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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

How to Outrank Your Competitors by Copying | Ep. #606

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In episode #606, Eric and Neil discuss how you can outrank your competitors simply by copying them. Tune in to hear how and what you should be copying. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:27] Today’s Topic: How to Outrank Your Competitors by Copying [00:53] Single Grain went from 4000 visitors/month to 100,000 visitors/month by copying great ideas from his competitors. [01:20] Take the best techniques, posts, podcasts and spin it to make it more useful. [01:36] Dr. Axe is a website that crushed the competition. [01:58] Dr. Axe checked which of their competitors’ URLS were getting the most traffic, had the fewest backlinks, and then wrote better versions of those pages. [02:57] This got them to 20 Million visitors per month. [03:34] AHREFS is one of Eric and Neil’s favorite tools. It can do a content gap analysis, which will help you see where others are failing. Fill in that gap! [04:25] Neil wrote The Beginners’ Guide to Online Marketing. It cost him around $20,000 or $30,000. [04:51] It was a combination of the strongest pieces out there; he made it more detailed, easier to digest, and combined text with infographics to make it more appealing. [05:05] A lot of people are doing 10x or 100x content. [05:20] Think how you can apply Neil’s techniques to your product or service in your industry. [05:52] If you continually create new content on the same topic, Google won’t know which page to rank higher, so they won’t rank them well at all. [06:07] Make sure your pages are more detailed and don’t repeat content. [06:11] That’s all for today! [06:13] 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.

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All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.

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site for low time. And one easy way to do it is use the host that Eric and I use dream

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great way to improve your load time.

0:51.6

Welcome to another episode of Marketing School.

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I'm Eric Sue and I'm Neil Patel and today we are going to talk about how you can outrank

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your competitors by copying. I love copying. I mean I look at everything I've done I just I'd literally copy people I think about like the

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the championships I win when I play a game like Everquest it's just because I copied some German girl

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so anyway that's kind of digressing, but in terms of what tools I use first and foremost, and I guess we can start with the results too. So we talked about the last episode, the single grain blog went from 4,000 to about 100,000 a month and it did take over five years But it's just me copying a bunch of strategies like I look at oh Neil's doing these epic guides

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Oh Koolaroo is doing this this hub and spoke piece. Oh, this 10X content from

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backlinko that seems to make sense in terms of making skyscraper content. So there's a bunch of

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things you can do out there, but I just like I like listening to

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podcast like this I like reading books and then I just get a bunch of ideas out

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there and I just make them into my own and then eventually it just becomes you

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become a marketing genius because you copied all this stuff.

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