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The Blogger’s Choice Awards was a success for its creator. It was a small ego boost for the winners. I nominated myself for a handful of categories hoping that it would attract a few readers. I didn’t get very many votes.

A big part of the success of the site is owed to the celebrity bloggers that took notice.

There was a fraught competition between supporters of Rosie O’Donnell and Will Wheaton. Will was initially flattered, but he became very critical of the site when he found out that it was affiliated with PayPurrPost. Rosie was more positive about the nomination and expressed the desire to win. Rosie has her detractors as well as her supporters and her page on the BCA site has over 8000 comments. Rosie won.

A very bad man initially had a huge lead in the Worst Blog of All Time category. When he tipped everyone off to the fact that he was happy about all the attention and traffic, things tailed off for him. Unfortunately for him all the attention was ultimately bad for business because his more questionable practices came under the scrutiny of people that were in a position to dam up some of his revenue streams. In the end Perez Hilton was proclaimed the worst. I think that is inaccurate, he is simply the most popular bad blogger.

The BCA’s were not a good traffic generation tool for the everyday blogger, in my opinion. If you were one of the few that got in before the unmoderated nominee lists became huge, you may have gotten a few clicks from people who were not already familiar with your blog. I did not see any sustained traffic benefit from participating in this silly exercise in self promotion and ego fluffing.

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