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The Perfect SEO Setup for WordPress 8 Plugins

The Perfect SEO Setup for Wordpress 8 Plugins

-The Perfect SEO Setup for WordPress 8 Plugins,  WordPress made it easy for anyone to create a website. It’s easy to use, it’s fast, and it doesn’t require a lot of technical knowledge. Heck, even someone like me who’s not a developer can do things like SEO and modify WordPress with a breeze.

Hey everyone, I’m Pak Blogger and today I’m gonna cover the perfect SEO setup for WordPress, eight plugins to skyrocket your ratings and traffic. The question is, do you have a WordPress-based website? I’m curious, let me know what platform you’re using.

Are you using WordPress, are you using Wix, let me know. Some of the most important factors that Google looks into in order to rank your site are the following, user experience, on-page SEO, site speed,mobile-friendliness, internal link structure, and structured markups, all these things impact your ranking, and there are hundreds of other factors.

There are over 200 factors that Google includes in their algorithm, and today I’m gonna share with you plugins that’ll help you do all of these things, plus more, in a really easy and controlled way.

Plugin number one,

W3 Total Cache. Look, load time is super important, especially because people are using mobile devices now. Yes, there’s 4G, there’s 5G, you know, LTE, whatever you wind up calling it, but the problem with mobile devices is you’re in a place that doesn’t have the best reception I don’t care if you have a 5G phone, you’re not gonna load websites really fast. The W3 Total Cache plugin ensures that your site will load as fast as you possibly can. It’ll improve load times, it’ll help you connect with CDNs, and it makes better use of your server resources that way your server doesn’t have to continue to push the same content over and over again.

Instead, it caches it so it can deliver it to the user as quickly as possible, and if you have a really good hosting provider they have caching built in, but most of the hosting providers that I’ve seen don’t have caching built in, hence I’m wrecking, recommending the W3 Total Cache plugin.

Another plugin,

that you need to check out is the Smush Image Compression plugin. If you’re creating blog content, and hey, you’re on a WordPress blog, or WordPress as a CMS, there’s a good chance you at least have a blog article or two, and in that blog article what do you think you’re including? Images, if you’re not you should change that and go add images right away.

The Smush Image Compression plugin, what this does is ensures that your images still look really good and quality, so that way when someone looks at them they don’t look all pixelated and fuzzy, they still look really sharp, but this decreases the size of the image in which I’m talking about the server size, right, that hard drive space that it’s taking up, so when people ping your site it loads much faster.

The third plugin,

The plugin that you have to use is a Yoast SEO plugin.

It does everything from on-page optimization to controlling your meta tags, and your title tags. It even analyzes your content, telling you if you’re doing a good job or a bad job. creates sitemaps for you and helps with structure and markup. pretty much what most things that you need if you want to ensure that your WordPress blog is SEO-friendly.

Now look, WordPress out of the box is pretty SEO-friendly, but this plugin puts those last, final touches that are really important. Most people think like, “Oh yeah.”If I do most of the things, that’s fine. No, that used to work five, or six years ago, but SEO has changed.

Now Google wants you to do every little thing right, and when you combine them all that’s when you see the climb in ranking, the extra search traffic, and this plugin will really help you get there.

The fourth plugin,

The fourth plugin is Sucuri. If your website gets hacked, your rankings and traffic will tank, and when it tanks and you fix it it’s hard to recover. Sucuri helps you and helps prevent you from getting hacked. Now, it’s not gonna be perfect, but it’s better than nothing. The last thing you want to do is get your site hacked and lose all your traffic. I’ve seen this time and time again, someone gets hacked and they figure it out after a week or two, their rankings tank, they fixed it, and they don’t recover in 30 days. Eventually, they recover, sometimes it takes two months, sometimes three months, if they’re lucky it happens quickly. And they’re like, “Hey, my business is in the shitter.”I’m losing a lot of money all” because of this one silly thing.”Make sure you don’t get hacked.

The fifth plugin,

AMP for WordPress.This helps with mobile users. Look, if you want to rank really high you want to get in on Google News, you want to make sure that your site has the AMP framework. In other words, your tech space articles load really fast, Google just posts it on their end, they’re leveraging their own framework, and I found that yeah, in the United States by leveraging the AMP framework I didn’t really get much more mobile traffic, but other countries where mobile devices and infrastructure isn’t as good, such as Brazil, I saw a huge increase in mobile traffic by just leveraging this plugin.

