Posting may be light from hereon. It’s the time of year when we look back, relax, and enjoy each other’s company. Happy Holidays everyone!

Originally posted on December 23, 2007 @ 9:52 pm

Performancing is about encouraging bloggers to make good blogs. And this year, Performancing is going to recognize the best blogs in the business with the first annual Performancing Blog Awards.

Starting today, you can nominate your favorite blogs or bloggers in each category. You can even nominate yourself or your own blog.

Each category will have a single winner, two runners up, and possibly some honorable mentions. Our goal is to highlight the very best that the blogosphere has to offer, and we appreciate any tips/help that the Performancing community can provide to help us make our decisions:

Official Categories For The 2007 Performancing Blog Awards:

The Best Overall Blog
The Most Influential Blogger
The Best Blog Design
The Best Blog Typography
The Best Blog Name
The Best New Blog
The Best Blog Community
The Most Improved Blog of 2007
The Best Blogs You’ve Never Heard Of
The Best Blog Podcast
The Best Use of a Corporate Blog
The Best Video Blog
The Best Writing/Blogging Blog
The Best Science/Technology Blog
The Most Controversial Blog
The Best SEO Blog
The Best Celeb/Style Blog
The Best Business/Money Blogs
The Best Photo Blog
The Best Sports Blog
The Best Blog WebHost
The Best Family and Parenting Blog
The Best Political Blog
The Best Food/Health Blog
The Funniest Blog
The Best Travel Blog
The Best Education Blog

Originally posted on December 18, 2007 @ 12:24 pm

ZDNet reports that Marc Orchant passed away today after a massive heart attack a few days ago. Oliver Starr of BlogNation has more information. Our deepest sympathy to the family and close friends of Marc Orchant.

Originally posted on December 10, 2007 @ 12:07 am

We are pleased to inform you that 901am is a partner blog of Mashable’s Open Web Awards. As a partner, 901am will accept nominations for the different categories. Here’s a rundown of the categories that we’re covering:

[Update: Open Web Awards is now open for voting. Simply click on the link]

• Mainstream and Large Scale Networks
• Applications and Widgets
• Social News and Social Bookmarking
• Social Search
• Sports and Fitness Site
• Photo Sharing
• Video Sharing
• Events Site
• Music Site
• Social Shopping Site
• Mobile
• Niche and Social Networks

To nominate, simply leave a comment on this post, with your nomination and its category. We will update you more about the Open Web Awards in the coming days. In the meantime, post your nominees in the comment section.

Originally posted on November 27, 2007 @ 4:08 pm

Time and again, we receive emails asking if we can put up a link back to their sites in exchange for a fee.

Some bloggers would refer to them as link whores. A link whore is one who solicits links to his blog regularly or seems/is desperate to receive links to his blog.

A link whore does not only entail paying for the link. Here are other symptoms that you are a link whore according to a prominent link building expert:

• Do you have social bookmark accounts just to post client’s URLs?

• Have you ever commented on a blog post just because you wanted to leave a URL behind with it?

• Have you bought one-way links from sites that have nothing to do with your site but do have a high pagerank?

• Have you used trackbacks just for the link?

• Do you have a reciprocal links page that you only created so the engines might give you credit for it?

• Have you gone back to existing links and changed the anchor text just to look nice for the bots?

• Do you send out press releases every week about absolutely nothing just so you can fill them with so many deep links they look like site maps?

Managing 901am entails putting up compelling content every day and making sure that we continue to attract sponsors. Accepting fees in exchange for a link is not an option yet, and may never be. If you have a compelling site, we will find you. Otherwise, no matter what sleazy link-whoring tactics you undertake, we have to pass on you.

Originally posted on November 8, 2007 @ 11:11 am