7 Simple SEO Tactics for Increasing Your Web Traffic | Ep. #40

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In Episode #40 Neil and Eric discuss the 7 simple SEO tactics for increasing your web traffic. Neil shares the reason for his long blog posts and why you should link them to your most popular page. Learn how to optimize your website’s exposure with these easy, non-technical steps. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:29 – 7 Simple SEO tactics to sky rocket your traffic 00:49 – Linking to your most popular pages 01:19 – Make sure to link on every blog post 01:29 – Featured snippets 01:53 – How to Rank Zero 02:01 – Make sure you have a H1 title and tag 02:19 – Google’s role 03:01 – Click through rates 03:18 – Optimizing title tags 03:48 – Think of title tags as human 04:14 – People love to Google, “What is SEO?” 04:27 – Second order page scraping 04:37 – Getting into Google search console 05:25 – Google likes to audition you 05:50 – Neil’s loooong blog posts 06:05 – More keywords you have, more long tail terms 06:38 – More detailed content, more sure traffic 07:02 – Transcribing videos 07:05 – Rev.com 07:15 – Search engines can’t crawl videos 07:29 – Google image search 07:57 – Naming your image files properly 08:30 – Optimize image file names and alt tags 08:44 – End of today’s episode 3 Key Points: Link all blog posts to the most popular page you have. Optimize titles, tags, and images. Transcribe videos for content. Resources Mentioned: How to Rank Zero – read on how to optimize your title and tag Google – the most used search engine Rev.com –for transcribing videos Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu

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0:00.0	Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from
0:06.8	entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any
0:11.4	marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school
0:14.5	with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.
0:19.4	All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.
0:27.0	If you want to Rank hire on Google, you got to look at your paid speed time.
0:31.5	The faster your website loads, the better off you are. With
0:34.4	Google's core vital update, that makes it super, super important to optimize your
0:38.5	site for low time. And one easy way to do it is use the host that Eric and I use dream
0:44.5	host so just go to dream host or Google it find it check it out and it's a great way
0:49.7	to improve your low time. All right, welcome to another episode of a marketing school.
0:55.0	I'm your host Eric Sue.
0:57.0	And I'm Neil Patel.
0:58.0	And today we're going to be talking about seven simple SEO tactics that will skyrocket your traffic.
1:04.6	So, Neil, why don't you kick things off?
1:06.6	If you go to Quicksbroughcom or Neil Patel.com
1:09.0	and you go into one of the blog posts,
1:10.7	you'll notice that I link to all my guys in the sidebar. I'm not doing that out of
1:14.9	mistake or just like out of curiosity I'm like oh let me link to them you know I want to see
1:19.4	what happens. If you link to your most popular pages or the keywords that you want to get ranked for like mine a lot of times it'll be like online marketing and digital marketing and it's linked from every single page you start climbing the rankings.
1:31.0	It sometimes takes six months to a year where you rank really well.
1:33.9	On Google I rank number one and two separate websites, Quicksboro and Neil Patel.com, for online
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