The awards and standings for this year’s Rubber Chicken Award have been published at SEL!  And the winner is….

Thanks to everyone who submitted articles, voted and to the judges for making this happen.

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Voting 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:

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Updated 12/24/07 Our nominations are in. We have closed the nomination period and are now moving to the next stage of the process. The final standings will be announced before the end of the year at SEL!Take a look, give us your reader’s choice nomination for the best…..They range from the mundane to the profane. Please double check the list to make sure I didn’t miss your article or title….

1. Want traffic? Rank for High Traffic Keywords…
2. Best answer to one of my questions – EVER period
3. Google Spam Team Do Lunch…
4. We Add Words to AdWords… Google Subtracts them
5. 10 of the Worst Names Ever
6. Lessons on Blogging
7. The Top 10 Dumbest Web Site Decisions
8. Dumbass of the Week
9. Google’s 5 sure-fire steps to safer indexing
10. Why eBay and Wikipedia rule Google’s SERPs,
11. SEOs home alone – Google’s nightmare
12. Please don’t run your counter on my servers
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14. Google offers new solution for Mapspam removal: Goodoo
15. SEO High School Confidential – Premiere Edition!
16. 5 Ways Jason Calacanis Will Revolutionize Your Life in 2008 (By Going Old School)
17. Google Knol – Bestest Article Site EVER
18. Technical Challenges at Google
19. The Sphinn Awards – Part I & The Sphinn Awards -Part II.
20. Top 21 Signs You Need a Break From SEO (2007 version)
21. 10 Signs That You May Be a Blog Addict
22. Are All Googlers Cat Lovers?
23. The SEO’s Guide to Beginners
24. MSN, You Piss Me Off
25. Jill Whalen -vs- SEO Hack
26. the search engine marketer and the perfect storm…
27. Knol, Squidoo & the truth from the google blog…
28. The original blogger… Doogie Howser
29. How To Get On Google Front Page – Guaranteed
30. The Great Google Bitch Slap
31. Introducing The Google Condom
32. SEOmoz’s Unusual SearchTerms from the Month of November
33. How about Larry and Sergey as the Ghoulgle?
34. Expose Yourself… Publicly!
35. The Internet Marketer’s Nightmare
36. Mission Accomplished—Top Ranking in Google
37. Microsoft to Buy Digg
38. Google Interiors – the day my house became searchable
39. The Dark Side of SEO (Search marketing ads we would like to see)

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We are now accepting nominations for:The 2007 Top 10 List of the Bizarre, Funny and/or otherwise Irrelevant (or Irreverent) blog entries in the Search World.To add a sense of gravitas to this exercise I have invited Bill Slawski and Greg Sterling to act as judges. To honor the SEM world’s grace while shamelessly promoting the industry and others in the industry, I have asked Rand Fishkin and Danny Sullivan to also act in the capacity as judges. And for balance and impartiality I have asked Matt Cutts (answer pending) to be the final arbiter in case of ties or other disputes (Mapsguide Jen has been disqualified as some of the nominated articles may be about her. She has acted in the capacity of comic foil for the whole year so why stop now?).We are now taking nominations. Oh and the rules.There are no rules as to whom or what you can nominate to be on this list with two exceptions:1)In the vein of shameless self promotion I am allowed to nominate my own stories/entries and2) You may also suggest your own categories and entries for those categories ( a hint…great category with but a single entry could be a winner and achieve world wide distribution…well ok I only have 380 regular readers but I am working on that).3)Judges, employees and their families may participateWhat do the winners get? Besides glory and 15 seconds (its a fast paced industry) of fame, you ask? Glad you asked: The Rubber Chicken Award of Literary Excellence to hang on your wall ..er I mean blog (I am way too cheap to actually pay for a wall plaque).Copyright Notice: This blog entry may be copied in whole or in part AS LONG as there is a link back to my site or not. Some restrictions may apply** The link should preferably be from a page with a PR of 4 or higher, it should ideally be in page or category that retains high page rank AFTER it has dropped off the front page. Nofollows are prohibited except where required by (Google’s) law. Sphinning is allowed but preferred if done by groups of 20 or more. Due to server limitations (and fear of controversy) Digging is prohibited BUT stumblupon is encouraged. However if you are inclined to Digg refer to the first rule above.

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