Love this song parody about the geekiness of today’s nerdy entrepreneurs. Funny but true. I just realized by watching this video, most of the entrepreneurs I admire are nerds! Jobs, Gates,DHH and the Google Gods FTW h4×0rs!

“Just do what you love.”

Blackhat and whitehat seo sounds like an epic battle between good and evil in a sci fi film. Where the blackhat guys are the bad guys and whitehats are the good guys. But in internet marketing and making money in this business, its not who do good tactics or bad tactics, but who earns more. I have been learning a lot of blackhat seo’s this past few weeks and it is not something that I used to imagine. Things like scamming, hacking & stealing from people on the internet is not a blackhat way. They are just plain scammers. If you search the internet, there are communities for each of these kinds of people and I believe blackhatters are one of those communities that are most often misunderstood. They work under the radar, they don’t want to be known, they don’t want people to know how much they make money, they don’t want people to know HOW they make money. Most of the time, they are just lurking in the shadows that when people say bad things to them, no one will speak up.

I learned to appreciate these people when I had the chance to make friends with a few black hatters. Up until now, they are teaching me how to do things that are thought of insane in the whitehat world. These guys are businessminded and has business ethics as well. Not with the goody two shoes talk with whitehatters that will bore you. The community seems more like a friendly environment than the whitehat community composed of too much technical jargon that will make you kill yourself to boredom.

Though, both side of the party have their own pros and cons. And I believe that learning both disciplines is not a matter of who is better. It’s just that we are here in this business to learn. Whitehat or blackhat, its an experience. Good or bad is still an experience.

I try to stay away from the blogosphere and social media as much as possible. It is not for me. One of the few people who I really look up to is a blackhat seo. He opened my eyes from the tragic cycle of people wanting to do business online. And social media for me and the blogosphere is not where the money is at. I will leave all those to the best bloggers or the top bloggers in the world/country. These things that I like and hate is common to all the people in the community. So I found myself a home.

Any experience we get is a learning tool. Even if your mentor is a blackhat, you should have an open mind to know if he’s telling shit or gold nuggets.

Learn to think for yourself. The blogosphere may be good and friendly. But its not what we are after when doing business on the internet. We are here to make money. Making friends and having fun can be done in real life. I’d rather promote offers all day than socializing, commenting, tweeting on other blogs. I can always socialize on blog events. Which I don’t go. Because I am no blogger. Maybe in the future when I’m a travel blogger traveling all over the world. But before that happens, there are a lot of work to do. So…

Watch your back boys and keep your nose clean.

Sometimes, things don’t go as planned when doing affiliate marketing. You did the design of website, coded it, promoted it for months, yet, it still won’t take off. If you already exhausted all your options. There is one possible and probably the best thing to do - It’s to dump the site, save some time and move on.

I have received a mail lately asking such question: “What will I do if I can’t make my site profitable?”

It would be a waste if we just dump the site, right? After all It maybe getting traffic from the promotion you did. So the best answer I can give is to put contextual advertising in it. This should only be your last resort. Yes, you won’t be earning as much if its a full blown affiliate site. But hey, its already a dead horse, just make the best out of it.

What are Contextual Ads?

Contextual ads are a way of earning a commission by getting clicks on these ads placed on a link on your site.

Example of contextual advertising companies are:

• Adbrite
  Sign up as a publisher to sell ads. Probably one of the largest. It allows adult & warez themed sites too.
• Adsense
  The biggest contextual advertising site on the net owned by Google.

And they don’t ask you to pay for anything to join.

No wonder why most newbies are afraid to do PPC. It will eat your money instantly. And the rate of success and being broke is dependent on how can you tolerate risk and see your money go down the drain.

Earning money is fun. Losing money isn’t. So what happens when someone afraid to take risk in PPC and don’t want to lose money to learn? He will not learn nor succeed. True there is still another option, go SEO. Its free. But, it takes a lot of time to see results. PPC gives you instant results. Though some people say that it is temporary as you can only send traffic as long as you have the money. What they don’t know is that, as long as that money spend on PPC comes back in a form of commission, its still a good source of long term income.

Doing PPC in affiliate marketing is really tricky you need to have data that you can base your decision. Bidding up or down blindly is not what PPC is all about. Being clouded by emotion has no place for PPC affiliate marketing. For example, you are losing $50 a day for a campaign. You still need to get at least 100 clicks to say that it is NOT profitable. But the weak-hearted might stop those campaigns right after the $50 was spent with no return. There are a lot of factors that you can consider why it didn’t become profitable. Maybe sales comes in Monday or week ends or seasonal, maybe your site isn’t converting well, your ads, your ad copy, your title and so on. There are a lot of factors and you need to lose some money at the start to gain data. You can not judge a campaign completely just by saying “I have spent $50 with no sales, so this niche is not profitable”.

