Neil Patel

About

About

Neil Patel is the co-founder of KISSmetrics, an analytics provider that helps companies make better business decisions. Neil also blogs about marketing and entrepreneurship at Quick Sprout.

Content Marketing

Make Your Boring Content Awesome

Boring content is wrong. But what you might see as boring—such as technical how-tos, comprehensive guides, and detailed support—may not be boring at all.

Neil Patel
5/8/2016
1.8K Reads
9 min read

SEO

Optimize Your Link Building Conversions

Link building is still as important as ever. Here are a few ways in which you can start optimizing your link building for better conversion...

Neil Patel
4/29/2016
1.7K Reads
11 min read

Content Marketing

Increase Site Traffic w/ Mobile-Friendly Content

Want to increase traffic and engagement to your website? Check out Neil Patel’s post and follow these five things to make your content mobile-friendly.

Neil Patel
4/23/2016
1.6K Reads
12 min read

Careers & Education

How Millennials can Master Digital Marketing

Millennials are not just a marketing demographic. They’re marketers, too. So, how should they view their role and master the craft of digital marketing?

Neil Patel
4/15/2016
4.3K Reads
6 min read

SEO

10 Signs You’re a Digital Marketing Expert

Perhaps you have not achieved Digital Marketing expert status yet, but see how you rank according to these signs of digital marketers.

Neil Patel
4/12/2016
5.2K Reads
5 min read

SEO

How to Safely Earn Four Backlinks This Weekend

If your site’s SEO has been struggling in the backwater for a long time, I suggest you take a weekend to give these backlinks techniques...

Neil Patel
3/24/2016
5.0K Reads
7 min read

Careers & Education

5 Tactics to Turn a Small SEO Agency Into a National Force

Your small seo agency may be alive and well today. But what if you want to scale up? How do you play with the big...

Neil Patel
3/3/2016
7.1K Reads
10 min read

Content Marketing

10 Tips to Make Content Marketing Work for Small Budgets

Content marketing takes budget. Here are 10 tips to help you bring down your content marketing spending significantly without sacrificing results.

Neil Patel
1/31/2016
4.2K Reads
20 min read

SEO

A Comprehensive Strategy for Dealing with Google’s Algorithm Changes

If the changes in the Google algorithm does deal your website a nasty blow, remember that there’s always a way to recover.

Neil Patel
1/2/2016
9.2K Reads
8 min read

SEO

3 Super Simple SEO Strategies You Probably Forgot About

Neil Patel shares three SEO strategies that are so simple, you might be surprised you’ve overlooked them.

Neil Patel
12/30/2015
10.0K Reads
8 min read

Content Marketing

How to Do Curated Content RIGHT: A Step-by-Step Guide

By the end of this post, you’ll know which types of curated content you should create as well as how to create them in order...

Neil Patel
12/18/2015
2.6K Reads
20 min read

Content Marketing

How to Help Your New Website Get Indexed on Google

You can’t guarantee first-page website ranking with the same bag of black hat tricks. Today, there’s a new content-driven, user-focused approach to SEO.

Neil Patel
11/28/2015
13K Reads
10 min read

Content Marketing

A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating an Autoresponder That Subscribers Can’t Wait to Open

Email autoresponders are the holy grail of marketing. Here’s a step-by-step guide to create an efficient and effective email autoresponsder.

Neil Patel
11/1/2015
2.6K Reads
20 min read

SEO

Your First 3 Steps After Receiving a Manual Penalty

Google levies thousands of manual penalties every month. Here’s what I’ve learned, and what will benefit you if you experience a manual penalty.

Neil Patel
10/18/2015
2.8K Reads
9 min read

Careers & Education

12 Reasons Why You Might Never (Ever) Want to Hire an In-House SEO

Hiring decisions are always tough. Here are a few reasons to consider one perspective — ‘not’ hiring an in-house SEO.

Neil Patel
10/16/2015
5.3K Reads
8 min read

Content Marketing

Be a Better Copywriter: 7 Lessons From 4 Legendary Books

Although digital copywriting is relatively new, copywriting has been used for hundreds of years. Here are seven lessons from four legendary books.

Neil Patel
10/12/2015
2.9K Reads
20 min read

Tools

6 Advanced Google Analytics Tricks That All Site Owners Should Know

When it comes to free analytics software, nothing comes close to Google Analytics. Learn really useful advanced features just waiting for you to be used.

Neil Patel
10/10/2015
21K Reads
20 min read

SEO

7 Low-Hanging Fruits That Any #SEO Can Fix

Most SEOs aren’t able to fix every problem on the site. Thankfully, there are low-hanging SEO issues that most of them should be able to...

Neil Patel
10/5/2015
13K Reads
11 min read

SEO

8 Actionable Takeaways from the 2015 SEO Ranking Factors

Here are the most important things that you need to know about ranking, as released in the 2015 SEO Ranking Factors.

Neil Patel
9/23/2015
6.2K Reads
7 min read

SEO

6 Aspects of SEO The Busy Entrepreneur Can Finally Stop Worrying About

As an entrepreneur, you’re goal is to get your website up. If that’s your jam, then there are a few SEO things you can finally...

Neil Patel
9/17/2015
4.1K Reads
7 min read

How to Get Your First 1,000 Followers on Pinterest

Pinterest is actually one of the highest converting social sites on the web, especially for e-commerce. But how do you get started on Pinterest?

Neil Patel
8/4/2015
4.6K Reads
1 min read

Content Marketing

The 5 Stages of Blog Growth: How Your Traffic Tactics Should Change as You Grow

Chances are, you don’t know what to do to get over 100,000 visitors/month in less than year. Learn the 5 stages of blog growth to...

Neil Patel
7/28/2015
3.5K Reads
20 min read

SEO

5 Things to Optimize on Your E-Commerce Site to Gain More Sales

There are lots of e-commerce site “best practices” tweaks you can do. But what should be your focus? What changes will impact your bottom line?

Neil Patel
7/22/2015
4.1K Reads
9 min read

Careers & Education·SEO

4 Things that SEO Newbies Need to Understand Immediately

Every SEO has their area of expertise, but there are a few things that every SEO has to know.

Neil Patel
7/15/2015
14K Reads
9 min read

Social Media

8 Ways to Get More Social Shares Without Annoying Readers

You won’t get awesome results overnight, but I promise you’ll get better social shares than you’re getting right now.

Neil Patel
7/11/2015
6.4K Reads
20 min read

Facebook

How to Improve Your Facebook Page’s Organic Reach [INFOGRAPHIC]

When your Facebook engagement starts to slow down, chances are you blame Facebook’s algorithm. Check out this infographic to increase your organic reach.