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SEO – 2008 Winner

2008 SEMMY WinnerLet’s skip the corny, canned jokes and the awkward moments at the podium and just open the envelope, shall we? Ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the 2008 SEMMY Award in the SEO category is … drum-roll, please …

Search Engine Ranking Factors Version 2
Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz | 4/3/07

Congratulations to our winner! Here’s a choice bit from the winning post:

Internal Link Popularity of Linking Page within Host Site/Domain

Eric Ward
I’ve seen instances where one link from one internal page from one site resulted in page one rankings for the site being linked to.

Michael Gray
properly focused internal anchor text is very helpful once domain trust has been established.

Chris Boggs
This can backfire if gamed too ehavily and if the site has too few IBLs from other domains.

Runners-Up

The top two runners-up in public voting were:

  1. Sculpting Your PageRank For Maximum SEO Impact
    Stephan Spencer, Search Engine Land | 12/20/07
  2. SEO Linking Gotchas Even The Pros Make
    Andy Beard | 11/27/07
The winner and runners-up are welcome to grab the appropriate badge — we have a badge for both winners and runners-up.

How the Voting Ended

Here’s a look at how each finalist fared in the public voting:

SEO - 2008 winner

Thanks to all who voted, and congrats again to the winner, runners-up, finalists, and all nominees. We look forward to reading your acceptance speech soon!

Judged by Andy Beal, Eric Enge, and Deb Mastaler.

Conversation About SEO – 2008 Winner

  • chris boggs Says:

    cool! that really was a sweet study. Right now it is easily my most often cited document from the SEO “blogosphere” (yech can’t believe I used that Limbaughian word). I also like the similar Link version run by the nederlander at wiep.net

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    posted 02.01.08 at 6:48 pm
  • REBlogGirl Says:

    I loved this post and refer to it at least once a month in my own blog. Thanks for calling out a truly great one! Although I have to say the post analyzing the Google patent was equally great. Hard decisions all around, but ya’ll made a great choice.

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    posted 02.03.08 at 7:09 pm
  • Chris B Says:

    Awww, what a great opportunity for some rude wine tasting puns – have you got a semmillon (pronounced – Semi-on)? – I’ve got a semillon! Half-cocked jokes, but a great name for an award – hat’s off.

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    posted 04.08.08 at 11:31 am
  • dave @ zoekmachine blog Says:

    Winning a contest like this with almost 45%..you must provide very valuable content that. Of course Rand and his team are very famous and they do have a lot of readers so that might help a bit I think…

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    posted 05.11.08 at 7:35 am

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