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title: "2026 Search Engine Land Awards: Celebrating Excellence in Search Marketing"
url: https://adtech.lol/articles/6e5a453a-01a1-4873-a2ff-0f05ee2abb67
source_url: https://searchengineland.com/search-engine-land-awards-2026-and-the-winners-are-498526/
source_site: searchengineland
author: "Danny Goodwin"
published: 2026-10-10T00:00:00+00:00
tags: ["Search Marketing", "PPC", "SEO", "Awards", "2026"]
publisher: AdTech Radar
---

# 2026 Search Engine Land Awards: Celebrating Excellence in Search Marketing

> Every year, Search Engine Land delights in recognizing outstanding agencies, in-house teams, and individuals in search marketing through the Search Engine Land Awards. Today, we announce the 18 winners of the 12th annual ceremony.

## The 2026 Search Engine Land Awards winners

### Best Use Of AI Technology In Search Marketing

- How **Outshine**‘s custom MCP and supporting paid search intelligence layer helped **Airbyte** see 2.4x improvement in ROAS

### Best Overall PPC Initiative – Small Business

- **ATRA** & **Medical Monks**: Profit-Led Paid Media Strategy

### Best Overall PPC Initiative – Enterprise

- **Blackbird PPC** & **Millboard**: 719% Pipeline Increase on a 30% Smaller Budget

### Best Commerce Search Marketing Initiative – PPC

- How **Eight Oh Two** Engineered a $10.5M Customer Growth Program for **Pure Hockey**

### Best Local Search Marketing Initiative – PPC

- Closer to Convert: How **Belron Canada** Turned Proximity Into Performance Through Local Search (**Adviso**)

### Best B2B Search Marketing Initiative – PPC

- **Pearmill** & **Vori**: Replacing Maximize Clicks With a Five-Stage Value Ladder to Triple Demo Bookings at 27% Lower Cost, and Unlock 4.6x Spend Growth

### Best Integration Of Search Into Omnichannel Marketing

- Seven Months to a 14x: How **Stella Rising** Proved Video Drives Search for **L’Occitane**, Then Built a Campaign on the Proof

### Best Overall SEO Initiative – Small Business

- **Digital Hitmen** & **Jaram Australia**: Engineering a 958% Revenue Growth Through Search

### Best Overall SEO Initiative – Enterprise

- How **Reflect Digital** drove an estimated $10M and an ROI of 7,146% for **Nord Anglia**

### Best Commerce Search Marketing Initiative – SEO

- 74% of New Clicks Non-Brand, Organic Revenue Up 69.3%: How **Searchbloom** Rebuilt **MJ Arsenal**‘s Collection Pages at 679% ROI

### Best Local Search Marketing Initiative – SEO

- How **Digital Hitmen** Helped **For Eyes Optometrist** Outfocus and Outrank National Optometry Chains

### Best B2B Search Marketing Initiative – SEO

- How a Thai SME Use Twin Domains to Outrank National Retail Chains (**ANGA Bangkok** & **Alusite**)

### Agency Of The Year – PPC

- How **ADSQUIRE** Delivered A 8,000% ROI For Their Client In One Month

### Agency Of The Year – SEO

- Proving the ROI of SEO. (**NP Digital** & **US Claims**)

### In-House Team Of The Year – SEO

- **UPMC** Search Optimization Team: Driving Enterprise SEO Transformation at Scale

### Search Marketer Of The Year

- **Nicolas Villeneuve**: From $173:1 ROAS to +345% Revenue: The Agentic Search System Behind Quebec’s Biggest Brands

### Small Agency Of The Year – PPC

- **Blackbird PPC**: Driving Quantifiable Business Growth Through Advanced Signal Incorporation and Rigorous Management, Testing, and Analysis

### Small Agency Of The Year – SEO

- How **Aloha Life Digital** drove a 220% revenue increase and 13x ROI for **Sommet Nannies** via search

## “I’m going to SMX Next!”

Select winners of the 2026 Search Engine Land Awards will be invited to speak live at **SMX Next** during our two ask-me-anything-style sessions. Bring your burning SEO and PPC questions to ask this award-winning panel of search marketers!

Congrats again to all the winners. And huge thank-yous to everyone who entered the 2026 Search Engine Land Awards, the finalists, and our fantastic panel of judges.

Source: [https://searchengineland.com/search-engine-land-awards-2026-and-the-winners-are-498526/](https://searchengineland.com/search-engine-land-awards-2026-and-the-winners-are-498526/)