The sixth plugin,

The sixth plugin for you is a3 Lazy Load. When you use images on your site, even when you compress them, it still takes time for that webpage to load. You want to make it where those images load as people scroll, that way you’re not just loading up all these images on a page and it takes forever for that webpage to load when people haven’t even started reading the content and scrolling. That’s why I like Lazy Load. If you’re on the neilpatel.com site you’ll notice that as you read my blog posts images load as you scroll. This creates a better experience for you as a user, and search engines prefer this as well.

The seventh plugin,

All In One Schema Rich Snippets. If you want to improve your search visibility by sharing rich snippets between the page title, you gotta use this plugin. It’s great, it’s simple to use, and it is one of the best things that I’ve done out there.

Now, with schema markup what you’ll find is some people are like, “Yeah, we’re gonna use”all this schema markup and use all these tags” even though our site isn’t relevant” to the specific schema markups.”You don’t want to do that. For example, I wouldn’t be using stuff on Neil Patel. com, a schema markup that’s relevant for restaurants when I have nothing related to restaurants on my site. That’ll irritate Google and it’ll hurt you in the long run, so when you’re using this be nice and kind. Don’t try to abuse schema markup.

The eighth plugin,

 

Really Simple SSL.90% of websites that rank at the top have SSL installed. It’s pretty much become a prerequisite if you want to rank well, so use the SSL. Now, it doesn’t have to be through this plugin.

Maybe your host provides it, maybe your domain provider provides it, whatever it may be you want a secure site, and what you’ll find is some browsers even notify users,

saying “Hey, this site isn’t secure,” and that’ll cause people to bounce back, get away from your site, and over time that could decrease your rankings. You want to make sure you have SSL, it’s that important. So, use these eight plugins, you’ll find that your rankings will start going up over time, especially if you haven’t used any of them, but when you start combining all of them it does help quite a bit. If you have any questions leave a comment below. Let me know what your question is about WordPress or these plugins and I’ll answer it.

5 Underrated SEO Lessons

5 Underrated SEO lessons. I’ve been doing SEO for a long time.

Lesson number one,

updating content frequently is better than building more links. I know you need links to rank. So if you have no links, go out there and build some.

 

We found that if you build fewer links but you update your content more frequently, you do way better when it comes to an SEO perspective. And when I mean updating, I’m not talking about a word or two or an image or here and there, I’m talking about adjusting that page to be the best for your users and whatever that takes, better than your competition in other words. So spend more time updating the building links especially if you’re an established website. If you’re a new website, there won’t be much content on your website, you probably don’t have many links, focus on building more links.

 

Lesson number two,

shortcuts just aren’t worth it. See, the sites that rank at the top, in the long run, are the ones that provide the most value, not the ones that cheat their way up to the top. Now I’ve learned a lot from this mistake and others but I had a shortcut mentality when I was young, and if I had to go back in time, I would stop taking shortcuts and I would do what’s best for users, which would’ve been what’s best for my career.

 

Lesson three,

it’s easier for brands to rank. One of the things that have taught me is brand queries go a long way in Google’s eyes and in their along. The more people search for your brand, and assuming a high percentage of them click on your result, it tells Google that you have a good, strong brand. And, if your brand is more popular than your competition, it tells Google that people prefer you over the competition. And as your brand queries keep going up, what you’ll find is, that your rankings also go up.

 

Once I learned that I focused more on building a brand. It takes over five years to build a brand, so you need to be patient, but it helps a lot with SEO.

 

Lesson four,

the quickest way to grow your SEO traffic is by going global. A Google employee once told me that the majority of searches on Google aren’t in English. That’s obvious, right? And it was to me at the time, I’m like, “Yeah, the majority of the world doesn’t speak English, what’s new with this.” But what she told me next wasn’t as obvious. She’s like, “Yes, Neil, they don’t speak English, the majority of searches aren’t in English, but Google doesn’t have enough webpages and all these other languages for most topics.” Once that clicked, I was like, “Oh wait, I need to transcribe my content into multiple languages.” So I started doing that and I didn’t say translating, I said transcribe.

