Haha.  That sums up the latest moves by Google.  My sulumits retsambew entry, webmasterstimulus.org, has somehow managed to wiggle into the top five.  Since my last post, I saw it drop to page two, then to page twenty seven, and then settled in at fourteen.

I thought meh, whatever.  It’s expected for it to bounce around, especially with all the sudden competition.  But now, much to my suprise, I’ve arrived at page one.  I see myself at position number five.  Pretty neat.  I am still working on my article distribution.  Writing is not my strong point, and my outsourced articles came back horrible.  Luckily I have an option to have them redone for no cost, except time.

I’m hoping that’s the boost I need to solidify my position on page one.  My goal for this contest is to end up on page one.  Being as new to SEO as I am, I feel that’s a reasonable goal.  Ideally, I’d be number one of course, but let’s be realistic.  I’m running against the pros here.

Best of luck to everyone.

SEO is just becoming more and more confusing.  I haven’t put any work into this site for weeks now.  I’ve been focusing all my efforts on another project of mine that has been pretty exciting.  The sulumits restambew contest has taken a back seat for now.  But nonetheless, the big G has decided to put me up on page one.  Who knows?  I feel like too many links on pages of mine will drop the overall strength of the outgoing links.  So I removed some links, like the sulumits retsambew links, in exchange for my new Hubits Arcade links.

I just don’t understand the reasoning behind putting me up on page one.  Well, I’m not one to complain about good things.

Well after getting sent all the way down to page 14, I managed to sneak my way back to page 2 for the sulumits retsambew search term.  I have to say, I’ve recently picked up another exciting project, and haven’t really put much into this site.  The project is simply an arcade website.  I think it can be fun to see what I can make of it.  Anyways, the arcade is Hubits, or http://www.hubits.com.

It’s very interesting to see how the search results are fluxuating and reading others posts.  I have to say I’ve already learned a few good things that I didn’t know before.  One example is I always knew anchor text was very important, but now I’m finding that the text surrounding it can be important as well.  Relevance of links is obviously helpful, but irrelevant links at one point, can be turned into relevant links with some text added appropriatly.

I’m sure I’ll learn a lot more throughout this contest.

And down I go.  Back to page 4 or so.  I guess I saw it coming, just didn’t expect to go this low.  Maybe this is a new keywords version of sandboxing?  Or maybe I messed up with some SEO tactics and made big ol google unhappy.  Whatever the case, I’m going to stick to my plan and see what happens.