SEO in the Philippines is fast growing. I remember back in 2004 I was just one of the avid bloggers who decided to work for a BPO company and worked with a seven thousand per month payday.

Honestly I didn’t really know much about SEO that time I just trusted my gut feel and decided to explore new horizons.

But now Philippine SEO’s are being known in the world with some, being mentioned in SEOmoz and by other well known Western SEO’s.

SEO in the philippines also opened a lot of opportunites to filipinos who want to learn.

I’ve heard of stories of former office assistants learning PPC and becoming well known in the world of SEM.

I also heard of lone SEO’s who started learning about it when rebuked by westerners as he overheard the conversation between them in a coffee house. He looked at it as a challenge and learned the ropes. He then spearheaded the development of the SEO Organization in the Philippines.

The number of BPO’s who once started from creating call center agents eventually gave way to link-builders and writers that opened the flood gates for more potential.

In short SEO in the philippines gave power to those who are willing to learn and to understand the how’s and why’s of search marketing.

(to be continued)

Does this kind of site exist?

Actually it does. See Below:

Seophilippines.net ranks number 6 in the first page of Google and if that is not even uniquely insulting to other SEO’s in the Philippines then take a look at the content of the website:

So you see there is no content, no optimization and a lot more of pure nothing. So tell me why does this website rank? How about we look at the backlinks.

You see not only is it losing its back-links it is also does not follow the proper way of varying its anchor text as seen below:

So seriously Google what gives? Why is this site ranking whereas other websites don’t? And to note it is ranking for how many months already.

Sometimes things like these makes one consider if doing SEO is still all worth it.

You sell a product.

A good product and this product ranks well in Google, meaning when users type about it, its’ in the first page.

But alas you have a competitor.

Now this competitor wants to malign your reputation and product image in the net.

So what does this competitor do?

He creates a website and places negative reviews of your product complete with pictures and testimonials from other users of your product.

Now how will this hurt your target market when the next thing you know it shows up in the first page of Google after your search result?

Look at it this way.

You may have the number one position and the next one under you for that particular keyword is the negative site created by your competitor.  Chances are your potential customers would never buy your product or not even visit your website.

That is how tragic it is.

I’ve had clients who had far more horror stories than you could imagine.

Need some examples?

Check out these sites:

PayPalSucks.com

HomeDepotSucks.com

WakeUpWalmart.com

But wait theres’ more!

Other than having a negative effect on your business and product the website gets’ stuck in the first page of google and guess what it even outranks your keyword!

So how do you go about this?

Now what I’m going to discuss is very well the most well studied approach in dealing with such negative results in the net.

The main Idea is to push down the negative results and in so doing get ahead of the competition, save your business and make yourself-well RICHER!

So here’s a step by step approach:

Step 1. Utilize the use of Web 2.0 that is create a social networking profile. Create profiles in Facebook and LinkedIn.

Step 2. Create your own Wiki, Wikipedia is a great site to start from but another great one is Wet Paint which is fully customizable and will surely create a leverage in Google listings.

Step 3. Claim ownership of your business. That is to go to Naymz and create your profile in it. It enables you to link to your other profiles (Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace) in the web.

Anyway that’s it for now if you have other questions or if you want to follow up on a better list other than this just comment in this article or email me.

Some are for it while some are against it.

Honestly I don’t see the point of debate.

The way I see it there are two kinds of bloggers.

1. People who blog because they want to.
2. People who blog because they have to.

While certain points of contentions were raised, ranging from the logical to the most ridiculous.

I can’t fail to note the experience I had when I proposed the idea of creating an SEO/SEM group for the Philippines. (Though I may not be the first one to do so)

I offered this intention to one of the senior SEO/SEM members of the group and the next thing he was telling me was “What do we need an SEO/SEM group for?” followed by a diatribe of anti-seo/sem-group-no-use-whatsoever. I tried to reason with him but it was just like talking to a hardcore-leftist who can’t recognize fact from fiction. And the irony of it is we were all there because he will be teaching his techniques on SEO/SEM and like giddy high-school-girls we were all huddled around him hanging onto every word he was saying.

So I shut up, I figured there’s no use arguing, yet I still have high hopes that if ever he reads this he might be able to change his thoughts on the matter.

