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Welcome back to another episode of the Niche Pursuits News Podcast.
This week Jared and guest host Brooks Conkle take on the latest SEO news and break it down for listeners. They also share the side hustles they've been working on and dissect a few weird niche sites.
The big news this week, OpenAI’s launch of its most sophisticated AI model
They share an open letter to Google and talk about the position of small publishers after the updates.
Takeaways from a study on data from Google’s August core update
Jared goes first with a tool called URL Opener
Brooks shares the site The Useless Web
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While Mike Heroux worked professionally as a financial planner, he always had a financial blog side hustle.
It took some time to finally make the decision to go all-in, but he eventually dove headfirst into blogging. In fact, he grew his portfolio to about a dozen sites.
And then the Panda Update came along. Suffice to say, Mike’s multi-year journey into entrepreneurship has had its ups and downs.
Today, he runs a membership website—Dividend Stocks Rock—with almost 4,000 members earning over $500k per year. And he grew it without using any SEO. He also built up a newsletter to nearly 25,000 subscribers.
Mike has a ton of great insight to share in this interview, so get ready to take notes!
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Welcome back to another episode of the Niche Pursuits News Podcast.
This week Jared and guest host Morgan Overholt take on the latest SEO news and break it down for listeners. They also share the side hustles they've been working on and dissect a few weird niche sites.
The big news this week, an interview with Google Search Liaison Danny Sullivan
They talk about an article in Moz claiming that the HCU was not what we thought it was.
Takeaways from a recent podcast by Lily Ray
The last news item they cover is Mediavine’s decision to ban publishers who overuse AI content.
Jared goes first with a DR71 site called Nuclear Secrecy
Morgan shares the site Lipsum
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When Adam Rosen founded his first tech startup, he learned a lot of important skills before he eventually sold it. One of those skills was using cold email as a sales technique.
Fast forward to today, Adam has his own cold email outreach agency that sends more than a million emails and schedules over 300 meetings each month for his clients. He’s earning more than $100k a month.
Adam's able to run his business from anywhere in the world, which has allowed him to live and work in places like Lake Como, Hawaii, Montenegro, and Switzerland.
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This week Spencer and Jared are at it again, breaking down the latest news items in the SEO world, sharing their progress with their side hustles, and analyzing some weird niche sites.
The big news this week is that the August Google Core Update has finally finished rolling out, after 19 days, and overall it was a pretty impactful update.
they talk about a site that Google has shown considerable favor to in recent times: Reddit.
The last news item is again about Google, and how the antitrust trial is targeting its digital ad business.
In the end, he gave that page away as part of a contest to a new member of his exclusive Niche Pursuits Community, where growing a Facebook page is the main focus for members for the next 6 weeks.
A recent guest on the Niche Pursuits Podcast.
He also talks about his side hustle on Medium, also inspired by another podcast guest
Spencer shares the interesting story of how he came to find Cool Works
Jared then shares I Got Standards, Bro
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When Thomas Smith started publishing articles on Medium back in 2019, it was just a side hustle.
Over the years, however, he’s been able to develop a strategy to succeed on the platform, and today Medium is extremely valuable for him, providing a large part of his monthly income as well as countless business opportunities.
Although he did peak at $17k in a single month, his recent earnings are in the $2k to $5k neighborhood and has had several 5-figure months.
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This week Jared and guest host Thomas Smith take on all the latest news on this episode of the Niche Pursuits News Podcast.
Yelp is suing Google - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/technology/google-yelp-lawsuit.html
Yelp's gripe? https://www.searchenginejournal.com/yelp-sues-google-over-local-search-dominance/525687/
A new Lawsuit - https://searchengineland.com/google-adtech-antitrust-judge-business-practices-446086
HCU hit sites - https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1828798317960061090
recipe sites - https://x.com/lilyraynyc/status/1828768199057522967
Retro Dodo - https://shorturl.at/d4jJ3
Niche Pursuits Podcast. - https://www.nichepursuits.com/my-local-email-newsletter-makes-over-200k-year-heres-how/
Sportern - https://www.spotern.com/en
Backyard Chickens - https://www.backyardchickens.com/
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Tony Hill is a digital marketer with decades of experience, but when his sites’ traffic started to tank, he rolled up his sleeves and started looking for an alternative traffic source. And he found Pinterest.
