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Search Engine Journals Blog Awards 2007 - The Results are in
ShoeMoney.com won the 2007 Blog Awards by Search Engine Journal in the categories “Best Affiliate Marketing Blog” and also in the category “Best Contextual Advertising Blog“. The Blog awards start with a nomination period where anybody can submit nominations to the various categories, then followed by a voting by the readers. How the winners are determined based on the votes made, is explained here.
Congratulations to Jeremy Shoemaker for his double award! Jeremy won already the Search Engine Journal Blog Awards 2006 in the “affiliate marketing blogs” category.
The blog awards from 2005 did not have the category affiliate marketing blogs, but contextual advertising, which some folks consider to be somewhat part of the affiliate marketing mix. The 2005 winner of that category was Jenifer Sledge’s blog JenSense.com.
The other 2007 winners are:
- Best SEO Blog of 2007: Search Engine Roundtable
- Best Search Industry News Blog of 2007: Search Engine Land
- Best Link Building Blogs of 2007: Jim Boykin’s Blog & The Link Spiel
- Best Social Media Optimization Blog of 2007: Dosh Dosh
- Best Local Search Blog of 2007: Small Business SEM
- Best Search Engine Corporate Blog of 2007: Google Webmaster Central Blog
- Best Google Blog Not Owned by Google of 2007: Google Blogoscoped
- Best Search Marketing Facebook Group of 2007: Facebook Whores for SEO, SMO and SEM Awareness
Congratulations to the other winners as well.
Cheers!
Carsten
Is Shoemoney’s blog really an “affiliate” blog? ReveNews was nominated for the “Best” Affiliate Blog as well, but I don’t consider ReveNews to be an affiliate blog or a search blog or a contextual blog, etc.
In the end, I think these types of awards are fun for the voters or the site owners but are generally worthless and stifle the online marketing/advertising blogosphere.
Trying to categorize blogs like Shoemoney’s or ReveNews or Dosh Dosh, etc just sees a little silly to me.
What is a real affiliate marketing blog nowadays? The blogs were nominated for each of the categories based on core competency and type of readership. Jeremy writes a lot about affiliate marketing and contextual advertising, but he also writes about search, blogging, programming, his baldness, social media, business in general, tools and services etc. He is an affiliate and writes about what he does and know, so yeah, affiliate blog is probably fine as category.
Congratulations to all Winners!