It is beneficial to have an SEO/SEM group because of the following:

1. Credibility to the practitioner of SEO/SEM – imagine the vast number of foreign and local clients looking for “credible” and “reliable” Filipino SEO/SEM only to find someone who’s not credible ergo wasting the time, resources and opportunity granted by the client plus the blemishing of the Filipino Brand. Let’s admit it we are in the SEO/SEM field because in one way or the other we want to sell our services.

2. So we’ve mentioned credibility which translates to accreditation, this time working in groups can enhance education, being able to buy SEO Tools, Online SEO Updates from SEOmoz, webinars, word tracker and other paid SEO services is cheaper in a group. This is a major advantage because not only are we going to be able to heighten our own SEO/SEM’s awareness in the world market but we are actually leveling the playing field between us and our foreign competitors.

3. Fair and Justifiable Remuneration – being an SEO/SEM is a hard job, not only are we trying to understand the search engines but we are also trying to be well compensated for those efforts. Being able to earn a fair amount of training, accreditation, and experience are such that it demands a governing body to determine and set the standards for such. It alarms me that a number of BPO companies are not paying their SEO/SEM’s well, when they can earn this from other clients and themselves.

4. Branding and Marketing Leverage – It is not only about working for other people but also working for themselves, SEO/SEM provides the practitioner the chance to earn for himself, may it be thru adsense or affiliate marketing, also helping these people and creating an SEO/SEM group will benefit everyone as local advertisers will be able to recognize the potential for advertising growth. When you are an SEO/SEM you are basically branding yourself and having a team that is ready to accept projects from San Miguel, Globe or Smart is not a joke.

5. Hope for the young ones and legacy -I remember the trip I took to Pinatubo, the whole trip was run by a Korean, in fact he monopolized it as such that everyone that comes in and out of Pinatubo pays him. He connived with the local mayor and then uses the locals to do the touring for him. It is a very sad fact that if we fail to recognize our potential as SEO/SEM practitioners the tendency is for foreigners to take advantage of that weakness and capitalize on that. Not that I have anything against foreigners but on a bigger perspective that is how we lost the Marikina shoe industry and other indigenous industries in the country. Furthermore if we do not take care of the SEO/SEM industry in our country chances are a lot of young SEO/SEM practitioners will continually be taken advantage of by their employers instead of empowering them to become independent and well paid Internet Marketers.

My hope is that in the future SEO/SEM will be one of the bread and butter of our economy and country, that we may be able to set our foot proudly not only in the world but also in the web. That it may not die a natural death, and we would be recognized as an equal SEO/SEM provider and not as a last resort link-builder.

So I think it pays to have an interest in creating a National Bloggers Association if only for the fact that these bloggers want to do something positive for the country and for its bloggers.

As for those who don’t want to join, then just don’t.

Or better yet just blog about it.

They posited that Google is  dumbing down its algorithm in favor of seo companies that are able to blast their way to the top results of the search engines by virtue of creating spammy links towards their competitors.

See Below:

Pixelgrinder and I conducted a little experiment on whether negative seo was possible in the current climate – we felt it was important to know whether it was possible for a site to be negatively affected completely by outside influences. This experiment was not done with the knowledge or consent of TrafficPlanet.com owners/admin/moderators.
We carried out a massive scrapebox blast on two sites to ensure an accurate result. The two sites we chose and the reasons we chose them are as follows:

seofaststart.com (Dan Thies)

1. He has received a direct response from Matt Cutts on Twitter, so if we were able to affect his site he is more likely than most to get the ear of the right person and show google what can be done (https://twitter.com/#!/danthies/statuses/180389475497676801)

2. A self proclaimed “seo guru” (Hi, I’m Dan Thies. Although I’m best known as the “keyword guru,” I’ve been practicing, studying and teaching advanced search engine marketing strategy and tactics for several years http://www.seoresearchlabs.com/) – it should be harder than most to affect the site of an “seo guru”.

3. If it works, he should be smart enough to profit from all of the publicity he would get out of it.

4. He already has several domains 301d to seofaststart.com without penalty (not a white hat tactic) – we were wondering if he had been ‘protected’ in some way.

