Neil Patel stood up to Jason Calacanis’ SEO criticisms with a simple request: let me increase your daily search traffic by a minimum of 10 to 20 percent.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the main event. Let’s get ready to optimize!
In this corner, weighing in at about $25 million thanks to his Weblogs Inc sale to AOL, Jason “The Brooklyn Bulldog” Calacanis! He’s criticized the SEO industry and steps into the ring ready to defend his position.
In the other corner, weighing in with numerous blog posts and plenty of ideas about SEO, the challenger, Neil “Traffic Driver” Patel! He offered to boost search-driven traffic to Calacanis’ site by at least 10 to 20 percent within 30 days of implementing changes to the site.
We go to our analyst at ringside to see how the challenger has fared with his efforts. How do you see the bout so far, Max?
So far the Traffic Driver is looking good against the Brooklyn Bulldog. Here’s how Patel says the challenge has worked out in the early minutes of the contest:
We had 6 (not 7) full days of analytical tracking before the first SEO changes were set in place….calacanis.com received 6149 search engine hits between February 21st and February 26th.
Currently SEO changes are still being made and around 10% of them have been made so far which has resulted in 7,449 search engine visitors between March 14th and March 19th. This proves that there was a 21.14% increase in search traffic…
Patel is feeling so confident, he isn’t predicting a 10 or 20 percent gain for Calacanis. Said Patel, “When everything is done I estimate a 50% or so increase in search traffic.”
Won’t that be something if the challenger can put the champ down with a haymaker? A 50 percent gain has to be a knockout punch in this match.