 

The reason why is you have to adapt it to the local languages. Now, the United States only makes up 25% or less of my traffic due to international expansion. You should go global if you want more SEO traffic.

 

Lesson five,

don’t purely rely on SEO. I used to believe that SEO was the best marketing channel. And because of that, I focused purely on SEO at the beginning. Funny enough, I still prefer SEO over other channels but I don’t think it is the best marketing channel, I don’t think any marketing channel is the best.

 

I now take a different viewpoint. All marketing channels are great as long as you can make them work for you and drive your traffic, brand awareness, leads, and even sales. So I don’t focus on SEO, but I also don’t purely focus on SEO. I focus on all marketing channels as well as new ones that come up as long as I can make them work. And if any of them get crushed by platforms making an algorithm update, I don’t have to worry because my traffic sources are diversified.

how to generate sales from your paid ads

How to generat Sales from your paid ads

– You know your competitors are running paid ads, but have you found that when you run paid ads, you’re not generating any sales? Hi everyone, I’m PAKblogger, and today I’m going to teach you how to generate sales from your paid ads.

Have you tried paying to advertise and you’ve found that you spent a few hundred dollars, maybe even more, and generated zero sales? And are wondering hey, how do my competitors do this? If that’s you, leave a comment below with yes. If that’s not you, good for you and I’m happy for you. So let’s get into how you can generate sales from your paid ads.

The first thing,

I want you to do is to look at your landing page. There are tools like Crazy Egg that show you heat maps where people click, where they’re not, and where they’re getting stuck. This is really important because when you look at things from a visual perspective, you’ll understand what’s stopping people from converting. And when you know what’s stopping people from converting, you can then tweak your landing page. Not all of the issues with the ads are related to the ads. In many cases, it’s related to the landing page.

The second thing,

I want you to look at your ads. Who are you targeting? Yes, the copy’s important but if you’re targeting the wrong people it doesn’t matter. With a lot of these ad platforms like Google and Facebook, you can do things like remarketing, which tend to have a higher conversion rate. That’s when people already landed on your site, you can remarket them and get them to come back and eventually buy.

Or you can do things like lookalike audiences. It takes all your existing customers who are the right fit, who have bought from you, and it finds other people who are like them and it shows the ads to them. When you do that, you’re more likely to target the right people you’re generating more sales from your ads.

The third thing,

I want you to do is testing your copy. And not just test your copy in your ads, but also test your copy on your landing pages. If someone’s going on Google and searching keywords like MacBook Air, and you don’t have that keyword on your landing page. You’re less likely to drive conversions. Not only do you need it in your ads, but you also want it on your landing pages, keep a cohesive message, and you’re more likely to boost your sales.

The next thing,

I want you to do is to survey your audience. The majority no matter how good your advertising or CRO, they’re not going to buy from you. So surveying them, finding out why they’re not going to buy, and you can use tools like Survey Monkey, once you figure this out you can make those adjustments. You still won’t get 100% of the people who come to your site to buy, but you can improve those numbers. Google Analytics and Crazy Egg don’t tell you everything, you need to talk to people as well to get their feedback.

The fifth thing,

I want you to do is to try dayparting. With dayparting, you’ll find that hey, if you’re in certain sectors like B2B, and your customer only buys from you from eight a.m. to five p.m., why would you show ads at seven p.m.? Yeah, you may get clicks, but in most cases, they’re going to be irrelevant and you’re going to be wasting money. This way you can spend the majority of your money during the right hours. The last thing I want you to look at is what regions are you targeting. If you’re not targeting the right regions, and you only serve a certain amount of them. You’re not going to really generate sales.

For example,

if you’re a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, but you’re showing advertising in Florida, well Beverly Hills, California’s all the way on the other side of the United States from Florida. So if you’re not targeting the right areas, you’re also not going to see any conversions and sales. Thank you for reading.

How to Build An Ultra Engaged Audience

How to Build An Ultra Engaged Audience

How to build an ultra-engaged audience that buys from you. Having followers and visitors is useless if you can’t get them to buy from you. You have to cultivate your audience so you can generate sales and revenue. But how do you do that?

