ISULONG SEOPH

One linkbaiting technique that are popping up left and right are howto videos and XX minutes to do something.

Currently parsing and import AOL Data to the database for further scrutiny. This is really interesting. I feel like a voyeur. 20M lines of data is enough to stir one’s curiousity.

My boss and I had a discussion over dinner about current trends in Search Engine Optimation. Various techniques came up including those that still work and those that are obsolete. Nope, blackhat was out of the question. Our shop don’t do blackhat. We’re optimizing real online business. Actually, we are more on the marketing side and only do optimization as one of the component of marketing.

Yes, we focus more on marketing sites rather than optimizing sites. Not to say we don’t optimize our sites, we do, as long as it will not take our sites off search engine indexes. What good can your uber-optimized site when it won’t appear in search results?

Anyway, it is common nowadays to think of Google first when search is mentioned. It is perhaps due to the fact that before google search engine optimization wasn’t this competitive. Now, you compete with google and other SEOs gunning for the same niche. Now you should have a well defined strategy whereas we can just have lots and lots of pages with keywords stuffed in every available space they have.

Today, when everybody is doing the same thing that you do to optimize your page, you should have a way to do it differently and effectively. Determine the saturation point of your inbound links, for instance. Just how much inbound links do you need just to go up 1 spot in SERPs. Can the link buying expenses be justified by the increase in revenue for that 1 levelup? If not leave it that way and look in other places. Link out for instance. Make it natural. Who knows search engines have a way to determine link greedy sites. Yeah, there must be an algo like that somewhere? Spending is one area where online marketing differs from plain dumb optimization.

Now you know why my isulong seoph entry suck. I suck as a SEO.

I have developed an SEO tool for those who are doing PPC campaign. Unfortunately, my client owns it. This tool will do the researching for you. It’ll need a hundred or so servers and months of data gathering.

Haven’t done much SEO lately. Went back to programming. I’ll again one of these days.

Only a month and a half is left for the isulong seoph sites to put themselves in the first page of google search for the phrase isulong seoph. I’ve been stucked in page 5 of the SERP when I checked this morning. Frankly, I don’t expect to get near page 1.

I’m much comfortable at isulong seoph page 5. My attempt was futile. I am concluding this early that on-page will have no match really against off-page. But then again in real world SEO, dirty tactics can be made to get that spot we’ve alway wanted. And my be is still on on-page optimization.

Why on-page? There are just too little dependency on other sites. I’m not risking having use a technique that used to legal in the eyes of google but becomes illegal after google declared them to be abused too much. Isulong SEOPH did taught me alot about when to use and when not to use a technique.

In real world, I won’t risk using blackhat technique. Especially when the competition for that niche/keyword is hot. You’re only inviting to be delisted in the index and lose that precious spot and money.

Just with everything I do in life, I try to be clean a I can be. Just follow what is right by convention. In the end winning is not everything.