How to Enter - Website of the Year Award 2010

Entrants have from 1 June until 19 September to nominate a site (which can be their own). A shortlist will be released on 4 October and the winning site will be announced at the 2010 Awards Reception in London during Global Entrepreneurship Week (15-19th November 2010).

Sites will be judged on the following criteria:

•Design
•Originality
•Content
•Interactivity
•Ease of Use
•Social Media Strategy (this isn’t a prerequisite for entry)

ENTER OR NOMINATE A SITE HERE

The Judges - Website of the Year Award 2010

There will only be one winner of our Website of the Year Award 2010. The winner will be picked by Arabella Dymoke, MD of The Good Web Guide and a panel of four qualified judges:

Sophie Cornish. Sophie is co-founder of Notonthehighstreet.com, a multi-award winning online shopping site, which supports over 1,500 small businesses. Launched in 2006, it now turns over excesses of £6.5 million a year.



Sarah Beeny. Sarah is founder of private property website, Tepilo.com and dating site mysinglefriend.com. A presenter for Channel 4’s Property Ladder, she has written several bestselling books on property and dating and is a regular writer for the national press


Mark Glynne-Jones. Mark founded the Jump To consultancy in 1994, after a career working with a number of the UK’s leading marketing and design consultancies, and clients such as Toyota, Panasonic and Heineken International, along with respected food brands Tyrrells and New Covent Garden Foods.


Jamie Murray-Wells. Jamie founded GlassesDirect.co.uk, the largest online prescription glasses store, while still at university. His new venture aims to halve the cost of hearing aids via his groundbreaking online test and buy website hearingdirect.com

TO ENTER OR NOMINATE A SITE IN THIS YEAR'S AWARDS click here.

The Prizes - Website of the Year 2010

There will only be one winner of The Good Web Guide's Website of
the Year Award 2010. If that's your site, you will win a number of fantastic prizes including:

£1000 cash to spend on the business and £500 of advertising on thegoodwebguide.co.uk to be taken before August 2011.

A one-day photo shoot with Tim James from The Gray Gallery (£1,500).

A full SEO audit and follow up consultation with SEOptimise (£750).


Two hours free singing for 8 people at any Lucky Voice venue (£180).

ENTER OR NOMINATE A SITE HERE

Website of the Year Award 2010 launches

The Good Web Guide is now taking entries for its second Website of the Year Award, aimed at small businesses and organisations. The awards provide an excellent way for online enterprises to gain recognition.

Simon Nixon, founder of last year's winning site, Simonseeks.com said

"It was a great honour to be recognised as Website of the Year in The Good Web Guide Awards last year, especially as we have only been going for just over four months. It was a real boost to the team, both in the office and our community of writers, who all work incredibly hard to make simonseeks.com a success."

There will be only one winning site, picked by a team of qualified judges according to set criteria.

Could YOUR WEBSITE be our Website of the Year 2010? Enter the competition and find out more here.

The GWG Website of the Year 09 is SimonSeeks.com

Simonseeks.com was picked as The Good Web Guide's Website of the Year 2009. The new concept travel site launched in June 2009 and now attracts over 2000 unique visitors per day, with numbers growing. Founder Simon Nixon talks us through the business.

Explain your business

Simonseeks is a new concept in travel websites, combining quality user generated content, in the form of detailed travel guides of approximately 800 words, and expert moneysaving tips with a comprehensive choice of booking options. Often described as the YouTube of travel, the site now features over 2000 guides written by celebrities, professionals and amateurs alike who share their favourite destinations and insider tips with the community.

What makes Simonseeks.com unique?

We are unique as we are the only user generated content website to share revenue equally and directly with our writers. This will encourage our writers to take an active interest in the quality and detail of the guides they write for us. This enables us to offer our visitors the very best travel guides free of charge, combined with expert consumer travel advice, moneysaving tips and booking options.

How do you make money?

The revenue comes from commission generated by people reading the guides, clicking through to travel partners’ websites and making a booking. Display advertising revenue is also generated. All the revenue from each guide is shared equally between the writers and Simonseeks.com and each author has a Simonseeks Paypal account and the revenue is generated is paid directly into this.

How much can contributors earn?

The amount will vary depending on the standard of accommodation booked, for example, and the length of stay. The more informative, interesting and easy-to-read a particular guide is, the higher its rating will be and the more income it will generate for the author. A guide is also more likely to attract readers if it looks appealing and has photographs to illustrate it.

To read the full interview with Simon Nixon, click here

Website of the Year 09 - Winner Announced!

The Good Web Guide's first Website of the Year Award attracted over a thousand entries.

A shortlist of 25 sites was chosen and sent to judges including Emma Jones, founder of Enterprisenation.com, Sháá Wasmund, founder of Smarta.com, Liane Dietrich, MD of Linkshare.co.uk; Yanique Francis-Lalin, senior web analyst at Twenga.com, Nick Wills, founder of Beatsdigital.com and MD of Thegoodwebguide.co.uk, Arabella Dymoke.

The standard of the shortlist was very high and judges found it hard choosing a winner. In the end, Simonseeks.com, the new concept travel website which combines user generated content with expert moneysaving tips and a comprehensive choice of booking options was picked as the overall winner.

An awards lunch was held at Quo Vadis, Soho where Nick Trend, the editor of SimonSeeks, received a cheque for £1,000 and a selection of other fantastic prizes.

Judge Yanique Francis-Yalin (Twenga) said of SimonSeeks, 'I especially like the way the user content is organised and that there are standards to ensure good quality content.' Meanwhile, Nick Wills commented, 'It's solid, executed well and could go a long way.'

Nick Trend spoke on behalf of the team at SimonSeeks when he accepted the award saying, 'Everyone in the office is delighted and it is a huge boost to our confidence after many months of hard work!'

Runners Up in The Good Web Guide Website of the Year Award 2009 included: Songkick.com, which tracks artists, venues and festivals to ensure you never miss another gig; Findinvestgrow.com, which works with and supports young entrepreneurs; and Shiply.com, which helps visitors to find cheap courier services already making trips across the UK and Europe.

A big thanks to all those who entered the awards. Please do watch out for our Website of the Year Award 2010 - launching soon!

Website of the Year Shortlist Announced!

The Good Web Guide Website of the Year Award 2009 was geared towards small businesses and non-profit organisations. Over 1000 nominations were received. There was a high standard overall. One excellent site, YoungDebaters.com was submitted by Edward McGovern with the plea, ‘I am 13 and need to take the website further, but don’t have the money to do so.’

The sites ranged across a number of interests from forums and social networks, entertainment, travel, retail, information, property, services, food, parenting and gardening. The following sites have been shortlisted and all have something unique to offer, whether it’s an interesting concept, useful information or plain fun. The winning site will be announced online no later than 6th November 09.

To view the full shortlist, click here.