 

RESOURCES & LINKS:

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Mailchimp: https://mailchimp.com/

ConvertKit: https://convertkit.com/

Ubersuggest: https://neilpatel.com/ubersuggest/

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Well first,

you want to build an email list. You can use any tool for that from Mailchimp to ConvertKit. If you build an email list, you’ll quickly learn it’s your digital ATM, in which every time that you send out an email blast, assuming you’re promoting a product that people can buy or a service, it will generate more revenue. The best way you can collect emails is through a landing page and sending people from your social profiles to there or even ads to a landing page, or you can use exit popups on your website or content upgrades.

 

Second,

you can’t just send out emails selling to people all the time. 90% of your emails should be educational and provide value. Roughly 10% of the time you should be selling. My ratio is less than 10% when it comes to selling but yours could be higher, but just stay somewhere around there. If you’re too aggressive in selling, you won’t have an engaged audience. You’re not building a relationship with them. They won’t buy as well, and you’re going to burn them out.

 

Third,

engage with your audience. You can ask some questions or when they have a question, if you respond to them, that will help you build a more engaged audience. It takes some work, but it’s still well worth it. And don’t expect a response or two to make someone into a loyal brand evangelist. You need to spend years and do this, just really helping people out to make them loyal.

 

Fourth,

avoid giving generic responses. People want personalized advice that helps. Generic advice will turn people away and will hurt converting your followers into becoming loyal followers.

 

Lastly,

create video-based content. look, videos help convey emotion, and it’s easier for people to connect with you through video, over text. Your videos can be long-form or even short Reels. I generally create a few videos that are at least five minutes long, each and every single week. And I do a handful that is less than a minute long. You can typically take the longer form videos and repurpose them and cut them into shorter videos and put them on TikTok, Instagram Reels, or even YouTube Shorts.

7 Practical Content Marketing Tips

Seven practical content marketing tips

 

– 7 practical content marketing tips. Content is one of the key aspects of SEO. And as they say, content is key. And in theory, if you have a lot of it, it creates more opportunities for you to rank well. Because like I said, “in theory.”Let’s go over practical tips that’ll help your content perform better.



Tip number one,

content isn’t king, but fresh content is king. If you write content and you rank really well, and really high up on Google, don’t expect it to last forever. If you write content and you rank really, really high in Google, don’t expect it to last unless you keep your content fresh like Wikipedia.

If you can continually keep your content fresh and update it, and not by just a few words or pictures, but instead, continually really improving and making it the best user experience out there, you’re going to have a better chance of improving your rankings and staying up there in the long run. The moment you stop updating your content will be the moment that your traffic keeps struggling from an SEO standpoint.



Tip two,

content shouldn’t be written for search engines. And writing content for users isn’t enough either. It has nothing to do with rankings or traffic. Why? Because when you write content, eventually your traffic will be going up and you’ll find that it won’t drive as many sales or leads as you expect. So what do you do?

Well, you could try to sell to your audience through things like exit popups, but keep in mind, that people came to read that page. So the best solution, write content that converts and adjusts your content to also talk about your products, and your services, and blend them in when it makes sense. This way, you can get traffic and revenue.

So for example, if I have an article that talks about SEO tips and seven SEO tips, I’ll also say if you’re struggling to implement these tips check out my ad agency, NPDigital.We are ranked the performance marketing agency of the year because we help people crash it with their SEO.So click here if you want to work with us. Do you see how I’m blending it in? I can also do that for videos like this as well.




Tip three,

a picture still says a thousand words. Even if search engines prefer text over visual images, from infographics to animated GIFs, you’ll want to use images that convey your message when possible. It drives way more engagement and backlinks, both from a social media perspective and an SEO perspective. A great example of this is an animated graphic of a cheetah running. Using tools like Canva, you can make more content that’s like this, and is visual.



Tip four,

if you don’t have something new to say, figure out something else to say. Just think about it this way, there are over 1.2 billion results for the term auto insurance in the United States. Yet there are only 165,000 people in the United States searching for that term each month. To give you a perspective, there are 7,272 times more results than searchers.

And just like every other topic on the web, it’s been beaten to death and no one cares for another auto insurance blog post. You either need to say new stuff to talk about, or you need to showcase the information in different ways as a visual infographic to make it stand out.

You can also use tools like AnswerThePublicto find new topics that people are interested in that are up and coming, so you can also create getting content on that instead of regurgitating the same old information over and over again.



