Awards

10 Best SEO Blogs by Danny Sullivan at Blogs.com
On January 5th, 2009 the Search Engine Roundtable was recognized to be part of the top ten blogs on SEO by "search engine guru," Danny Sullivan. Danny was asked by Blogs.com to submit his ten best SEO blogs and has added this site to the list. Danny wrote:

No time to read through the several search forums out there to know what’s breaking from the trenches? Search Engine Roundtable does it for you, pulling out the signal from the noise.

Danny Sullivan has been writing about search for well over ten years and is considered the leading search expert in the world. He now runs Search Engine Land, which is a leading search blog as well, and where the founder of the Search Engine Roundtable is the leading News Editor.

Search Engine Journal's Best SEO Blog of 2007
On January 7th, 2008 the Search Engine Roundtable was awarded the Best SEO Blog award by Search Engine Journal. Loren Baker, editor of Search Engine Journal, posted the details of the award over here, stating the reason we won. I commented about the awards over here.

Search Engine Roundtable does an excellent job of covering SEO, SEM and Contextual Publishing : but for timely SEO information and early bird coverage, it’s tops and with honor we name them Best SEO Blog of 2007.

Search Engine Journal's Best Search Conference Coverage of 2007
On January 8th, 2008 the Search Engine Roundtable was awarded the Best Search Conference Coverage award by Search Engine Journal. Loren Baker, editor of Search Engine Journal, posted the details of the award over here, stating the reason we won. I commented about the awards over here.

With the most votes and the highest ratings, Search Engine Roundtable took this category to school! Thanks to the SER crew, and all bloggers who cover the search, publishing and advertising conferences .. you keep us tuned in when we cannot leave our desks.

adAge Power 150 Blog - #8
As of Janaury 18th, 2008, the Search Engine Roundtable is listed number 9 of the top 150 adAge Power 150 marketing & media blogs on the Internet. In fact, we would be higher if our PageRank score was restored to a PR7, instead of it's current PR4 - but number 9 is still a great spot to be in, within the adAge Power 150.

Search Engine Journal's Best Search Marketing / Contextual Blog of 2006
On January 4th, 2007 the Search Engine Roundtable was awarded the Best Search Marketing / Blog award by Search Engine Journal. Loren Baker, editor of Search Engine Journal, posted the details of the award over here, stating the reason we won. I commented about the awards over here.

Barry Schwartz does an excellent job of monitoring Yahoo Search Marketing, Google AdWords, MSN AdCenter and other paid search systems, their contextual counterparts, changes within the systems, and the occasional bugs and scandals within these properties. A well deserving win for Barry, Ben, Chris, Kim & company.

MarketingSherpa Readers' Choice Best Blog Awards 2006
On June 27, 2006 the Search Engine Roundtable was awarded the Best Search Marketing Blog Award by MarketingSherpa. The award results are posted at MarketingSherpa and I posted my comments on the award here. We are all very honored to have won this award two years in a row. Thank you to all the readers and loyal subscribers.

KBCafe Blog Awards - Best SEO Blog 2006
On January 11, 2007, we won the best SEO blog award held by KBCafe. More details on the various awards held at KBCafe. Thank you all for voting for us!

MarketingSherpa Readers' Choice Best Blog Awards 2005
On June 16, 2005 the Search Engine Roundtable was awarded the Best Blog Awards on the topic of Search Marketing by MarketingSherpa. The full details of the award and other eleven winners can be found at MarketingSherpa the official press release can be found at Yahoo! News. Our associate editor, Ben Pfeiffer's comments can be read here and my thank you over here. I would like to point out the Editor's note, which I am really happy with:

Editor's Notes: We adore the unusual editorial tactic for the winning Blog in this category -- instead of linking to news sites, the authors comment on and link to the very best new threads on search marketing on discussion boards all over the Web. So, it's a true insiders-insider blog, and a reflection of what people are realy talking about (vs what the media thinks.)

Search Engine Journal's Best Search Engine Community Blog 2005
On December 27th, 2005 we were awarded, by popular vote, "best search engine community blog" for 2005 by Search Engine Journal. The award release can be found at Search Engine Journal and our write up is here.
 

And on to the winner of the Best Search Engine Community Blog of 2005: The reader voting in the Community Search Blog Showdown : Threadwatch or Search Engine Roundtable?
The winner is: Search Engine Roundtable!
Congrats to Barry Schwartz & the Roundtable contributions of Benjamin Pfeiffer, Shawn Hogan, Kim Krause, Ignacio “Nacho” Hernandez, Chris Boggs, Morgan Carey, and Dan Thies.

KB Cafe Best SEO Blog Award 2005
On January 2, 2006 we won in the category of "best seo blog" at the 1st annual KBCafe Blog Awards. We were in competition with three other SEO blogs including; the Google Engineer Matt Cutts Blog, Online Marketing Blog and The Search Engine Marketing Weblog. We won this award with a pretty large leeway, with 44%, the runner up had 27% of the votes. For our blog entry on this award, visit here. For the official award, check out the KBCafe Blog.

Feedster Top 500 - November & December 2005
On November 22, 2005 the Search Engine Roundtable was again listed in to the Feedster Top 500 Blogs list, this time at 161. I wrote about this award here. I would like to thank all the contributing writers here and especially the dedicated readers. More information on this award at the feedster blog.

Feedster Top 500 - August 2005
On August 16, 2005 the Search Engine Roundtable squeaked in to the Feedster Top 500 Blogs list at #500. I wrote about this award here. I would like to thank all the contributing writers here and especially the dedicated readers.

Each month, Feedster brings you a list of 500 of the most interesting and important blogs. Enjoy browsing to see what people are reading, to find feeds that will bring topics of interest to you on a regular basis, and to discover new voices in the Blogosphere.