Wouldn’t it be great if there was a dead simple SEO hack that would just help boost your rankings, but didn’t require that much work. You don’t have to be that technical. You don’t have to build links. You don’t have to worry about keywords and yet you can just increase your rankings, well there is. Today I’m going to break down the dumbest SEO hack.
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When I talk about the dumbest SEO hack, I don’t mean it in a negative way. I say it’s dumb because it’s really dead simple. It’s really obvious, very few people do it and it just works. So this is the neilpatel.com blog, as you can tell by the URL up top, neilpatel.com/blog and I’m just going to go into one of my blog posts.
And as you scroll, and if you don’t have a blog you should consider adding one. You know, you see a normal blog post. You see comments at the very bottom as I scroll and then, you know, more people can leave comments if they want, through the comment box and you just see a footer navigation, but there’s something simple I did that just has really helped me boost my rankings.
What’s one thing that I did that just really helped me boost my rankings? What do you think it is? It’s actually this section here where it says guides. Okay, let’s go through them. I have a guide on digital marketing, online marketing, Google ad-words, Facebook advertising, remarketing, SEO, content marketing, growth hacking, social media marketing, affiliate marketing, conversion optimization, marketing automation.
Now let’s Google all of them in order. Digital marketing, so digital marketing. I rank somewhere at the top on page one. All right, what’s the next one? So one for one, online marketing. Online marketing the key word. All right, I’m somewhere at the top as well, there you go. Now let’s go to next one, Google ad words. Probably not at the top for that one because it’s a Google branded term but I’m probably decently ranked.
Search and watch, WordStream I’m on page one, okay. And that one’s not bad, 550,000 searches, $8.46 cost per click. Next one Facebook advertising, Facebook advertising. Again, probably not number one because I’m not Facebook, but where am I at? On page one, cool, all right.
Let’s see, remarketing, that’s a one-word keyword, that one may be a little bit tougher. Google at the top, Google, Google, WordStream there I am, page one, towards the top. Next one, SEO, all right. I already know I’m on page one for this. All right, what’s the next one? Content marketing, content marketing, where am I? There you go, what’s the next one? And you could be like, oh, Neil’s not incognito.
Well, let me type in content marketing in the incognito browser, let’s see where I am. Copy, that’s at the bottom of page one, see, still page one. All right, and now let’s go back to the word blogging. I doubt I’m on page one for blogging. I’m on page one for blogging, growth hacking. Growth hacking, opt-in monster, opt-in monster number four.
What’s the next one? Social media marketing, social media marketing. The next one after that’s affiliate marketing. Social media marketing, buffer, sprout social word stream. Who’s sweet, Neil Patel. Let’s type in affiliate marketing, Neil Patel. That was the next one on the list.
Conversion optimization, then marketing optimization or marking automation, conversion optimization. Let’s see if I’m on page one. There you go, and then marketing, it’s marketing automation I believe yeah.
Now when you’re doing this, don’t just add in the link, add in whatever makes sense. Like with some of these, you know, online marketing, it could’ve put internet marketing or it could’ve put different variations, but my audience calls it online marketing.
So I put what’s relevant. I don’t put the word search engine optimization because everyone calls it SEO. I didn’t put Google ads even though that gets searched a lot.
I put ad words because most the people I know still call it ad words. So I don’t emphasize on the keyword, but by putting a lot of internal link juice, it helps with the ranking. So try that out, it’s really simple.
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Dozens of SEO techniques have been used to populate these pages. Why do you talk as if only with this one technique you can be ranked in the most difficult words.
this trick works, sort of.
i implemented it on my site for some of the pages & they started ranking as i could see them on search console however its not enough to bring them on first or 2nd page search results, unless you genuinely dont rank good on google.
Nonetheless thank you mota bhai.
Whats the extensión that you use, that show you estimate visits and domain authority?
Grt helpful video 👍📸❤️😘
Neil, does it work the same way if you have cornerstone content linked in a footer? My sidebars are already pretty set, though I can reconfigure if it's better to use sidebars.
Thanks Niel – I love your videos.
I really like this idea, thank you for the video! When looking for possible plugins to create this in my sidebar, I haven't found any where I could change the heading of the most popular articles to be shorter and more focused on the keywords, is this an impossible dream if I need to use a free plugin (budget constraints)?
Nice advice, thank you Neil! 🙂
On my blog in the sidebar, I have "most recent posts", "most commented on posts" (courtesy of a widget) and "categories". Will that have the same effect?
Thank you!