5. He is a suck-up-brown-noser, smugly bad mouthing everyone and crowing that “many pants are being pooped and it’s long overdue” – we don’t like him.

negativeseo.me

1. They are selling services for negative seo under the tagline “destroy your competitors”.

Rankings Before (22nd March):

seofaststart.com
dan thies – number 1
seo – number 11
seo service – number 34
seo book – number 3

negativeseo.me
negative seo – number 2
destroy your competitiors – number 1

Timeline:

15th March – Dan Thies posts smug tweets to Matt Cutts and pisses off the entire internet.

18th March – seofaststart.com – blog posts started – anchor text “seo” “seo service” and “seo book”

22th March – seofaststart.com – 1 million scrapebox blast started – 100% anchor text “Dan Thies”

24th March – negativeseo.com – 1 million scrapebox blast started – 100% anchor text “destroy your competitors”

26th March – Dan Thies posts in Twitter that he has received an unnatural links message.

Note: 18th March – seofaststart blog posts started. This was NOT US. We had previously decided that it would be risky to ‘out’ the blogs that links were getting placed on and agreed not to include blog posts in our experiment. We don’t know who did this, how many links they built or what network/s they used. We discovered these links in ahrefs and have estimated that about 5000 links where built, probably with ALN between the 18th-23rd March.

Ranking After (18th April) note rankings are still jumping a little:

seofaststart.com
dan thies – number 1 (still number 1)
seo – not in top 1000 (down from number 11)
seo service – not in top 1000 (down from number 34)
seo book – number 34 (down from number 3)

negativeseo.me
negative seo – number 6 (down from number 2)
destroy your competitiors – number 13 (down from number 1)

Other stuff of interest right now:

ahrefs seofaststart.com (notice how few of our 1 million scapebox links have shown up!)
https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/backlinks/subdomains/www.seofaststart.com

ahrefs negativeseo.me (notice how few of our 1 million scrapebox links have shown up!)
https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/backlinks/subdomains/www.negativeseo.me

Dan Thies begging on google groups
https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!category-topic/webmasters/chit-chat/Azfly-iRtLs

Our personal message to Matt Cutts/Google: 

Negative SEO is possible. Sort it out!

Our personal message to Dan Thies:

Next time you want to smugly throw your holier than thou 2 cents into the ring, think before you speak. Every backlink to your site was analyzed before starting this. Don’t think those 301d domains hide what you are doing because they don’t – you are the same as the rest of us – your methods for link bait are, in fact, worse than some of the ‘spammers’ you so often refer to. Now your pants are being pooped and it’s long overdue

….. thanks!

Source: HERE

The post has become a wide hit in the world of internet marketing, and following Google’s over-optimization penalty this has gone the way of creating a trend that is nowadays brought out by the changes Google churned out.

So right now we are not just going to be concerned with creating high quality links, we are also going to be concerned with making sure to report some un-natural links created towards our clients which would require us to have a really powerful backlinks checker.

To note as of current time seofaststart.com is still down with its rankings:

 dan thies – 1 (only this has retained its original position)

seo – not in top 100

seo service – 43

seo book – not in top 100

My Take On This:

I personally don’t believe with negative seo until I stumbled upon this study. My initial response before was that Google will just ultimately de-index all the un-natural links created to the website involved, followed by the experience of build my rank and other similar services. Perhaps I trusted Google too much when it comes to making a website rank. But if there’s one thing to be proven when it comes to all this it is only that Google is really not helping at all with regards to spammy links and its effects.

Perhaps when Google was sending the un-natural links message they were also trying to determine where those links came from but at the same time they are not sure if those links are either created by you or not. Either way there has yet to be any reply from Matt Cutts with regards to this, and while Rand Fishkin has offered his own websites as targets it was also deemed an unfair study to begin with, being that because he named the urls they wouldn’t qualify as an experimental group.

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Step 2 – Article Published
We publish your article randomly on 1 of our high page rank, aged domains. You control how many articles are published daily for each of your domains.

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Once your article is published we first create an RSS feed of the article and submit to various feed aggregators such as FeedAgg, Feedage, and countless others. Not only does this help articles get indexed rapidly, but it’ll also drive some backlinks to your article from other sites.
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Relatively they are doing their SEO well and right as such that they even approach their link-building in a drip-feed format, it has no difference with having a blog network where guest posting is practiced. Now the ultimate question is why did they fold-up? Why do they need to fold up? What made them fold up?

