The 2018 Search Engine Land Awards Shortlist

Here it’s miles – undoubtedly one of many most widely anticipated announcements within the hunt trade!

This year’s opponents used to be undoubtedly one of many largest but, with the addition of several new courses to thought a noteworthy broader swath of the trade’s best work. Our panel of judges and Clutch.co, our partner in evaluating Agency of the Year honors had the enormous job of pouring over hundreds of info points, in-depth advertising and marketing and marketing campaign case experiences, revolutionary ideas and tactics, client references, thought-leadership pieces and be taught experiences submitted from in each place in the enviornment.

Year after year, the submissions from in each place in the enviornment proceed to provoke and elevate the bar — it’s miles actually an honor to relish earned a nomination amongst this pleasant enviornment of applicants.

Congratulations to all of the individuals, companies and internal impress teams that had been named to this year’s shortlist of finalists.

GRAND PRIX AWARDS

BEST OVERALL SEARCH MARKETING INITIATIVE — SEO & SEM

• Blue Wheel Media for Monark Dwelling
• LYONSCG for Pharmaca
• Milestone Inc. for The Don Cesar Resort
• Reprise for TIAA
• Route Interactive for Orthology

BEST INTEGRATION OF SEARCH INTO CROSS-CHANNEL MARKETING

• Aid Azimuth for Absolut
• DAC Neighborhood for TaxSlayer
• Precis Digital for HBO Nordic
• Wolfgang Digital for DID Electrical
• Wolfgang Digital for Tesco Ireland

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SEO & SEM CAMPAIGN AWARDS

BEST OVERALL SEO INITIATIVE — SMALL BUSINESS

• Infront WebWorks for Del-Immune V
• Dwelling Online for HotCopper
• Milestone Inc. for Horseshoe Bay Resort
• Rocket Agency for Jamesons Strata Management
• SUSO Digital (client title withheld)

BEST OVERALL SEM INITIATIVE — SMALL BUSINESS

• AIS Media for Artisan Custom Closets
• Croud for BRD
• Docklin Digital for Skargards Sizzling Tubs
• Foster Ideas for NFHS Community
• TriMark Digital for Window World of Houston

BEST OVERALL SEO INITIATIVE — ENTERPRISE

• AARP
• Dreamscape Marketing and marketing for Beaches Recovery
• Ignite Visibility for WeddingWire
• MilliporeSigma
• Route Interactive for Buoy

BEST OVERALL SEM INITIATIVE — ENTERPRISE

• DAC Neighborhood for Bridgestone
• PMX Agency for Fingerhut
• Precis Digital for Cellbes
• Upward thrust Interactive for Follett Better Training Neighborhood
• Precis Digital for PriceRunner

BEST B2C SEM INITIATIVE – ENTERPRISE

• Adobe Methods
• iProspect for St-Hubert Rotisseries
• Nina Hale for TRX Coaching
• Precis Digital for Cellbes
• Wolfgang Digital for iClothing

BEST ENTERPRISE SEM INITIATIVE – TRAVEL & LIFESTYLE

• Acronym for Accor Luxury Accommodations
• Acronym (client title withheld)
• Catalyst for Tauck
• Mediahub for JetBlue
• Merkle for CityPass

BEST RETAIL SEARCH MARKETING INITIATIVE — SEM

• Precis Digital for Cellbes
• Upward thrust Interactive for Follett Better Training
• Wolfgang Digital for DID Electrical
• Wolfgang Digital for iClothing
• Wolfgang Digital for Littlewoods Ireland

BEST RETAIL SEARCH MARKETING INITIATIVE — SEO

• Nebo Agency for Buy-Rite Beauty
• The SEO Works for MexGrocer
• SingleInterface for Pizza Hut
• SingleInterface for Ford’s Digital Pressure
• Wolfgang Digital for Arctic Adventures

BEST LOCAL SEARCH MARKETING INITIATIVE — SEM

• AIS Media for Artisan Custom Closets
• Elite SEM for ShopKo
• iProspect for St-Hubert Rotisseries
• Jellyfish (client title withheld)
• TENSHI Marketing for Local Animated