PPC affiliate marketing is not for the weak hearted. Better of become an SEO affiliate marketer. Both have their advantages and I believe is a matter of preference. I never said one discipline is better. Just be wary of the consequences in going with any of them.

To sum it up.

SEO is for those who have Patience. PPC is for those who are Aggressive

Whether you think you can or can’t, either way you are right. - Henry Ford

I’m just a web designer, not rich (aiming to get there), not a business tycoon, but I firmly believe that the difference why people are successful, the difference from the rich and the poor, is the way they think. People would always say the most depressing things in the world that is almost suicidal and that reflects the status of their life. The world is never bad. It is still the way we think it should be. If you think it is bad, you are correct. If its good, you are correct. Whatever you say, good or bad. You are correct. But the effects are different.

Law Of Attraction

We all learned in school that all things in the world are governed by law of attraction. The sun, the planets, the stars, the atoms, the electrons, the poles, gravity, all of which that have energy generates attraction. And as the law of the conservation of energy states that, “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be transformed to one form or another.”

Now, THOUGHT, is an energy. It is composed of electrical signals in our brain. This energy can be a form of idea transformed into a form of labor that can be transformed into inventions, buildings, cure for diseases, and most especially, money. What you think is what you attract. If you think of poverty, you attract it. If you think of wealth, guess what, you will get it. And when wealth comes, it comes in bulk, wealth in a big package of people, power, fame, money, cars, houses, women! Only the right people that have the right mindset will wealth be attracted to. Talk to a rich man for a couple of minutes and then talk to a poor man. You can clearly tell the difference in mindset. You know the saying, “To be a King, you must think like a King”.

Respect And Give Honor

Thoughts are said to be spiritual in nature, it is sometimes called the 6th sense. That when inspirational thoughts come, it comes in flashes that its so fast you might forget it by the next minute. Give honor to your thoughts by putting it in action. It doesn’t matter if its ridiculous, stupid or if its a business plan, seems impossible. Still do it and respect and have faith in this force. You’ll be amazed that when you are in the process of carrying out this idea, detailed plans will be rushing in to help and guide you.

You may be wondering why I made this post. Since gas prices are steadily increasing I know people would be thinking the worst. These things already happened and there’s nothing we can do, we can not control the world market. Let’s focus on things we can control, our minds.

Search engine optimization is a competitive field and more and more keywords are being generated by the second. As an internet marketer that wants to make money online, what keyword shall we focus to get the most out of the “buying traffic”, traffic that clicks, sells and most of all, pays.

It is not enough for us to know which keywords get the most searches everyday. This is only one part of the monetization process. We should also know which keywords gives the most money. To minimize our costs (hosting, bandwidth etc), we focus only on keywords that buys not keywords that are being searched only for information.

Most likely, if we’re going to take the place of a college student that wants to BUY an iPod online, he would most likely type in:

• buy ipod 30gig
• discount ipod 30 gig
• ipod 30gig 3g price

Compared to a person who would only want information about an ipod, in which case, his search process would most likely be:

• ipod 30gig
• ipod
• ipod 3g review

Did you notice the difference? The first one is ready to buy. We want that kind of traffic. To make money, maybe we could get an affiliate site for ipod resellers and the like. We get commission on each person we refer.

“Buying Keywords” are most of the time, LONG TAILS

Long tail keywords like the buying keyword above, is more likely to be less competitive and targeted. In researching for long tail keywords, we should also think like the buyer. If I’m going to buy an Ipod, maybe, I could search something like, ipod 3g black 30gig, you noticed that its very targeted and specific. Buyers that are looking to buy stuff on the internet, seems to search for a specific product mainly because they are ready to buy. Unlike people who were just wondering around to get the latest review or details about ipods and may buy later or not. Either way, we want to get paid NOW and so we attract and get the traffic of paying keywords.

The most important part of SEO and making money online is in the research. Get as many long tail keywords as possible on your niche to get the best money possible. The key is keyword research.

Definition of terms:

Buying Keywords - Keywords that are used by buying searchers

Long Tail Keywords - Keywords that are long, targeted and specific

I stumbled upon a post of Mii, by his reaction, I’m guessing he was banned from adsense (correct me if I’m wrong). First of all, I already told you on my post about “that keyword” that you won’t make money from that. It’s a polluted traffic to say the least. What makes me realized is that my top 3 reason why bloggers do that is because they want to be noticed (traffic) or want to clear the pinay scandal name. To my surprise, I am wrong, Mii said that the #1 priority for this propaganda is the money. Too bad, it went the other way around.

