For those of you who wish to increase traffic, both winning and presenting awards bring great benefits to your web site and can increase site traffic dramatically. There is a great resource called the DVWorksheet at http://websiteawards.xe.net/ that lists - and links to - over 800 award sites worldwide! That'll keep you busy for awhile. Why is this such a popular thing to do?

Most awards require links back to their site when they reward you with that award. Some award sites require verification and provide certification numbers. All of that linking increases the search engine relevancy and popularity of the award site. But the award site most often links back to all the sites they have honored as well and this does the winner even more good.

The high traffic award sites often send more traffic to their awardees and thus increase applications at those sites listed and linked as winners. This never ending spiral of linking and awarding is the driving force behind much of that activity. It is another traffic generator for all awarding and all winning sites. Some awards are created just for this reason and are quite often meaningless as awards because they are given to all comers.

WebSite101 believes in and supports only quality awards and offers our A+ Award to only the sites that meet our listed criteria. We apply only to those sites that we believe offer the best awards that are meaningful to display. That's the reason we proudly display the Surfers Choice Best of the Web Award on our front page. We encourage others to apply by hosting the Surfers Choice Directory submission page at http://www.website101.com/scdmv07.html . If you get listed
in the directory, apply for the award. It's a good one.

If you are interested in the WebSite101 A+ Award for small business self designed websites, visit our application page at http://www.website101.com/Award.html and see if you can qualify for what we hope will become a highly coveted award among small business webmasters. We do require a link back to WebSite101, but we link to you as well. Good luck!