How Important are "Awards"

I know we can make them up!

[SuzyUK]

How Important do you thing website awards really are?

I know that you can virtually display anything on a site...but they wouldn't exist if it were altogether not important would it?

Interested to know is all

Suzy

[kevinpate]

I'm not expert, not by a long shot, but the majority of 'web awards' I stumble across while surfing seem to
prettymuch fall into the cubbyhole of

You get a lil' graphic for your site, but wait,
there's more! I also get an incoming link to
my site from your site. It's almost Jeff Foxworthy
type of advertising, i.e. 'here's your sign'

Kevin outta Norman, America
No awards, no sense of loss or shame either

[Go60Guy]

The only awards I'm interested in show up in my mailbox. I take those to the bank.

[Nick_W]

Who cares?

It's only us lot that even know they exist... ;)

Nick

[Eric_Jarvis]

we've had a few...the sponsors love it...I don't display them on the site though...no point...Cool Site of the Day brough one hell of a traffic peak though and still brings a fair amount in 9 months on

[dismaldonkey]

The very first website I designed (what a load of tosh that was!) won a "silver webmaster award", great! I got a little award banner to put on the site (linking back to them, obviously)and was then offered the chance to buy a certificate of the award for $19.99.

I didn't bother.