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How I Snatched The Throne In Google For The Keyword Make Money Online – 7 Golden SEO Tricks
If a 14-year old like me made it to the frontpage of the bloody competitive keyword “Make Money Online,” Do you have a reason why you can’t?
No, SEO isn’t that hard really. All you have to do is know the basics and treat Google like a 3 year old boy looking for the cookie jar in a big kitchen.
Larry page once said:
Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
That’s what the little boy wants then what do you do? You FEED it to him – Easily.
Just imagine beating your competitor with thousands of backlinks and you with let’s say a hundred or two. Just check out how this blog with 30k backlinks overtook Bidvertiser with over 3,000,000! Yes, those are 6 zeros.
I hope I got you excited (But not too excited that you peed). Here are the 7 Golden SEO tricks that will surely beat the hell out of your competition:
1. Proper Placement and Use of Header Tags
Take a look at the source code of my blog. You’ll see that only few lines after the body tag, the h1 tag is placed with the keywords I wanted to optimize. It gives Google an early decision of what this blog is about.
Also, using of too many header tags or too many words in a single header tag may raise the flag to Google. Limit your use of the same tag in one page. Try to vary it from h1 to h6.
2. Domain Canonicalization
I know. It’s complicated, hard to pronounce and spell.
People think URLS like www.domain.com and domain.com are all the same, but search engines don’t. You can actually make two different sites from those.
What you should do is canonicalize them. Choose one and leave the other so that Google won’t go nuts on what site to rank (Remember, he’s a 3 year old) and what site to give credit for the backlinks each has got.
Here’s how you can canonicalize your domain. Add this to your .htaccess or use this plugin if you’re on Wordpress.
3. Reduce Duplicate Content within Your Site
Wordpress creates duplicate content like a maniac. There are dupes in the trackbacks, feeds, categories, monthly archives and more.
When Google finds a site with duplicate content, they throw it in their trash bin called “The Supplemental Index” Where all less trusted articles are placed.
I guess you know that Google hates (Very much) duplicate content, so what if your site has a lot of pages under the supplemental index? There icouldi be a possibility that some of your pages would rank down than what it ranks normally.
A quick solution to this is by placing a robots.txt file in your site (See mine for example) to block search engines from indexing trackbacks, feeds, categories, archives where duplicate content lies.
4. Permalinks
What most people always forget when optimizing their site for search engines is their post permalinks. Most sites have numbered permalinks (e.g. /?p=123 or /002429.html) That obviously search engines won’t understand. Permalinks can be used to put it keywords about your post title. Convert those numbered permalinks into /post-title
Use dashes, they’re the best. Underscores are the next best. No space is worst – Matt Cutts.
5. Relevancy of Title And Meta Tags
Google got smarter, smarter to understand the difference of homonyms. Google now understands what you’re talking about.
He knows LSI – Latent Semantic Indexing.
Would you title a page “Dogs” if mostly you’re talking about cats? Of course not, it’s actually obvious. It’s harder to game Google now, so use the most relevant title and meta keywords to what your blog is talking about.
6. Keyword Density
Although yes, Google knows LSI, they still like the old fashion way of ranking pages by counting its density. BUT not too much… again, Google just got smarter.
Personally, I would allow 2-4% of the content to be the keywords.
7. The Right Way to Interlink Pages
When more and more content is added to your site, there will be times when you’ll be mentioning some of the topics you have covered before. A link from your own domain still counts as a backlink. Although it doesn’t count as much as from another site, it will surely help.
Of course, you can pump out the power of interlinking by using it with something more powerful – Anchor texts. Because what I have observed from other blogs when they interlink their posts is they use anchor texts like “The dog ate the cat (read it here)” You can change it by placing an anchor text like “Read how the dog ate the cat”
My BEST Tip
Don’t be afraid of trying things. Don’t be dumb enough to try it in your bread and butter either. Experiment, study then experiment again.
Carl Ocab is one of the most successful teenage bloggers on the net. But remarkably, Carl was just 13 years old when he rose to fame with his hugely popular “make money online” website: www.carlocab.com
Hi, my name is Carl Ocab or as many call me, the “Kidblogger”. I’m a 16-year old kid from the beautiful archipelago Philippines.
November 11, 2007
4:51 pm
WOW Carl! Great article about beating google :evil:
August 30, 2008
10:38 am
Carlo,
Congrats on your success. Being the top spot for this phrase out of millions of other blogs is definitely something to admire!
Keep up the good work!
Online Dividends
November 11, 2007
4:58 pm
Thanks for the tips dude, but is there some kind of program or wordpress plugin that automatically counts keyword density in you article?