Charlie
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Great video, thanks for always sharing with us! Was your Guide created with a Plugin? Or was that custom code? Thank you again.
Thank you Neil, your contents are so valuable. But I think this method will not work for e-commerce websites.
Hi Neil, Is there a WordPress plugin you are using to show the Guides section? If so, can you please recommend one? Thanks in advance.
Why not creating a submenu displayed to the top for example? It should be the same thing right?
Vertical or horizontal has nothing to do with the SEO.
Unless if your sidebar is considered part of the content and not menu, that would be another discussion
How to create dynamic SEO for E-commerce site.
If their is E-commerce site and in which I have create a dynamic SEO for each and every products.
In product details page in which I have to create dynamic SEO and this page is common for all products and if I get title, keywords and description from database for respective products and added it into meta tags,then whether the SEO will work or not?
Please help me
I don't call it dumb, but something that people underestimate
What is the tool are you using, which shows all those icons and statistics in SERP?
Thank you Neil sir 🙏🏻 for sharing.
Do you use a plugin for the sidebar?
Can't google penalize me for it as it may be seen as if I am trying to manipulate google algorithm? (although at my case in ecommerce site adding such side menu would add value and clarify for user himself)
Thank you for posting this. We appreciate you sharing of free tips.
I have a question though regarding the causality implied in the video.
In this video we're looking at one high ranking blog article which has a sidebar on the right that contains a list of links to blog posts hosted on the same domain, which also rank high.
And the voice-over implies that: this blog post is ranking higher than it would rank without the list of links on the right.
My question would be: how did you reach the conclusion that there is a causality relationship ? Did you do a test without them or is there theoretical grounds to believe the list of outbound links boosted ranking for this post ?
Thank you.
Hey Neil, cool hack I'm defo going to be testing it out. Q. What tool do you use in browsers that gives calculated DR ranking please under each position results? Btw. I'd love to know how you and your team design your awesome page layout in yr next vid …I always struggle with my w.p layouts n tables 😜
I get why, but you really need to come to the point quicker, my friend.
Who else could figure out that it wasn't Neil talking in this video? 🔎
Wow great info thanks
very powerful strategy. "in old days we use tags" intern link indexing tru tier link module and boost your keywords. its effective when you have good On Page structuur. Thanks Neil
I love hearing your kid/s playing in the background while you're recording 😊
Hi! I have a Georgia Lou blog on Blogger. Would this still work?
What plugin gets you the "Monthly searches: xxxxx | CPC: $xxxx" in the search bar at the top?
What if I display them on the foooter instead of a sidebar? does it make any difference for SEO purposes? Any guidence on this will be highly appreciated
6 Minutes of Neil Flexing on us XD Thanks for the tip, that was incredibly helpful
When your close friends claim that when they hire you for an SEO JOB, you ask your colleagues to do it, I cannot believe you are responding to each and every comment. You must have an intern 🙂
a new fan of yours, Neil. 😉
joined the club, see ya soon!!
Great video! And such a simple strategy. I think we got it after about the first 3 with the ranking on page one thing. LOL!! 🙂 You da man
I really admire your work and your knowledge. I am not going to argue about your original purpose and as someone mentioned your site has a high authority, but I have just one question. I googled all your words and not a single one popped up on your website. Why is that?
Why on your browser pops up and not on mine?
Well, I think is called personalization. Google ranks each website as a start but what comes up first differs from one country to another, or from my personal visits to other similar sites like yours, or the bounce rate from me on your site.
Am I right? Just food for thought!
Thanks and congratulations for your work
Great tip as always Neil! Quick question, when deciding which pages to add, do you recommend adding pages / articles that you already rank well for? Or does it make sense to add pages that, while you may be ranking on Page 2+ for now, have greater value should they move to Page 1?
I hope I'm explaining this right!
I'm so glad I clicked on your email, and got to this video!
Adding this to my blog right now!
Simple SEO strategies that get BIG results. Thanks again Neil, as always, very, very interesting…
You only left the part out that your domain has a high authority, try this with a fresh domain and see where you rank (spoiler alert: Nowhere!)
Which extension to you use to setup this type of sidebar guide
Do you have some special sidebar plugin you use for this or it is in the theme you use? I know every theme has sidebar but not all are like this
did you realize this is not Neil Patel´s Voice? It´s someone he hired to do the Job. Neil is on vacations now!!!!
You're the best, total inspiration for coming up with content ideas that are always relevant and to the point
Which chrome extension are you using to show the stats for number of monthly searches, domain authority etc?
If you search in an incognito tab, I think the search results would be different?