How to Increase Your Search Traffic by 58% in 30 Days Video Lecture | Be a Blogger: Beginner to Expert - Professional Skills

There has to be a way that you can quickly
increase your search traffic, right?
Well, there is.
Hey, everyone.
I'm Neil Patel and today, I'm going to teach
you how to increase your search traffic by
58% in 30 days.
In December 2016, I had 283,000 visitors in
that month from Google.
You can see it within my analytics.
In January 2017, right, which is the next
month ... I understand December has some holidays
like Christmas, but still, overall I had a
huge increase.
My search traffic in January 2017 went up
to 449,000 visitors.
That's roughly a 58% increase in search traffic.
You may be asking how'd I get such a big,
drastic increase?
Did I build more links?
No.
Did Google change your algorithm?
No.
All that happened was I made one simple change
on my website.
What is this change?
Well, my URL structure on my website used
to be Neilpatel.com/month/year/the
title of the page or the title of the blog
post.
You know what?
That URL structure is very inefficient because
Google will look at that URL structure and
be like, "Hmmm, this webpage must be related
to the date because the date was ahead of
the blog title or the page title in the URL
structure."
Google looks at the URL structure as hierarchy,
so they're correlating every single page or
blog post relating to a specific day.
That's very inaccurate because a year from
now, these blog posts are still relevant.
Now, my blog posts are Neilpatel.com/blog/title
of the blog post.
That one simple change made Google realize
that my blog posts aren't related to the specific
date and my search traffic went up drastically.
Now, if you're going to do this change on
your website, because a lot of WordPress blogs
have dates in their URL, there's a few things
you need to know.
Number one, you can't just change your URL
structure.
You have to take all your old URLs and 301
redirect them to your new URLs.
The second thing you need to do is change
all the internal links you have on your website
and change them from the old way, which had
the dates, to the new way without the dates.
The way you want to structure your website
is all your blog posts should be under the
blog URL structure.
All of your other pages should be under whatever
structure is most related to them.
Let's say you have this whole other section
related to flight, it could be domain.com/flights/whatever
the page title would be.
That hierarchy, the folder above your main
pages, should be related to whatever category
it is and that category should be within your
URL structure.
By doing that one simple change, you should
get more search traffic.
You may not get 58% increase like I did, but
you should see a increase.
You know what the funny thing is?
Everyone told me the more links you build,
the better off you are.
I kept building links over the years, but
this one change increased my search traffic
more than anything else.