November 13, 2007
1:48 pm
You can use this tool: http://www.webconfs.com/keyword-density-checker.php to determine keyword density
November 11, 2007
5:19 pm
It’s great to see young talent in action!
November 11, 2007
7:19 pm
Sweet guide! :)
I will definitely be working on SEO on a few of my sites.
November 11, 2007
7:31 pm
Solid SEO tips, but did any of them really get you the number 1 spot for “make money online”? These are all on-site factors and we all know that Google puts a ton of weight on off-site links and anchor text.
November 13, 2007
1:53 pm
Never give all info you got :wink:
On the other hand, Yes the article concentrated on onsite factors and how I overtook bidvertiser with 3M backlinks
November 11, 2007
8:19 pm
Wicked… :shock:
November 11, 2007
10:34 pm
Carl, thanks for sharing your 7 golden seo tips. Will implement it in my site. :twisted:
November 12, 2007
7:26 am
WOW Carl, this is a very good post!
This will help me get started on my journey of blogging :) THANKS!
-Mike
November 12, 2007
7:50 am
wow.. thanks for the tips :)
Btw, I would like to ask one simple question. In the field of SEO, can blogspot overcome wordpress? or which is better, blogspot or wordpress? or these blogging platforms doesn’t really matter at all? ^_^
Thanks ;)
November 13, 2007
1:54 pm
The platform MATTERS.
I’d go with WordPress as I have total control of the site. You can’t even add a sitemap on blogspots.
November 12, 2007
11:38 am
Although I am getting the level of traffic which I am not expecting but I have to admit that I am not that good in SEO skills.
I have read many tips on them and many of it sounds Greek to me. One of the reasons that I don’t like to do SEO is that I don’t like to get my theme screwed up (I often does).
I guess maybe I should start with something easy like keyword density and internal linking. :wink:
November 12, 2007
12:32 pm
Great SEO tricks. I liked the last one. Great job…
You’ve got a nice blog, I just subscribed to your feeds. Keep writing good stuff! :mrgreen:
November 12, 2007
2:29 pm
Nice and great tips.. I also love seo Experiment. here is one of my tips.. if you may allow
http://techathand.net/2007/10/how-did-i-got-1-from-google-serp-in-manny-vs-barrera-fight-result/
November 12, 2007
5:42 pm
Great article, too bad the Digg users flamed you and left negative comments again.
November 12, 2007
5:46 pm
Thanks for the great tips, appreciated.
November 12, 2007
6:20 pm
good tips and some of this may help but it’s your “juicy” back links that got you where you are… especially with Big G.
November 12, 2007
6:55 pm
Good tips. By the time you’re my age, you should be a billionaire at this rate.
November 12, 2007
8:52 pm
You are showing as 2nd here.
Probably just on my datacenter though.
November 13, 2007
1:04 am
wow! nice article,
(btw, you’re gone for 2 days?)
November 13, 2007
2:09 am
Hey Carl Hows it going. Like the post and I grabbed the plug-in, very cool plugin that one is.
Like what you did with your Robots.txt file
November 13, 2007
4:32 am
Congratulations Carl! Those are some great tips too. It’s all basic SEO but they’re things most people neglect to do.
November 13, 2007
6:10 am
Great article. Now, what I should do is put it to good use.
November 13, 2007
6:11 am
Great Article. Now to put this to good use.
November 13, 2007
4:25 pm
Thanks for sharing this one..^^..this is a very useful article.
November 13, 2007
10:15 pm
This is another effective linkbaiting strategy.
Don’t worry about the Digg comments, because it only matters that you got a lot diggs — no what they comment.
November 14, 2007
5:35 am
where are the flame comments?
deleted it already?
November 14, 2007
7:58 am
Great article but thats now how you got to the top of google. The marketing of your age etc is how you got there. Every Seo blog has the same list. Not everybody is making to the top ranks of google tho.
November 14, 2007
2:42 pm
I’ve heard different stories on the Permalink thing. Some people say it doesn’t matter, others that it’s of marginal importance and others say having a keyword in the URL is very important.
I think it’s quite important from a user friendly standpoint because they can visually scan the URL and determine what the link is about where a query string link or a code number link won’t provide this feedback. This could play into search ranking simply because visitors are more likely to click a link they feel like they can trust.
November 14, 2007
3:36 pm
Nice Post, Carl. You have listed out some very good points.
November 15, 2007
5:20 am
Thats great advise
I’m 15 years old (just thought you should know)
I’m bookmarking this site
November 15, 2007
10:59 am
thanks for the great tips…
November 15, 2007
8:09 pm
Thank you for the tips, and great job on the ranking.
