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?