Tony has gone deep into the rabbit hole on Pinterest, studying how it works and poring over its data, to come up with strategies that work.
Currently, he’s getting a million clicks a month on the platform, and he’s constantly experimenting with new sites and new tactics.
Tony talks about how he believes Pinterest works, how Pinterest SEO is similar to Google SEO, and how he tailors his content to his Pinterest audience.
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Welcome back to the latest episode of the Niche Pursuits News Podcast!
This week Jared is joined by Brooks Conkle, a member of the Niche Pursuits Community as well as an entrepreneur with many, many income streams, lots of experience in the industry, and plenty of insights to share.
There’s some interesting news for publishers this week, so get comfortable!
The first order of business is the recently released Google Core Update, for which there is now some data available. Jared and Brooks talk about the absolute winners so far.
Who’s benefiting the most from the update? Are you surprised by the results?
Then Jared shares a particularly exciting promising news item: signs of life after the HCU.
They also share information about sites that are recovering, and Jared asks some important questions and talks specifically about HouseFresh and RetroDodo.
Then he and Brooks share their thoughts about the current landscape and suggest that there are greater questions to be answered, about Google, the future of search, and AI.
Moving along, they talk about Google AI Overviews and where they’re pulling their information from.
Then they move on to the Shiny Object Shenanigans, and Jared talks about his focus on earning money from projects he’s already working on.
First, he shares his experience to date with Creator Connections.
Then he shares a new side hustle he recently started: publishing the content he’s already written on Medium. He talks a little bit about how it works and his future plans.
When it’s Brooks’ turn, he talks about a new side hustle: domain name investing. He shares all the interesting things he’s discovered about this world and some of the domains he’s purchased. Listen to the full episode to hear more about it.
Then it’s time for some Weird Niche Sites, Jared shares his site first: All 8, a very strange DR47 site with just 3 links on it related to square dancing and beat measurements. Surprisingly, this site gets 30k visitors per month while only ranking for 1k keywords.
Brooks then shares a weird site he found called The Pet Psychic, which gets 11k pageviews per month.
And that concludes another episode of the Niche Pursuits News Podcast. We hope you feel better informed after listening to what’s happening in the industry, motivated by the stories about our side hustles, and inspired by the weird niche sites people are creating.
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Dylan Jahraus started working in corporate e-commerce, but eventually had to quit while trying to climb that ladder.
She tried her hand at Etsy as a side hustle, and was pleased to see that she could apply her extensive e-comm experience to the platform.
She’s been killing it on Etsy for years now, selling $1.5 million to date.
In this interview, she shares some of her best strategies and tips, explains best practices in everything from product pricing to thumbnails, and walks us through the process of going from $0 to $10k.
If you have an Etsy store, you simply can’t miss this episode; if you don’t have an Etsy store yet, this may very well inspire you to open one.
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Welcome back to another episode of the Niche Pursuits News podcast!
It’s been a very big week in the news, with Google taking center stage for several different reasons. This week, Jared and Morgan break it all down for us, and they also share the progress they’re making on their side hustles, and some weird niche sites!
Let’s jump into it!
The first order of business is Google’s announcement about its August core update, which the company has been teasing for some time.
Moving along, they talk about an article in the New York Times about how the US Justice Department is considering several scenarios after deciding that Google is a monopoly, including possibly breaking up the company.
Jared shares the timeline and the opinions of Duck Duck Go, and Morgan talks about what happened in the EU when Google was forced to give users a choice when installing their web browsers. It’s pretty surprising what she reveals!
They also talk about the ways this ruling could change the internet and which of the scenarios they’d prefer to see. Is Google really resting on its laurels, as Morgan says?
The next topic up for discussion is that Reddit investors are concerned about what all the traffic is doing to its stock price, as company shares have plummeted by 26%.
