Category — seo

Secret Behind AdWords KW Suggestion Tool That Google Does NOT Want You to Know

A few months back Google released search volume as part of their Keyword Suggestion Tool. SEOs and Online Marketers were very excited about this development. Not since Yahoo’s Overture tool have we been able to see the search volume for the major search engines. Sure there are services like Wordtracker, but lets face it their data has nothing in comparison to what the big G can give.

The problem is what most people do not realize is that Google is flat out misleading you about the search volume.  Any SEO who has finally attained that first position and does not get even 1/10 of the traffic promised by this tool knows exactly what I am talking about.

Here is the secret behind the Keyword Suggestion Tool

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Recently I visited the Affiliate Summit East and got to meet some Black Hat SEOs from WickedFire. I won’t go into a review on the summit in this blog, but I will talk about some interesting conversations I had with the black hats. First of all, I have to admit conferences like these are not great because of the things you “learn” but are great because you finally get to meet the people you read about. There is just something about shaking another persons hand that a blog, article, email, or anything else can’t top.

I considered myself as white hat as it gets. My goal was to grow a “legitimate” publishing business. I had a whole business plan laid out where I would hire staff writers and product blog style content. I figured with my white hat SEO tactics and original content it shouldn’t be tough to start making some serious scratch. Well I was dead wrong and the blackhats have helped me join the dark side. Let me explain white whitehat and blackhat are the same thing.

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As much as I love bashing Google for the BS they pull, there are people out there who are one hundred times more effective, not only in the things they find but in the amount of people who listen to what they have to say. All I have to say is keep up the good fight.

My top 10 favorite SEO Google Haters.

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You ever hate being called an SEO guy?

I decided to take GoogleSearchSucks in another direction. I realized I can not compete on being first to break online marketing news. I also can’t take away the attention people seem to focus on the Gurus. From now on every post will be either a graph, a cartoon, or a funny image having to do with Online Marketing.

This first graph was my attempt of trying to explain to a buddy how online marketing works.

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