BEST LOCAL SEARCH MARKETING INITIATIVE — SEO

• Brandmuscle for Flee
• Infront Webworks for Garden of the Gods Self Storage
• Top Scheme for JiffyLube Canada
• SingleInterface for HDFC Monetary institution
• Route Interactive (client title withheld)

BEST MOBILE SEARCH MARKETING INITIATIVE — SEO

• Aid Azimuth for Absolut Drinks
• Route Interactive for Buoy
• Acronym for Scott’s Miracle-Gro
• Edelman for the Florida Department of Citrus
• Wpromote for Cabot Creamery

BEST B2B SEARCH MARKETING INITIATIVE – SEM

• Caterpillar
• Hanapin (client title withheld)
• LSEO for Christie’s Areas
• Mediative (client title withheld)
• MilliporeSigma

BEST B2B SEARCH MARKETING INITIATIVE – SEO

• AIS Media for Thrive Thinking
• Croud for Insureon
• MilliporeSigma
• Stone Temple Consulting for Arrow Electronics
• Wpromote for 1-800Accountant

BEST SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING INITIATIVE

• FSC Interactive for University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC) College of Nursing and Successfully being Research
• Nebo for FLOR
• Qiigo for Soccer Pictures
• TriMark Digital for KOHLER®Stroll-In Bath
• Wolfgang Digital for Tesco Ireland

TEAM & INDIVIDUAL AWARDS

BEST RESEARCH INITIATIVE – AGENCY OR INDIVIDUAL

• 360i – Enlighten Search Visual show unit
• Catalyst – The Age of Amazon: Working out the Search Marketing and marketing Replacement
• Stone Temple Consulting – Survey Tests the Smarts of Top Digital Private Assistants

BEST RESEARCH INITIATIVE – SOFTWARE TOOLS & PLATFORMS

• Acquiso – Unlocking New SEM Performance Requirements with Acquisio Turing™ Machine Learning
• AdStage – AdStage Benchmarks: Google AdWords Bills Tumble in 2017
• Adthena – Adthena analyzes 40 million ads from over 260,000 advertisers for Google Shopping insights

SEARCH MARKETER OF THE YEAR — FEMALE

• Sarah Dryden from Route Interactive
• Carolyn Lyden from Name Rail
• Heidi Smith from Marketing and marketing Mojo
• Stephanie Wallace from Nebo Agency
• Farah Sadiq from Acronym

SEARCH MARKETER OF THE YEAR — MALE

• Ilya Cherepakhin from Acronym
• Raymond Deschenes from AARP
• Chris D’Onofrio from Mediacom
• Kole Ogundipe from Croud
• Simon Poulton from Wpromote

IN-HOUSE TEAM OF THE YEAR

• Clearlink
• HomeToGo GmbH
• MilliporeSigma

BOUTIQUE AGENCY OF THE YEAR — SEM

• Docklin Digital
• FSC Interactive
• SS Digital Media

BOUTIQUE AGENCY OF THE YEAR — SEO

• Digital 1/Three Cruise
• Kubix Digital
• Victorious

LARGE AGENCY OF THE YEAR — SEM

• Acronym
• Elite SEM
• Northern Commerce
• Precis Digital
• Upward thrust Interactive

LARGE AGENCY OF THE YEAR — SEO

• 1SEO
• Dreamscape Marketing and marketing
• Stone Temple Consulting
• Wolfgang Digital
• Ladies’s Marketing and marketing

The winners shall be launched throughout the awards ceremony and afterparty taking situation during this year’s SMX Developed convention, on June twelfth at MoPOP in Seattle. All SMX attendees are invited to again and take fragment within the hunt community celebration of the year. This year’s awards occasion will celebrate all of the community’s SEO rockstars and SEM superheroes in attendance – it’s an occasion you gained’t are searching to transfer away out!

The 2018 Search Engine Land Awards program is subsidized by Google, Bing and Marin Application.

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