And the winners are ...

Best Blog Winner

Edenland
www.edenriley.com

Commentary

Feeding the Chooks
www.feedingthechooks.com

Parenting

Caro & Co
www.caroandco.com.au

Business

The Story of Telling
www.thestoryoftelling.com/blog

Words

ANZ LitLovers LitBlog
www.anzlitlovers.com

Personal

Edenland
www.edenriley.com

People's Choice

TV Tonight
www.tvtonight.com.au

Special awards

Ben Pobjie's Wonderful World Of Objects
Ben Pobjie

The Failed Estate
Mr Denmore

Judging Your Breakfast
Anna Spargo-Ryan

Alive and Blogging
Alexandra Virgo

The Sydney Writers' Centre is pleased to announce the Winners in the Best Australian Blogs 2012 Competition.
Full details here.

1024 blogs entered this year's competition, and over 940 blogs battled in the People's Choice round.

The Best Australian Blogs Competition is one of Australia's leading blog competitions, open to any Australian blogger with blogs of any size, on any topic, with any level of popularity.

The Best Australian Blogs 2012 Competition is now closed but will return in 2013. If you'd like to stay up to date with the competition and be notified when we return in 2013, please complete the webform below.

The categories for 2012 are:

In 2012, there are five categories you can enter. The categories were created so that your blog is compared with blogs that have similar objectives and resources to yours.

Business

Best Australian Blogs 2011 winner
Styling You's Nikki Parkinson

Words and Writing
Personal/Lifestyle
Parenting
Commentary

There is also a People's Choice Award round open to blogs entered in any category.

This year we've added four special awards to recognise outstanding posts and newer blogs. The special awards are:

Funniest post
Outstanding advocacy post
Best new blog (for a blog under 6 months old)
Best young blogger (for a blog written by a blogger under 26)

For more information on the categories and the special awards, click here.

The official Twitter hashtag for the 2012 competition is #bestblogs2012. You can follow the Sydney Writers' Centre at @SydneyWriters for the Best Australian Blogs Competition announcements.

Show off your success on your blog

Wondering what criteria your blog will be judged on?

70% Quality of writing
We'll be looking at the ease of reading, clarity of expression, relevance, and the quality of topics and observations. Yes, we will be mainly focusing on your writing – we are the Sydney Writers' Centre after all.

20% Presentation and usability
This includes the attractiveness of your blog, ease of navigation and usability, effective linking to other blogs and resources.

10% Engagement and social media integration
We'll look at the conversations in the comment section, guest bloggers, and the use of social media to promote your blog. For example the use of Facebook/Twitter/Linkedin.

Key dates 2012

Competition launches: Thursday 15 March 2012
Competition closes: Friday 13 April 2012
People's Choice Award voting launches: Friday 13 April 2012
Finalists announced: Thursday 26 April 2012
Winners announced: Thursday 10 May 2012

Contact details

Sydney Writers' Centre in Milsons Point
Competition coordinator
Rose Powell: rose@spindriftmedia.com.au