GrokDotCom Wins SEMMY for Best Online Marketing Post
The results are in: GrokDotCom has won this year’s SEMMY Award for Best Online Marketing Post.
Taking the top honors, Bryan’s post on “How A Pretty Face Can Push Visitors Away” captured a whopping 46% of the vote. Holly’s “Why Testimonials Do (and Don’t) Work,” meanwhile, came in at 2nd place with 22%.
Our sincere thanks go out to Matt McGee, Stoney deGeyter, Jennifer Laycock, and the other judges of the SEMMY Awards for nominating us (twice!), and for recognizing the work of bloggers who create valuable and researched content.
Most of all, thanks to you; for voting for, subscribing to, and reading GrokDotCom. Please do keep your pretty face tuned here.
Congratulations, Bryan and Holly!
[Deep breath.]
Now that our Halle Berry moment’s out of the way… here are the winners in each SEMMY category:
Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Ranking Factors Version 2 - Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz
Pay-Per-Click
Optimizing Paid Search & Landing Pages for TV, Radio and Print Advertising - Greg Meyers, SEM Geek
Why Google Can’t Just “Dump” PageRank - Dan Thies, SEO Fast Start
Viral Marketing
Top 6 Ideas for Incredible Viral Content - Tamar Weinberg, Techipedia
Link Building
Help! I’m New, I Need Links, What Can I Do? - Debra Mastaler, The Link Spiel
Local Search
Anatomy & Optimization Of A Local Business Profile - Chris Silver Smith, Search Engine Land
Blogs & Blogging
The Blogger’s Guide to SEO - Aaron & Giovanna Wall, SEO Book
Reputation Management
Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have - Andy Beal, Marketing Pilgrim
Small Business
Branding For Small Business And Bloggers - Steven Bradley, TheVanBlog
Social Media
The Social Media Manual: Read Before You Play - Muhammad Saleem, Search Engine Land
Web Analytics
Web Analytics Demystified - Avinash Kaushik, Occam’s Razor
Search Tech
Which Is Better For SEO: Shared or Dedicated IPs - Lisa Barone, Bruce Clay Blog
Online Marketing / General
How A Pretty Face Can Push Visitors Away - Bryan Eisenberg, GrokDotCom
LOL Funny
9 Ways To Bore The Audience at SES New York - Lisa Barone, Bruce Clay Blog
Rants
Web 2.0 & SEO: Must We Piss In Every Public Fountain? - Dan Thies, SEO Fast Start
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Written by:Robert Gorell
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Congrats to Bryan, Holly, and the rest of the winners - well deserved triumph for fantastic and informative writing!
Congratulations, those articles were very well done.
Congrats to all the winners! Thank you all for your helpful and valuable information for business.
Congratulations, guys! you surely deserve all the success that comes to you for providing your readers with such great content! and I guess you had to beat some great contenders!
Now, If only James D. Brausch was nominated, I would be completely happy! I m an avid reader of his blog. Maybe next time he will be nominated (i hope, he delivers world class content)