try their hand at writing a paper related to SEO or digital marketing.
Article requirements
Serpstat opportunities
How is the competition proceeding?
To ensure the quality of the competition, it is divided into several stages.
- Choosing a theme
First of all, participants must fill in the registration form. It should contain your contact details and the chosen topic. Our team will contact candidates who meet all the requirements and offer a relevant topic to provide access to Serpstat.
Registration deadline: February 27, 2023. Late submissions will not be considered. - Submission process
After successful selection, participants should prepare an article on the chosen topic based on Serpstat data. All details regarding further actions will be provided by email.
- Adjudicating process
After submission, your article will go through an initial round of judging. The Serpstat content team members will shortlist the finalists who move on to the final round.
A committee of leading SEO, SEM, and content marketing experts then evaluates the finalists.
Please note that the judges will pay attention to the academic integrity of the text.
Winners and authors of the best works will be invited to post their work on the Serpstat blog, which has monthly traffic of over 250,000 people.
What kind of research can you build using Serpstat?
There are 230 Google databases altogether, with 6.97 billion keywords in it. Our Backlink index includes 1 trillion links from 386 million domains. Crawlers add 2 billion unique links from 2.5 million domains daily.
To help you better navigate the service, we have prepared several examples of using Serpstat data.
Conduct a field analysis
With the help of competitor analysis from Serpstat you can identify competitive sites for any topic, ad or keyword phrase. Based on this data, you can identify niche leaders, compare their visibility and estimate traffic in the search engine, keyword volume and much more.
Identify how the trends in your region have changed
Collect the most popular queries in a search engine by a country on a current date in real-time. Trend data is stored for 30 days. This tool is interesting for journalists and content marketers, as it helps to catch a trend in its infancy.
Analyze organic and paid search results
Data from Serpstat allows you to check the keyword by the parameters of difficulty, frequency, competition in PPC, the number of results in the search results.
Identify keyword patterns
The Phrase Patterns tool organizes search queries by topic and user intent. Get a list of patterns that most closely fit your topic by adding the chosen keyword pool. The application will also compile distinct keywords for inclusion in key phrase patterns.
These are just some examples of data that you can find in Serpstat. Feel free to use other Serpstat data and combine it for a more meaningful topic coverage.
What to write about?
We do not limit you in the theme, because we want to see how you show your individuality in this work. So you can propose any study topic based on Serpstat analytics data.
For more inspiration, check these examples:
If you have interesting ideas, but are not sure that they can be implemented with the help of Serpstat.