Clifinar Blog moving up again

So, something is working. My Clifinar blog has moved from position 6 to position 5 in Google.com. At this rate, another 4 posts and I’m up there. If it works – who knows what the others are up to and I also don’t have all the time to spend on it.

Clifinar News – 1 post moved me 2 places up

Before my post this morning my Clifinar blog was in position 8 on Google. About 2 hours after I posted my morning Clifinar post, it appeared on position 6 with the new post already indexed. I will keep writing a post, I guess the fresh content was liked by the Google bot. Another thing that may have helped is that I linked to Google.com on my post.

Does Google like to see its own name up there? Perhaps… Let’s wait and see…

Clifinar – the end is nigh

Two more days till the end of the Clifinar and we will know all of the secrets that got Amit and Tamir to the first place in Google. That’s if they stay there.

Good luck to all and Enjoy the Compubeach 4.0 on Thursday where the winner will be announced and receive his cheque.

Shades of Cloaking (Not a post about fashion)

Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz.org wrote a very interesting post about White hat to black hat cloaking going through all the shades in between light grey, dark grey, almost black. I am not going to describe exaclty what was written, since the interesting thing here is the reaction that he received from Matt Cutts. For Matt Cutts, all cloaking is bad in Google’s eyes, to which Rand diplomatically agreed, stating however that if there was a good reason to do some cloaking in some situations it may be acceptable. Matt disagreed and said that without a shadow of a doubt cloaking was “high risk behavior” and that if Google found any cloaking for whatever reason, that site would be penalized.

I found the comments here very interesting. It’s important to understand what your goal is and how you want to act. I suggest that if you are not sure, you should stick to white hat. Cloaking post

I wander what Clif will say in the next Clifinar about this.

Clifinar SEO Seminars – Article

So, many people have been writing articles and submitting them to various article sites with links. I, myself wrote an article about basic SEO tips and tricks that can be learnt in a Clifinar. Clifinar article

Articles are a good way to get content out there with links back to your site/blog and what’s good is that they are free. Try to write a good article about your field using your chosen keyword in the title of the article and using it again in your article a few times, don’t exaggerate, up to 7% should do it. In the article the keyword can be linked to your website. Some of them use no-follow links, but it’s ok, becuase even if you don’t get link juice, you get more content indexed on Search Engines and also traffic.

Here are a few free article sites that I know are good:

articlesbase.com

goarticles.com

ezinearticles.com

And there are plenty more.

Clifinar contest – What works?

The Clifinar contest is getting really interesting.
All of the contestants are putting in really hard SEO efforts into gaining the number 1 position in Google for the keyword clifinar.

Shimrit has written a very interesting post about the tactics used in the clifinar competition and what works best. Read it here : clifinar

I learnt the hard way that wordpress does not allow meta tags any more after downloading the plugin several times and spending a few hours looking for where to upload it. So although I agree that meta tags help, my hands here are tied and it seems, so are other bloggers, so here we need to work on links links and more quality links and content, of course.

 

Position 3!!!

Ok, Position 3 on Google. People, there’s a new contender in town!

Clifinar Position on Google

Clifinar – Fierce Competition from day to day

The clifinar competition is getting really fierce.

3,530 results in Google.

20,900 results in Yahoo!

3,760 results in MSN.

Seems Yahoo is indexing anything and everything, and MSN and Google is indexing the core.

Still Google is what counts at the end of the day.

Clifinar Competition Continues

A few more links, a few more creatve ideas, a few more sleepless nights and the Clifinar competition continues. What do you call that onomatopoeia – wow I even spelled it right!

Welcome to the world’s first clifinar flickr profile. Hope to see lots of comments and friends.

check it out here clifinar on flickr

Clifinars – or the lack thereof

For the past 10 days compucallers have been suffering from Clifinar withdrawl. Clifton, the Clifinar man is on vacation, so this means we can’t bug him for ideas for how to promote our Clifinars, but people are starting to get creative and some desperate! Links, hubpages, facebook groups, twitter, squidoo pages, even email accounts, twitter profiles, facebook groups, events, profiles, what will be next?

Google has 1,480 results for the keyword “Clifinar”.

Just wait till you get back Clifton Flack – you’ll be hounded! In the meantime, enjoy your vacation!