We award best SEO campaigns from specialists, as well as best optimized websites in a variety of sectors.
Categories
The awards are given out in 12 different categories, 5 for SEOs and 7 for websites:
For SEOs:
- Best Backlinking Campaign
The most effective and strategic link-building efforts that boosted domain authority and organic traffic. - Best Content Campaign
Highlighting exceptional content strategies that engage audiences, increase brand awareness, and improve search engine rankings. - Best Technical SEO Campaign
Celebrating those who have excelled in site architecture, coding best practices, page speed, and mobile optimization, demonstrating technical excellence. - Best Local Business Campaign
Honoring campaigns that masterfully target local customers, optimize location-based keywords, and achieve exceptional local presence. - Best SEO Innovation
Honoring groundbreaking techniques, tools, or methodologies that push the boundaries of traditional SEO practices and shape the industry’s future.
For websites:
- Best SEO for eCommerce Website
Awarded to the eCommerce site that excels in leveraging SEO strategies to boost product visibility, traffic, and conversions. - Best SEO for B2B Website
Awarded to the B2B site demonstrating superior SEO tactics to engage decision-makers and drive qualified leads. - Best SEO for Travel Website
Awarded to the travel site that best harnesses SEO to inspire wanderlust, reach explorers, and increase bookings. - Best SEO for Publisher/News Website
Awarded to the publisher or news site that most effectively uses SEO to deliver timely, authoritative content and expand readership. - Best SEO for SaaS Website
Awarded to the SaaS platform that optimally integrates SEO to showcase product value, attract sign-ups, and foster retention. - Best SEO for Health Website
Awarded to the health site that most successfully employs SEO to educate, inform, and empower users seeking medical or wellness information. - Best SEO for Not for Profit Website
Awarded to the not-for-profit organization’s site that best utilizes SEO to drive awareness, engagement, and support for its mission.
Nomination and process
For the website SEO awards, the applicant will give the jury a link to their website, after which the jury will do a free SEO audit and determine how many points the website gets in technical or local SEO, backlinking, and content. The applicant will get the main issues with their website (if there are any) sent back to them after the audit.
For the campaign SEO awards, the applicant will fill out the form at the bottom of the page in which they will explain the strategy, implementation and results of a specific backlink, technical, content or local business campaign. After the form is filled out, our expert jury will go over every single case and award points based on the strategy, implementation and many other factors.
The links for the nomination forms are found at the bottom of the page.
The finalists will be notified to come to the awards ceremony up to 15 days before the start of the Summit. Applications are open up until 18th May 12 AM CET.
Award process terms can be found here. All shared data is strictly confidential.
We recommend that every applicant buys themselves a ticket in advance (especially when the prices are lower), although it is not a requirement for the application.
Jury
The jury members are:
- Marko Pačar (Granular Group)
Marko Pačar is one of the co-founders of Granular Group, a consulting agency focused on enhancing digital marketing activities and business operations, with offices in Zagreb and Belgrade.
- Krešimir Ćorluka (Canonical SEO Agency)
Krešimir Ćorluka is a co-founder of the SEO Hrvatska Facebook group, which has grown to over 2.5k members, as well as a co-founder of Canonical SEO Agency and the largest regional SEO conference, the Zagreb SEO Summit. - Tin Đudajek (Canonical SEO Agency)
Tin Đudajek is an SEO enthusiast, consultant, and conference speaker who co-founded Canonical SEO Agency and also co-founded the Zagreb SEO Summit, the largest SEO conference in Southeast Europe.
Ceremony
The awards ceremony will be held on the 6th of June at 5 PM. The awards will be given out one by one per category along with a glass plaque and certificate.
Benefits of applying
For websites:
Every applicant gets a free audit of their website (worth about 500-1000€).
Every winner gets mentions in every press release after the event (with links!), mentions on our ZSS 2025. page as awards winner, and a certificate you can add to your website.
For SEO campaigns:
Other than the awards, the winner will get one Black hat ticket for Zagreb SEO Summit 2026., mentions in every press release after the event (with links!), mentions on our ZSS 2025. page as awards winners, a certificate you can add to your website and, of course, bragging rights. 😉