Authority Hacker Podcast – AI & Automation for Small biz & Marketers

Send us Fan Mail What you will learn in this podcast What some of the most promising up and coming niches are Mark and Gael’s thought process behind picking a promising niche How to think ahead and corner emerging niches Have you ever wondered how our niche selection process works? Today, we’ll be giving you a never before seen … #162 – 7 Golden Opportunity Niches You’d Be A Fool To Ignore Read Mo...

Send us Fan Mail What You Will Learn How to deal with Plateaus, decline and stagnation  How to approach difficult times within your business The importance of performing a basic SWOT analysis  Mark and Gael’s lowest points and how they pulled themselves out of them Whether people like to admit it or not, almost every business will go through … #161 – 7 Make or Break tactics that could save your bu...

Send us Fan Mail What You Will Learn Gael and Mark’s daily productivity hacks The tools that help us operate at 110% Why having a good chair is important Tips on managing multiple people and staying productive When it comes to independent authority site builders, by far, your most important asset is… your time. How you decide to use … #160 – 11 Productivity Tips For Overachievers To Get More Done...

Send us Fan Mail What You Will Learn Matt and Gael’s critique of E-A-T Matt’s anchor text strategies Evidence that link echo is really a thing Tips to take your affiliate game to the next level Welcome to the Nerdy Debate Series. In this format, we invite people who are down in the trenches and talk about various topics … #159 – Nerdy SEO Debates With Matt Diggity Read More »

Send us Fan Mail What You Will Learn What Google actually, officially says about link schemes and paid links Surprising implications for link exchanges based on the policy text Why Google’s paid link policy is actually a good thing for small sites Most people know about Google’s no paid link policy. A lot of people complain about it but … #158 – Why Google’s No Paid Link Policy is Both Genius and...

Send us Fan Mail What You Will Learn The actual pros and cons of ads Quick thoughts on some of the ad networks we’re familiar with When we would and wouldn’t put ads on our sites The future of ad blockers in Chrome Ads have had a bad name in the blogging world, and rightly so. For a long … #157 – AdSense still sucks, but Ads are becoming competitive again Read More »

Send us Fan Mail What You Will Learn Why you should pay yourself first How we manage our salaries and revenue Why knowing your taxes is super important for efficient finances A bunch of mindset traps many business owners fall into For most people, running online businesses will be like a roller coaster ride. You will have years where … #156 – How to Calculate How Much You Should Pay Yourself (The...

Send us Fan Mail What You Will Learn Nate’s journey from $0 to $1,000,000 Tips to create the ideal job ad Why company values aren’t just corporate BS Nate’s weekly team management schedule What does it take to build and sell a million dollar business. I’ll give you a hint: you can’t do it without a team beside you. … #155 – How Building a Rockstar Team Helped Nate Ginsburg To Grow a Million Dollar...

Send us Fan Mail What You will Learn How to figure out if you can become an “expert” in a niche How to leverage other people’s knowledge to gain authority in a niche How to find an angle in a niche as a newbie Why you need to write your first few articles Many times, when we do niche research, … #154 – 9 Tips to Starting a Site in a Niche You Know Nothing About Read More »

Send us Fan Mail What You Will Learn How we define a successful site How to create a site for all budget levels, from completely broke to pretty decent Why you need to do things yourself before outsourcing The most common mistakes people make regardless of their budget Building a website is like building a house: there are as … #153 – How Much Does It REALLY Cost to Build a Successful Website? Rea...

Send us Fan Mail What You Will Learn How playing to your strengths is better than trying to fix all of your weaknesses A simple spreadsheet formula that will save you months of work Great tools that don’t require design or coding expertise A laundry list of books and resources to develop your tech and management skills Running web … #152 – 9 Skills You Should Develop To Take Your Online Business T...

Send us Fan Mail What You will Learn Why consistency is extremely important Tips to start podcasting on a budget The cons and challenges of podcasts When we think starting a podcast is a good idea We now have over 150 episodes published on the Authority Hacker podcast, and over 1 million downloads. That’s over 312 years of Mark … #151 – 11 Things We Learned After a Million Podcast Downloads Read M...

Send us Fan Mail What You Will Learn The key difference between entrepreneurs and “average” people Why specialists are usually better than generalists The criteria for picking amazing writers Principles for filtering through applicants quickly When we start businesses, we just dream of having an army of people do all the work for us while we just collect the … #150 – The 7 First Things to Outsourc...

