The Best of Neil Patel
10+ most popular Neil Patel articles, as voted by our community.
Co-founder of Neil Patel Digital. New York Times bestselling author, top 100 entrepreneur under 30 by Obama, and top 10 marketer by Forbes.
Neil Patel on Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide
Ever since the 4-Hour Workweek was released, everyone seems to have the same goal. To wake up in the morning, open their laptop, and look at something like this: (Image source: Top 5 SEO) Passive income. That’s the dream, right? Make money while you sleep. For 99% of people, affiliate marketing is how they get […]
How to Find a Profitable Niche in Affiliate Marketing
Quite often, you might hear people talk about affiliate marketing and think that it’s easy, passive income. “I can sit there all day on my couch while I watch the affiliate revenue pour in!” It’s…
Neil Patel on Metaverse
A Marketer's Guide to the Metaverse
Digital marketers have to know the latest trends in tech. One such trend is the metaverse. This guide will help you learn to leverage it.
Neil Patel on Sales
The New Way to Chat With Your Visitors
Marketing has evolved into an omnichannel approach. This means you can no longer just go after one channel to succeed. Back in the day, companies like Facebook grew into billion-dollar businesses…
Neil Patel on SEO
The Ultimate List of Free SEO Tools
Who says you have to spend money to get more traffic? For today’s blog post, I thought it would be fun to break down all of the free SEO tools. Sure you may know of some, like Ubersuggest, but there…
How I Generate 18,800 Visitors from Google Without SEO or Ads
If you want to get traffic from Google, how would you go about it? Chances are you are either going to leverage SEO or pay for some ads. But what if there was another way to get traffic from Google? A…
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How to Get More Organic Traffic Without Doing Any SEO (Seriously)
You all know SEO is a long-term game… at least when it comes to Google. And yes, who doesn’t want to be at the top of Google for some of the most competitive terms? But the reality is, we don’t all…
How to Build Backlinks in Less Than 1 Hour
I have a question for you… How do you build links? If I had to bet, chances are you spend little to no time on link building. Why? Because it’s hard. But why should link building be hard? Most parts…
What Type of Links Does Google Really Prefer?
We all know that links help rankings. And the more links you build the higher you’ll rank. But does it really work that way? Well, the short answer is links do help with rankings and I have the data…
Why You Shouldn't Try to Rank #1 on Google
Do you know what the number one email request I get is? Come on, take a guess. What do you think it is? Ok, its people asking me for money. But, do you know what the second most common email request I…
7 Advanced SEO Strategies I'm Trying to Implement Before 2020
Google makes over 3,200 algorithm changes per year. That’s a lot of changes. Just think about that for a minute… and let that sink in. It’s roughly 9 changes per day. So how can you beat this gigantic…
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