{"id":303,"date":"2008-05-01T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T06:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/ten-reasons-why-you-should-enter-your-website-into-the-2008-webawards\/"},"modified":"2014-08-02T09:17:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T13:17:51","slug":"ten-reasons-why-you-should-enter-your-website-into-the-2008-webawards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/ten-reasons-why-you-should-enter-your-website-into-the-2008-webawards\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten reasons why you should enter your website into the 2008 WebAwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With only one month to go until the entrty deadline, we though we would give you our 10 reasons you should enter the Web Marketing Association&#8217;s 12th annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webaward.org\/?gad=CPuPmvMBEggsoBxCrziTDBi6nML_AyCf6OAS\">WebAward Competition<\/a> for Website development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10) If you wait until after the May 31st deadline, you&#8217;ll have to pay a late fee.<\/p>\n<p>9) Your mom would be proud of you.<\/p>\n<p>8) You will receive important benchmark data for your entire industry and where your site ranks in each of the seven judging criteria.<\/p>\n<p>7) Think of the PR opportunities &#8211; industry publications, blogs, websites, by-lined articles, podcasts, press releases, interviews &#8211; the sky is the limit.<\/p>\n<p>6) A best of industry plaque containing your award winning site will look great in your office.<\/p>\n<p>5) The WebAward logo on your site is like receiving the &#8220;Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval&#8221; for Web development.<\/p>\n<p>4) Your clients and customers will be impressed at your industry recognition and so will your potential clients.<\/p>\n<p>3) A link to webaward.org will help your site&#8217;s search engine rankings because you will be linked to an 12-year old .org authoritative site with a high Google PageRank.<\/p>\n<p>2) A Best of Industry award means you&#8217;re the best and you can prove it!<\/p>\n<p>1) If you don&#8217;t win, we won&#8217;t tell anyone &#8211; and you still get the feedback.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Recognition and feedback, that is what you will receive when you enter the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webaward.org\/?gad=CPuPmvMBEggsoBxCrziTDBi6nML_AyCf6OAS\">2008 WebAward Competition<\/a> for Website development. Winning accolades in the 2008 WebAwards &#8211; the Internet&#8217;s premier award recognition program, is a great way to stand out from others in your industry. You will also receive valuable feedback from our judges and benchmarks for your industry. But you won&#8217;t get anything if you don&#8217;t enter!<\/p>\n<p>The 12th Annual WebAward competition deadline for entry is May 31st, only a month away, and you can submit your site for review at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webaward.org\/?gad=CPuPmvMBEggsoBxCrziTDBi6nML_AyCf6OAS\">www.webaward.org<\/a>. Avoid a late fee by completing your Web site entries before the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the 2008 WebAwards today and receive the recognition you deserve!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only one month to go until the entrty deadline, we though we would give you our 10 reasons you should enter the Web Marketing Association&#8217;s 12th annual WebAward Competition for Website development. 10) If you wait until after the May 31st deadline, you&#8217;ll have to pay a late fee. 9) Your mom would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-webaward"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}