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Teknik SEO Indonesia. I have been in long discussion with Keke (seokita.com), a friend who dedicates his career in SEO for … hmm, I am not sure how long. Well, at least as long as I know him, which is about 6 years. He has been trying to convince me about his theory which he thinks is going to be the future of SEO. Future? Well, okay, maybe not that dramatic. At least the new trend which will remain for at least a few next years … just like link-trading in the past.
Running business websites with strong brand recognition, I was quite conservative in adopting his theory. However, as I am responsible for commercial success of various websites, tuning into SEO issues is part of my professional responsibility. I am seeing that journals, forums, newsgroups, started to talk about the same. Again … my role forced me to be very conservative.
Recently I think it is time to see the theory at work myself. So I decided to set up a new website for this. If it affects negatively, I won’t loose anything more than a domain, hosting, and a bit of time. I started in an obvious steps in setting up an SE-targeted website: keyword assessment and so forth. Along the way it came into my mind a kind of spirit to help people. Decided to go for a website which will give a guide for Indonesian who does not speak English. I bought seobali.com, hosted it in my own Linux server, and install the most popular blogging script: WordPress.
I picked “teknik SEO” as my main keyword target. I think it fits the content. Once it is done as my test, it will serve its real role as a kind of “educational” resource, of SEO knowhow in Indonesian language. Moderate competition, search in Google resulted in 550,000 competition. Competitive enough to prove the effectiveness of the theory, but not too competitive, so it should take reasonable time to come to a conclusion. I set a target of 1-3 months to see the real result. Quite n optimistic target for old-fashioned white-hat SEO.
Everything was set, I started to write my post in Jan 22nd 2008. I tried to push myself to write at least one post everyday, whilst implementing the theory. To ensure that the success (or failure) comes solely from the implementation of the new theory, I avoid any “old” SEO practices like directory submission, link partnership, even submission to search engine. I did nothing more than write posting and implementation of the theory. In addition, I use my existing SEO Elite tool to watch its ranking.
It came as a big surprise that this morning, Jan 27th 2008, only 5 days since I wrote my 1st post, the website came as #1 in Google for the targeted keyword of “teknik SEO”. Bigger surprise than Soeharto’s pass-away, definitely. Hiked up to the top of 550,000 competition on the most “difficult” search engine.
Well, I do not know weather it is just a “surge” - which sometime happens when a website out of a sudden shines like star but falls down in a matter of days - or permanent result. I will keep on doing exactly the same as I did. First to watch the trend, second to satisfy the site’s social mission as a learning resource for my people.
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January 31st, 2008 at 12:26 am
the way you believe what is working on seo, is the best method to being a seomaster. experiences is the best teacher. he is tell us more than paid seo gurus.