The Three Unseen Laws of SEO (Ignore These and Ranking #1 on Google Won’t Happen)

Neil Patel · Beginner ·📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ·7y ago
Today I'm going to talk about what I call the Hidden Laws of SEO. When it comes to SEO, a lot of the advice that SEO training courses and SEO experts out there (myself included) offer can be really helpful. But Google is a big black box. If you don't understand the hidden rules that are reshaping the search landscape from hereon, you're not going to do well. RESOURCES & LINKS: ____________________________________________ 3 SEO Tips for Voice Search Optimization: Get Ahead of the Competition NOW (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpaOahLBmFQ SEO in 2019 What Will and Won’t Work (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0joqcqpiO4 Why Your Brand Name is the Best SEO Hack You’ve Got (article): https://neilpatel.com/blog/branding-seo-hack/ The Definitive Guide to Voice Search: How to Beat Your Competitors to the Punch (article): https://neilpatel.com/blog/voice-search-success/ Google Trends: https://trends.google.com/ ____________________________________________ So how do you get rankings? Through experimentation. But even if you experiment, it doesn't guarantee success because of the three unseen laws of SEO. Most people think SEO is about building the backlinks, doing these on-page SEO tactics, and all the advice that I'm telling you and other experts are telling you. But the issue is, if you're not leveraging the other things that people aren't talking about that Google is really focusing on, especially in the future, you're not going to do well. And the first one is brand queries. Eric Schmidt once said a quote and he was talking about brands are the solution. That's how you separate the good companies from the bad companies. And I'm butchering his quote because I haven't memorized it. If you built a brand you're going to be better off. You're hearing about fake new all over the web. It's not just a problem with Facebook. It's a problem with Google and every social site out there as well. So they wanna focus on the good quality content. The g
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