Tip five,

spend more time promoting your content than writing it. Follow the 80/20 rule. If it takes you two hours to write a piece of content, spend eight hours promoting it. Now it doesn’t have to be exactly that way, but you get my point, spend more time promoting the content than writing it.

Content marketing is competitive so focus on unique ways to promote whatever you produce. I leverage email marketing push notifications and social media as my main strategies for promoting my content.



Tip six,

And speaking of emails, this gets me into tip six, don’t forget to collect emails. The easiest way to get more engagement on your content is by sending out email blasts. Whether you’re collecting emails from a link tree, tools like that, exit popups, or even content upgrades, you need to collect more emails don’t rely on one email collection method, use as many as possible as it adds up. Typically, if you’re getting a hundred visitors, you’re doing a good job, you’ll collect two to three emails.

 

Tip seven,

I want you to repurpose your content so you don’t get burned out. You aren’t just using content for your blog, you’re also using it for social media or even podcasting. It’s too much work to create content that’s unique for each channel, so repurpose it. I tend to create video content first and then I take what’s popular and turn it into blog posts, and podcasts.

I even create, you know, infographic space off of that. And then sometimes I even take the videos and slice and dice them, and use it as Reels or quotes. And if I have good quotes, I’ll capture their images and post them on social media as well. And this helps get the most amount of brand awareness and traffic by just doing something simple, repurposing your content.

Thank you for your time.



My Favorite Type of Marketing

My Favorite Type of Marketing





– My favorite type of marketing. If you had to guess, what do you think my favorite type of marketing is? Come on, take a guess. Maybe SEO, PPC, creating social content, email marketing, push notifications, or is it podcasting?

Believe it or not, it’s in-person events. I found nothing beats seeing and meeting people directly in person. Why? Because you build a deeper connection. You’ll find that deals also happen faster than you do them in person.




But there is a lot of type of in-person events that you can go to. From conferences to meetups to local city events and the list goes on and on. I found that the most effective in-person events tend to be conferences that are ideally around your industry that have your ideal customers. And if you want to get the most out of these events, you need to be a speaker.

See, speaking puts you in a different light. And if you give a fantastic talk, people come up to you after and they’ll want to work with you. It’s a great source for generating revenue because when people come up to you, you’ll find out that it’s easier to close a deal. On top of that, when I go to these in-person events like to hold workshops after my speech.



For example,

we were at the Collision conference that I was in Toronto where I spoke and we had an in-person workshop and had people from our team walking around, meeting with clients and even potential clients. I wish we also had a booth, but we weren’t able to make that work.

Also, if you speak at events, instead of charging for speaking that some events pay, you can trade that money for a booth space and also advertising perks which get your brand out there more and produce a much better ROI than charging for speeches.

Now, just like any form of marketing, you can’t rely on just one channel such as in-person events. You have to take an omnichannel approach. What’s great is when you partake on social media, blogging, podcasting, even SEO, and all the other channels, you’ll find that they help each other out. I learned this from Expedia.




A few years ago, I was up in Canada at one of their offices and I was talking to one of their team members. And Expedia is an old company. They’ve been publicly traded for ages now. They’re a multi-billion dollar organization. And their team shed some light on a marketing set that shocked me. When Expedia takes an omnichannel approach, they find that their customer acquisition costs on all channels go down by roughly 10%because people are continually seeing their brand and hearing about them.

What’s funny about this is people already know what Expedia is. They were founded in 1996. So most people in the travel industry or who travel already know about them at least have heard of one of their brands like hotels.com, but still, by taking an omnichannel approach, their costs have gone down.

So even though I love conferences, I don’t rely on them as my sole marketing channel. Take an omnichannel approach just like Expedia and it’ll help all your channels do better.

Thank you for reading.



7 Underrated Marketing Lessons

7 Underrated Marketing Lessons





– Seven underrated marketing lessons. I’ve been doing marketing for over 20 years and I’ve learned a lot of lessons in that time. Some of the lessons are obvious and others not so much. What’s funny is the lessons that most people don’t think are important, in other words, the underrated ones, are usually the ones that matter a lot. Here are seven lessons that you shouldn’t take for granted as I did. In other words, don’t make the mistake I did.



