Our Biggest SEO Mistake | Ep. #786

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In episode #786, Eric and Neil talk about their biggest SEO mistakes. Tune in to learn from their missteps. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:27] Today’s Topic: Our Biggest SEO Mistake [00:40] Neil’s biggest mistake was always being short-sighted. [00:50] He has been doing this for 17 years and he wishes he had looked more towards the future. [01:15] He would constantly revamp his site, buy links, try to manipulate Google rankings, but none of that led to long-term success. [01:50] He burned through so much money using quick hacks like adding Wordpress links to the footer on his site. [02:10] He wishes he spent his money on long-term projects. [02:30] Eric learned a lot of white hat stuff doing an internship, but someone turned him onto black hat sites and ideas. [03:05] Unfortunately, the black hat ideas are greedy and short-sighted. [04:10] Their biggest mistake was not a tactic, but just being short-sighted and greedy. [04:35] Pick your opportunities wisely. [05:21] That’s all for today! [05:28] Go here to see how many downloads the show is getting. Also rate and review to help Eric and Neil meet their goal of 1 Million downloads per month. They will throw a live event once they reach their goal. 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
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 higher 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 load time.
0:51.3	Welcome to another episode of marketing school.
0:55.0	I'm Eric Sue.
0:56.0	And I'm Neil Patel.
0:57.0	And today we're going to talk about our biggest SEO mistake.
1:01.0	So, Neil, I'm keen to know what is your biggest SEO mistake because
1:04.9	between us we probably made many. Yeah so I'll go and then you got to tell me yours
1:10.1	yeah so my biggest SEO mistake is I was always short-sighted when I started off. I'm 33 now I started my current SEO at the age of 16. That's 17 years of being SEO. That's a long time. If I had those sites that I did 16 17 years ago or even
1:27.0	the ones that I had 10 years ago and not been short-sighted, I would have been printing
1:31.4	cash hand over fist, But I got greedy. Like I acquired
1:35.5	Tite's like Battlefield Bypass because there were expired domain about a national
1:39.6	park in the United States and I would just switch over everything into being a
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