When You Should Ignore SEO| Ep. #980

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In episode #980, we discuss whether you should ignore SEO. Tune in to hear if you should ignore SEO when building a business. 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: When You Should Ignore SEO [00:54] Maybe you shouldn’t do SEO in the beginning if you have investors. [01:15] Paid ads may work faster and better in the beginning. [01:55] If you don’t know which keywords to use, you won’t get results right away. [02:55] Once you know the right keywords and how to convert organically, that’s when you can focus on SEO. [03:20] It takes a long time to get rolling with SEO. [04:20] If you cut corners and decide you want to pay for cheap links, you will handicap yourself. [04:50] SEO has gotten tougher for newcomers. [05:05] Consider your long and short-term goals before diving into SEO. [05:20] That’s it for today! [05:45] 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
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 page 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
0:49.3	great way to improve your load time.
0:51.6	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 when you should ignore SEO.
1:01.0	So we talk a lot about SEO and content marketing on this
1:03.4	podcast, but it doesn't always make sense to say, oh, we should jump into
1:08.3	SEO. So I guess I'll get this party started. There's a lot of people that come
1:12.0	to us and say probably the same thing for you too, Neil,
1:14.4	is like, oh, we just raised a bunch of money and we have a bunch of investors and our founders
1:18.3	don't really understand SEO. Should we still do SEO? And my thing is maybe you shouldn't do SEO in the beginning because the problem
1:26.0	is sometimes you have stakeholders and they want results yesterday. So when you're dealing with other people
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