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Website of the Year 09

2009 marked the first year of our Website of the Year Awards, aimed at small businesses and organisations. There was only one winning site, picked by a team of qualified judges according to set criteria.

WINNER ANNOUNCED

Prizes
The winner received:
£1,000 to spend on their website plus an advertising campaign on thegoodwebguide.co.uk during 2010 worth £500. www.thegoodwebguide.co.uk
A press release prepared by Kenyon Communications on the subject of their choosing, with full media distribution, worth £500. www.kenyon-communications.com
A full SEO audit and follow up consultation with SEOptimise, worth £750. www.seoptimise.com
A Vistaprint Custom Business Kit to help build their brand and market their business like a pro, worth £178. www.vistaprint.co.uk
Professionally taken portraits of the website founder(s) and/or team worth £350, by award-winning photographer Dave Watts. www.wattsdave.com

The Judges

The winner was picked by Arabella Dymoke, MD of The Good Web Guide and a panel of five qualified judges:
	Emma Jones. Emma is founder of Enterprise Nation, the UK’s largest website for people starting and growing a business from home and advises government on the topic. www.enterprisenation.com
	Yanique Francis-Lalin. Yanique is senior web analyst at Twenga.com, the leading, new generation shopping search engine, and responsible for analysing web content across the UK and US. www.twenga.co.uk
	Nick Wills. Nick is founder of Beatsdigital, the leading music upload site for the Dance Music industry - www.beatsdigital.com. Nick has been part of the GWG team since its foundation. His sister company, NetInitiative, provides all the technical infrastructure behind the The Good Web Guide.
	Liane Dietrich. Liane is Managing Director of Linkshare.co.uk, the leading provider of full service online marketing solutions. www.linkshare.co.uk
	Sháá Wasmund. Sháá is founder of Smarta.com, the innovative business platform that provides help and advice to entrepreneurs and business owners. www.smarta.com

Judging

Websites were judged on the following five criteria:

Design

Originality

Content

Interactivity

Ease of use

The winner of The GWG Website of the Year Award 2009 was new concept travel site Simonseeks.com. To find out more, click here. View the full shortlist here.

Contact

Emily Jenkinson or Arabella Dymoke at award@thegoodwebguide.co.uk for more information. Tel: 020 7402 6412 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 020 7402 6412 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 020 7402 6412 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

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