Nevergirl’s

I learned something new today, something lots of people around the world would pay tons of money for. I learned how to do keyword research. No, it’s not the kind where you just type a series of words or copypaste a URL and leave the spiders to do their job. It’s not the kind where you randomly pick out long tail keywords either and hope for the best. Rather, it’s keywording that targets the best phrases for the website you want to rank — and with us knowing exactly how many competitors we need to clobber to reach the top.

Of course, I’m flabbergasted at how easy it is — most of the time, anyway. A few clicks here, some copypasting there, and I can pull up the keywords website owners would fight tooth and nail for. The task gets difficult when you’re working on a grossly saturated niche like dating. In fact, Wett spent a full 30 minutes today scouring for 6 dating-related keywords! He was frustrated, naturally, and made lots of faces while at it. But we both ended up laughing because some of the keywords Google spits out are just too hilarious for words.
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Moving isn’t easy but apartment hunting is even worse. We need space – tons of it; and in a city as congested as Cebu, space is pricey. The units that we like go for P15,000 to P20,000. Toss in two yayas into the equation, the baby’s upkeep (roughly the same as a newbie call center agent’s salary), Alex’s upkeep, utilities, groceries, and everything else and our living expense would amount to P50,000 at the very least. Obscene, yes? Yes.

But we can’t NOT move. Our P6,000-a-month little apartment is way too small for all of us now. We can’t move about without bumping into furniture or something equally huge like the crib, fridge, a truck (or its human equivalent, Wett).

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