Why are they complaining about the traffic? Why are “logged in” users more valuable than “logged out” ones? How does Reddit’s current situation contrast with its attitude just a few weeks ago?
Then Jared and Morgan tie the Reddit news to Google’s announcement about its current core update. What do they predict might happen? Listen to the full episode to hear what they say!
When it’s time to talk about their side hustles, Jared comments briefly about the course he recently launched on the Amazon Influencer Program, but then dives into the newsletter he recently acquired, The Slice.
He shares his stats, such as open rates, ad earnings, and affiliate income, and his future plans for the side hustle.
He also talks about Creator Connections, in the Influencer Program, and shares his latest earnings.
Morgan then talks about her Amazon Influencer side hustle and shares her experience creating more polished videos for the program and the impact on her video clicks. She also shares a strategy she’s going to experiment with in the coming weeks.
Jared’s weird niche site comes with its own personal story this week: San Diego Sandcastles, which he discovered while at the beach with his family.
When it’s Morgan’s turn, she shares This Person Does Not Exist, which generates AI images of people who don’t exist.
This site has been around since 2021, and she shares some of its stats.
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If you didn’t get into paid media before Google changed up the traffic game, you can still get into it now. That’s what Alex Goldberg is showing us on this week’s podcast.
Alex started a site as a side hustle, but it eventually grew into a portfolio of sites. Organic traffic was abundant, but he decided to experiment with paid media arbitrage.
In the end, he built up a portfolio of sites earning $20k/month and then sold it for a hefty sum.
For people who are generating a lot of traffic from SEO or social media, Alex outlines a great strategy to diversify, and for people who aren’t getting as much traffic as they used to, they can also diversify.
Don’t miss this episode where Alex shares a lot of great advice and tips for getting started and succeeding with paid ads.
Alex starts with a brief introduction of his background, talking about how he always wanted to be an entrepreneur, how he started side hustling, and how he eventually exited one of his main projects, a portfolio of health and wellness sites.
He starts by talking in more detail about his initial site, which he started in 2018 as a side hustle with a colleague. They were reviewing fintech companies, but pivoted to health and wellness when they sensed there was a better opportunity in that niche.
In 2021, he quit his job, eventually bought out his business partner, and went on to create a portfolio of related sites. He also shifted his focus from organic traffic to paid media arbitrage before he eventually sought out, and found, a buyer.
Alex goes into more detail about switching from SEO to paid media arbitrage and why he decided to diversify. He talks about the challenges he faced setting up a paid arbitrage strategy, but claims that once you have a roadmap, it’s easier than SEO.
He discusses the types of keywords he bids on, how to meet the demand of underlying queries, and future-proofing your business.
Alex had experience before he started using this strategy, but for people who don’t usually use paid ads, he shares tips and tricks and challenges people generally face.
He reveals the percentage of campaigns that are generally successful and talks about how to talk to brands about using this strategy, what kinds of niches it would work in, and he compares it to SEO, content creation, and organic traffic.
Alex explains social whitelisting and then goes into a lot of detail on conversion tracking, and he also talks about scaling the business and reaching $20k/month in profit while providing immense value for his clients, which was very important to him.
Towards the end of the interview, he talks about being hit by the HCU and how diversified his sites were, and he also shares some stats: how much his business was earning and how much he sold it for.
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Welcome back to another episode of the Niche Pursuits News Podcast, where Spencer and Jared talk about the biggest news in the SEO and creator industry and what it means for you. They also share their inspiring side hustles and some weird niche sites they've discovered.
Today they tackled the biggest news item we’ve seen in a while: Google’s antitrust lawsuit.
Google has been in the news for a while now as the courts have been trying to determine whether or not it’s a monopoly and a decision was finally handed down, stating that the company does have an illegal monopoly on search.
What did the company say on Twitter and how did others respond? And what are the potential outcomes?
Spencer and Jared talk about how Google got here, what it might be asked to do in the future, and what they really think about Google’s claims.
