The Dumbest SEO Hack (That Works)

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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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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[dutchking]

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!)

[armotxa]

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

[suhaibkamran]

90% of the video: Neil flexing his rankings
Rest 10%: Put links to your important articles in your sidebar

[mediadon]

You're the best, total inspiration for coming up with content ideas that are always relevant and to the point

[CorinneSegura]

How did putting the guides on the sidebar help your SEO, the connection was not made in the video. Obviously more people will click if they are on your page already but is that the reason it helps your rankings?

[commandresults]

Simple SEO strategies that get BIG results. Thanks again Neil, as always, very, very interesting...

[Mersey]

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

[matanglawin]

I love hearing your kid/s playing in the background while you're recording 😊

[astaconteazamaiputin]

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.

[dfdsfahjh]

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
:)

[socialmediamarketing-milen]

Another great video! I love that your videos are short and to the point.

[TangledLilacPhotographySedona]

Great video, thanks for always sharing with us! Was your Guide created with a Plugin? Or was that custom code? Thank you again.

[pizza]

Hey Neil! Enjoying using Ubersuggest, its like google ads keyword planner combined with SEMRUSH! One question, how do you guys calculate the SEO difficulty number & whats a SD number to target? Thanks!

[robv.]

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!

[natep]

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.

[gaasdigitalmarketing]

Ha. Think this only works for Neil Patel!

Thanks

[subhblogging]

The thumbnail, the titleeee.... Neil, you know it all. So smart😎

[fathiirsha]

O ww very use ful! Just started my digital marketing career... and just came across your you tube channel.. and am cmplting watchng all your video .. one by one.. waitng for new updates

[vinodtrivedi]

I've read somewhere that every blogger should make a huge email list and diversified their traffic resources because Google itself is not the whole internet.
So, if I would have a huge email list so, I could also start my startup and use this list as a customer.

[plussizeqtpie]

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.