http://www.wordle.net/ – This “toy”, as they call it, generates a cloud from any kind of content you will choose: Paste in a text box a bunch of text, enter your website’s desired page url or RSS feed, or just apply your del.icio.us user name and the application will do the work. The great thing is that the generator’s algorithm uses horizontal, vertical or even diagonal directions to create a nice harmonic tag cloud, and uses any space to fill-in tags – even between letters or inside of a letter’s space! check out this preview:

The generator’s features are cool: You can define the font, color palate, positioning and style. You also have this cool button called “Randomize” which generates in a second a different style to the same content. For an example – below you can find few “Randomized” outputs for the same text:

Enjoy!!!

Thanks, Tamir

Tamir Cohen + Amit Peleg with Clifinar reward

1. Learning the basic rules of the field
2. Creating an infrastructure for the activity
3. Implementing the knowledge and creating a linked, content supported, strong structure
4. Planning and implementing strategy, using SEO tools and the material we created
5. Taking tactic steps according to the situation in the contest, keeping all the time few cards close to the chest

I must say that I couldn’t do it without my highly qualified team mate – Amit. It was a great pleasure working on this with him and learning from him. Thanks, RABAK!

That’s it for the Subject above, I promise to post the cute picture with the check receiving as soon as I get it…

1. A short summary

As a “Flashy city of sites”, it is supposed to be obvious that you could upload your stuff to this smart Flashy CMS (Content Management System). well, at least for now, it doesn’t. The truth is that you have the option to upload .swf file, but the editor titles it as an “OLD SWF”. And im talking about a fresh CS3 swf file which was published to the newest version, so… Wix guys, do what you have to do to make it work!

2. The upload flow

When you open the editor and move over the Media button on the left, you can see below the “my media” option:

wix CMS editor interface

After you click the “my media” button you get the option to upload .swf files. you upload it easily to your gallery, but when you drag it to your stage, it looks like a red title – OLD SWF:

wix "OLD SWF" alert

3. The search for an answer

After few tries, checking myself over and over again, I turned into the Q&A section to find my answers. it looks like a deja vous: The question exists, the answer is not.

Wix guys, I like your idea and believe in it, but take care of this crushial stuff!!!

Thanks for asking, Dan!!!

A Very Big Jump on the Contest

Few hours ago, I “flew” with the search results and found out that my SEO efforts brought me to the 134 place on the Contest. On this report, which was taken at 22:14 today, it seems like I jumped 125 steps up… My assumption is that after reading my few non Clifinar posts, Google decided that my punishment was enough. The reason? it can be too many tags of the Clif. Contest, maybe a high density of that word in my posts, but my guess is that I just linked too much to our winning page. Anyway, as I said, I’m very happy about it and hope to stay in the neighbourhood. Take a look:

In the meantime, I took a little time to explore a new website – wix.com, which offers free Flash web templates, and claims to be SEO friendly… Well I don’t know how exactly, but I’m going to check it on my temporary homepage on tamirco.com.
Besides the SEO question, I liked the idea. It is based on the “embed” technology, so it is quite simple:

1. You open an account
2. You can choose your template out of a large variety of cool, Flashy styles
3. Start Editing your website with a flashy CMS. it needs some more fine tuning, but it is quite friendly.
4. After you finish editing, you save your work. in this point you can choose how to publish your website: by mail, inside wix.com or – EMBED!
5. I checked the 3rd option and embedded the code to my index.html of tamirco.com. now, whenever I update and save my work at wix.com, it is being replaced (with a refresh action) in my website!

I liked the idea, though I still don’t know how they claim to be SEO friendly, when they use the Embed technique.

Thanks to Stuart Brown from http://googleisagiantrobot.com/ for his Beautiful illustaration, which I’d love to put on a full screen but ican’t… So check out the full image at his website.