Moving along, they head into the Shiny Object Shenanigans portion of the podcast, and Spencer goes first. He talks about his experience with the Facebook Bonus Program, of which he has been a member for the last 2 months.
His first month in the program, he earned $3k, and he was on track to surpass that in his second month. What happened at the end of July? How did it all play out?
When it’s Jared’s turn, he talks about the Amazon Influencer Program.
Although he had a few complicated days, his monthly earnings were in line with his usual performance. He also announces the release of his new course, which walks you through the process of getting started in the program.
He shares some interesting data, comparing his performance with Spencer’s and another member of the Amazon Influencer Program, who recently joined. He looks at how much they’re all earning and how many clicks each of their videos are receiving per month.
He also talks briefly about his experience with the Creators Connection program.
Then they move on to their Weird Niche Sites.
Spencer goes first with Spot the Difference which, as the name suggests, shows users two photos and they have to find 4 things that are different. It’s monetized with a lot of display ads and gets around 23k organic visitors a month.
When it’s Jared’s turn, he’s excited to share Where Is My Milk From, indubitably a weird niche site that helps you locate the origin of your milk.
And that brings us to the end of another episode of the Niche Pursuits News Podcast. We hope you’re feeling informed and inspired.
Don’t forget to catch Spencer and Jared next Friday when they tackle the latest news and provide updates on their projects.
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This week on the podcast we have a familiar face!
Spencer Haws comes on to talk about a very interesting, and surprisingly lucrative, side hustle both he and Jared have been working on for the last year: the Amazon Influencer Program.
In this episode, Spencer and Jared talk about their experience with the program, discuss the different strategies they used to grow this side business, and share some insider tips for succeeding.
Jared also reveals that he teamed up with Authority Hacker to create a course that helps people through the entire process.
They begin with a brief overview of what the Amazon Influencer Program is all about: creating shoppable videos and posting them on Amazon’s product pages. By doing this, you get a sliver of Amazon’s massive traffic.
But before you can participate, you need to get accepted into the program.
Jared gives a rundown of the primary requirements, and then he and Spencer talk about the path they each took to get accepted into the program.
Spencer even shares an Amazon Influencer Program secret he hasn’t shared before!
They talk about making the first three videos for your account, and why they’re important. If your videos get rejected three times, you won’t be able to participate in the program.
With that in mind, Spencer talks about what makes a great first video and lets listeners know what not to do.
He and Jared also talk about whether or not you need to show your face in the videos, what type of product features to discuss, and how to approach Amazon’s long list of rules when making videos.
They also share some of the mistakes they made, which got some of their videos rejected.
Then Spencer shares his personal journey on the program, which he joined in January 2023, and talks about adding videos gradually. By December of that year, he peaked at $6k for the month.
To give an idea of how passive the program is, now he’s earning an average of $1500 a month and hasn’t added any videos for the last 7 months.
Jared shares his story, too.
He got accepted in May 2023 and frontloaded a lot of the work, publishing +200 videos in his first month, which led to earnings of $1000.
He continued to gradually upload videos, and he’s currently earning around $3k to $4k consistently per month.
Then they move backwards slightly, and Spencer talks about how he got his videos done. The first ones he did himself, and then he outsourced the next 1000.
He shares where he found people to create the videos, how he paid them, and how much he paid them. He also shares some of the pros and cons to this approach.
When it’s Jared’s turn, he shares his strategy for growing his Amazon Influencer account. Jared did the bulk of his own videos, reviewing products that he had around his house, his neighbors’ houses, and his parent’s house.
He even shares a cool hack for accessing even more products for videos.
Equally importantly, he talks about how long he spent doing his videos and how he became super efficient for the best possible ROI.
To close out the interview, they share some important insights they’ve gathered about slightly over a year in the program.
These revolve around reviewing higher priced products, showing lots of close-ups, skipping long winded introductions, seasonality, creating SOPs, among others.
All in all, this is a fantastic, information-packed episode if you’re curious about the program and looking to get started, or if you’re already using it and want some fresh ideas.
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Welcome back, everyone, to another episode of the Niche Pursuits News podcast. Jared hosts this week’s episode, along with Morgan Overholt, who’s standing in for Spencer.
