Black-hat SEO: Google's Insights for Search "very valuable"

are very excited because it gives them the data they are not experienced enough to find on their own.

"I am currently using it to look into the debt market because of the recession and problems people are having. This data is very valuable to me because i can move so quickly. A typical white hat SEO will be looking at the data trying to predict the next year or two but some of the things i am finding could be making me money in the next eight days. Online debt consolidation is up by 180% and the searches from South Africa, the U.K., and Australia seem to be the most active as well as the U.S. in [the Google Insights for Search] list. Using this data to show that South Africa is , I can avoid the U.S., which most SEOs historically target, and just by using a few simple geographical SEO techniques, I can target those three countries on a massive scale within a day or two."

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