Awards bring Rewards
WebSite101 has been recognized as a "Best Of The Web" site by
Surfers Choice and applications for our A+ Award at WebSite101
have soared! If you are among the applicants, rest assured
that your site will be reviewed and you will be contacted.If
you believe you may have slipped off the bottom of the list
of applicants, feel free to apply again.
The above note was included in last week's WebSite101 Reading
List and since then I've reviewed dozens of applicants for the
WebSite101 A+ Award. Our traffic analyzer shows that many of
our applicants come to us from "Award Lists" and others come
from the Awards Web-Ring that we belong to. This Web-Ring is
dedicated to sites that offer awards. Stop by and take a look
http://www.chariot.net.au/~astroman/ring.htm .
For those of you who wish to increase traffic, both winning and
presenting awards bring great benefits to your web site and can
increase site traffic dramatically. There is another resource
called the DVWorksheet at http://websiteawards.xe.net/ that
lists - and links to - over 800 awardsites worldwide! That'll
keep you busy for awhile. Why is this such a popular thing to
do?
Most awards require links back to their site when they reward
you with that award. Some award sites require verification and
provide certification numbers. All of that linking increases
the search engine relevancy and popularity of the award site.
But the award site most often links back to all the sites they
have honored as well and this does the winner even more good.
The high traffic award sites often send more traffic to their
awardees and thus increase applications at those sites listed
and linked as winners. This never ending spiral of linking and
awarding is the driving force behind much of that activity. It
is another traffic generator for all awarding and all winning
sites. Some awards are created just for this reason and are
quite often meaningless as awards because they are given to
all comers.
WebSite101 believes in and supports only quality awards and
offers our A+ Award to only the sites that meet our listed
criteria. We apply only to those sites that we believe offer
the best awards that are meaningful to display. That's the
reason we proudly display the Surfers Choice Best of the Web
Award on our front page. We encourage others to apply by
hosting the Surfers Choice Directory submission page at
http://www.website101.com/scdmv07.html . If you get listed
in the directory, apply for the award. It's a good one.
If you are interested in the WebSite101 A+ Award for small
business self designed websites, visit our application page
at http://www.website101.com/Award.html and see if you can
qualify for what we hope will become a highly coveted award
among small business webmasters. We do require a link back
to WebSite101, but we link to you as well. Good luck!
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