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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

How to Uncover Your Competitor’s SEO Strategy | Ep. #1001

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In episode #1001, we discuss how to uncover your competitor’s SEO strategy. Tune in to hear how you can figure out what works for your direct competition. We have committed to throwing a FREE Marketing School Live Event in Los Angeles, once Marketing School reaches 1M downloads in a 30 day period. Take action: Rate, review, subscribe, and SHARE. Check the progress here! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:27] Today’s Topic: How to Uncover Your Competitor’s SEO Strategy [00:35] You could use great free tools like Ahrefs and SEMRush. [01:00] It’s about determining where they are getting the traffic. [01:15] Knowing which pages they update the most could prove useful. [01:56] In Ahrefs, you can see how quickly how their organic keywords are growing. [03:00] Everything needs to be based off of data. [03:20] Google has a new discovery portal: when you publish content, it shows you the ebb and flow of your traffic. [04:00] Fix the pages that aren’t working. [04:10] Look at your competitor’s link profile and see where they are getting their links from. [04:55] That’s it for today! [04:59] We hit our goal of 1 Million downloads! So, we will be throwing a free event in Los Angeles this June. Check out this website if you would like to attend. Remember: we are capping the event at 500 people, so sign up now, if you’re interested! DM Eric if you would like to participate in the VIP dinner. 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

0:06.8

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.

0:27.0

If you want to rank higher on Google, you got to look at your page speed time.

0:31.5

The faster your website loads, the better off you are. With

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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

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host so just go to dream host or Google it find it check it out and it's a

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great way to improve your load time.

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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 to uncover

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your competitor's SEO strategy.

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So what are some tools that can be used? You can end up

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using tools like atrafts, S. E.M. Rush. There's a lot of free tools out there

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at a bus sumo that just end up telling you overall what your

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competitors are doing and what's changing and more so what you want to look

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at these tools for is it's not about looking at oh my

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competitors are getting X traffic and I'm only getting Y it's about where are they

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