Neil Patel 1 - Jason Calacanis 0
A couple months ago Jason Calacanis started running his mouth (as usual) about how SEO is bullshit.
90% of the SEO market is made up of snake oil salesman. These are guys in really bad suits trying to get really naive people to sign long-term contracts. These clients typically make horrible products and don’t deserve traffic–that’s why they’re not getting it organically so they hire the slimebuckets to game the system for them
Neil was obviously offended by this so he offered an open challenge to Jason.
So to you Jason, I offer the following challenge: I can take your blog and increase your daily search traffic by a minimum of 10 to 20% after 30 days of putting my changes into effect.
Neil has apparently won the challenge and improved Jason’s search engine traffic by 21%.
Good job Princess!
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Neil really put Jason in his place. One thing is true about Calacanis, he is a great marketer, even though at times it looks like he uses shady or less than ethical tactics to get attention.
What’s coming up on the next Rush Hour?
Keep up the great work ACS & Pronet!
Zach - Not sure what we’ll talk about on this week’s Rush Hour. Do you have any suggestions?
I think Jason’s post was directed at the not so ethical SEO folks out there. And while there are certainly a number of them that are good, I do think that the industry does suffer from having a number of not so good folks out there.
Way to bring it Neil!