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1. I agree with this criticism of Neil Patel, and the things written about why SSL matters.

2. Neil Patel does not speak for all SEOs :) ...I've read several comments from other SEOs who strongly disagree with what he said.

3. JFC, people, stop linking to his site. Links are currency--it does not matter to him, big picture, if the link is framed by a sentence that says "this person is an idiot." Links only help increase his authority and ability to reach new people.

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> JFC, people, stop linking to his site. Links are currency

Hear, hear! This applies to just about everything people get outraged about these days: making people outraged on the internet is a business model that works. If you don't like that, ignore the things that outrage you instead of taking the bait.

I like what Brian Krebs does. He doesn't link to any sites, he shows screenshots and says "this was posted by user paulgb on news[dot]ycombinator[dot]com."

You don't think Google can make that connection? Local SEO (Google Maps) is already based on citations and not links.

I'm going to go ahead and assume there's a difference in Google's PageRank between talking about a site and linking to that site.

The redirection of https to http on neilpatel.com is amazing. That's something I've never seen in my life.

Really? Another popular example is https://store.steampowered.com/.

Holy crap, I've never noticed that.

They 2FA me on every login and then do that?!

I've always used the app :/ that's disappointing.

Lol they're HTTPS on the login form but plain HTTP immediately after... what a joke? That invites people to do cred fishing on bigger LAN parties or conferences...

Yeah...you could just replace the HTTP landing page with your own containing your own login form.

It took me a minute of browsing around the site and then coming back here to ask, before I realized that you're saying they're redirecting httpS to PLAIN http. Wow.

I've actually seen it a few times myself but I don't have any examples offhand. My company's filter is lazy so it doesn't filter https traffic. Sometimes if I get a blocked site that's http I try the URL with https instead. Once in a while I get a redirect to http.

Ex: https://twitter.com/searchmartin/status/895679103101091840

"The only thing @troyhunt gets wrong is thinking Neil is an SEO, not just a (talented) mouthpiece."

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