If you are only starting and you can’t compete with the big guys yet, try localized SEO.
What is localized SEO? As the name implies, you optimize for a keyword locally. Locally, as in opposite of internationally. 😀
For example, make money online is such a competitive keyword. It would take more effort and time before you reach the first page of Google. So, what to do? Optimize locally! Instead of targetting make money online, I targetted make money online philippines. I might not have that much traffic compared to make money online visitors, but still, I’m on first page of Google and I get new visitors everyday from the Philippines wanting to learn how to make money online.
Another example is when Macbook Air came out, instead of targetting macbook air, I targetted macbook air philippines. There’s too much competition for the macbook air keyword, I’ll be competing against all the big bloggers in the world. But with macbook air philippines, the competition is not that much and I still get the traffic I want: Filipinos looking for Macbook Air in the Philippines.
You can even go to province level to get traffic interested in your province. Like during the summer season, I optimized a post for batangas beach resorts, instead of beach resorts, or philippine beach resorts.
I could go on and on and give you more examples. Cheap web hosting? Try cheap web hosting philippines. Cheap hotels? Cheap hotels boracay. Cheap hotels davao. iPhone 3g? Try iPhone 3g Philippines.
And by the way, you are not tied to the Philippines. iPhone 3G Hong Kong? iPhone 3G Australia? The list is endless. Just make sure you do your research so that you can provide quality content to your search-engine-referred visitors.
Ok, that’s my SEO tip for now. By the way, I already upgraded this blog to WP 2.6. Please report any error that you might encounter. Thanks!
Another great tip from the prince of philippine SEO Marghil Macuha ! Ayos ah. Subukan ngang magawa nang post hehehehehehe
another tip is to be on top on dot ph of google! 😀
Im not sure how, but link builing on my “list of do-follow/social sites” (mostly from socialmarker) seems to get them on top of dotPH.. di ko ma explain bakit ganon. hehehe
Nice one here…
Other thing is look for Long Tail keyword ok let’s take for example…
PSP Games – this keyword was optimized by many including Marghil pero they didn’t optimized PSP Games kasi nga grabe ang results nito at ung mga kalaban mo.
Ok panu ka ba nag aanalyze ng keyword? Look mo kung ilan search result tapos tingnan mo kung mga malulupet na site ang nasa taas kung hindi wag kang matakot kung 10,000,000 pa yan AMPAW kung minsan.
Ok let’s continue instead of targeting this very competitive keyword they optimized the following:
– Free PSP Games – mejo competitive
– PSP Download – mejo competitive
– Download PSP – mejo competitive
– DOwnload Free PSP Games
– Free Download PSP Games
– How to Downlaod Free PSP Games
and they even target mispells like DOWLOAD, DOWNLOD and many other things and that’s good if you target small ones like long keyword it can be a big traffic for you. Pero the good part here is if you link build your site on the long tail keywords above you will definitely have power to rank on PSP GAMES, FREE PSP GAMES, PSP DOWNLOAD, DOWNLOAD PSP that is competitive.
like on NDS Games dami din nag optimize nito and halos the same lang ang keyword variation.
@elizar
base sa experience ko try mo to create blog on I.ph and link you site surely magkakaron ka ng Philippines Authority from Google o kaya link ka or blog comment like what your are doing right now kaya ka nagkakaron ng otoridad magrank sa pinas kasi ung mga link mo like macuha and other pinoy blogs has pinoy ph power.
and the same din ito if you target TR, IE, UK , CN and many other Google languages dapat nga lang matyaga kapag ganun 😉
and another thing is make an idea na sayu lang that is my best recipe kahit kailan. if you have one just build it and it will grow time after time and of course dapat pansexoso ka. maraming ways how to do it and you must do this kasi ito ang pinaka need mo to be success on adsense – TRAFFIC –
if your having hard time to get list of keywords try to get K*E*YWORD E*LIT*E , it’s a paid software hehehe pero you can get it for f*r*e*e and legally kuno , there you can generate keyword list and ung mga estimated traffic per day.
napahaba ako ng kwento wahahahahaha…
I have to disagree, dapat kapag cheap hotels, optimize in keywords such as “sogo hotel avenida”, “Wise hotel quiapo”…..hehe!!!
@Ronald: Thanks for sharing this trick 🙂
I have to disagree, dapat kapag cheap hotels, optimize in keywords such as “sogo hotel avenidaâ€, “Wise hotel quiapoâ€â€¦..hehe!!!
@major
yeah!!!
victoria indi cheap e 😉 most of the trick ganun lang naman. and another thing lets take major example mas targeted ung visitor mo if you optimized those keywords kasi kpag CHEAP HOTELS ang broad 😀
gandang tip yan sir.. try ko din yan
Nice tip dude. 😀 masubukan nga. heheheh.
