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Neil Patel
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Neil Patel's personal blog at neilpatel.com covers business and writing. Since 2015, 41 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “Backlinks by Neil Patel”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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- Backlinks by Neil Patel2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-17
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I had a look at this, and it looks to me like it's a 301 from another domain. Typically when domains get a manual penalty (primarily for spam), they drop in rankings overnight. So to counter this, you register a new domain and redirect it and overnight, your rankings bounce back. This technique is super common for blackhat sites like illegal streaming sites. If the redirect is done as a meta refresh, then you can bl…
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on “The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway”Submitted Google's AI mode is using Reddit to train itself, hello? credibility? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPlease enlighten us about the backend provider, I'm interested. It seems the OP of this thread is using the same backend as he's not willing to tell it. edit: Ubersuggest mentioned by someone says in dev blog https://neilpatel.com/blog/ubersuggest-update/ > My data feed from SEO Power Suite, Data For SEO, and Shared Count totaled $75,253 for January. Is this the backend mentioned? Some direct links for others intere…
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on “Show HN: I’ve made a cheaper SEO research tool”Submitted The Future of Content Marketing: It’s Not What You Think as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFYI Neil Patel is the co-founder of both CrazyEgg and Kissmetrics. He blogs, has a popular podcast and gives away some pretty valuable marketing information for free. I follow him and have never thought that he was primarily an SEO expert. He speaks about startup marketing and SEO is certainly a big part of that. He does preach that unless you have the capital, blogging and SEO are one of your few alternatives for m…
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on “Don't Take Security Advice from SEO Experts or Psychics”Submitted How to Dominate Google in 2019 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://neilpatel.com/blog/buying-websites/ Looks like this link explains it a bit. Neil Patel bought the blog for 500k
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on “My Billion Dollar Mistake”Submitted Generating leads via content marketing as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> puts us back where we were pre-google era anyway... Google (search) is becoming increasingly less relevant. I know of DuckDuckGo / Kagi, a quick search (on DuckDuckGo) shows a lot of other search engines such as Mojeek, Ecosia, Qwant, Brave: https://proton.me/blog/alternative-search-engines As well as a lot of what I'd call "domain specific" search engines like Wolfram Alpha, various targeted social media engines,…
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on “Curating my corner of the Internet with a freehand web editor”Submitted How to Think About SEO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've been a generalist in tech and a contractor, so my experience, while not directly applicable, may be helpful to you. In my mind, being a solopreneur is all about lead flow; that's the toughest part for me. I leaned heavily on my network as they knew the quality of my work and I didn't have to sell them much. I'd start reaching out to everyone who you have worked with in the past decade and letting them know you…
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on “Ask HN: Advice for a Generalist Going Solo?”Submitted Ubersuggest Launches Chrome Extension as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLengthy load times are detrimental to UX. Just look at how people are increasingly less likely to wait for a page to finish loading with every additional second it takes to load [1, 2]. In regards to feedback from users, this is especially true when finding product-market-fit (when an idea actually becomes a business). There’s nothing better than learning what customers who actually use your product want in future r…
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on “Show HN: I made a point of sale system with self-service for mobile devices”Submitted How to Market to Customers When the Free Trial Is Over as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI really like this post, especially the interactive grid with labels. A quick tip so it's easier for people to share and link to it: please add some Open Graph meta tags to the page so it looks nice[0]. Anyone who's interested on the subject, I can recommend two books I found useful. [1] Winifred Phillips: A Composer's Guide to Game Music [2] Michael Sweet: Writing Interactive Music for Video Games The first one is…
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on “Interactive explanation of a procedural music system”Submitted Google’s New Layout Predicts the Future of SEO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI read an interesting post just some days ago about Ads in Local Business. The site is horrible, but the content is good: http://neilpatel.com/2016/12/15/we-analyzed-120000-google-ad...
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on “Ask HN: Do SMBs still care about their websites?”Submitted Why I Spent $500,000 Buying a Blog That Generates No Revenue as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPerhaps you weren't around at the peak of blogging era when all the gurus usually running self-help blogs were preaching that writing style to aspiring bloggers. It stuck around and still is dominant in blogging - and for good reasons for certain audience. Information examples from more popular blogs: https://neilpatel.com/blog/write-copy-like-apple/ https://copyblogger.com/short-guide-to-good-copy/
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on “Progress Over Perfection”Submitted My New SEO Strategy: Blog Less, Spend More on Technology as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDoug here's a 50-page demo of your site fully mapped w/ high-res screenshots: https://app.visualsitemaps.com/share/0ab02eb852f0f5267291ce5... *one thing we noticed is that your site does have an https certificate! I'd deeply consider fixing that since it will harm your google rankings[1]. [1] https://neilpatel.com/blog/does-a-ssl-certificate-affect-you...
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on “Show HN: Generate Visual Sitemap from sitemap.xml, just write URL”Submitted 5 Video Editing Tools to Try in 2018 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDigital marketer here. This is spot on. Brian Dean's "Sky Scraper Technique" is quite effective as well. Neil Patel's blogs[1][2] are also extremely helpful. [1] https://www.quicksprout.com/blog/ [2] https://neilpatel.com/blog/
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on “SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey [audio]”Submitted I Lost 31% of My Search Traffic but My Sales Went Up by 73% as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSome good suggestions here: https://neilpatel.com/blog/find-remove-stolen-content/ I like the idea another comment had about including very detailed "trap" content. And then use the suggestion in the article to set up a google alert for it.
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on “REI's HikingProject regurgitated my content”Submitted 21 Resources for Mastering Online Marketing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI was wondering the same. Ubersuggest has a comparison page[0]. From my understanding it boils down to Ubersuggest being cheaper and most likely enough for what most users will need, but Ahrefs has a larger tool suite (and much higher cost). [0] https://neilpatel.com/blog/ubersuggest-vs-ahrefs/
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on “My Frugal Indie Dev Startup Stack”Submitted Write better headlines than I do (ie. the science behind clickbait) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLesson #2: Know Your Customers... > https://neilpatel.com/blog/joseph-sugarman/
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on “I Got Flagged on Hacker News Because I Followed an Advise from Joseph Sugarman”Submitted The Beginner’s Guide to Writing a Data-Driven Post as a story · 2 points
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