- Google's a big black box. So how do you get rankings? Through experimentation.
But you know what? Even if you experiment, it doesn't guarantee success because of the three unseen laws of SEO. Hey everyone!
I'm Neil Patel and today, I'm gonna break down the three unseen laws of SEO. (soft beat music) Now I have a question for you. When you guys do all this SEO stuff that experts are recommending, even me, what are the chances that you're traffic's going up?
If you're not seeing your traffic going up, leave a comment with no. If you are seeing your traffic go up, leave a comment with yes. I'm just curious.
Now let's go into the unseen laws of SEO. The first unseen law is brand queries. Most people don't realize this.
They think SEO, oh you gotta build the back links, you gotta do these on page tactics and all the advice that I'm telling you and other experts are telling you are right. 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 gonna 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 cuz I haven't memorized it.
None the less, if you built a brand you're gonna 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 good sites that aren't pushing out this junk that's duping people.
How do they know that your site has valuable information? Brand queries. If you use Google Trends and you type in your brand name verses any of the other competitors, you'll see how popular your brand is.
In essence, Google is giving you the free tool that'll show you if your brand is going up and to the right, is flat, or is going down. And the goal is to keep growing your brand cuz the bigger you grow your brand, the better off you're gonna be and in the long run, the higher your rankings are gonna get. To give you a prime example of this, when I wasn't getting too many brand queries, I had the hardest time ranking for the queued online marketing.
Without building any extra links, without changing any of my content, the moment my brand queries started increasing, I shot up to the top of page one for the term online marketing. That's the power of brand queries. The second unseen law of SEO I have for you, is user experience.
It doesn't matter how good of a job you've done with SEO. You've built a lot of links, you've optimized your title tags, you've AB tested them, you've written amazing content. If you're user experience sucks, people go to your site, they bounce back cuz they don't find what they're looking for.
You're not gonna rank well in the long run. Google's using what they call user metrics. Time on site, dwell time, are people hitting the back button right when they come to your site.
Is it a lot of pages views per visitor? All these things based on when a user does a search, and Google then compares that to all the other people that rank for the same term. It'll tell them if you should rank higher than the other people.
Doesn't matter if you've out optimized them or not. If users aren't happy with the experience on your website, you're not gonna do well. So don't just think about SEO's, optimize your site, building links, writing amazing content.
You also need a good product and a good service. Having a good product and service, helps with the user experience. People like Drpbox and Slack, companies like that, have done well not because of their SEO first.
Even Airbnb, not because of their SEO first. They've all done well because they've tried to create the best user experience for people. Heck, Airbnb even learned that when they send a professional photographer to people's houses to take pictures, their conversion rates went up.
People prefer that. That's an example of creating an amazing user experience. The third unseen law of SEO is, SEO's gonna adapt and as long as you adapt with it you're gonna be fine but most people aren't.
Here's what I mean by this. I talk about things like voice search. According to Comscore, in 2020, half the searches will be voice search.
But yet, no one really cares to read about that or talk about it because voice search isn't that sexy to people. Again, if you're not up to date with technology, the changes that are happening, you're not gonna do well in the long run. And it doesn't stop with just voice search, think of it this way.
Google Home is connected to your whole home, even your microwave, your oven. As you're cooking on your oven, you can end up saying, "Hey Google, what are some recipes for pasta? " I'm making it up, I don't cook but you get the point.
That'll end up pulling from search results. If you don't adapt with technology and where the world is going, you're gonna be left behind and you're not gonna rank well in the long run. So as long as you follow those three rules, you'll do well.
But the moment you don't, no matter how much SEO you do, you won't rank at the top and if you do, it'll only be temporarily. And if you want more help with your marketing, you can always check on my ad agency, NeilPatel Digital, where we help companies get to the top of Google, whether it's organic or paid and of course we make sure you're generating a ROY. Thank you for watching.
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