Nominations for the 2007 Search Blogs Awards conducted by Search Engine Journal are now open. They have hosted these contests for the last two years now so this is their third installment which includes even more categories than the previous years. To nominate your favorite blogs, simply comment on the original post. The categories are as follows:

• Best SEO Blog
• Best SEM Blog
• Best SEO Plugin for Wordpress
• Best Search Agency Resource Blog
• Best Link Building Blog
• Best Social Media Marketing or Optimization Blog
• Best Local Search Blog
• Best Video Search Blog
• Best Mobile Search Blog
• Best Google Blog Not Owned by Google
• Best Search Engine Corporate Blog (owned by the search engines)
• Best Contextual Advertising Blog
• Best Affiliate Marketing Blog
• Best Search Engine Community/Forum
• Best New Search Engine of 2007
• Best Search Engine Research Blog
• Best Search Linkbait of 2007
• Breakout Blog of 2007
• Best Search Conference Coverage of 2007
• Best Search Conference Coverage in Photos
• Best Search Marketing Facebook Group
• Most Giving Search Blogger
• Best Independent Search Blog (not owned by media company or marketing agency)
• Best Search Blog Post of 2007

Oh, and feel free to vote for this blog for one of the categories, if you like the content that is produced. ;-)

If you are interested, here is how I voted:

• Best SEO Blog - SEOmoz
  
  
• Best SEM Blog - Search Engine Land
  
  
• Best Link Building Blog - The Link Spiel
  
  
• Best Social Media Marketing or Optimization Blog - Search Engine Guide
  
  
• Best Local Search Blog - Small Business SEM
  
  
• Best Google Blog Not Owned by Google - Google Blogoscoped
  
  
• Best Search Engine Corporate Blog - Official Google Blog
  
  
• Best Affiliate Marketing Blog - 5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blog
  
  
• Best Search Engine Community/Forum - Sphinn
  
  
• Best Search Engine Research Blog - SEO By the Sea
  
  
• Best Search Linkbait of 2007 - SEOmoz Marketplace
  
  
• Breakout Blog of 2007 - Ask the SEO Guru [Bob Massa]
  
  
• Best Search Conference Coverage of 2007 - Search Engine Roundtable and Lisa Barone of Bruce Clay Blog
  
  
• Best Search Conference Coverage in Photos - Search Marketing Gurus
  
  
• Best Independent Search Blog - Marketing Pilgrim
  
  
• Best Search Blog Post of 2007 - The Paid Links Industry Needs To Go Underground

Oh, and if they added a category for "Best Thorn in Matt Cutt's Side," Michael Gray would win hands down.

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