The Maestro Awards Program - FAQ / Additional Info about this award

Awards Program: FAQ / Additional Info

Frequent asked questions and additional information about reviews and re-application.

Evaluated your site?

Be the judge of your own site using our criteria and interactive scoring sheet and start evaluating! To acquire a Master Award any score above 350 points will get you close
Start the Self Test

Read the criteria pages?

It is required to read at least the minimum criteria as specified on the pre-evaluation page.

Remaining criteria pages are point by point evaluation criteria. If you want to increase your chances of winning, we suggest reading the section criteria pages

Visited our winners?

Our winners are excellent examples of the standard we maintain. By visiting our award winners, you can estimate your chances of winning this award.
Visit our winners

Yours for applying:

Complete the application form and find out how to earn this nominee badge!

Your application status may still be pending! Please read this information:

How long does it take / Turn Around Time

Approximately 5 to 8 weeks, depending your application date. Since the day we receive your application until we announce the winners in your "application group"

What Score do I need to get an award?

Your site has to make it through 2 round:

The first round (pre-evaluation) contains the basic rules of application and qualifying criteria. You need a score of 10 of a possible 10 points to qualify for the next stage - no exceptions are made!
If you passed the first round, your site will be evaluated on 5 sections (Evaluation Criteria). You must achieve a minimum of 15 points per section, and a final site score of 80 points or more.

Who will be notified?

In general we only contact successful applicants. Due to the scale and popularity of this program, it is impossible to contact everyone who has applied for this award. In some cases we may notify you directly if your application was rejected, or if there was a problem with your application.

If you did not hear from us after 10 weeks since your application date, you can accept that your website was not selected for this award.

When can I apply again?

We only accept ONE application per website (domain)* per year to give many webmasters the opportunity to apply for this award.

This means you have to wait 365 days from your original submission date. This should allow you the opportunity to improve on your website if you have missed out on the first attempt. We will never discredit you for failing your first evaluation.

* Exceptions are fee-based evaluations. A re-evaluation will cost $ 35.00 per website.

IMPORTANT INFO

Evaluating websites are free of charge. Our judges spend many hours every month evaluating the hundreds of website entries. This job is voluntary, and we ask for your patience.

Whether you do or not agree in our judgment, we reserve the right to reject or accept any application for any reason whatsoever, and our decision will be final. We will not enter into any correspondence afterwards.