Send us Fan Mail What You will Learn Why ranking for long-tail keywords might become harder An in-depth discussion on featured snippets A surprising finding about pages on the 2nd results page Why content quality is still the most important thing to focus on Today I’m with Mark, author of The Shotgun Skyscraper Blueprint This is our latest course, … #149 – 9 Things We Learned Analyzing 1.1m SERPS...

Send us Fan Mail What You will Learn The link building journey that led us to developing Shotgun Skyscraper A quick guide on how to do Shotgun Skyscraper Why you should get the Shotgun Skyscraper Blueprint right now! :-) Yesterday we launched our brand new link building course: The Shotgun Skyscraper Blueprint. This is an advanced link building course … #148 – Shotgun Skyscraper – How We Scaled Wh...

Send us Fan Mail Giveaway ending soon! Today (Mon 29th April 2019) is the final day of our link building giveaway. If you want to grab $6,700 worth of link building tools and resources, many of which are mentioned in today’s podcast, go to authorityhacker.com/giveaway and enter for free today. You might also notice on there that we’re giving … #147 – How Jason Malone Built a 5 figure/month busines...

Send us Fan Mail We’re Having a Giveaway! We’re giving away $6700 of link building tools and courses to celebrate the upcoming launch of our brand new advanced link building course, that should be here just a few weeks from now. Included in the bundle: Ahrefs accounts, Hunter accounts, everything you need to do for high quality link building! … #146 – Nerdy Link Building Debates With Charles Float...

Send us Fan Mail What You will Learn The ethics of reviewing products Why good content structure and Call to Action is essential Examples of sites that provide great reviews Many of you monetize with affiliate reviews and we do too. So in this week’s episode, Mark and I will talk about the best ways to create high value, … #145 – 7 Tips To Write Better Affiliate Reviews Read More »

Send us Fan Mail What You Will Learn The most common concerns about being a non-native marketer How you can become a better writer than many native English speakers Why playing video games is a great way to learn English Tools and sites you can use to improve your language skills One of the most common questions we get … #144 – 13 Tips to Thrive as a Non-Native Speaking Marketer Read More »

Send us Fan Mail What You Will Learn How Thanh turned a personal blog into a business His SEO traffic acquisition tactics How Thanh started a successful podcast, without hosting it himself His product strategy (including how he built up a successful subscription product) Have you ever wanted to go behind the scenes of a successful authority site and … #143 – The Tactics Thanh Pham Used to Turn a S...

Send us Fan Mail What You Will Learn Our tweaked, simplified tech stack Why good writers matter, and our hiring methodology Details about how we approach niche research Our goals to ramp up linkbuilding As you probably know, we recently sold one of our sites. And one of the questions many people asked us was “what are you going … #142 – 8 Things We’re Doing Differently With Our 2019 Sites Read Mor...

Send us Fan Mail What You Will Learn How Kyle ended up on Google’s naughty list by running SEO tests Kyle’s “no bs” approach to SEO buzzwords like EAT An ancient homepage SEO trick that still works The tools Kyle uses for research and analysis In today’s episode I’m going to interview and debate with Kyle Roof, who is … #141 – Nerdy SEO Debates With Kyle Roof the Serial SEO Myth Buster Read More »

Send us Fan Mail What You will Learn Why spending time digging for emails is actually worth it Our favorite tools for email research Why you shouldn’t underestimate the power of voice calls Link building is Hard. There is no way around it. One of the most time-sucking sub-activities of link building is finding the email address of your … #140 – 9 Creative Ways to Find Your Link Building Prospect’s...

Send us Fan Mail What You will Learn Ben’s journey from no technical skills to an online business empire in a few years His unusual traffic building source using viral video How Ben builds successful courses Ben’s strategy for successful product launches, including mistakes he’s made Ben Dziwulski turned his passion for CrossFit into a highly successful six figure … #139 – The Tactics Behind Ben D...

Send us Fan Mail What You Will Learn The story of the site from niche selection to what we did with the money we made How we were able to build links in a competitive niche without paying for them The various steps involved with selling a site Why documenting everything from day 1 is super helpful About 2 … #138 – [Case Study] How We Sold an 18-Month Old Site for Mid Six Figures Read More »