SunCity SEOcon was traditionally an underground Arizona SEO meetup that happened in the heat of the summer, during the day, to enjoy splashing around with cold beers, some good ole BBQ, and to pick the brains of local search marketing experts.  Year after year we had a blast.  This year, we opened it up to the public.

We’re keeping the theme similar, a good mix of fun in the sun / SEO conference / networking event.  It’s nothing like any other conferences.

Here’s a long winded analogy to kind of give you an idea of the way this thing will feel, as compared to the other known conferences.  SES is like a band playing a sold out stadium. PubCon is like a local band who hit the big time and come back to their home city’s biggest club. SMX is like a rave. Elite Retreat is like an intimate club with a bad ass band… SunCity SEOcon is like Snoop Dogg playing at MTV Beach Party.

I gotta say, I’m pretty excited about the whole thing.  The speakers are the real deal on this thing.  I mean, check out this allstar line up!

It’s going to be crazy.  Register now before it’s sold out!

The time has come to announced the winners for the 2008 SEO Superlatives. But before the announcement, I’d like to thank everybody who contributed. The SEO Superlatives Committee was awesome. All you crazy guys and gals who where socializing this, kick ass. Thanks so much for making this contest so much fun!

And without any further, here are your winners!

SEO Most Likely to Succeed
Danny Sullivan
SEO Conference Clown
Chris Hooley
In the running: Neil Patel
Best SEO Couple
Carolyn Shelby and Dave Rohrer
In the running: Greg and Barbara Boser
Best Dressed SEO
Brett Tabke
In the running: Kid Disco
SEO Party Animal
Chris Hooley
SEO’s Best Hairdo
Chris Winfield
SEO’s Biggest Flirt
Kimber Cook
In the running: Lisa Barone, Becky Ryan
Smartest SEO
Stephan Spencer
In the running: Aaron Wall,Bill Slawski
Most Athletic SEO
Cameron Olthuis
Best SEO Blogger
Lisa Barone
In the running: Loren Baker
Best Smile
Jane Copland
Best SEO Conference
Search Marketing Expo
In the running: PubCon
Best SEO Conference Speaker
Matt McGee
Best SEO You’ve Never Heard Of
Jeff Dempsey
In the running: Jon Heinl, Karl Ribas
Most Creative SEO
Lyndon Antcliff
Most Likely To Be Banned
Quadzilla
Biggest SEO Nerd
Aaron Wall
In the running: Neil Patel, Barry Schwartz,Bill Slawski
Best SEO Nickname/Handle
SexySEO
In the running: Captain Thundercock, FeedtheBot, the MadHat
Cutt’s Pet
Rand Fishkin
Best Technical SEO
Stephan Spencer
Top Linkbaiter
Andy Hagans (RIP!)
In the running (CLOSE RACE!): Lyndon Antcliff , Matt Inman
Best Up and Coming SEO
Eric Lander
In the running: Gab Goldenberg, Rhea Drysdale, Melanie Nathan
SEO Social Media Addict
Tamar Weinberg
In the running: Chris Winfield, Brent Csutoras
Biggest Google Fanboy
Ann Smarty
In the running: Brent D. Payne
Least Likely to Date Hooley
Jill Whalen
In the running: Greg Boser
Biggest PageRank
Matt Cutts
In the running: Bruce Clay
Most Fiery SEO
Michael Gray
In the running: Rae Hoffman
SEO Most Likely to Become President
Barry Schwartz
In the running: Danny Sullivan
Most Likely To Get Kicked Out Of The Bar
Chris Hooley
In the running: Rae Hoffman, Greg Boser
Most Likely To Close The Bar
Chris Hooley
In the running: Rae Hoffman, Patrick Sexton
The SEO You’d Be Most Afraid To Bring Home to Mom
Rae Hoffman
Most Feared in SEO
Matt Cutts
Mr / Ms Congeniality
Rand Fishkin
In the running: Vanessa Fox
Most Likely to Start an Argument
Michael Martinez
In the running: Michael Gray, Doug Heil
Most Likely to Win an Argument (even if they’re wrong!)
Rae Hoffman
Best Tweeter
Chris Winfield
In the running: Todd Friesen
Noisiest SEO
Chris Hooley
Most Traveled SEO
Danny Sullivan
Snarkiest SEO
Rebecca Kelley
Best SEO Ranter
Michael Gray
Most Networked SEO
Matt McGee
SEO Hater Award
Jason Calacanis
In the running: Jason Gambert
SEO’s Biggest Douchebag
Jason Gambert (forgettable SEO Trademark guy)

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The Results

The winners were chosen almost 100% from the unfiltered voting results, allowing SEOs to game the voting system to the best of their abilities. And game they did.