November 16, 2007
10:22 pm
Carlo – I was looking at your robots.txt file – based on your suggestions about duplicate content, would it be wise to Disallow WordPress /category/ and /tag/ directories also?
November 17, 2007
4:55 pm
Good article carl, want lots of SEO tips from you. I request you to view my site and point out my faults.
Please carl, Thanks!
November 18, 2007
6:06 am
Great tips buddy,I have tried a few of those and quite successful with what i have done. thanks a lot for the tips
November 18, 2007
2:55 pm
Very Well Done Carl, I have added you as an example to my post! Thanks for these really cool tips! It will help a lot especially for us beginners!
November 18, 2007
3:03 pm
Very Well Done Carl, Congrats!
These is a very cool tips for us especially for beginners like me… I like the part that says “Don’t be afraid of trying things. Don’t be dumb enough to try it in your bread and butter either. Experiment, study then experiment again”. Very challenging!!!
November 21, 2007
2:33 pm
Short, sweet and too the point, well done.
November 25, 2007
1:59 am
Great post Carl and thanks for the tips – I know there are severl off site factors that come into ply here too but these are good onsite tips for those targeting SEO strategies.
Chris
November 26, 2007
11:23 pm
Wow, thanks for these tricks, I’ll definitely be sure and focus on some of those!
December 7, 2007
8:32 pm
Good article on SEO…but I have one question. In tip #3, you talk about reducing dup content. But you have the same article as an individual blog post and on your SEO section. Wouldn’t that trip up the content filter…I’ve heard that the best way to avoid this is to do a “Read more…” teaser on category pages.
January 2, 2008
8:27 pm
Excellent Article! Im going to put this into practice straight away!
Visit http://money-makingtruth.blogspot.com/
January 9, 2008
3:45 am
Great article. Your tip about permalink redirects actually led me to realise that was a problem for me. Thanks.
January 12, 2008
10:52 pm
Nice tips carlo
I also notice that you do tips “The Right Way to Interlink Pages” on your pages very neatly.. i like that :).
thanks for the tips
best regards and joy
Ziqry
http://www.123toattractwealth.com
January 15, 2008
4:05 am
Great article, and its amazing how your site is on top. Great site, and article.
jase240
January 20, 2008
3:32 am
Awesome young fellow! Are you guy really 13 years old? I am good myself at seo (I’m on the first page for the keyword affiliate marketing with a handful of backlinks as well), but it;s the first time I hear this: Canonicalization!
I will try it man, thanks.
Franck The body guard.
January 21, 2008
2:48 am
Hello Carl,
Its been while I am seeing your blog. Great work dude.
Congrats on beating money…..blogspot.com…
I would like to list some points in your seo list…..
All your onpage stuff and…..
1) your original/good content
2) Back links most are related (in compare to bidvertiser.com’s lacs of links which are not related)
3) your are linking to your competitors ( I don’t know how but you grab them ;))
4) And last but not least your so called “13-14 years boy” popularity….(yes Google looks those as well)
Let us know how you gather this much good back links and how much you spent (in terms of time, money, help etc.) and your strategy for gaining it.
–
Thanks and Best of Luck
February 24, 2008
9:13 pm
Hi,
absolutely amazing what you know at your age, i wish i had this type of knowlege.
I for sure have to work on my sites SEO for sure.
they would be hard to find out in google land.
steve
March 10, 2008
6:45 am
Good info mate !!
Thanks
March 11, 2008
6:35 am
Congratulations! Great blog!
But it looks like the blogspot person beat you to #1 now.
March 12, 2008
10:26 pm
Carl, is all that high ranking converting into dollars for you? We would be interested in a post on how that #1 ranking affected your bottom line
March 12, 2008
10:48 pm
Carl,
I read somewhere you commented, “wow the hard work is finally paying off”. I assume in reaction to your rankings. What would you say was this hard work? Link building?
Do you recall how many links you built manually?
thanks
vlad
http://www.imoneyonline.com
March 16, 2008
11:16 pm
Thanks Carl, good info! Question though. I pretty new and was wondering where you put the Robot txt file. when you upload it? Wp-content? or ??
Thanks,
Jay
March 20, 2008
6:53 am
Although you could have mentioned the real reason why you managed to get on #1 for make money online, it is a good post.
March 27, 2008
9:06 am
I really appreciate all the tips — really inspiring.
That’s Wordpress plugin redirect thing, however, that gave errors when trying to redirect a post that appeared in Google to my site.
So I deactivated that.