They kick off the news portion of the episode talking about Reddit and how it has blocked Bing Search. Microsoft has confirmed this news and is respecting Reddit’s decision, but the plot thickens when Reddit’s CEO speaks out.
This leads them to another article that talks about how the traditionally mutually beneficial arrangement of web crawling is breaking down, referencing Google and Reddit’s relationship, Reddit’s decision to block Microsoft, and how these moves are really hurting the internet.
The conversation then shifts to SearchGPT, and they look at and dissect a sample query.
As for side hustles, Morgan talks about an idea that came to her through her graphic design agency, where she has consistently designed ebooks for clients.
Now she wants to try her hand at it, publishing her own book with the content she had originally published on her website, which was hit by the Helpful Content Update.
When it’s Jared’s turn, he explains the Creator Connections program inside Amazon Influencer and how it's been going since he started participating.
Then the conversation moves on to their Weird Niche Sites. Morgan goes first with Chirper AI, a site that looks like the Sims meets ChatGPT. In this wild little AI virtual reality world, you create characters that interact with others created by different users.
When it’s Jared’s turn, he shares an image-to-text converter which, as the name suggests, takes pictures and converts them into text files.
That concludes another episode of the Niche Pursuits News podcast, where you can hear about the latest and most important news in the SEO, online business, and blogging world as well as feel inspired by the hosts’ side hustles and get ideas from some weird sites.
Catch you next week!
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Brian Nagele has had a lot of success building online businesses, but nothing could have prepared him for what he has been able to achieve on Facebook.
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After his niche sites were hit by Google's Helpful Content Update, he fully understood the importance of diversifying his traffic, and he turned to Facebook.
He started building Facebook pages, and some of his posts started going viral. Once Facebook noticed the engagement he was getting, he got invited to the platform's Performance Bonus Program. After one of his new pages in the program earned $11k its first month, he was hooked.
Today he's earning $20k per month posted viral content on his Facebook pages.
Don't miss this episode, where he shared a ton of his secrets and gives listeners the tools to get started earning money on Facebook.
Topics Brian Nagele Talks About
His experience online How he rebounds after adversity Facebook Performance Bonus Program Getting accepted Ad campaigns Engagement and niche selection Posting and creating content Outsourcing Getting unstuck Daily time commitment Earning money Beyond the program Pages in sub-niches Links & Resources Canva Pro Strevio Social Buddy Brian's program: https://www.nichepursuits.com/socialgrowthmastery Brian's website Brian's Twitter One of Brian's Facebook pagesReady to join a niche publishing mastermind, and hear from industry experts each week? Join the Niche Pursuits Community here: https://community.nichepursuits.com
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Welcome to another episode of the Niche Pursuits News Podcast, where Spencer and Jared offer their thoughts on the latest news in SEO, Google and AI; talk about their side hustles; and share some funny and weird niche sites.
They kick things off by talking about the SearchGPT announcement. Spencer talks about how the tool looks like it will work and whether it will include links to sources.
They reference an article on Wired and talk about how SearchGPT’s initial search functionality would be limited, but what will it look like when and if it eventually expands?
What type of approach will SearchGPT eventually be based on? How does this impact publishers?
Tune in to hear Spencer and Jared’s initial thoughts on this bombshell news item!
Moving along, they talk about how Google is planning to scrap its plans to kill 3rd party cookies in Chrome. This news is quite shocking, as Google has been talking about killing those cookies since 2020. People have been preparing for it for years!
Why does Spencer think they made this decision? And what trend does Jared highlight and question? How’s this going to play out in other countries?
And what’s likely driving this decision by Google? Is this good or bad news for publishers?
Next up is more Google news. Google recently released its Q2 earnings and revealed some interesting data, such as growth in its search revenue.
Although the company beat some of its estimates, where did its projections fall short? And where does its stock price stand? What does Jared point out about CEO vs public perception? And does this performance suggest that there’s room for SearchGPT to get a piece of the pie?