There were more polls that only voted for one single person than completed surveys. IN all, half the votes were spam. HALF. Numerous nominees, especially in the categories for unknown or up and coming SEOs had bots voting themselves up in an almost embarrasingly traceable way. Same IP from nominee’s city votes for self 100 times in an hour? yep. Lots of that. Rushes of voters from India, Russia, Malaysia, and Poland overnight? Some of that too.

Despite attempts at altering the vote, much like Google we also had manual review. And much like Google, the popular vote still overpowered the spam for the most part, so the committee’s job was pretty darn easy in that regard.

Below are the unfiltered results of the vote.

As you’ll see, the committe only chose one or two winners over the unfiltered voting results. And sorry Michael, but it’s hard to believe you’re more feared than Matt Cutts in the SEO world.

Report: SEO Superlatives Summary - Compiled 07/04/08

 

THANKS SO MUCH to all who participated! I owe a lotta people beers on this one. David made some AWESOME badges for all nominees and winners. Feel free to grab one, and proudly display it on your blog! Linking back is optional (srsly, I pinged Matt Cutts like 10x on this blog post) but if you do, you know I got nuttin but love for ya.

Next post up will be a more in depth analysis on how this whole thing went down. I thought some of the behind the scenes stuff was really interesting. I’ll also have a post for those who got shafted this time around. There were a bunch of people who would have been nominated that were not, and a bunch of categories that would have been fun. We’ll get them in next time. But for this year, we’ll call the next vote the "SEO Shafties!" - coming soon peeps :-)

The SEO Superlatives Team has reviewed nearly ONE THOUSAND polls, and your winners have been determined.  But, our work is not done yet.  Compilation of the master post is currently underway. This blog post is just a teaser!  Results will not be leaked, no matter HOW MUCH you hound us!!

We plan on posting the results along with the rest of the fireworks.  In the meantime, thank you so much for your participation!

OK folks, here’s your chance to cast your votes! The voting closes after the first 250 responses (or until the committee gets bored!) so choose your winners now! The SEO Superlatives Polls are officially open!

EDIT- we hit 250 responses in about an hour, so it’s opened up to 1000 responses. There’s STILL TIME to cast YOUR votes!

Please note- this page requires Firefox. Other browsers are really gonna hose this page.

