Search Tech SEMMYs

Let’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 2010 SEMMY Award in the Search Tech category is … drum-roll, please …

The SEO geeks guide to information retrieval
David Harry, Huomah | 1/5/09

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

To me this thing of ours is an art form. The pragmatic can argue the semantics of what is art, regardless, to me it is such. And a dimensionally singular SEO is one that is limited in that art. Much like a traditional artist progresses from still life and pencil to painting and sculpting, from brushes to chisels, an SEO should seek out other elements related to the discipline. We should learn knowledge management and algorithms with the same verve we apply to playing in social media.

Runners-Up

The top two runners-up in public voting were:

1. URL Confusion and How to Fix it
   Mark Fillmore, The Search Agents | 12/16/09
2. Google I/O: New Advances In The Searchability of JavaScript and Flash, But Is It Enough?
   Vanessa Fox, Search Engine Land | 5/29/09

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:

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!

The judges listed below have made their choices, and the finalists in the Search Tech category for the 2010 SEMMY Awards are:

The Finalists

• The SEO geeks guide to information retrieval
  David Harry, Huomah | 1/5/09
• Google I/O: New Advances In The Searchability of JavaScript and Flash, But Is It Enough?
  Vanessa Fox, Search Engine Land | 5/29/09
• URL Confusion and How to Fix it
  Mark Fillmore, The Search Agents | 12/16/09

Congratulations to each finalist! Please grab a finalist badge and let your readers know that public voting on the finalists has begun. (Feel free to encourage them to vote for you; winners historically have actively promoted the SEMMYS to their readers.)

Here’s How to Vote

Now it’s your turn to choose a winner! Please read each article above and decide which one you feel is the best. When you click below, you’ll be able to vote in this category only. To vote in other categories, please visit the pages listing those finalists. Voting is open now, and will close at end-of-day on January 29, 2010.

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Congratulations to the following nominees in the Search Tech category for the 2010 SEMMY Awards! Our judge(s) will narrow this group down to 3-4 finalists. Please grab a nominee badge and let your readers know that public voting on the finalists is just around the corner.

• The SEO geeks guide to information retrieval
  David Harry, Huomah | 1/5/09
• SEO implications of Page Segmentation concepts
  David Harry, Huomah | 1/8/09
• 14 Key Requirements For A Search Friendly CMS
  Eric Enge, Search Engine Land | 5/25/09
• Google I/O: New Advances In The Searchability of JavaScript and Flash, But Is It Enough?
  Vanessa Fox, Search Engine Land | 5/29/09
• Geo Targeted SEO: The Technical Review
  David Harry, Search Engine People | 7/7/09
• How To Choose Content Management Systems For SEO
  Stephan Spencer, Search Engine Land | 9/3/09
• Hard facts about URI spam
  Sebastian X, Sebastian’s Pamphlets | 12/1/09
• URL Confusion and How to Fix it
  Mark Fillmore, The Search Agents | 12/16/09

Let’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 2009 SEMMY Award in the Search Tech category is … drum-roll, please …

Getting URLs outta Google – the good, the popular, and the definitive way
Sebastian X | 1/14/08

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

First of all, if you really want that search engines don’t index your stuff, you must allow them to crawl it. And no, that’s not an oxymoron. At the moment there’s no such thing as an indexer directive on site-level. You can’t forbid indexing in robots.txt. All indexer directives require crawling of the URLs that you want to keep out of the SERPs. Of course that doesn’t mean you should serve search engine crawlers a book from each forbidden URL.

Runners-Up

The top two runners-up in public voting were:

1. SEM Basics: How to Use a Proxy IP in Firefox
   Nick Wilsdon | 11/1/08
2. Managing Robot’s Access To Your Website
   Vanessa Fox, Jane and Robot | 6/4/08

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:

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!

The judges have made their choices, and the finalists in the Search Tech category for the 2009 SEMMY Awards are:

The Finalists

• Getting URLs outta Google – the good, the popular, and the definitive way
  Sebastian X | 1/14/08
• Managing Robot’s Access To Your Website
  Vanessa Fox, jane and robot | 6/4/08
• New Wordpress Hacking Strategy Using Cloaking to Target Google IP Addresses
  Aaron Wall, SEO Book | 10/23/08
• SEM Basics: How to Use a Proxy IP in Firefox
  Nick Wilsdon | 11/1/08

Congratulations to each finalist! Please grab a finalist badge and let your readers know that public voting on the finalists has begun. (Feel free to encourage them to vote for you.)

