#5: The Biggest SEO Mistakes of their Careers
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Welcome to The Marketing School Podcast—your resource to learn, grown, and nurture your passion for online marketing! In Episode #5 Eric and Neil center the conversation on, The Biggest SEO Mistakes of Their Career. Enjoy!
Time Stamped Show Notes:- 00:38 – Eric kicks off with blackhat, whitehat, and greyhat SEO
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- 01:29 – Building low-quality links to a brand-new sites
- 02:00 – Google’s Algorithm’s are smarter than you—they will always find out if something shady is going on
- 02:20 – That being said, it’s worth it to dabble in some “shady” business if it’s your own site as an experiment, to learn about both sides of the coin
- 02:48 – Back in the day, Neil would do whatever it would take to turn quick buck
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- 04:12 – Don’t think short-term, you need to think LONG term
- 04:40 – Go whitehat and build for endurance
- 05:05 – Eric talks blackhat SEO in-depth
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- 06:01 – Take blackhat tactics and use them in a whitehat matter
- 06:27 – Do not crank low-quality content
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- 07:23 – The Google Panda Penalty
- 08:19 – a 35% drop in organic traffic
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- 08:30 – Make sure you do a redesign properly or you will get crucified in SEO
- 09:51 – Content is King—it’s a cliché but true
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- 10:16 – But you NEED backlinks too
- 10:53 – The two biggest factors to ranking in Google?
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- Links and Content
- Links and content, links and content, links and content!
- Dabble in blackhat on websites that you own and don’t care about so you can better understand that side of marketing and avoid it on things that matter.
- When it comes to client websites—and websites you care about in general—think long-term and always go whitehat.
The Google Panda Penalty – An SEO penalty Neil was hit with on one of his websites.
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