Comments on: On Neil’s Success – What I’ve observed from the sidelines

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:10:56 +0000

You can find Cameron at http://www.cameronolthuis.com

By: How to Get Six Pack Fast

How to Get Six Pack Fast — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:51:45 +0000

The style of writing is very familiar . Have you written guest posts for other blogs?

By: Network 21

Network 21 — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:59:28 +0000

You could always ask the host to alter it…may not work, but worth a shot.
Though if it was an article in the press, theyre not likely to alter their content due to journalistic integrity.

By: Oliver Ding

Oliver Ding — Sun, 20 May 2007 15:26:38 +0000

Hi,I has translated this post into Chinese and put in my Chinese Blog. See here:
http://swordi.com/2007/05/20/on-neils-success-what-i-have-observed-from-the-sidelines/

By: FameFire

FameFire — Sat, 12 May 2007 10:21:58 +0000

You are right. Neil is an outstanding blogger. Even I am new to his blog but I try to keep my eyes to roll over once in a day at least.

By: anty

anty — Sat, 12 May 2007 08:21:50 +0000

Good work, Neil!

“Always have something to offer others”
This is only effective if you do networking also. If you do a favor to someone and he forgets you, you probably should invest more into networking.

Those two “techniques” combined are very effective I guess

By: Rebecca Kelley

Rebecca Kelley — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:36:54 +0000

Awwww, you mean that Neil’s as nice to everyone else as he is to me? I thought we had something special…

*sniffle*

By: Cameron Olthuis

Cameron Olthuis — Fri, 11 May 2007 16:55:04 +0000

Ali, nothing new there, at least from my point of view. If I had to say one tip that Neil likes… unique meta description tags, as it will help keep you from supplemental hell.

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 11 May 2007 08:13:25 +0000

All this is fine, but how about some insider tips on how he does SEO stuff. I’m sure you observed that from the sidelines too.

Come on, just one good rock solid tip.

By: Collis

Collis — Fri, 11 May 2007 06:19:47 +0000

Wow, that was actually quite fascinating! Great read!

By: Rekzai

Rekzai — Thu, 10 May 2007 04:10:00 +0000

hmm I should start networking more, great job Neil.

By: Harrison Gevirtz

Harrison Gevirtz — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:01:54 +0000

im getting there neil

By: TannerC

TannerC — Wed, 09 May 2007 21:49:28 +0000

Great article, great information, great guy.

By: Vishal Agarwal

Vishal Agarwal — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:37:03 +0000

Very Impressive indeed. Thanks for all the information.

By: Bill Hartzer

Bill Hartzer — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:48:45 +0000

Imran Rafique, I totally agree: this should be titled: “how to be a rock start like Neil Patel.” One of the easiest ways to become a rock star yourself is to hang with the rock stars and do favors for them.

Jake and Neil, I might even take it further–you’ll need to get some links to the more positive mentions of yourself like those profiles that Neil mentions (or URLs that you would like to filter to the top of the search results) and then continue to add more profiles and/or get sites and pages that mention you (or, ahem, pages that mention that guy you know).

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:31:46 +0000

Jake, the easiest way to water down the search results is to create profiles on powerful social sites such as Twitter, MySpace, and Wikipedia. After you do this you can then start creating blogs with your name on WordPress.com and other sites. Sooner or later all of these sites should rank highly for your name which will water down unwanted results.

By: Jake Fields

Jake Fields — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:05:08 +0000

I agree with the good old “any press is good press” but, this came from the print/tv world and people saw you name, something possibly embarassing and then it was gone. In the online world there is the potential for this “any press” to linger around in your google results for weeks or months.

Do you have any suggestions for watering down search results that may not be the image you would like to portray of yourself? (obviously i’m asking for umm, this guy i know)

Getting more additional search results for yourself would push somethign like this atleast off your first page, but is there a good way to see why someone else is ranking for your search term and create similar content google may like more and drop the other stuff?

Not any easy question but its the internet, anything is possible.

By: Imran Rafique

Imran Rafique — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:59:39 +0000

The title of the article should be “How to become a Rockstar: Neil Patel”…good insight into what has worked for you, hopefully I can use some of your leverage points to increase my network.

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:51:31 +0000

Thanks Terry! I didn’t even realize some of the stuff I was doing to brand myself until Cameron pointed it out to me. Sometimes it is nice to get a perspective from a different person.

By: Terry Ng

Terry Ng — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:45:20 +0000

Rock on Neil!