Aftermath of Optimizing Keywords for Specific Regions
Optimizing keywords in specific countries will result to great traffic upsurge. That’s what I’ve noticed in my blog. I tried to optimize short keywords like NLE, MRS, HDB, HBO or SSS in google.com, but it’s quite hard to reach the first page due to some global rivals racing to top for those 3-letter keywords. With the help of Google Trends, I found out that it’s not necessary to optimize one of my keywords in other countries, because that keyword brings great amount of traffic from one specific region only, and it’s the Philippines. Other countries are not searching for NLE, so why not optimize it in google.com.ph only.
As you can see in the screenshot below the keyword trend of NLE comes mostly from the Philippines, and only a few percentage from other countries. So take advantage of some NLE traffic, optimize it in google.com.ph only.
After a series of keyword optimization, I reached the top spot, including my free hosted i.ph sites, respectively garnered the 3rd and 5th spot for the said keyword in Google Philippines’ SERP.
So, will this give me some visitors? Even if I don’t rank on International Datacenters? Obviously, it does. It delivers daily dose of unique visits to my blog. My daily unique visitors increased from 1000 to 2000+ per day. My Adsense earnings increased from $5.00 daily to $15.00 daily.
I know you’re now curious how to optimize your blog post or website in specific regions. It will bring you great traffic, at the same time increase your Adsense earnings by optimizing such keyword with lesser competitors in google.com.ph compared to google.com.
To optimize your keywords in specific regions only, you should build links in Philippine-based websites only.
How will you know if it’s from the Philippines? Even if the site is hosted outside the Philippines and its IP address is located in the US, UK or any other foreign countries.
One factor to determine a Philippine-based website is if its domain is [dot]ph. Hehehe. That’s one obvious element to determine the nationality of a certain website. The other one is the keyword density of the website. If it contains the word “Philippines” or other parts of the Philippines such as Davao, Manila, or Cebu, (or any other words, events, or products that is related in the Philippines) it’s more likely from the Philippines. Other factor is that the site’s traffic is mostly from the Philippines, you can check this data using Alexa.com. The last factor that I know is if the IP address of the user that maintain and do frequent updates to a blog or a website originates from the Philippines. These are just a few factors that will increase your SERP rankings in a specific region such as the Philippines.
If you know other factors or techniques to optimize a page in specific regions, why not leave a comment and share what’s in your gray matter about this SEO stuff.
A screen shot of my increase in daily Adsense earnings:
A screenshot of my Google Analytics unique visitors increase:
Tags: Geo-Targetting, Keywords, Optimization, Philippines, Regions, Search Engines, SEO
March 15th, 2008 at 8:15 am
MAGALING…!!!!!.. Di ko napagisipan ito ah.. he he e
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March 15th, 2008 at 8:54 am
[...] good SEO post that was provided by Fellow Filipino Blogger Jehzlau. He pointed that it is better to optimized keyword in specific Google Data Centers where the keyword is being searched. It was indeed a good tip. He said that it is hard to be # 1 in [...]
March 15th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Idol. Galing mo mag SEO.
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March 15th, 2008 at 11:07 am
@ Dexter – thanks
@ Hussein – Salamat..
wahehehehe..
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March 15th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Nice Tip Jez
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March 15th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
@cesar – thanks thanks thank you :d
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March 16th, 2008 at 2:51 am
galing tlaga ni SEO prince!
tnong ku lang, pnu mo na blend ng ganyan yung ads mo? nwala ung word na “Ads By Google”, pnu un?
and one more thing, iba ung look ng navigation mo sa IE….
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March 16th, 2008 at 4:04 am
Great tips here you got, Jehz. Thanks for this one. I’ve also been lately doing this and using Gtrends.
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March 16th, 2008 at 8:16 am
hi there, maganda ang paliwanag mo anout optimization. i’ll try that. exchange links naman. at may tanong din ako, paano maglagay ng pages sa blog tulad nung sa’yo? ung may home affiliates, nlogmayes, etc. please answer at the cbox on my site. http;//limferdi.blogspot.com, newbie lang kasi ako. have a nice day.
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March 16th, 2008 at 10:48 am
talagang WOW na tong site na to!