Lesson number one,

it’s easier to market in a big town. My first few companies struggled to get really big. It wasn’t the marketing that was the issue, it was that the market was too small.TAM stands for Total Addressable Market. It’s hard to market your company in a small market, even with no competition, because there isn’t that much revenue to be had and marketing still costs money.

On the flip side, if you go after a massive market, even if you capture a really, really tiny fraction of a percent, you can create a massive company. Just make sure the market that you’re marketing is really big. Ideally, a 100-plus billion dollar industry, if not a multi-trillion dollar industry.



Lesson two,

all good channels eventually get crowded and competitive. It doesn’t matter how well you are doing from one marketing channel, eventually, it just won’t perform as well because the algorithms won’t help you out. You just have to come to terms with that. It doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t leverage it, and it doesn’t mean that you should give up. It just means that you need to go after all the main channels out there.

In essence, you need to be omnichannel. Omnichannel marketing is the only way to really grow and continually get results. Not all channels will be great, but that’s okay. Not all channels will provide the results you want. And again, that’s okay. Just leverage them to their fullest. It’ll all add up over time. You got to chip away at it, in essence.



Lesson three,

branding is everything. When you think about sports shoes, what brand comes to mind? Probably Nike. When you think about credit cards, what brands come to mind? Visa, MasterCard, America Express.How about electric cars? I bet you’re going to say, Tesla. People buy based on brands. The way you build brands is by being in business long enough and taking an omnichannel approach.

So you got to be patient. Sure, you still need to do marketing, but you got to be patient because, over time, your brand will generate a lot of your revenue for you.



Lesson four,

jump on new channels early. Always thought that if you have money, you can just be a late adopter when it comes to marketing? It is true, but it’s expensive and money doesn’t always buy your way to the top. You ideally want to join new platforms right when they come out.

Sure, you may end up wasting time on a platform that may go nowhere like Clubhouse, but it’s okay, it’s a numbers game. Being early gives you a huge leg up and one that money usually can’t buy later on.



Lesson five,

marketing gets better over time. I can’t stress how important it is to be patient. I remember when I started doing business, I wanted results right away, then I started consulting with other companies and a lot of them wanted results right away. But marketing is all about taking small, incremental steps and just chipping away at the problem.

Eventually, you can get to where you want to be, but it won’t happen overnight. And if you aren’t patient and you don’t do it for many years, I’m talking about five, 10 plus years, you won’t build a company that you want.



Lesson six,

traffic isn’t everything. I remember one of my early companies, Kissmetrics, had 10 times more traffic than our competition Mixpanel. Our valuation at the time was way less than 50 million bucks.

On the flip side, our competition had a valuation of roughly $800 million. It just goes to show that traffic isn’t everything. The question you have to ask yourself is, do you have the right traffic? Are you converting them well enough? Is your product or service amazing? Because if it isn’t, then it won’t matter. Yes, you want more traffic, but don’t obsess as it isn’t everything.



Lesson seven,

the best form of marketing is product marketing. It is easier to market by creating a great product and amazing service. Taking the route of marketing through paid ads, SEO, email, social media, and even content is great, but what is even better is having an amazing product or service. You can’t market crap. Excuse my language.

See, because when you have a great product or service, it creates word-of-mouth marketing. That is way easier than just continually buying traffic and relying on it. That only gets you so far. It’s not what most companies focus on. Instead, they look for a quick alternative, which is, “Hey, how many visitors can I buy?”And that’s not the right way to do your marketing.



How to Drive More Sales from Instagram

How to Drive More Sales from Instagram





How to drive more sales from Instagram. Did you know that Instagram has over a billion users according to Statista? Now just think about how many sales you are generating from Instagram. I bet you’re generating a tiny amount of sales from Instagram, if not realistically, zero sales. So how do you change that? Well, you could use ads, but that’s expensive. So what else is left? Well, there are a few strategies that you can use that work.

Tip one,

use Linktree. Linktree is a tool you can put in your bio on Instagram, and you can link to multiple products and services you’re selling. This is especially useful if you have more than one thing that you’re trying to monetize and sell. Best of all, it doesn’t cost any money to use and you can get it for free.



Tip two,

tell your users to Swipe Up. When you create stories, make sure you create stories promoting whatever you sell and intertwine them with educational advice.

