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Localized SEO is a Great Way to Get Traffic on Competitive Words

If you’re new to search engine optimization (SEO) and it’s hard for you to compete for those highly searched keywords then you should try localizing your SEO.

For those who are wondering what I mean when I say “localizing SEO”, well, I’m basically saying to focus your target audience on a smaller demographic but yet, you still get the benefit of the keywords you desire.

For instance, let’s take the highly competitive keyword “make money online.” If you’re looking to compete for this keyword, well, you’ll be competing with 39 million other pages or websites (see the screenshot below).

This keyword is highly competitive because if you can maintain the first spot for that term in search engines, you’ll get an estimated 1,397 unique visitors each day. (Stats based on Seobook keyword tools)

Now, instead of using “make money online”, you can try using “make money online India” or “make money online Brazil” or any other country. You’ll be focusing on a specific country that wants to know about how to make money online.

And yes, it’s understandable you won’t get as much traffic as “make money online” but you’ll get a more targeted demographic and more than likely, it’ll be easier to rank in the first spot for that localized keyword.

That was just an example that I could relate to myself only because I run a MMO blog, but this could actually work for just about anything.

Try “Blackberry phones” and localizing it to “Blackberry phones Hong Kong” and you’re get targeted audience from Hong Kong. Or iPhone 3g Philippines. Or sex tapes in United Kingdom.

Honestly, you can do localized SEO with just about anything. Try it out, who knows, maybe it’ll help you out more than you know!

StumbleUpon Removes 200 Friends Capacity

I’m sure most, if not all, of you guys have heard of StumbleUpon. If you haven’t, it’s essentially a social media site for people to “stumble upon” websites. The more votes you get, the more traffic you’ll get. Originally, they had a 200 friend’s list capacity but apparently they removed it. Time for the spammers to come out!

SU has a bunch of spammers and spam sites on there and the more friends you have, the more chances you’ll get a vote your way. And a majority of people with thousands of followers and friends have a lot of SU power and authority.

Let’s compare this to Digg real quick. For instance, if you have thousands of followers then a simple shout to your friends could get you that many votes for a story of their choice. Now, it looks like StumbleUpon is headed in that direction as well.

The rumor about StumbleUpon is the fact that it brings in massive amounts of traffic but not quality traffic. When I say “not quality traffic” I mean most visitors stumble upon your site for a one-time occasion. SU visitors don’t subscribe, they don’t return, they don’t stay on your site very long and they don’t click around to check out other pages.

Now, it also depends on the niche of the site. For instance, I can guarantee you SU visitors wouldn’t bother staying on this site for long. But that’s because everyone hates MMO blogs anyways.

On the other hand, I have an entertainment website and someone managed to give me a thumbs up vote and then a domino affect took place. One vote led to another, then 50+ people voted and that equaled 15,000+ visitors (and counting).

I checked my stats as well and with my entertainment website, people actually stayed for a few minutes, browsed around the site, but still, no drastic affect (if any) in my RSS Feeds subscribers.

Anyways, I will not be focusing on getting SU traffic to this blog but rather SEO. And I’m sure that will help my weekly ad spot winners with click-throughs!

Good luck with the spam on StumbleUpon!

Misspelled Words Can Give You Traffic Too?

Misspelled words can apparently give you traffic, and definitely more traffic then you’d expect. And believe it or not, a lot of people take full advantage of this to get the traffic, so why shouldn’t you do the same?

My first example has to be JohnCow.com in which a site made based from JohnChow.com. Notice the similarities between the two? A lot of people wouldn’t even realize the two are two completely different sites.

Well, the original owner of the JohnCow.com took advantage of all those people accidentally spelling the dot com mogul, John Chow’s name wrong. I mean, we all do that once in a while, don’t we? Especially if we’re typing too fast and miss a letter and end up on some pornographic website, or in this case, at JohnCOW.com rather than JohnCHOW.com.

Now there are actually tons and tons of misspelled keywords that get a lot of traffic, you just need to know how to look those up. For instance, there was an article I saw titled Utube, Yotube, Yutube, Youtude: Take Advantage of Misspelled Words which was definitely interesting because people take advantage of the popular sites and use it for their own benefits.

This is actually a smart thing to do and I’m going to be implementing that on this website as well.

So, have there been any misspelled words that you have seen giving your site some added traffic?

Google Pagerank Does NOT Equal Traffic

You know what I think is funny?  Those people who fall into that crowd in which they think Google Pagerank will be the best thing that ever happened to them.  What adds to the humor is the fact that a large group of people have no idea what Google Pagerank is even for.  So, why are they stressing it?  Especially, since Google Pagerank does not equal traffic… unless you know SEO.

So, since Google Pagerank does not equal traffic, then why do so many people stress over it?  I mean, if you don’t have a Pagerank, it’s not like you’re not getting indexed in Google.  Am I not right?  Plus, if you don’t know how to do SEO, then why are you cherishing that number anyways?

Basically, Google Pagerank can help you get traffic, more specifically, search engine traffic, but if you have no idea how to do so, then you shouldn’t worry too much about Pagerank.  If you do, well, that’s a different story.

For instance, there are tons of people who have PR on random sites and they have no idea how they got it.  Yes, I’m one of those people… now.  Why?  Well, one of my poetry blogs which is about 8 months old only has about 15 total posts and I haven’t updated it for months.  Matter of fact, it doesn’t even have that many backlinks at all, yet, it became a PR3.

Again, I have no idea on how I got that PR3, but I know a little bit about SEO so I’m going to be using that to help me rank up in some keywords.

So, what I’m trying to say is: Google does not equal traffic, but it could definitely help if you know how to use that number!

Comment Like There’s No Tomorrow to Get Great Traffic!

Commenting has always been good for networking, discussions and sharing your input, getting attention but more importantly, getting traffic to your site!

I know commenting is time consuming but isn’t everything else when it comes to promoting and marketing? The only difference is that you’ll be getting targeted traffic based on your comment response(s).

So, how would you even get traffic?

Well, tons of people leave their blog URL in their signature but if you’re leaving a comment on a Wordpress blog, there’s an option to type in your URL. Not only that but a lot of people have Wordpress plugins to help encourage people to comment. Plugins such as Commentluv and Top Commentators will definitely help.

CommentLuv basically takes and displays your latest post as your signature in your comment and Top Commentators basically gives you a backlink on the sidebar/blogroll of that blog (sitewide).

But in addition to that, you’ll definitely get noticed by the blog owner(s) which is always a good thing. I mean, one of these days they’ll stop by your blog and maybe like it enough to give you a backlink in one of their posts.

Backlink = potential traffic.

Last thing I have to mention, though, do not spam comments! And I’m not talking about those ones that get picked up by your spam filters, I’m talking about those automated responses or the copy and paste method like “Oh, great post! It was very informative, keep up the good work!” Believe it or not, a lot of people do this and people get caught and their reputations get diminished.

So do not spam comment! Do it the old fashion way and go and actually read the article and comment if you have something to say about it.