March 27, 2008
11:32 pm
Really helpful article great work!
April 23, 2008
9:39 am
Sorry dude you are not number one.
May 14, 2008
2:20 am
Yep yep! He is NOT!
July 3, 2008
4:57 pm
I guess the rankings have changed since the time this article was posted but he’s still pretty high up, number 3, if I’m not mistaken….
Anyway, great tips!
May 1, 2008
9:51 am
Carl I am sure your generous information will be helpful to many, including myself. It was great that you supplied the code too. I am trying to increase traffic to my art related blog which is gaining popularity but still needs a boost and this was helpful for me. Thank you.
It would be helpful if you could return to answer some of the questions in the feedback comments above posted over the past few months?
Well done and congratulations. If I was your age, I would promote it too. Good on you.
http://kayleenwest.blogspot.com
May 3, 2008
2:15 am
How the hell got Bidvertiser 6 million backlinks?!!!
May 22, 2008
8:03 am
Hi,Carl i must say that this is nice post about “SEO Tricks”…well done,thanks.
June 9, 2008
10:15 pm
Thanks Carl for sharing these SEO tricks!
July 3, 2008
4:54 pm
Very interesting! I’ll try those tips…
Thanks a lot!
July 7, 2008
10:15 pm
Thanks for sharing these tips!
Also thanks for the heads up regarding the fact that google is becoming a smart 3 year-old boy.
;)
July 17, 2008
12:19 pm
Great tips! Especially about canonicalization.
July 24, 2008
7:20 am
Hi Carl..
Great Ranking you got, It motivates me to tweak my blog again and again and go to SEO Work once more
Regards
Samar Eldin
http://www.SamarEldin.com
September 9, 2008
3:20 pm
Hello bro, I’m Vanni, I am blogging a month already, and your site gives me a lot of inputs. Thanks. Keep it up.
September 16, 2008
2:46 pm
These are awesome blogging techniques from a young genius boy. are you sure you are 13? as I am reading this post, you sound like 10 years older than me.
I bookmark this page. I further study this page and implement it on my site.
survivordean
September 18, 2008
3:39 pm
Congratulations for getting at number 1 for the highly competitive keyword. Most of your tips are applicable only to Wordpress. I use blogspot and I hope you have tips about how to optimize it too. Thanks in advance.
October 30, 2008
8:45 am
I am skeptical … sorry.
I think you did it by selling ads on your site which pays your MASSIVE google PPC ad campaign costs, because I bet there is a real ton of money to be had by google for that keyword phrase.
Of course google put you first … you are making them rich.
November 1, 2008
7:00 am
No matter what he spends on PPC, it’s a very small drop, in a very large bucket. He is not making google rich.
Google did not manual put him first in the natural search results as you imply by saying, “of course google put you first”. You don’t get listed high in the search results by spending a “MASSIVE” amount on PPC.
It would be stupid to do that anyways. How would google make money putting someone first in the natural results? They get paid when someone clicks on an adwords ad, not a natural search listing.
November 9, 2008
9:35 am
You must have spent an arm and a leg on googe adwords inorder to be placed first. Why do you people keep on tweeking the truth just to sell
November 10, 2008
8:15 am
Amazing tactics!
Renante Beron
http://www.chapsoy.net.tc
December 19, 2008
1:51 pm
Thanks carl.I will too follow it i specialy liked the trick 1 header tags
achute
http://www.techgeektricks.co.cc
December 23, 2008
10:29 pm
Very nice work.
I only have one blog with WP but I am going to expand that today.
Thank you for sharing!
December 30, 2008
12:04 am
This is a good list. But you do not mention how you got your backlinks.
Thanks
Rick
January 5, 2009
6:30 pm
Carl! This is a great article.. Thanks for all the useful SEO tips! I especially like the tips on duplicate content and interlinking (2 subjects i really need to work harder on.. i.e. not dup content, but i’ve been a bit lazy with the interlinking..)
Thanks Man!
http://blog-basics-for-beginners.blogspot.com
February 1, 2009
4:55 pm
That was a great article.Thanks a lot :) please give more such articles .
February 2, 2009
9:54 pm
Wow, impressive. Your posts are very useful for all of us bloggers. That’s why I keep coming back to check what’s new. Thanks again for the great post! :-)
February 3, 2009
12:27 am
Excellent info man!
February 25, 2009
2:09 am
Carl you’re the BOMB. This article really helped. I suck at SEO. And its a pain in the butt but i’m trying to learn so at least i can teach others to do it for me. Thanks You little genius! Child SEO Prodigy Carl Ocab.
Tony