The 2008 Semmy Nominees: Don’t Waste Your Vote

Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Tuesday, 15 of January , 2008 at 2:15 pm

The search engine marketing industry now has its own set of awards, the Semmys. While Search Engine Optimization Journal was not nominated for a Semmy Award, there are several SEO blogs that I admire who were. Among those nominated for the first ever Semmy Awards, for the year 2008, were:

• Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz
• Todd Friesen of Search Engine Land
• Tamar Weinberg of Search Engine Roundtable
• Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable
• Aaron Wall of SEO Book
• Jennifer Laycock of Search Engine Guide
• Michael Gray of Graywolf
• Ross Dunn of Stepforth
• Andy Beard

These aren’t the only nominees, of course, but they are among the top search engine optimizers in the world and deserve the nomination. The Semmys were started by Matt McGee, a notable SEO himself. Other categories in which Semmy Awards are offered include:

• Google
• Analytics
• General Online Marketing
• PPC
• Blogs & Blogging
• Search Tech
• Reputation Management
• Small Business
• Link Building
• Rants
• Viral Marketing
• Local Search
• Social Media
• And a Funny category as well

While many of those nominated deserve recognition, the list of those involved read like a list of insiders. Some of those nominated in each category are judges in other categories and if you read the list of nominees in all the categories you’ll find that you’ll see the same names over and over again. That may be because this is the first year for the awards so those nominated are among those most well known. I suspect that many of the nominations came from posts submitted to Sphinn and if you aren’t posted at Sphinn on a regular basis then you likely didn’t make the cut. The names listed as nominees in every category are the same names I see at Sphinn on a regular basis, so that’s I why I say that.

While Brick Marketing has blogs in virtually every category listed in the nominations, we were not nominated for any category this time. We’re not sulking, however. Some of our other favorite blogs weren’t nominated either. We’ll keep posting good content for businesses wanting the straight scoop on SEO and covering the other topics we cover well. We encourage our readers to head over to the Semmys and cast a vote. There really is good content there and the people nominated are tough to beat, whether we’re in the competition or not.

Category: SEO, Search Marketing

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