SEO Most Likely to Succeed – Please Select – Danny Sullivan Rand Fishkin Barry Schwartz Aaron Wall Todd Friesen	SEO Conference Clown – Please Select – Chris Hooley Darren Slatten Gab Goldenberg, Neil Patel	Best SEO Couple – Please Select – Carolyn Shelby and Dave Rohrer Greg and Barbara Boser Chris Hooley and Anna Rule David & Irma Wallace Jeff Quipp & Jennifer Osborne	Best Dressed SEO – Please Select – Mikkel deMib Svendsen Kid Disco Brett Tabke Pamela Lund Pimp McFly
SEO Party Animal – Please Select – Chris Hooley Jon Heinl Frank Watson Rae Hoffman Todd Friesen Greg Boser Aaron Chronister David Harry Kid Disco Greg Hartnett	SEO’s Best Hairdo – Please Select – Chris Winfield Dana Todd Krazy Korean David Harry Greg Boser	SEO’s Biggest Flirt – Please Select – Becky Ryan Lisa Barone Patrick Sexton Lora Lufark Kimber Cook	Smartest SEO – Please Select – Aaron Wall Joe Sinkwitz Bill Slawski Rand Fishkin Stephan Spencer Brent D. Payne
Most Athletic SEO – Please Select – Cameron Olthuis Becky Ryan Kid Disco Barry Schwartz	Best SEO Blogger – Please Select – Lisa Barone Aaron Wall Rebecca Kelley Jane Copland Barry Schwartz Ann Smarty Bill Slawski Loren Baker	Best Smile – Please Select – Jane Copland Zak Nicola Greg Boser Becky Ryan Chris Winfield Danny Sullivan Lyndsay Walker	Most Creative SEO – Please Select – Lyndon Antcliff Jeremy Schoemaker Aaron Wall Michael Gray Michael Campbell
Best SEO Conference – Please Select – PubCon SMX SES	Best SEO Conference Speaker – Please Select – Greg Boser Rand Fishkin Neil Patel Jeremy Schoemaker Todd Friesen Stephan Spencer Matt Mcgee	Best SEO You’ve Never Heard Of – Please Select – Jon Heinl Jeff Dempsey Kay Dinsdale Adam Moro Clint Danks Leslie Rohde Justin Boeckman Lyndsay Walker Karl Ribas Michael Streko Melanie Phung	Most Likely To Be Banned – Please Select – Dave Naylor Earl Gray Quadzilla Irish Wonder Slightly Shady SEO
Biggest SEO Nerd – Please Select – Bill Slawski Neil Patel Dan Thies Aaron Wall Tim Nash Adam Moro Barry Schwartz	Best SEO Nickname/Handle – Please Select – SexySEO Captain Thundercock Feedthebot the MadHat SEO Idiot Seocracy OldSchoolSEO SearchBuzz	Cutt’s Pet – Please Select – Danny Sullivan Shari Thurow Rand Fishkin Melanie Nathan Audrey Sieberling Lyndsay Walker	Best Technical SEO – Please Select – Joe Sinkwytz Aaron Wall Bill Slawski Hamlet Batista Stephan Spencer Dan Thies
Top Linkbaiter – Please Select – Matthew Inman Lyndon Antcliff Andy Hagans (RIP!) Neil Patel Rand Fishkin Todd Malicoat Debra Mastaler	Best Up and Coming SEO – Please Select – Jon Heinl Rhea Drysdale Eric Lander Doug Heil Jeffrey Smith Darren Slatten Melanie Nathan Melanie Phung Gab Goldenberg	SEO Social Media Addict – Please Select – Brent Cstustoras Tamar Weinberg Martin Bowling Tad Chef Chris Winfield Lee Odden Zak Nicola Barry Schwartz	Biggest Google Fanboy – Please Select – Alex Chitu Ann Smarty Brent D Payne
Least Likely to Date Hooley – Please Select – Greg Boser Dave Naylor Jill Whalen Stoney DeGeytor Matt Cutts	Biggest PageRank – Please Select – Matt Cutts Aaron Wall Bruce Clay Danny Sullivan	Most Fiery SEO – Please Select – Rae Hoffman Michael Gray David Harry Aaron Chronister Michael Martinez	SEO Most Likely to Become President – Please Select – Danny Sullivan Jason Calacanis Barry Schwartz Rand Fishkin Andy Beal
Most Likely To Get Kicked Out Of The Bar – Please Select – Chris Hooley Dave Naylor Aaron Chronister David Harry Earl Gray Rae Hoffman Greg Boser	Most Likely To Close The Bar – Please Select – Chris Hooley Patrick Sexton Jon Heinl Rae Hoffman Aaron Chronister Kid Disco Melanie Nathan	The SEO You’d Be Most Afraid To Bring Home to Mom – Please Select – Dave Naylor Earl Gray Chris Hooley Greg Boser Michael Martinez Rae Hoffman David Harry	Most Feared in SEO – Please Select – Matt Cutts Rae Hoffman Dave Naylor Greg Boser Michael Gray Lora Lufark
Mr / Ms Congeniality – Please Select – Dazzlin Donna Rand Fishkin Vanessa Fox Chris Sherman Barry Schwartz	Most Likely to Start an Argument – Please Select – Doug Heil Darren Slatten Dave Naylor Brian Turner Rae Hoffman Michael Gray Jill Whalen Michael Martinez	Most Likely to Win an Argument (even if they’re wrong!) – Please Select – Jill Whalen Dazzlin Donna Li Evans Rae Hoffman Rand Fishkin Shari Thurow	Best Tweeter – Please Select – Chris Winfield Todd Friesen Lee Odden Melanie Nathan
Noisiest SEO – Please Select – Darren Slatten Chris Hooley Brent D. Payne	Snarkiest SEO – Please Select – Rebecca Kelley Lisa Barone Jane Copland Brent D. Payne Sean Maguire	Most Traveled SEO – Please Select –