For example, I may be releasing three different stories on Instagram on SEO advice, my first tip could be around content, my second one around how to generate more links, and my third tip around on-page SEO. And you would want to give tactical advice in those tips.

Now, right after the third story, I would create a fourth one saying, Swipe Up and we can end up helping you out. When you do this and a user swipes up it’ll take them to your website and you can collect a lead to sell a product right then and there.

Tip three,

sell going live. Have you heard of Tai Lopez? You know that here in my garage is a Lamborghini guy. And did you know that Tai owns companies like Dressbarn and Pier 1? If you live in the United States you’ve probably heard of at least Pier 1. They’re a massive furniture company. How did he own those sites? Well, he would go live on social media, and pitch people to be investors in his ventures and it worked.




Going live is a great opportunity for you to get in front of your followers and pitch them. The more educational your content is, the better you’ll be. But don’t forget to integrate that sales pitch. There is nothing wrong with selling and if you don’t sell, you’ll never generate any revenue. As my mom always would tell me as a little kid, if you never ask, you’ll never receive.

Tip four,

promote through a post. When you post on your well why can’t it be about your product or your service? Even if it doesn’t get as many likes or comments, that’s okay. There’s nothing wrong with selling. And if you’re offering a limited-time promotion, you’ll find it’ll do even better.

Thank you for reading.



Top five favorite SEO hacks

Top five favorite SEO hacks

Top five favorite SEO hacks. To win, you have to think outside the box. If you just do what everyone else is doing, you won’t win, especially with SEO. Here are my five favorite SEO hacks that are out of the box.

Hack one,

buy websites. Have you noticed their blogs about everything? Well, a simple strategy for you to get immediate results is to look for a blog in your space. This shouldn’t be hard, as there are over a billion blogs. Look for one that has good rankings and traffic, you can find out their traffic stats using tools like Ubersuggest. What you’ll want is a blog that ranks really well within your space, and has great content, but doesn’t monetize through ads or selling products or services. Then you want to hit them up and ask them if they’re willing to sell their site. A lot of people will be like, “Yeah, sure, making no money doing this as a passion, “you can even pay them to keep blogging for you. And then what you want to do is merge that content over to your website, do 301 redirects, put them to the appropriate URLs when you’re doing the 301 redirects, and what you’ll find you’ll start getting instant rankings and traffic.

Hack number two,

ranking number one on YouTube with SEO.So YouTube‘s algorithm is the opposite of how Google SEO works. If a video does really, really well in the first 24 hours, when it’s released on YouTube, it’s probably going to do well in the long run. So how do you get your videos to do well in the first 24 hours? Not through ads, because that takes too long to get up and to run. Usually, by sending out an email blast. So when I release a video, I send out an email blast and even a push notification blast, within the first hour the video goes live, I let everyone know about it, I get tons of views, tons of engagements, and my YouTube views go through the roof, and my rankings shoot up.

Hack three,

release tools. Have you heard of calculator.net?The site doesn’t look amazing, but it has 6.2 million backlinks? Let me say that again,6.2 million backlinks.”How?” You may ask, it’s because they have calculators on everything. People love linking to calculators. If you release free tools that people want and they love, you will build links naturally, you won’t even have to send out an email. It works that well. If you can’t create these tools, you can just go to sites CodeCanyon, pop, buy the tools, pop the bubble on your website, and boom, you’re off to the races. Now the key with this strategy is to release tools for free that people are used to paying for.

Hack number four,

respond to blog comments. This one is simple, and you probably are like, “Wait, this isn’t really a hack, Neil.”But let me explain why it’s so valuable and it is a hack. Wikipedia is the seventh most popular site on the web, according to Similarweb. Do you know how Wikipedia does so well on Google? They update their content on a regular basis. Some of their most popular pages get updated daily. Their content is updated so often, and I know people are volunteering and helping out for free, but it’s updated so often that Google’s like, “Wow, this content’s fresh. We need to rank it high because it’s the most relevant and up-to-date.”So with your website, how do you keep your content updated?