Here’s How to Vote

Now it’s your turn to choose a winner! Please read each article above and decide which one you feel is the best. When you click below, you’ll be able to vote in this category only. To vote in other categories, please visit the pages listing those finalists. Voting is open now, and will close at end-of-day on February 2, 2008.

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Congratulations to the following nominees in the Search Tech category for the 2009 SEMMY Awards! Our judge(s) will narrow this group down to 3-4 finalists. Please grab a nominee badge and let your readers know that public voting on the finalists is just around the corner.

• My plea to Google – Please sanitize your REP revamps
  Sebastian X | 1/3/08
• Getting URLs outta Google – the good, the popular, and the definitive way
  Sebastian X | 1/14/08
• Robots Exclusion Protocol 101
  Sebastian X, SEOmoz | 1/16/08
• A guide to SEO Canonicalization and URL Normalization
  Ian Ring, Sugarrae | 2/22/08
• @ALL: Give Google your feedback on NOINDEX, but read this pamphlet beforehand!
  Sebastian X | 2/25/08
• Managing Robot’s Access To Your Website
  Vanessa Fox, jane and robot | 6/4/08
• Brace Yourself: 5 Tips to Help Your Server Withstand a Load Spike (Digg Homepage)
  Pier-Luc Petitclerc, NVI | 10/12/08
• Domain Moving Day the Key Relevance Way
  Mike Churchill, SEM Clubhouse | 10/17/08
• New Wordpress Hacking Strategy Using Cloaking to Target Google IP Addresses
  Aaron Wall, SEO Book | 10/23/08
• SEM Basics: How to Use a Proxy IP in Firefox
  Nick Wilsdon | 11/1/08
• URL Referrer Tracking
  Nathan Buggia, jane and robot | 11/30/08

Let’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 Search Tech category is … drum-roll, please …

Which Is Better For SEO: Shared or Dedicated IPs
Lisa Barone, Bruce Clay Blog | 3/6/07

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

It’s been said that about 3 percent of all Web sites have dedicated IPs, with the other 97 percent resting on shared IPs. Research was then conducted analyzing the top 50 results for certain queries in the various search engines. The research found that 90 percent of the top-50 results were using dedicated IP numbers.

Three percent of Web sites use them, and 90 percent of Web sites in the top 50 results have them. Counterintuitive, don’t you think?

Runners-Up

The top two runners-up in public voting were:

1. When Choosing an eCommerce System, Remember the Search Engines
   Bill Slawski, SEO by the Sea | 6/20/07
2. What To Look For in a SEO Friendly E-Commerce Application
   David Wallace, SearchRank | 1/4/07

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:

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!

The judges have made their choices, and the finalists in the Search Tech category for the 2008 SEMMY Awards are:

The Finalists

• What To Look For in a SEO Friendly E-Commerce Application
  David Wallace, SearchRank | 1/4/07
• Which Is Better For SEO: Shared or Dedicated IPs
  Lisa Barone, Bruce Clay Blog | 3/6/07
• When Choosing an eCommerce System, Remember the Search Engines
  Bill Slawski, SEO by the Sea | 6/20/07

Congratulations to each finalist! Please grab a finalist badge and let your readers know that public voting on the finalists has begun.

Here’s How to Vote

Now it’s your turn to choose a winner! Please read each article above and decide which one you feel is the best. When you click below, you’ll be able to vote in this category only. To vote in other categories, please visit the pages listing those finalists. Voting is open now, and will close at end-of-day on January 30, 2008.

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The following are the nominees in the Search Tech category for the 2008 SEMMY Awards. Our judge(s) will narrow this group down to 3 finalists. Congratulations to all nominees! Please grab a nominee badge and let your readers know that public voting on the finalists is just around the corner.

• How Do Search Engine Robots Work?
  WebmasterWorld discussion | 1/3/07
• What To Look For in a SEO Friendly E-Commerce Application
  David Wallace, SearchRank | 1/4/07
• Tricks for viewing cloaked content
  Stephan Spencer | 2/7/07
• Which Is Better For SEO: Shared or Dedicated IPs
  Lisa Barone, Bruce Clay Blog | 3/6/07
• When Choosing an eCommerce System, Remember the Search Engines
  Bill Slawski, SEO by the Sea | 6/20/07