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How GDPR Changed Link Building | Ep. #767

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In episode #767, Eric and Neil discuss how the GDPR has changed link building outside the US. Tune in to hear how you must go about link building now that the regulation has made it harder. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:27] Today’s Topic: How GDPR Changed Link Building [00:37] GDPR = Global Data Protection Regulation. [00:54] There are now a lot of restrictions about what you can do in terms of data collection. [01:15] It has made link-building harder. [01:53] You can’t just email blast people anymore. [02:05] A simple way to build links, is to go to their site and message them through their contact form. [02:45] Be careful how you contact businesses in the UK. [03:10] There are a lot of lawsuits happening right now. [03:20] That’s it for today! [03:23] Go to Singlegrain.com/Giveway for a special marketing tool giveaway! 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   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from

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entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any

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marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school

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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.

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to improve your low time.

0:51.3

Welcome to another episode of Marketing School.

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I'm Eric Sue.

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And I'm Neil Patel.

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And today we're going to talk about how GDPR changed link building.

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So we talked about past couple episodes, we talked about what GDPR is, so check it out.

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Do you do you do a recap of GDPR?

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So GDPR is the global data protection regulation?

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Something like that. Something like that okay so this is this is in the

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European Union and this came out as of May 25 I believe May 25th as a 2018 2018

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and there are now a lot of different restrictions in terms of what you can do in terms of data collection and also reaching out to people so here's an example

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if somebody's trying to opt into Neil's website right now on his email list, he actually has some check boxes that explicitly say that the person has to they have to check it to consent to receive emails from Neil. So it's gotten a lot more tighter. I think it is probably

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