Apparently Google sent 700k emails to webmasters back in January 2011 an example of the letter is stipulated below:

Dear site owner or webmaster of http://www.domain.com/,

We’ve detected that some of your site’s pages may be using techniques that are outside Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.
Specifically, look for possibly artificial or unnatural links pointing to your site that could be intended to manipulate PageRank. Examples of unnatural linking could include buying links to pass PageRank or participating in link schemes.
We encourage you to make changes to your site so that it meets our quality guidelines. Once you’ve made these changes, please submit your site for reconsideration in Google’s search results.
If you find unnatural links to your site that you are unable to control or remove, please provide the details in your reconsideration request.
If you have any questions about how to resolve this issue, please see our Webmaster Help Forum for support. Sincerely, Google Search Quality Team (source: HERE)

Because of this Google was able to determine what websites are practically selling links and de-index them.

As with any link-building network, some de-indexing activity is expected and ours has been within a permissible range for the past two years. Unfortunately, this morning, our scripts and manual checks have determined that the overwhelming majority of our network has been de-indexed (by Google), as of March 19, 2012. In our wildest dreams, there’s no way we could have imagined this happening. (source: HERE)

But they are not alone, according to other sources Google is now targeting other websites such as seolinkmonster and other network sites that applies the same methods in linkbuilding.

What Can We Learn From This?

Recently Google is targeting over-optimized sites (source: HERE) and from what we can deduce from our research Google is also targeting sites that has the following:

1. Google de-indexes sites that has lots of outbound links, though I am not sure how high the number of outbound links is, I am still under the impression that any website regardless of authority can still be de-indexed if it would seem that it is being used for making other websites rank.
2. Google has no idea where links are being placed to make a website rank because if the above theory were true, the same method could be used to un-rank competitor websites and have them penalized by Google. Therefore it is logical to assume that Google is practically helpless in checking the backlinks of sites so they have to rely on other methods like Google Panda to determine if the site is indeed a reliable site or just being used for making another website rank which makes perfect sense if it would mean having more related and credible search results. Ergo Good websites should be indexed better and bad link-assisting websites be penalized. (see: HERE)

1. How soon until my website starts to rank?

- For starters you don’t technically make a website rank, you only rank specific pages of a website. The website is like a book where you “promote” certain pages through link-building and use anchor texts in order for Google to see your sites page as relevant.

There are many factors in order for your website to rank in the first page of Google. Factors such as:

* The age of your domain.
* The content of your domain.
* How many links are being created per day to your domain.
* What kind of links are pointing to your site.
* What your target keyword is and the level of competition your niche is.

2. Does it mean that if my website’s niche is under the hardest keywords to rank on I will not be able to rank on Google?

- I’ve handled keywords as hard as “outsourcing” where it has more than a hundred million search results, the website started the virtually nothing until it was able to reach number 11 on Google (the story will be found on about me section). The truth of the matter is, it is not as easy as it may sound it took more than a year to be able to rank on that particular keyword.

But the point of the matter is it is still possible as long as the proper changes are put into place, and its not fast either it will take some time to make it rank. Aggressively speaking the shortest is under 6 months while the longest might be under a year or two.

3. What is the best way to do Link-building?

- There is really no fixed way of creating links, because if there was one then there would really be no need for SEO’s. But the best way that worked for me so far is the power of contextual links. It always has been and always will.

So make your imagination work on this and check for ways to make it work.

4. Some say that meta-tags optimization does not work anymore for SEO, is this true?

- There’s some grain of truth in it but I would rather err on the side of caution. follow what Google states regarding it and I can assure you that you will rank well.

5. Is blackhat SEO alive and well today?

- I can’t say that it isn’t because if I categorically deny it then I might be marked as one. But I would rather say that Google panda and penguin is a very good case to fight against it along with the disavow tool of Google.

It also depends on the way blackhat seo is used, but I have to say this that the sad reality is it still works albeit on a more subtle level.

6. Among all the SEO guidelines what is it that you consider to be the best approach in doing SEO?

- It is a case to case basis, but I believe that the best approach would be to fix the website on a local level. You fix the on-page and chances are you are ahead of your competition. Links will come later but of course you have to work on it.