The Disadvantage of Optimizing for the “That” Keyword

More Traffic is not entirely equal to More Money

Learn from this guy, he have the #1 position for a keyword being search 10k times per day. He got he’s bandwidth eaten up thus costing him more. You might say, hey, that’s ok, More Traffic = More Money right? This is what I already said, more traffic is not necessarily more money. You have to get clean organic, and related traffic to get that formula right. Which I already explained in how to seo your blog.

Adsense Don’t Pay Adult Keyword

Adsense gets his fund from Adwords. That’s what the ads display when you put the adsense code on your site. Adwords, doesn’t allow porn or adult content. So where will adsense get his funds to pay you?

Unrelated Content

Google bans. Period. If you got unrelated content on your site. You will get ban sooner or later. And it’s impossible to be reinstated.

Smartpricing

If you’re still not yet banned and still having that adsense ads on your site, you will see a great deal of traffic on this keyword. But do they convert? I don’t know. What I know is, with that traffic, lots of views are being made by, searchers, by bloggers and more bloggers coming back on the site to see its ranking on the PS keyword. This will lead to a low CTR. Having a low CTR or 3% and below, will have YOUR WHOLE ACCOUNT Smartpriced. What is smartpricing you say? Its googles way of protecting advertisers from LOW QUALITY TRAFFIC, meaning, traffic that doesn’t click. When Google found out that you have a low CTR, they will give you the ads that are low cost $0.01 - $0.2 per click. There are times where you’ll get a $1 per click but I really don’t know how often.

The Solution

The only thing I can say about the solution is to optimize your blog or site to keywords that really relate to your topic. Hijacking any keyword might bring in good traffic, but due to the irrelevancy of your site, your monitization will be f*cked up… Mind you, I’m a web designer and I only know these things because I experienced them. I am not an SEO guru/god/demihuman. It’s the result of consistent test because this is where I make money online.

I’m a web designer, a Filipino, and when I started in SEO and internet marketing, I felt like shit. Shit traffic, shit post, shit blog all tons of shit, I also do shit comments on other blogs. That was really awful. I was perfectly clueless and don’t know what to do to get traffic from the search engines. Today, I don’t apply them on this blog. You might see that there are no advertisement here and I would like to keep it that way. I apply them on other sites that make me money online.

I would like to help the newbies out there on how to get started on their blog. I won’t tell you to go and comment on other blogs, stumbleupon, entrecard or twit your blog. That should be your last resort. Never ever try social networking to promote your blog, unless you just want to be famous. But if you’re in this business for the money and for the killing, woo Big G and the other 1st and 2nd tier search engines.

SEO, internet marketers and all those people that make money online know how search engine ticks. If they don’t know how, they’ll starve and I’m one of them. I have to pay the bills, help my family and save some more for future education. But for the sake of this article, I’ll be pertaining to google since it has the biggest market share.

What does Google wants?

There are many things that make google ticks but lets focus on this most important part of SEO. Google loves content. And the fresher the content the better. Do I need to say more? Ok, I’ll explain, Google loves content, long related targeted content. That’s what google loves.

If you’re making a blog post, talk about a topic that is really targeted. Meaning, post a content that will give your page an authority. Specify a certain keyword for this post. Bold it, italics it, H1 tag it etc. Don’t put any other unrelated keyword in there. Just focus on that word. Talk about it, as lenghty as you want. But be sure its still human readable.

Never Give Up On Your Site

This is not an inspirational paragraph. I’m telling you this because if you’re site is new and its been a month and you’re not getting traffic, most likely you are sand boxed. You’ll know you’re sandboxed when you have a steady traffic day after day then you suddenly lost all the traffic. Do not worry, this is normal. Its google’s way of welcoming your site in the internet. After that you’ll be ranked accordingly. How long do you have to wait to get out of the sandbox? 90 days. This is the normal thing. Sometimes even longer. Sometimes even years. But don’t lose hope. There is a way to make it better and faster. What? Just add more content.

How Often Should I Add More Content or Post on My Site?

Ok, I’ll be borrowing the lines of bloggers “Have a posting frequency”. This is true. You should update often and have a posting frequency. But, on the safe side, remember this.

If your site is 90 days old and is getting 0 - 15 visitors a day. Do not make any more post. Optimize what you already have.

After you get out of the sandbox, you’re ranked accordingly by google. Of course you’re ranking is shit. Don’t expect anything yet. You’re the new guy. But don’t blame the site. It’s your fault and it’s only you that can make the site better. Just keep getting links, submit from directories, submit articles, do SEO, optimize your page. Again, no social networks (if you want to make money that is).

After 30 days of optimizing, getting links and SEO. Check your stats. You should be getting more visitors now.

If you’re getting 15 - 50 visitors a day. You should at least, update your blog with 2+ pages or post per month.

You can still stick with your posting frequency but keep it at least 2+ post per month.

