Do you wanna learn how tobe an SEO expert like me? Well, today, I'm gonna teach you.
Hey, everyone, I'm Neil Patel, and today, I'm gonna share with you how you can be an SEO expert.
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When it comes to SEO, it's not just about being an SEO expert.
You wanna have the passion for SEO.
I have a question for you.
Do you really wanna learn SEO? If you do, leave a comment with yes.
If you don't, leave a comment with no.
If you don't truly loveand wanna learn SEO, you're not gonna be an expert.
It's not about doing somethingjust because it makes money.
It's about love.
When you truly love something, you wanna learn it, youwanna get good at it, you'll put in the time andeffort that you need to to become an expert.
See, if I just give you thetips in becoming an expert, and I will in this video, and you follow it, but youdon't love what you're doing, and you don't care about it, you'll never be an expert.
That's the first thing you need to do is make sure you truly love SEO, you wanna do it, and youwanna get good at it.
Now that you have love, the second thing you needto do is set up a website.
Go to wordpress.
org or wordpress.
com, set up your own website.
It could be a blog, couldbe a blogging platform, it doesn't matter.
That's just the firstthing you need to do.
Without your own website, you won't know how toimplement these tactics, practice, or get good at it.
The third thing you needto do is write content.
When you have your website, if you don't have content, you're not gonna rank.
As the saying goes, content is king.
Publish content on whateveryou're passionate about.
Heck, it could even be SEO! It could even be your journeyon becoming an SEO expert.
If you're not passionate about it, you're not gonna do a good job blogging.
The fourth thing is youneed to build links.
When it comes to building links, if no one's linking to yourwebsite, you won't rank.
When you write this articleon, let's say astrology, you wanna go to siteslike Twitter or BuzzSumo and see who else has populararticles related to astrology.
Then, when you take those articles, you can put 'em into Ahrefs.
It'll show you all thepeople linking to 'em.
You wanna hit 'em up and being like, hey, John, I noticed you linked out to this article related to astrology.
I have a similar one that just came out, but mine covers A, B, and C that theirs didn't.
Feel free and check it out, and if you also like it, link to it.
When you do that, morepeople will link to you, you're gonna have to send out 100 emails just to get a few measly links, and that's okay, because all of those links will add up, and it will really help you get rankings faster over time.
On top of links, you now need to then start getting social shares.
Similar to that BuzzSumo strategy, you can also see, again, you go to BuzzSumo, see all the other related articles, click on view shares, see all the people who sharedyour competitors' content, and ask them to share yours.
That simple tactic willget you more social shares.
Then, I want you to follow all the popular marketing blogs, from Backlinko to Moz, to hey, even me, neilpatel.
com.
All of these marketingblogs will break out the latest and greatesttactics and techniques.
By reading 'em on a regular basis, you'll learn 'em, you'llstay on top of the curve, so that way, you'll dobetter than most people in the SEO industry.
You don't have to be the best, you just have to be better than most.
That way, you can rankhigher than most people.
And of course, even whenyou read these blogs and you're practicingSEO on your own site, you need to test out one thing a month.
I'm not talking about a little thing like, oh, let me adjust my title tag.
I'm talking about a big, drastic test.
It could be, hey, let me delete old contentthat isn't ranking to see if that boosts my overall traffic, or hey, let me add links in my sidebar to my most popular pages to see if that helps boostthe rankings even more.
By doing one experimentat least once a month, what you'll find is, you'll quickly learn what'sworking and what's not.
You don't wanna also do it too often, like experiment every day or every week, because you won't know what'simpacting your rankings and what's not, 'cause that's too many changes at once.
And last but not least, be patient.
You're not gonna climb tothe top of Google in a month, or even three months or six months.
It takes longer and longereach and every single year because the web is more competitive.
There's roughly 1.
7 or 1.
8billion websites on the Internet.
That's roughly four websites, technically one websitefor every four people.
That's a lot of websites, and blogs, there's over a billion.
That's roughly one blogfor every seven people.
That's too many sites to choose from.
Because that Google now says, hey, there's a lot of people talking about the same content over and over again, let's pick the onesthat are more up-to-date or more authority.
It makes it that much harderfor you to get rankings.
For that reason, you needto learn to be patient.
If you do this consistentlyfor six months to a year, you'll get results.
And if you're not patient, you're gonna quit, and if you quit after three months, you're not gonna see the results.
You'll be like, wait, SEO doesn't work! I don't wanna be an SEO expert! This is a waste of time! That's why patience is very important.
Thank you for watching.
Hopefully now you'regonna be on your journey to becoming an SEO expert.
If you have any questionson how to become an expert, if there's anything that confuses you, leave a comment below.
I'll answer it and I'll help you out.
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Thank you for watching, and if you ever need anyextra marketing help, check out my ad agency, Neil Patel Digital.
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