7. What is the hardest way to get links?

- Blog commenting will be my answer, because not only is it a waste of time looking for a site that accepts anchor texts it is also a waste of time waiting for it to be approved not to mention that one is not sure if the comment itself will be approved.

8. What are your thoughts on guest-blogging and how it affects SEO?

- Guest-blogging are great but I fear that Google will soon catch up to them, you see some of these sites asks for payment in order for you to be able to post anything and this is equivalent to link buying. Of course this is not known by Google but then this is a gray area for SEO. The question is should Google penalize it for directly influencing rankings by virtue of a link placed on an authority website?

The issue is no different from when I tackled the problem of buildmyrank where its main aim is to make websites rank through its own network of authority sites.

9. What are your thoughts on SEO tools?

- This is a question of using your time wisely, and I think I already addressed this before. Like for example in the issue of keyword research, one can only find a number of keywords using Google Adwords. But with the use of a tool one can find more keywords in a shorter amount of time.

As for link-building using tools I believe I already addressed that as well.

10. How do you know if an SEO is really a good SEO?

- As they say “The proof of the pudding is in the eating,” one only have to ask if that person has handled websites that really ranked. My personal criteria would be based on the amount of knowledge that person has and how he/she is going to handle a situation or a problem of a website, coupled with the tools that he/she uses to make the work easier amongst others.

11. How do you manage to do seo for an ecommerce site and what are the most important things to consider before doing an SEO optimization in ecommerce site?

- There are many ways to optimize for e-commerce sites. Some e-commerce sites have databases that are composed of millions of pages. While others may just be as small as a few hundred pages.

One has to keep in mind that the most important thing to consider are as follows:

* Traffic
* Rate of Conversion (how fast can they buy from the site, how many steps before checkout etc.)
* Rate of returning buyers
* (Most Important) Building Trust

Amongst all the other e-commerce sites I’ve handled the only model I look up to when it comes to satisfying the above is amazon.com.

Now one will ask how do you compete with amazon?

Thing is you don’t compete with other sites you basically have to provide answers that other sites can’t offer. In short you have to identify the needs of your target market and address those concerns.

So if you address everything mentioned above before doing SEO chances are you will rank better in the eyes of Google.

Do we really need Google Panda?

I have two answers for this;

Yes and No.

Yes because we really need to weed out the reliable content over the spammy ones, if you look at it closely Google Panda is another set of guidelines to follow. Suddenly people are seeing their traffic floundering. It became a standard procedure to write “quality” content. Unfortunately Google did not elaborate on this and I have seen hundreds of websites that carries well written content and reliable information from trusted authors go down I think even as I write this piece these websites are still trying to figure out a way not to be penalized by Google.

Another fault of Google is that though it stipulates what-not-to-do it did not stipulate how-not-to-do-it or to-undo-it. It virtually left the job at the mercy of their algorithm to determine what is right and wrong, and as we see this happening the problem becomes more endemic because just like driving a car you are given a ticket but not really given the reason why you were given that ticket. Thus exacerbating the problem.

No, we don’t need Google Panda until such time that we get to find the proper safeguards and tools to prevent it from happening and no we don’t need it right now until it is perfect and people are well adjusted. I hate to admit it but Google is playing God when it didn’t consider the users point of view in going on with the algorithmic change. Google did not consider the number of businesses that will be hit, shady or not the innocent ones are the ones that suffers the most, simply because they have a single mistake which they weren’t informed of or even if they were in the case of an adsense infraction it is not that easy to clear the problem as I still have yet to find a single Google employee willing to help personally on the matter.

How do we build links after the Google Panda effect?

Google Panda in essence talks about creating links “naturally” but in the case of SEO time is always of the essence we can’t really wait all day long until someone recognizes that “hey this guys has good writing style” believe it or not there are more well known and better writers out there that has good and better write ups than yours, has good grammar and great delivery of thought so how can one who has a poor grasp of the English language, or who does not speak the language be able to compete with the ones who do?

The good thing about doing SEO before Google Panda is that it gave an equal footing to everyone whether you don’t have a good command of the English language but you have more topics to write about and more pages than other websites then chances are you get to be higher in the serp rankings. But not too fast kid Google Panda does not consider the number of pages you create for a single topic as a signal for relevance; right now even a simple “block” from the Google chrome browser could make your website a target for Google panda.

