Sunday, November 2, 2008

Counting cards and making money online

By Zigfred Diaz

Previously, I wrote that one of the best sources of bigger traffic is by optimizing the right keywords. To achieve this we make use of high trend, low density keywords or what I coined as HITLOD.

Just like how great artists and inventors suddenly come up with a brilliant idea, HITLOD keywords often come to you even if you do not search for them.

As I go about my day to day experiences, I have discovered a lot of great keywords . For instance, after I watched the movie 21 I searched the internet for the movie's real story. (I normally do this because Hollywood is often fond of taking liberties in expanding the real story to fit the script)

The story behind 21 the movie is based on the book "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions" by Ben Mezrich. Although a work of fiction, the events in the book are loosely based on the life of Jeffrey Ma, a brilliant MIT student who was a member of the MIT Blackjack Team.

The MIT blackjack team was group of students and ex-students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and colleges who used counting cards techniques to win in the game of blackjack.

Their operation was impressive, very organized and run like a real business. It said that they raked in an estimated $3 million to $5 million U.S dollars by simply counting cards in the game of black jack while playing in casinos worldwide.

The "business strategy" of the group was that "Blackjack is a beatable game" and you only have to use simple math in order to beat the game of black jack. This can be achieved by simply counting cards.

I listened to the interviews of Jeffrey Ma and read several articles on the MIT black jack team. I came to realize that people would start searching for information on them after watching the movie. So I tried to do some reasearch on what terms people will use to search for counting cards in the internet. I tried "black jack", "counting cards in blackjack", "counting cards", "how to count cards" or other similar keywords. The best keyword I could find was "counting cards." I have to admit, I myself got hook to the "counting cards" fever.

As of to date, the keyword "counting cards" has been cited in 443,000 sites. The graph in Google trends shows a spike. Most likley this occurred somewhere after the movie was released on March 2008 in theaters.

Since the search for the term "counting cards" only began in 2008 it can be surmised that interest in the keyword "counting cards" was brought about by the release of the movie 21.

"Counting cards" may be a good HITLOD keyword and it's being high trend could only be temporary. After several years, months or even weeks I believe people will stop searching for the "counting cards" keyword after interest in the movie has waned.

They popularity of the "Counting cards" keyword may be short lived but as of now it is still a HITLOD keyword. So sieze the moment ! As long as the movie is still popular, people will continue to search for the "counting cards" keyword. It is sure to bring thousands of visitors to your site if you have properly optimized it. What are you waiting for ? Blog about "counting cards" today and count the traffic and with it the money that comes to your site !

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