Understanding URL structures is one of the few technical SEO flavors that every search professional must fully understand to be successful. Rand did an excellent Whiteboard Friday on the topic of Sub-domains vs. Sub-folders and 301s vs. rel=canonical tags (and it’s a must watch), but many busines…

Trello, the collaborative task-management software, has topped 7 million users, with 120,000 new users joining the platform every week. Trello co-founder Michael Pryor confirmed to TechCrunch that the service has 1.7 million monthly active users, with Trello users in every country in the world (s…

Gonz Medina and Jason Heslop started Blue Chip Athletic in 2001 with no marketing budget, website or customers. But they did have a screen printing machine, a business plan, and a passion for providing affordable, quality apparel to the Missouri high school wrestling teams they coached.
Ten years la…

Brands nowadays are tasked with producing copious amounts of content. But without a clear direction or plan in place, chances are your content marketing efforts will fall flat. You need to know: who is producing the content? How often and what types? Do you actually have?dare I say it?a content stra…

By Neil Patel

When you think of my name, Neil Patel, what comes to mind? You probably see me as a marketing guru or as an expert who is good at driving traffic to websites.

Although that’s true these days, I’ve made a lot of marketing blunders over the years. Luckily, most of these blunders affected my own business, so it was me who lost money, and not my clients.

Nonetheless, I’ve made 10 huge mistakes that have cost me a lot of money – in fact, the cumulative loss from these marketing blunders is so great that it runs well into the hundreds of …read more