Now let me tell you something why I wanted you to optimize your site without using social media. Those visitors that you see on your stats are coming from organic traffic / search engines… Those are traffic that you can convert to money. You can make money out of that traffic. With adsense, you can make your CTR boost up to 20% with that traffic. I went as high as 50% with my other sites. Because these people are buyers, searchers that are looking for a product or service, if they saw your ads, even if they know its an ad, they will click on it. Social media traffic, these people are just having fun, blog hopping, stumbling, just reading other blogs. They wont convert and will just ruin your CTR. This is the secret to making money on the internet. You want organic traffic.

Ok, lets move on. Never stop optimizing your site. Keep posting, keep getting links, keep submitting and keep optimizing your pages. By the time you get your visitors up to 100.

If you’re getting 50 - 150 visitors a day, you should at least update your blog or site with 2 pages every week.

This is a no brainer. Google loves fresh, unique content. The spiders will always crawl your site every day and your pages will be indexed immediately.

150 unique and organic visitors a day is pretty number. If you want to increase that number, just keep posting more blog posts and keep on getting links. Never do social media. Never. Don’t ruin your CTR. As I will say, that is pure traffic, search engine traffic that you can make money of. Don’t pollute it. Google will reward you with a strong stream of traffic that can last for years. You will increase your CTR and in turn Google will place high cost per click ads on your site. $1 a click is peanuts for you if you have a high CTR. Even if you missed a posting date, it won’t have any disastrous effect on your blog.

Ok, I won’t be making this post longer. To close this out, just keep getting links and update frequently. And G Almighty will reward you till kingdom come. That’s how you do SEO the Google Way. Good luck on making money online.

Last time I posted about the web design industry in the Philippines. I also talked about SEO in the Philippines. But I would like to take my part in educating future bloggers or SEO specialist and share some things that I have learned so far.

The video that I will show you is a tutorial on how to go about:

• researching for a keyword
• picking the best keyword and
• how to analyze your keyword competition in google searches.

The example that I used in this tutorial is the keyword “pinay scandal“. Though in the end I concluded that there are other keywords that are untapped and has less competition but tons of traffic “free pinay scandal“. It is easy to dominate and I hope to educate people to think differently and not be swayed by the bandwagon.

If I am an adult webmaster, I could easily earn money by the keyword that I have discovered in the tutorial. But I won’t do it because I might get pwnd by the authorities. I hope this would help a lot of people leave me a comment if you liked the video.

Without further ado, here is the video.

Watch SEO Keyword Research Video Tutorial

Featuring Pinay Scandal keyword.

This is how I do my keyword research a few months back. Right now, I’m using some paid tools to help me with tons of keywords that I could make money of. But I hope this could help those that have no money and start their online career.

FREE SEO Tools Mentioned in the tutorial

• Google.com
• Yahoo.com - Yahoo site explorer using the link: command
• freekeywords.wordtracker.com - Check the daily searches from overture

With the rapid growth of internet business in the Philippines. It is most likely that companies would look for skills with regards to the web industry.

Web Design in the Philippines

With regards to web design, I can clearly say that the Philippines is one of the most talented with regards to creativity on the web. I have known tons of web designers that have huge talent in web design that works for companies that pay them 1 / 4 of what they should be earning. Though the skills of web designers are top notch in the country. Some people take advantage of the low price labor in the Philippines to run their web design business. I know because I have been into one.

SEO in the Philippines and Bloggers

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is kind of under rated in the country. And I have not yet found any good ones that really know what they are doing with regards to SEO. Not to mention bloggers that will talk about promoting their site to social networks to get tons of traffic = money. This is a myth and should be changed. For months I have been learning SEO, Affiliate Marketing and Internet Marketing, and I have come to find out that not many people (especially bloggers in the Philippines) know how to optimize their site. How did I know that they don’t know how to optimize their site? Notice when they do not make a post on their blog, their blog dies. I am not saying I’m a guru in this field, but come on, I bet you notice that, everybody is just posting what other sites have already posted. If problogger posted something, it would spread like wild fire. It’s just a rehash of a rehash of a rehash. Nothing new, nothing useful. Optimization is for the long term result, now, why aren’t getting this long term result to traffic that they are talking about? . . . . Because they don’t know how…

Can you see the opportunity here? Not too many people know how to optimize, when offline business take it online, they would need the expertise of an Internet Marketing Specialist in the Philippines. Not just people who know how to optimize pinay sexscandal post.

In reality, SEO Specialist and Internet Marketing in the Philippines would be a lucrative job. I already know someone getting paid 50,000 Pesos (starting) for this job position, and he wants to have an increase next month.

Personally…

I would rather be a specialist in internet marketing and do my own affiliate business than work for a company.