[seane]

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.

[paulgb]

> 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.

[Sleeep]

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."

[zuccs]

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

[Sleeep]

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.

[overcast]

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

[heinrich5991]

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

[mschuster91]

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...

[seanwilson]

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

[ceejayoz]

Holy crap, I've never noticed that.

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

[overcast]

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

[StavrosK]

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.

[Sleeep]

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.

[seane]

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

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