Also, what’s the status of AI Overviews, according to Sundar Pichai?
It’s on to the Shiny Object Shenanigans, and Spencer kicks things off talking about his experience in the Facebook Performance Bonus Program.
After just 2 months, things are going very well. In the first month he earned slightly less than $3k and this month he expects to surpass that.
How often is he posting? How has his strategy changed? What does this mean for the niche website associated with the Facebook page?
For Jared, he talks about a side hustle within a side hustle: Creator Connections inside the Amazon Influencer Program.
He recently discovered higher-paying opportunities within the program. How did he find out about them and how do they work? And why did he and Spencer describe them as “free money?”
Check out the episode to hear all the details!
Spencer shares his weird niche site first when the time comes: Test My Thumbnail, which allows you to upload a sample of a thumbnail and see what it will look like alongside others on YouTube and tweak it accordingly.
The site offers lots of other features and functions, such as a/b testing thumbnails and YouTube revenue calculator.
What does the traffic look like? What do Spencer and Jared have to say about this site?
When it’s Jared’s turn, he goes pretty weird with Gift Wrap My Face which, as the name suggests, lets you print your fact on wrapping paper.
This DR27 site doesn’t get a lot of traffic and isn’t ranking for a lot of keywords, but what’s so interesting about it, according to Jared? What’s the story behind the brand?
Jared also checks back on a weird site that was featured previously. Find out how that site is doing!
And that takes us to the end of another episode of the Niche Pursuits News Podcast!
Don’t forget to come back next week for some more insight, inspiration, and fun!
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What do you do when you can’t find a shirt that fits right? Well, if you’re Tanya Zhang, you launch a business.
Tanya and her partner Wesley identified a gap in the market: a lack of nice-fitting dress shirts for slim men. So, in 2018, they launched a very niche business called Nimble Made.
In this interview, she talks about how she validated the idea and spread the word initially about the company. She shares details on finding the right supplier, identifying the company’s core demographic, and using SEO to expand its footprint.
Tanya’s story is very inspirational. She quit her day job before she was profitable to go all-in on her dream, and with its current 6-figure revenue, it looks like it’s all working out.
Tanya kicks off the episode by sharing her background and her experience in creative roles, and then she shares how she decided to jump off the corporate ladder and launch a company.
She noticed that her partner and the people around her were struggling to find slim dress shirts for work that fit properly. After validating the idea, she created Nimble Made, in 2018.
She had no experience in the fashion industry, but she dove right in. Tanya shares the initial steps she took to launch the business, which included getting samples from a supplier and finding someone with a low minimum order and good communication.
Tanya talks about developing their marketing message and working to validate their idea and create a community, and how they quit their day jobs after just six months to dedicate themselves entirely to the company, even though it wasn’t yet profitable.
Nimble Made is earning a 6-figure revenue and the website had 90k+ pageviews in the last month.
Tanya shares how they pushed their brand story and got the word out initially about their company, with many features in leading publications.
Once it took off, she speaks about how they scaled the business and were able to offer more than 40 different types of shirts to their customers, and how they used their marketing budget with paid ads on Facebook and SEO.
Tanya then talks about their SEO efforts and how she used ChatGPT to accelerate growth, and also shares how the creation of customer personas and pinpointing the core demographic were really key in successfully marketing their products and determining exactly what content to write. She also discusses how she uses AI to produce content for the blog.
In the last portion of the interview, she talks about diversifying the company’s revenue with a YouTube channel, display ads, and affiliate marketing, and the use of email marketing.
She also shares her thoughts on quitting her job to go all-in on the company, her worst-case scenario, and the way she planned to explain the experience to future employers had it not worked out.
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Welcome back everybody, to another episode of the Niche Pursuits News Podcast!
This week Jared and guest host Colin Ma tackle the most recent news in the SEO world affecting creators and entrepreneurs, they inspire with their successful side hustles, and they highlight some unique ideas being used by some weird niche sites.
The first item up for discussion is that Brandon Saltamacchia, the owner of Retro Dodo, whose website was crushed in the Helpful Content Update and he has been very vocal about it.
