The Semmys has just been officially announced, and is a new award site for the best Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Marketing posts of the year, and is the brainchild of Matt at Small Business SEM.
The nominees this year are highly controversial, because they are inspired or originated from Matt’s own reading list, and are the posts which he highlighted in his monthly roundup posts as being the most important for his clients and subscribers to read if they missed them.
As such, the Semmys represent a subset of the content that is created, but possibly that also allows Matt to highlight articles that were in some way ground-breaking or were the centre of the news more than useful howto articles which might present excellent content, but are not necessarily “must read”. They are certainly going to be controversial…
Judging is broken down into 2 stages, with 25 judges being asked to come up with a short list of posts in their assigned categories. I am sure assigning judges was a hard task, because so many of the judges have their own articles nominated, and because of quite visible professional ties with other marketers.
The 25 Judges
- Aaron Wall
- Andrew Shotland
- Andy Beal
- Andy Beard
- Barry Schwartz
- Bill Slawski
- Brad Geddes
- Chris Winfield
- Christine Churchill
- David Mihm
- Deb Mastaler
- Eric Enge
- Jeff Quipp
- Jennifer Laycock
- John Andrews
- Lee Odden
- Lisa Barone
- Logoworks
- Loren Baker
- Matt McGee
- Michael Gray
- Rand Fishkin
- Simon Heseltine
- Stoney deGeyter
- Sugarrae
- Tamar Weinberg
- Todd Malicoat
- Vanessa Fox
The Articles I Had Nominated (yes 4 of them)
SEO Category
SEO Linking Gotchas Even The Pros Make
Google Category
Dancing With The Gevil – Defamed By Google?
Digg Favorites Slapped By Google
Blogs & Blogging
Optimizing HTML Links In The Aftermath Of A Blog Storm
For some reason none of my articles about Google and paid links were classed as rants, maybe I need to add some more attitude to those or keep them shorter.
In some ways that is a good thing, it has allowed me to be a judge for the Rant Category as well as SEO Tech
Take a look at those categories and let me know what you think – I will try not to let you sway my choices too much, but if you have a favorite, do let me know.
