- Hey, everyone, it's Neil Patel here for another
Q&A Thursday.
I'm here with Adam from Viewership.
- Hello, everyone.
- And this week's question is-
- This one is from 518 Painters.
Thank you again, everyone, for their comments.
And thank you 518 painters.
His basically asking, "Should I pay someone from fiverr
"to do 200 citations for $20 or is that risky
"and will Google punish the website?"
- So first off, citations are different than links.
Citations is someone mentioning you in an article
but they're not linking to you.
And supposed rumor, there's been a lot of stats and data
on this, that if you get a lot of mentions,
it could help increase your rankings.
Now, Google's algorithm is much more sophisticated.
When that research first came out years and years ago,
I think it was released by Moz?
David, was it Moz?
Yeah, I think it was Moz.
And there was an amazing article.
But Google's algorithms have become much more sophisticated
where if you get a ton of citations, yes, cool, that's great
assuming they're relevant.
If you go to fiverr and you just get random sites
mentioning you, it's not going to do much for you.
The bigger question that you need to worry about is
you shouldn't be really using fiverr at all
for anything relating to marketing.
You want to pay someone on fiverr to adjust
an audio clip, create a song for your girlfriend
or your spouse so you don't have to do something romantic
because you're lazy.
I see a lot of people doing that kind of stuff
on fiverr, but never use them for marketing.
It's a great way to get banned.
You're not going to get banned by doing citations on fiverr
because they're not really leaving links,
but if you pay them to leave links or you try
to get them fake Facebook likes or fake social shares,
it's just going to hurt you in the long run.
Don't do it.
Don't use fiverr.
You have to worry not just about fiverr.
A lot of these sites, Upwork, fiverr,
a lot of these crowdsourcing sites
that can help you get stuff done for cheap.
Look at what they're doing.
You usually get what you pay for.
Upwork now has good quality people.
You have to pay more for it, but they do
have good talent on there, and a lot of people forget that
because they're like, "Aw, Upwork just has crap."
And if you pay 20 bucks or 10 bucks, yeah,
you're going to get crap, same with fiverr, $5.
You can get images modified on fiverr for dirt cheap
and they could be decent, but generally, don't pay
people for citations, links-
- Fake views, likes, anything. - Yeah.
- If you game the system, you are going to get punished
by these companies.
They're smarter than us.
- I used to game the system.
I used go buy links.
Eventually Google caught on years later, got banned.
I used to buy fake Facebook likes to fan pages,
and then Facebook changed their algorithm to,
"Oh, if you have fans you don't engage,
"we're going to hurt your overall fan page score
"and then no one's going to see your content."
- Right.
- I used to buy fake YouTube likes, and then
what does YouTube do once they notice that?
- Not good.
They will ban you. - Yes.
- I almost got my Sexy Confidence YouTube channel
banned within three days of starting it
because I bought 20,000 views.
Don't do it.
- When YouTube first came out, I put a no script ...
You know what a no script is?
- No.
- Like this code on my website where if you visit
my site and you are logged into Gmail
because Google bought YouTube at the time,
they made a YouTube login at Gmail,
you would automatically subscribe to my YouTube channel.
- (laughs)
- And I was a top 100 YouTube channel in less than 30 days.
- Aw.
- It was kind of cool.
- Yeah, it's super cool.
- I had no videos uploaded.
- Aw.
- And then I uploaded a video and it did really well,
and then YouTube just canned the account.
- It must've been a different channel, right?
- Yeah yeah yeah, it wasn't this one.
- Yeah, wow.
Okay.
- But the point I'm trying to make is eventually
you will get caught.
Don't do short term thinking.
I used to do that kind of stuff because I wanted
quick money, and I realized the best way to make money
and get the rankings and do well
isn't to do short term stuff.
It's to do long term stuff.
Because I would do the short term stuff, make the money,
and then it would go away and I'd be like,
"Crap, now I'm off to the drawing board.
"I gotta spend more money.
"I don't have the consistent income."
Think longterm.
Don't do any short-term shit.
- And with artificial intelligence now,
you're not getting away with this stuff.
They're too smart now.
It's not happening.
- Yes.
- Thank you so much for the comment, though.
This is awesome, guys.
More comments just like this really help us out a lot.
- Yes, thank you 518 Painter.
- 518 Painters.
- Yeah, 518 Painters.
- Who's got 684 subscribers, so he's making
some video content as well. - Yeah, good for them.
- Good job.
Unless you bought it on fiverr. (laughs)
- (laughs) Don't tell me you bought it on fiverr.
- Don't do it.
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