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March 16th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
mmm.. galing. makes sense dude.
hehe you gave me an excellent idea kung ano gagawin ko sa tech blog ko hehe.
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March 16th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
[...] Jehzlau says that instead of optimizing for the international search results, you could try optimizing keywords for specific regions. In other words, instead of aiming to be on top on Google.com, try aiming for the stop spot on [...]
March 16th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
It’s clear! You are the philippine’s king of SEO. :D Keep it up!
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March 16th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
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March 16th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
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March 17th, 2008 at 2:03 am
wow another great tip from jehzlau concepts hehe thanks!
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March 17th, 2008 at 3:53 am
@paul0 – hehehe.. may bug yan.. di ko nga mapalabas yung “Ads By Google”. Dunno why.. sa ibang blog naman lumalabas.. i think may prob sa domain.. pero may kita naman ako daily. .kaya pinabayaan ko lang.. hehe
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March 17th, 2008 at 3:55 am
@work in dubai – thanks.. hehehehe
@limferdi – hehehe.. nag iwan na ako ng comment sa blog mo with instructions.. hehe
@phaelun – wow ka dyan.. wahehehe..
@sylv3rblade – hehe.. yeah gawin mo… masaya yan.. mataas traffic heehee
@ayel – hahaha SEO king ka dyan! toink!
@Glenn – thanks Glenn :D
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March 17th, 2008 at 4:02 am
@paul0 – oo nga… napansin ko din yan.. fix ko nalang pag may gana.. yoko na e fix sa IE kakatamad.. wahehehe..
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March 17th, 2008 at 5:25 am
another great article by jehzlau concepts! you rock dude!
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March 17th, 2008 at 6:07 am
Thanks for the tip “Master J” hehe. Keep it comimg.
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March 17th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Thanks for the tip “Master J” hehe. Keep it coming.
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March 17th, 2008 at 8:50 am
gusto ko na tuloy magcreate ng board exam results site din. hehehe.
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March 17th, 2008 at 10:37 am
thank you sa tips mo. nakaelivs ka, ang sami mong comments at visitors.
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March 17th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
layo na yata narating nito ah, genius talaga!…keep it up br0!…=)
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March 17th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
@marhgil – wahehehe.. hindi yan sa PRC-BER na traffic no :P higher pa sa PRC-BER.. pero wag ka na gawa.. kampihan mo nalang me.. wahahaha! mahirap na.. wahahaha!
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March 17th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
@jun – waaa master ka dyan.. toink!
@limferdi – hehehe.. thanks.. wala me fans no.. waaaaa! mga nag cocomment lang yan kasi feel nila.. hehe
@drei – waaaaaaaa! genius ka dyan! hehe
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March 19th, 2008 at 5:44 am
how is that again?
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March 26th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Hmmm… Taas kilay…
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April 16th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Very nice
btw very good tips i will use them. Some of them i did not knew.
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May 3rd, 2008 at 5:45 pm
This defintly is a good post on SEO well I was unaware of such a fact with SEO.
Thanks for this useful post.
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May 5th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
first and foremost i would like to give thanks to nuffnang ads for knowing flair candy and thank you flair candy for pointing me to shoutout lounge and a very big thanks to shoutout lounge for leading me to this incredible blog….. syndicate this now and ctrl+D
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October 7th, 2009 at 6:49 am
hahahaha! Thanks din JD for being an avid reader of my blog
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June 10th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
your site is indeed helpful to bloggers like me who doesn’t know how to optimize their own blogs.. so cool!
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October 7th, 2009 at 6:49 am
Thanks Gracie
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July 13th, 2009 at 2:54 am
wow! ang galing mo talaga jehzlau! umm! pano kaya maty ung ginawa mo.. grabe! nakakabilib ka he he
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October 7th, 2009 at 6:49 am
nyok.. di ako magaling
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October 7th, 2009 at 12:49 am
Hey great seo tips..one question, How many links we talking about here?
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jehzlau Reply:
October 7th, 2009 at 6:49 am
Around 5 to 10 of unique backlinks will do.
More than that baka ma penalize ka. So mabuti na yung nag iingat 
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April 19th, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Kuya Jehz..my site has a link to different sites, including your site but don’t get any good traffic..my pr and traffic doesn’t increase too
(sigh) can you help please??
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