
My Failed Attempt at SEO | Ep. #808
Nomzy Stholly
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In episode #808, Eric and Neil discuss their early failures. Tune in to hear what</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">not</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">to do if you want long-term success.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eric and Neil have committed to throwing a FREE Marketing School Live Event in Los Angeles, once Marketing School reaches 1M downloads in a 30 day period. Take action: Rate, review, subscribe, and SHARE. Check the progress</span> <a href= "http://marketingschool.io/stats/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">!</span></p> <p><strong>TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES:</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[00:27] Today’s Topic:</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">My Failed Attempt at SEO</span></em></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[00:38] When Eric started doing SEO, he wanted to white and black hat stuff.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[00:55] He made a website called Lightshow Videos.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[01:10] WIthin a month or so, he was ranked #1 for lightshow videos.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[01:20] However, it doesn’t matter where you rank if you don’t get any volume.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[01:40] Neil’s first site was a job board.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[01:47] He realized the sites that had the most amount of traffic, had the most pages.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[02:00] He scraped Google and looked for the most popular pages, then recreated those on his site.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[02:05] He then started getting thousands of visitors per month.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[02:14] Once he added</span> <a href="https://www.google.com/adsense/start/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Ad Sense</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Google then became wise to his schem