Post A Free Ad - Win An iPad

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Check out this the You magazine on the 5th September for a chance to win an iPad.

Simply post a free ad and your entered into a random draw to win an iPad.  This competition is limited to the UK but we have have others.  Every advert posted with the unique code printed on the YapYapOK Free Classifieds advert in the back on the You magazine enters the draw.  Therefore the more ads you post the better your chances.  See the YapYapOK Free Classifieds competition page for terms and conditions.

Sell anything, sellers can be private or businesses advertising cars, property, shoes, bags, dvds, in fact anything!  Even let us know if we don't have a category that matches your requirements.

So get the You mag on Sunday the 5th Sept.  Use the code and start posting, the more your in - so are your chances to win.

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Who moved the bloody cheese - again!

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Totally off Topic 

I recently read a book called "Who moved my cheese".  This is about how life does not always steer us in the direction we planned and how we need to adapt to the situation.  The "Cheese: is a metaphor for what ever you are wanting in life, a job, a home, anything.

Recently, like many others we had our cheese well and truly moved.  It took a while to grasp the situation and re-plan how we were going to get by without it & to find more cheese to take its place.  Since then some things have almost miraculously fallen into place.  We once again had a clear focus and a plan to get there.  

We breathed a sigh of relief tightened our belts and prepared for the big move forward.  A new job will be taking my husband away regularly, but we will manage.  We are relocating so that we have more friends & family around.  Much better when you have an absent husband.  We are still a little uncertain about exactly where we will be as we need to consider timing, we have a son with an education to consider, also he has to be near a good tennis academy.  So before we had a chance to finalize the final points, some one moved the bloody cheese - again.

Last night our sons tennis coach informed us that he was putting him forward for a tennis assessment in Serbia.  The assessment will take 1 month and its a once in a lifetime opportunity.  There will be scouts from the US as well as world class coaches.  He has selected a few children from this country.  If he is spotted it will mean that he will be sponsored from here on.  The issue is that our son is only 9.  Normally they only take children of 12 and above.  

So now we must wait to see if he gets accepted, if that happens we have to find the funds to pay for that and my traveling expenses too.   I desperately want it for him as he is so passionate about tennis.  If he gets in we have to measure up and not let him down.

Our options just now are Kickstart.com and a letter to Oprah - seriously!  I prey that he gets this opportunity and we will adapt accordingly.  

After this please I'd like some consistency.  Stop moving my cheese!

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SEO In A Nutshell!

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We are preparing for the new YapYapOK Free Classifieds competition & all the information on entering will be on the website today.   Simply Post A Free Ad - Win An iPad

All entries will need to have access to the Mail On Sunday Supplementary You magazine and enter the code on the advert near the back of the mag.  For those not likely to see it, I will post the advert on our Facebook, go to the Facebook link on the site to see.   

YapYapOK Free Classifieds is maintaining SERP on Google which suggests that we have stability and now need to do some more work to creep up another few places.  At this level climbing one position is incredibly hard.  However I have secret tools & clever tricks, namely Doggydog and Matrica on Fiverr.  I think a monthly visit to use their services will help close the gap to pole position.

Matrica will spin and submit articles, this works so well.  I have had an article published in Ezine, its not actually promotional enough for the other article sites which have some tolerance for promotional material.  So I will change some of the more salient points to raise some brand awareness.  After that I will send it to Matrica who will give me 300 versions of the article after she has submitted them.  She also uses Senuke - its meant to be powerful but I am unsure what it does.

Doggydog is the Social bookmarker.  He submits to 300 Social bookmarks, I will use this every 4 - 6 weeks.

At this point we can afford to narrow down the number of techniques used.  In addition to these, we will submit to article sites and submit to directories.

Even if I was starting SEO on a new site I think that we would limit ourselves to the tools listed above.  I would not pay for any PPC advertising.

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Post A Free Ad - Win An IPad

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Page 1 Google.com & UK for competitive keywords Free UK Classifieds.  Free Classifieds is coming on page 1 Google UK.

We are running an advert with Mail On Sunday You Magazine to post an ad win an IPad.  Simply input the code on the advert of You at the back of the magazine on the 5th September with every advert to enter.  The more ads you post the better the chances of winning.

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De Link The Wheel

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We are back on page 1 Google UK.  Free Classifieds is placement 9 and Free UK Classifieds is occupying position 7.

I can only attribute link wheels to the SERP drop.

When the SERP dropped over a week ago, I disabled all my links in the wheel instinctively.  After I identified the meta data error and addressed it, I made the assumption that this was the issue.  I did not wait a few days as I should have to see if my SERP would improve.  I immediately relinked my wheel.  My SERP went to page 3 probably because of the meta data the next day.  The day after the site was sandboxed.

I have remarked on the issues I have about pointing to sites with anchor texts relevant to the money site pointing to other sites then in turn pointing to the hub.  It seems wholly contrived and unnatural.  My gut instinct told me not to do it.  So 2 days ago I set about re removing the links of the wheel.  Only the unnatural ones eg Free Classifieds pointing to Squidoo etc.  The ones that were pointing to the hub with relevance I kept in.

The only thing that I changed twice were link wheels.  I twice dropped and twice recovered after de linking.  I have not paid for link farms or had created any more or less links than I had previously.

I have read that link wheels have the capacity to take sites to the number 1 place in Google within hours.  I cannot see this as it takes a little longer than that for the links to be indexed even with Google Caffeine.

My experience with link wheels is not a good one, maybe there are other reasons for our drop in SERP.  Personally I will not waste another moment on them.

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De-Wheeled

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I have had some concerns about the unnatural linking in a link wheel, not so much the format as I am quite sure that you can make that look very natural, lets face it, its manual linking and you write your own articles.  The issue I have is the choice of keyword being sent to a site which is not representative of that word.  The article may relate to the keyword.  It flies in the face of a book I read called SEO for dummies.  This book is more about relevance of content as well as meta daya and title.  Now whilst you can get the content to match, the others are not necessarily so easy.

So I have disabled my links, I am unsure if this is temporary or permanent.  I will go back to my submissions and articles which have worked so well and do my SEO the old fashioned way.

I will utilise Fiverr which is amazing.  Marika is amazing with her article spin and submission service and I will definitely use her again.  My SERP increased massivley with a combination of her gig as well as Doggydog.

Due to my linking strategy I need to leave it the socila bookmarking 2 weeks but I will use the article submissions in another weeks time.

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De-Wheeled

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I have had some concerns about the unnatural linking in a link wheel, not so much the format as I am quite sure that you can make that look very natural, lets face it, its manual linking and you write your own articles.  The issue I have is the choice of keyword being sent to a site which is not representative of that word.  The article may relate to the keyword.  It flies in the face of a book I read called SEO for dummies.  This book is more about relevance of content as well as meta daya and title.  Now whilst you can get the content to match, the others are not necessarily so easy.

So I have disabled my links, I am unsure if this is temporary or permanent.  I will go back to my submissions and articles which have worked so well and do my SEO the old fashioned way.

I will utilise Fiverr which is amazing.  Marika is amazing with her article spin and submission service and I will definitely use her again.  My SERP increased massivley with a combination of her gig as well as Doggydog.

Due to my linking strategy I need to leave it the socila bookmarking 2 weeks but I will use the article submissions in another weeks time.

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