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December 27, 2007

Rubber Chicken Award - (aka The Columbo) Top 10 Finalists - Vote now

Category: Rubber Chicken Award – Mike Blumenthal – 3:44 pm

top-10.gifVoting is now open for the People’s Choice Awards for the Top Humor Article of 2007.The code has been debugged, the secret algo has been run, the titles have been randomly ordered and we now have determined the Top 10 finalists for the 2007 Rubber Chicken Award for Humor in the SEM industry. The judges will once again review these and make a final determination as to just how rank they are. You may be able to unduly influence the outcome (although a good solid link might do the same :), see Matt’s take on this) and identify the people’s choice award by voting here.

And the Top 10 Finalists are:

  1. Want traffic? Rank for High Traffic Keywords… 
  2. We Add Words to AdWords… Google Subtracts them
  3. Why eBay and Wikipedia rule Google’s SERPs,
  4. SEOs home alone - Google’s nightmare
  5. 13 Things to Do When Your Loved One is Away at Conferences
  6. SEO High School Confidential - Premiere Edition!
  7. The Sphinn Awards - Part I & -Part II.
  8. Top 21 Signs You Need a Break From SEO (2007 version)
  9. 10 Signs That You May Be a Blog Addict
  10. The SEO’s Guide to Beginners
  11. The Internet Marketer’s Nightmare
  12. Mission Accomplished—Top Ranking in Google
  13. Google Interiors - the day my house became searchable

    14. 20 Comments »

    1. [...] the judges saw fit to include one of my posts (The Internet Marketer’s Nightmare) as one of the Top 10 Finalists. While I certainly never expected that this laughable excursion into loose-lipped linguistics would [...]

      Pingback by I’m Not a Nobody, I’m a Weiner! | JMorris Online — December 27, 2007 @ 8:03 pm

    2. Votes cast, and no, I did not rank my own as 5. :-)

      Voting was a bit tough, all the entries were good. I honestly could not narrow down a single “best post”, but several did get high marks from me.

      Now that my side is thoroughly hurting, I’ll eagerly await the results of this terrific brownie bait… erm, competition. :-D

      Comment by JMorris — December 27, 2007 @ 8:45 pm

    3. Jim-

      Thanks for playing in my sandbox!

      You should have saved your I’m Not a Nobody, I’m a Weiner! for Jan 1 at 12:01 am so it would have been eligible for next year. It was a hoot. Thanks.

      Mike

      Comment by Mike Blumenthal — December 27, 2007 @ 8:48 pm

    4. Awwww man! :lol:

      Oh well, I’m full of… um, it. I’m sure I’ll come up with something. After all, in our industry, there are so many opportunities to have a little fun at our own expense.

      Comment by JMorris — December 27, 2007 @ 9:09 pm

    5. [...] truly excited. Two of my pamphlets made it in The Rubber Chicken Award’s Top 10! That’s 50% success (2/4 nominated pamphlets), so please help me to make that 100%: vote for [...]

      Pingback by Vote Now: Rubber Chicken Award 2007 for the dullest and most tedious search blog post — December 28, 2007 @ 7:41 am

    6. Wow! Two of my pamphlets made it in the top ten. Thank you! I’m truly excited and couldn’t resist to vote somewhat selfishly (at least I’m honest). By the way, I reread the rules but you didn’t mention standard tools like votebots, sinkbots and such stuff…

      Comment by Sebastian — December 28, 2007 @ 8:14 am

    7. Hi Sebastien…

      Being naive, I had to look up the meaning of sinkbots . I had never considered the question but am in the process of upgrading my survey software .:)

      That being said I suppose that it comes down to your definintion of “People” as this part of the voting is the People’s choice awards.

      Thanks for coming by.

      Mike

      Comment by Mike Blumenthal — December 28, 2007 @ 8:34 am

    8. [...] awesome power and enlightenment, this post has been nominated for and is a Top 10 finalist in The Columbo Award. Don’t forget to cast your vote for this post before the end of 2007!   » Post [...]

      Pingback by The Internet Marketer’s Nightmare | JMorris Online — December 28, 2007 @ 12:01 pm

    9. Mike,

      No one’s hating on you over here, just having fun ok?

      Comment by Syzlak — December 28, 2007 @ 3:49 pm

    10. Well Mike, I have to say the concept of our little awards show being up for an award is kind of making my head ’sphinn’ with all the redundancy. Thanks for the fun and I shall have to poke Jeff with a stick and have him drop by to shower you with more love and apreciation… weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…..

      Good fun M…. thanks

      Dave

      Comment by theGypsy — December 29, 2007 @ 10:52 am

    11. Hi Dave

      Yes, I agree….Looking in the mirror in the mirror can be a bit too much self reflection of reflection.

      Mike

      Comment by Mike Blumenthal — December 29, 2007 @ 12:07 pm

    12. Awesome Mike … thanks for the recognition. Wow, there are some great posts there. It’ll be a difficult decision should the votes not be decisive enough.

      Damn … I knew we should have included a photo of Matt Cutts in his Borat bathing suit. Surely this would have been enough.

      Thanks again Mike! Go Sphinn Awards!

      Comment by Jeff Quipp — December 30, 2007 @ 11:14 am

    13. The algo developed should be able to discern even minute differences in standing :)

      Mike

      Comment by Mike Blumenthal — December 30, 2007 @ 3:58 pm

    14. Thanks, Mike, I’m touched, honored and so looking forward to decorating my “Google Interiors” piece with the Rubber Chicken Award. I promise to treasure it and possibly transform it into a family heirloom.

      Comment by Sandra Niehaus — December 31, 2007 @ 2:23 pm

    15. Sandra

      I would only suggest transforming this chicken into a family heirloom with the greatest of care…

      Thanks for the submission. It was a fun read.

      Mike

      Comment by Mike Blumenthal — December 31, 2007 @ 2:30 pm

    16. [...] In related good news, I, Google’s nightmare, have almost won the 2007 Rubber Chicken Award for the dullest most bizarre SEO blog post. [...]

      Pingback by Thanks for all the ego food! — January 9, 2008 @ 5:07 pm

    17. I would have loved to be in the running for the Rubber Chicken Award - I think I deserve at least a Golden Carrot for accidently ranking first on Google Web for the ‘most flatulent guy on the planet’.

      Comment by Chris Boswell — January 17, 2008 @ 9:32 am

    18. Chris- I think to receive either the coolest guy or the most flatulent guy on the planet you would need to start your own award. Good luck!

      Mike

      Comment by Mike Blumenthal — January 17, 2008 @ 11:15 am

    19. Cheers Mike,

      that’s not such a bad idea actually - I’ll think about it. Btw, your link back to me looks to be broken - just as well since it could really bang the nail in the coffin on my flatulent status, even with the rel nofollow. I may well have condemned myself by drawing attention to this daft accolade.

      Comment by Chris Boswell — January 17, 2008 @ 11:23 am

    20. Hey Chris

      Fixed the bad link (was testing the no no follow software I had installed) and I fixed the no follow as well…good luck!

      Mike

      Comment by Mike Blumenthal — January 17, 2008 @ 11:38 am

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