Search Engine Optimization is like Martial Arts

Being a practitioner of martial arts since we were young, I always think if my skills in martial sports is good enough in real fight. Not until I got into one. You may still get that boost in physical ability or reflexes but the moves and kicks aren’t as deadly when you are practiced to a real fighting environment. Martial Arts Sports and Real Fight (MMA) has a huge difference. They trim down and used rules to minimize the damage to your enemy. Kind of the contrary of real fighting.

The similarities in SEO is that, SEO is designed to get traffic and monetize that traffic. If you practice real SEO, you know where to get traffic, how to get traffic, which words will gonna get you paid.

Keywords are given

With the sprout of SEO contests everywhere, I wonder if they’re really practicing the real SEO. I mean, I have never been in this kind of contests, but, the keywords seems to be given and all you have to do is to rank on these keywords. Sometimes, only 1 keyword is given.

The problem is that, there are no competition on this keywords in the first place so its a “anyone can take it” kind of keyword. No big guy is holding the top keyword that you have to bash head to head to, like competitive keywords like web design or porn.

You Don’t Have to Research the Keyword To Rank

Which gives me to the point where, you don’t have to research for the keyword to rank. I already told you how you can rank on a certain keyword, this is a cunning way to take on a competitive keyword… Rank on the less competitive & related keywords first, build authority and link to a page with your most competitive keyword using that authority page. This will boost your rankings for that tough keyword. In SEO contests, you already have the keyword to rank, so like in Martial Arts, you’re pretty much got trimmed down by the rules.

Which Keywords Will Get You Paid

By virtue of SEO, real SEO practitioner know what keywords will pay. In SEO contests with rules, you already know that “this” word is the target and it will get you paid(prize) if you rank 1st with it. In real SEO, the world is your enemy, everybody is ranking in this paying keywords. Knowing the highest paying keyword is not enough to pay you, you should also know which one will click or make sales. This is the difference and probably the things that real seo and contest seo would never have in common.

Real Martial Arts are practiced so you can survive in this dangerous world - Real SEO will make you survive (paid)

Sports Martial Arts are just sports binded by rules - SEO Contest is the same

You Can’t Kill Your Enemy

In sports, you can’t kill or do lethal moves on your enemy. Just like in SEO contests, since you’re fighting for a new keyword (trophy), you can’t make a killing out of it. What I meant by that is, if you’re going to do real SEO, killing you’re enemy means getting the top guy out of the rankings and making the KILLING in sales, profit and clicks. In SEO contests, you’re ranking for keywords thats not being searched, maybe, but are those keywords have a potential for money, after the contest?, no money on the keyword after the contest (no more killing). While in real SEO, the winner takes all. So you have to kill you’re enemy so he can’t come back up. This sometimes leads to reporting him to search engines if you found a small mistake on their part in violating ToS. Yep, its a doggy dog world. Do you do this in contests?

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.

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