Survey: SEO Tactics from the Past

March 2025 Update: Thank you all for your responses, this survey is officially closed!

Are you a veteran of SEO? Or maybe an SEO dinosaur? šŸ˜

Please help me with some research for upcoming SEO conference presentations by filling out the quick survey below!

This survey explores past SEO tactics to identify which strategies were most effective in different years and how Google’s algorithm updates or spam policies impacted them. Please share your experiences from your early days in SEO—what worked and when. If you have multiple experiences from different time periods, feel free to submit the form more than once.