So what kind of link building, works? I still believe in the power of blog commenting, guest blogging and the other entire old school link building to create more juice for rankings. This brings us to the other question.

Is Directory Submission Dead?

Yes and no, yes if you are referring to the unpaid spammy looking ones but no if you are referring to the major paid ones. The major signals to look for in choosing well juiced directories are the Page Rank, age of the directory, and relevance of the directory, on another note I still don’t know how Google Panda treats directories if you have any idea please do tell me.

Is Article Marketing Dead?

Contrary to what Rand Fishkin said, Article Marketing is well and alive I mean what is so shady/spammy if you can deliberately create a ton of reliable content and submit them to reliable article websites? Indeed most of the websites targeted by Panda are article sites; still most of the top ranking keywords have their URL’s pointing to article sites other than article sites are like the DMOZ of directories. Whether Google likes it or not it is a necessary evil in the world of SEO.

Is forum profile linking Dead?

No – In my experience a do-follow forum link or even a profile link still works, (well as long as Google still considers it) so keep doing all your forum profile links and signatures.

What is the Future of Search?

I am looking towards the power of social signals like Facebook and twitter but most importantly of Google Plus, and the +1 button. Google Plus is still a very unfamiliar territory. Aside from being a complete rip-off of Facebook Google plus is still a competition in the world of social media specially when it is Google sponsored.

How much influence does Google Plus and Social Media have over search?

To say that social media and Google Plus is one of the main influencers of search results may sound as an understatement perhaps the better question should be how an SEO takes advantage of such. But I will leave that for another day to discuss.

PPC has come a long way from being a fight between who’s the one with more money over who’s more intelligent enough to bid for the right keywords or simply put bid on where the money is.

Keyword research became an exact science, and not just plain guess work that’s why it came as a pleasant welcome that SEMrush offers this solution at a very fair price.

I’ve used a lot of keyword research tools out there, the free ones and the paid ones but everything pales in comparison with SEMrush.

But I don’t want to kiss ass in this review so I will try to be overly objective in presenting my doubts and apprehensions as well as praise for their (the creators of SeoQuake) product.

Actually SEMrush is very easy to use but in a nutshell it presents the following:

A. Keyword Research

For PPC: This is one of the main highlights of SEMrush. First it provides you with keywords. You type in a search and then voila it gives you a chart, where you can see the costs, traffic and competition, search results and trends. Clicking further on a keyword would mean having to see the phrase match report and related keywords report

Comment: It could’ve been better if they also show in one graph keywords in exact, phrase and broad matches and its corresponding bid prices.

For SEO: You can even compare your keywords over your competitors and determine what are the ones that are performing and not. This feature will definitely save you time and money and another added feature is that you can download everything and then use it for your reports.

Comment: While this is commendable it doesn’t offer recommendations on how to overcome your competitor, perhaps that’s another project they are working on.

B. Competitor Research

SEMrush allows you to review your competitors either on the organic keyword level or at the PPC ad level. You can check their existing ads and take note of their changes and apply or test them to your high converting campaigns.

Comment: This by far is the most intelligent application by SEMrush, I’ve known of other companies that offers the same features but their pricing are bordering in the outrageous. Plus the simple mouse over to check an ad is an instant plus! SEMrush also allows you to download the Adwords Ad texts of your competitors, now that really is priceless!

C. Pricing

SEMrush offers a monthly recurring price of $49.95 ($599.40 per year though they offer a 6 month subscription of $249 for 6 months which I plan to apply on soon) not too shabby for the importance of the information you can obtain from them. But I really would like it if it could offer a yearly (cheaper?) subscription with premium membership that offers community (forum), updates, best practices, and other offers (webinars, eBooks, etc)

In closing my overall review of the product is highly positive, but please, please don’t take my word for it you really have got to try it and see for yourself.

Perhaps the only negative but at the same time positive thing I can think of with it, is the lingering question all SEO/SEM practitioners have in mind.

“After gathering all these information, what do I do with it and where do I start?”

For all I know my competitors are also using SEMrush and they might also be using my keywords, but with all things being equal I think, that is really where the action starts.

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