Ideally, you want to update at least once a year, if not a few times a year, but that may be tough. Another way to also keep your content updated, and I wouldn’t recommend that you not do the first, so you should still try to update your content at least once or twice a year, is you can also use blog comments. And when you use blog comments, what you’ll find is that when people leave comments, and you respond to them, and you leave really thorough comments, people come back and keep leaving more comments. This produces more content and in essence, you’re updating those pages and making them more and more valuable for Google, which helps with your rankings. And when you’re leaving comments, don’t just leave a thank you, make sure it’s thoughtful, it’s relevant, and it helps people out.

Hack five,

use fewer keywords, or at least for App Store SEO. So SEO doesn’t just exist on Google, Apple App Store is extremely popular.No matter where you are, if you turn around and you see someone, chances are, someone has an iPhone, which means they also are on the App Store. But if you want to rank in the App Store, you shouldn’t shove tons of keywords in your title, even description.

Most people don’t know this, but the fewer keywords that use in your title or description in the App Store, the easier it is to rank for those terms. Just make sure that the keyword you pick keywords you pick is super popular.

It makes it way easier to rank and get higher rankings, versus going after too many keywords in the App Store, which makes it harder to rank.

My 7 Favorite Social Media Tools (That Are Free)

My 7 Favorite Social Media Tools (That Are Free)

My 7 favorite social media tools are free. Do you know what the second, third, fourth, and fifth most popular websites have in common in this world? Let me give you a hint. It’s YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. What they all have in common is they’re all social websites. Social media is popular.

So, how can you leverage it to get more traffic to your website? Sure, you can hire people to help you out but you may not have that option because it costs money. On the flip side, there are a lot of free tools that you can use that can help you out. And if you leverage them, you’ll get more social media traffic. Here are seven free social media tools that you have to check out.

RESOURCES & LINKS:
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Social Blade: https://socialblade.com/
ManyChat: https://try.manychat.com/
Hootsuite: https://www.hootsuite.com/
Exploding Topics: https://explodingtopics.com/
MailChimp: https://mailchimp.com/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/
Canva: https://www.canva.com/
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Tool number one, Social Blade. Social Blade is a free analytics tool. Type in anyone’s username and you can see their social stats for any of their social profiles. Here are my social stats for YouTube. The reason I like Social Blade is you can see the daily subscriber growth. When you see a pop, look for the content that was posted on that date. It’ll give you insights into the type of content people love that your competition is posting.

Tool number 2, ManyChat. With social media, you never know what the algorithms will do. It’s tough to continue to get traffic from these social sites. Using tools like ManyChat, you can keep communicating with your subscribers, especially through Facebook messenger, Instagram direct messages, and SMS.

Tool number 3, Hootsuite. There are tons of social platforms out there, and it’s hard to keep up with all of them. Using Hootsuite, you can easily post to all the social platforms using that one simple tool. Their free plan allows you to easily manage two platforms and sadly, you got to pay when you want to manage more. This way you can consistently post on all the main social platforms that you’re trying to leverage.

Tool 4, Exploding Topics. If you haven’t checked out Exploding Topics, make sure you do so. It’s a tool by my friend, Brian Dean. It allows you to see what’s exploding on the web right now, especially on the social web. If you create content around those topics, you’ll find others are interested in it and you’ll gain more likes and even more followers. But be careful, as you need to make sure that the content you create around these exploding topics needs to be relevant to your overall social profiles.

Tool 5, MailChimp. You’re probably wondering how the heck is an email tool like MailChimp related to social media. Well, have you ever heard this saying that the money’s in the list? When you have all these social followers on social media, you need them to join your list. And the easy way to do so is to get them to opt into your email list.

So by using tools like MailChimp, you’ll be able to more likely stay in touch with your audience. This is important because social algorithms keep changing and it’s hard and harder to make sure that your followers see your content.

Tool 6, Linktree. Have you noticed that it isn’t easy to monetize your social following? A lot of that is because you can’t really promote all your products and services. But by using Linktree, you can have one link that you push them to from your social bios, from these platforms and they can pick the services and the offerings that you have and pick which one’s right for them. It’s a great way to let your followers pick their own journey and figure out, where and how you want to engage with them.

Tool 7, Canva. Social media is visual. People want to engage with beautiful content that is readable and ideally unique. Through Canva, you can create tones of social content on almost anything. From adjusting images to even video, to even creating, let’s say carousel that you would post on, let’s say Instagram, Canva can do almost anything, and best of all, it’s free. heck! You can even use it to create infographics.