Neil Patel challenged Jason Calacanis, who said last month that SEO is bull, that SEO can improve traffic to his site.

Jason accepted the challenge and the early results have now been posted.

Neil shows that by making “white hat” recommendation, he has increased Jason’s search traffic by 21 percent. Note that Neil also said that so far, only 10 percent of his recommendations have been implemented.

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