Whahhhhh… Nakisabay ako dun sa nursing board results di man lang ako maka first page… Ang hirap talaga… ngaung lahat na ata ng blogger nag ooptimized na… Nice tip Marhgil i see what i can localized hehehe.
-juler
hey nice tips!!!!!!!!!!!!hmm I try to use it, this will true help me, because I’m only a beginner about this business, thanks for posting and sharing your ideas.
yeah.. nice tip 😀
@Gadget Geek – yeah nag PR update na nga.. marami akong blogs naging PR0.. haha!
Kuya,
Nabasa ko yung Google adsense topic mo sa WPP, medyo bago pa lang ako, turuan mo naman ako paano gawin yun. Para kumita naman ako kahit konting barya…. Salamat po!
this is cool! what a tricks ^_^
great tips! will try this out.
@ ronald: i was just thinking of misspelled keywords. thanks for bringin it up!
kayod marino mga pinoy!
mispells are ok pero ingat ka din if the mispells has no thoughts paktay ka kahit nagrarank ka pa di yan ok ke adwords meaning it can give you a very low CPM and CPC.
you can still workaround pa din naman..
let’s take an example of what they do here..
I naruto pron , yootube, yotube, donload and many other mispells pero it was made just for S.E. sayang if you can tell a story using Yutube like making it a high paying page of yours.
Weight loss sabi nila mataas daw ang CPC dito at DUI , DWI , LAWYERS and madami pa..
so ganito gawa tayo..
Let’s mix Weight loss sa keyword na YOTUBE, YUTUBE, YOUTOBE and make it more useful
TITLE: Yutube Video – How to Gain and loss weight
Desc: ikaw na bahala alam nyo naman panu ioptimized ung content and discuss more about Weight loss and repeat ung keyword mo mga 3-4 words lang oks na yan ke google
Link build : of course dapat i build ung yutube mispell na keyword
easy as 123 you don’t have to compete for Weight Loss keyword kasi your traffic came from Yutube keyword and madami pang iba and mahirap makipag sabayan sa keyword na yan dami kalaban.
Creativity na lang ang kulang just think of it and be unique don’t copy to others work let’s focus on youtube mispells dami kasi variation for example Mesotolimia (mali spell basta un na un)
Title: Yotube Videos – How to cure Meso EKEKEK
procedure is the same pero u get ads for you mesotolimia and that’s a high words that can give you a big CPC or cost per click.
———– pero word of warning ———–
I saw lots of blog made this Pron, Adolt, Pr0n, p0rn and madami pa Google knows mispells and mapapansin nyo Google correct it if you mistype it by displaying alternative result for the correct spell. You can add naman Scandal word pero put it in a rich content and don’t repeat it many times 1-2 is good for Google.
This could be one of my mistake if i optimize the keyword Naruto P*rn kasi may P*rn word pero kung gagawan ko pa ng ibang kwento and not focusing so much sa naruto keyword na yun i will have lots of traffic and much better CPC.
add ko lang look at Pinay SC*nd*l post may nakita ba kayung Adsense dun? Di ba nakikita nyo puro PSA ads or PUBLIC SERVICE ADS meaning kahit may magclick man walang cost ito ang magiging penalty if you insist to optimize those keywords without a decent content I might say kaya ito ang iniiswasan natin.. 😉
@ Ronald Mojica, It is pretty obvious na wala talagang google ads na lalabas based on it’s keyword and most of the bloggers who joined this mini SEO about that keyword knows that, as I can remember what Mr. Macuha have posted on his first entry about this and if I may quote what he said is “Just a little tip. Since this kind of post will not show Google Adsense ads because of pron-related keywords in it, you must set an alternate ad so that you’ve got to earn from these hornie traffic. Hehehe. I set Widgetbucks as an alternate ad. Imagine how many people will visit your site looking for pinay scandal only to see Widgetbucks advertisement and this little mini SEO contest. Hehehe.” for more info, you may read his first entry about the pinay scandal keyword on why they optimized this keyword. here’s the url https://www.macuha.com/2007/10/seo/pinay-scandal
Anyone here seen an adsense that has this words on their ads?
Ads by Google
YouP*rn Videos
Britney Sc*nd*l
Pinay Videos
Videos on Youtube
yebah! i learned your seo technique..ill try it!
Nice tips macuha! As for me, I try my best to target keywords on the global level since it attracts a lot of traffic from different location all over the world. I also have some posts on the local level but it doesn’t have “Philippines” at the end. 🙂
Interesting tips in the comments ; )