He was invited to meet with Danny Sullivan at Google’s office in London, and although the Google Search Liaison couldn’t share any actionable advice, he was hopeful that website owners would see an improvement in the coming months.
Jared highlights a few important sentiments from the article. What did Google say? And what is Danny’s actual role? Tune in to hear what they are!
Moving along, Jared and Colin tackle an article on The Verge which details a complex but fascinating story involving fake authors, BestReviews, Sports Illustrated, and link schemes.
What’s the juxtaposition Jared points out? Should Google just reveal its ranking factors? How would it all play out? Listen to the full episode to hear their thoughts.
And lastly, they talk briefly about the impending Google Core Update.
When is it coming? Will it bring with it a recovery to battered sites? And what has Danny Sullivan said about it?
In the Shiny Object Shenanigans portion of the podcast, Jared talks about his performance on Prime Day as part of the Amazon Influencer Program and how that affects his overall earnings.
Then he talks about the newsletter he recently acquired and the recent stats, which are very interesting. He also talks about working towards potential sponsors.
When it’s Colin’s turn, he talks about his inspiration from speakers in the Niche Pursuits Community inspired him to try out the side hustle, and he’s already earning money from it.
What are his initial thoughts about the program? What’s his ROI? What are his future plans?
Tune in to hear a strategy he’s considering and some additional creative ideas from Jared.
Jared shared his weird niche first: Calculate Aspect Ratio, which allows users to check dimensions when resizing images. The DR58 site, which has been around since 2015, recently saw its traffic jump and ranks for 58,000 keywords even though it’s just 6 pages in total.
This simple site is monetized with ads and is probably making a couple of thousand dollars a month. What other simple ideas can you think of, using this site as inspiration?
It’s Colin’s turn next, and he shares a weird site called National Nail Fungus.
This DR20-something site has seen its traffic decline considerably, it hasn’t done much to improve its initial design from 2012, and the content is written by doctors and other experts.
Colin did some digging into the site and he made a surprising discovery. What was it? Is it something you could do for your own business? And what do they have to say about the site’s traffic over the years?
And that brings us to the end of another episode of the Niche Pursuits News Podcast.
We hope that you feel informed about some of the latest happenings in the SEO world, inspired to start your own side hustle, and curious about how you might replicate the strategies we identified among our weird niche sites.
Catch you next week!
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According to financial blogger Sammie Ellard-King, Instagram is one of the biggest opportunities right now because of the way the platform allows for exposure and brand awareness.
In fact, he has developed several strategies that are allowing for the exponential growth of his brand, Up The Gains, on that platform.
Last month, Sammie earned $40k from Instagram alone.
In this interview, he offers a close-up look at some of the strategies he’s using, which can be applied to Instagram as well as other social media platforms.
This chat is chock-a-block with golden nuggets, so grab paper and a pencil as you’re going to want to take notes!
Sammie begins by sharing his background and talks about how he got into the finance niche and started his business.
Although he wasn’t hit too badly by the HCU, a subsequent Google update did affect his traffic, but the fact that he takes an omnichannel approach to the business and was able to pivot so easily has allowed him not only to stay afloat, but to thrive.
He became laser-focused on social media, in particular on Instagram, and he talks in detail about growing his business on that platform.
First, he shares his main strategy and highlights the importance of developing customer avatars, understanding their problems, and creating content buckets.
Then Sammie shares his current Instagram metrics (134k followers, 150 million views since January) and how the platform contributes to his business.
He earned $40k from Instagram alone last month with affiliate links and digital products, using automation software.
He dives deep into his video content creation process, touching on the use of different types of hooks and the importance of getting viewers to watch the video until the end. He talks about the different kinds of content you can create and how to validate your niche for social media.
Sammie then shares how he creates mobile-optimized funnels, the tools he uses, and some of the low- and high-ticket items he sells. He also shares his thoughts on what makes a successful product and talks about growing his email lists through quizzes.
He concludes the podcast with a 30-day action plan anyone can implement to get started on Instagram, full of invaluable tips and insight.
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