Neil Patel

A web presence is essential for getting found online, especially these days. According to Statista.com, nearly a third of consumers in the United States look online for a local business every day. It’s simple: websites are essential for attracting new customers. A website proves invaluable in other ways, too, like showcasing your products and increasing […]

A web presence is essential for getting found online, especially these days. According to Statista.com, nearly a third of consumers in the United States look online for a local business every day. It’s simple: websites are essential for attracting new customers. A website proves invaluable in other ways, too, like showcasing your products and increasing […]

Whether it’s for a loved one or a colleague at work, getting a gift for someone is never easy.  One reason is there are billions of options to choose from. The other reason is most people don’t have the time to look through millions of catalogs to pick one. That’s why if you run an […]

Learning how to get backlinks can help you jumpstart your brand, with no investment upfront. The idea is simple: just ask a site for a backlink. However, sometimes these requests get lost in a flood of emails. The average person receives 88 emails a day alone. Other times, requests gets ignored or flat-out denied because […]

I thought I would let you into my mind, so you can see how I think of marketing. The way I strategize to grow my own company. And what you’ll read next will probably come as a shock, as I don’t really view marketing in the same traditional way you read online. Now before I […]

Having multiple-location SEO enables businesses to attract website traffic from various states or countries across the globe. It brings a lot of benefits to e-commerce businesses that offer worldwide or international shipping. If you have it in place, you can expand your customer base and quickly grow your business. How to do multiple-location SEO? Here […]

Memorial Day means many things to many people. At its heart, it’s a day to commemorate the brave American soldiers who died fighting for this country. For many, the Memorial Day weekend also marks the start of summer and a chance to grab a deal in the annual holiday shopping event. The shopping event is […]

According to BrightEdge, 68 percent of all online experiences start with a search engine, and 53 percent of website traffic comes from organic search. Yet, only 0.78 percent of these searchers click results on the second page of Google. That means if you’re not showing up on the front page of the SERPs, you aren’t […]

How do you maximize your exposure? If you ask ten marketers this question, you’ll likely get lots of similar answers: Google Ads, social media marketing, etc. What you’re asking is which platforms offer massive traffic and have strong conversion rates. Now, imagine you’re a marketer for a local business. How do you maximize your exposure […]

With more than a billion unique monthly visitors, Bing is a hugely popular search engine. Sure, it’s nowhere near as popular as the world’s biggest search engine, Google, but it’s an impressive and powerful platform in its own right. In fact, if you’re running a paid ads campaign, it could be a mistake to ignore […]

If you have a website, you need to know what bots are and how they can find your site, as well as what they can do (either intentionally or indirectly) to cause frustration to your online marketing efforts. Blocking bots may be a necessity to protect your site’s speed, users, and security. Let’s talk about […]

Whether you run a YouTube channel, blog, or social media empire, it pays to know how many subscribers you have on each platform. Not only do subscriber counts show you which channels are working and which aren’t, but you can also leverage them to build stronger and more profitable partnerships with brands. Checking your subscriber […]

There’s no shortage of amazing images online, but that doesn’t mean you’re always going to find the original. So many images you find on blogs and other websites originated from somewhere else. While it may not seem like a big deal, it seriously pays to know how to find the original.  Here’s how to find […]

Buying a domain name is exciting. It means you’re taking the first steps to establish yourself and create a professional website. But, it can also be overwhelming. Not only do you have to find an available domain name, but you have to choose between dozens of top-level domains (TLDs) such as: .com .co .org .io […]

You’ve worked hard to perfect your ad campaign, create action-inducing landing pages, and win sales. Your ads have just gone live, but there’s one big problem: People are out there clicking your ads over and over with absolutely no intention of buying anything. It sounds dramatic, but click fraud is something advertisers should be aware […]

To create a paid ad campaign effectively, you need a solid strategy for organizing your data and tracking your ad performance.  Excel spreadsheets can do just that. While a spreadsheet might not seem like the most intuitive tool for managing your marketing efforts, there are many Excel tricks you can use to quickly streamline your […]

To create a paid ad campaign effectively, you need a solid strategy for organizing your data and tracking your ad performance.  Excel spreadsheets can do just that. While a spreadsheet might not seem like the most intuitive tool for managing your marketing efforts, there are many Excel tricks you can use to quickly streamline your […]

Semantic search isn’t only for organic traffic; it’s for paid search as well. Understanding the difference between broad and exact match search is important, but semantics is all about the search intent behind a query.  Google is focusing a lot more on search intent and keyword variants. Knowing the correlation between intent and semantics can […]

If something is written about your brand online, you want to know about it, right? That’s even more true if it’s an authoritative source speaking about your brand and giving information to the public about what you sell, where you’re located, your hours, your website, and more. When Google shares information about your brand in […]

With 1.82 billion daily active users, Facebook is one of the most powerful social media outlets in the world.  Seventeen percent of Facebook users say following brands or businesses is their main reason for using the app, and 78 percent of Americans say they’ve discovered products on Facebook. Facebook offers businesses new ways to connect […]