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Welcome back to another episode of the Niche Pursuits News podcast. This week Josh Blackburn fills in for Spencer, and he and Jared sit down to discuss the most relevant news in SEO, digital marketing, website creation, and beyond. The first order of business is the 2 additional updates Google recently launched following the Helpful Content Update that essentially left the niche website community...

We have a special treat today on the Niche Pursuits podcast. CopyBlogger owner and Sober Nation founder, Tim Stoddart joins us to share some awesome tips and insights from his success in building multiple income streams online. You do not want to miss this one as Tim's story is sure to inspire. He learned about content marketing and SEO by reading the site Copyblogger. He then applied these strate...

Welcome back to another episode of the Niche Pursuits News Podcast, where Spencer and Jared analyze the latest news in SEO, digital marketing, and website building and offer their unique insight. You won't want to miss this episode, especially if you were affected by Google's Helpful Content Update.  As the update has officially wrapped up, this week Spencer and Jared dedicate a lot of time to tal...

In this awesome episode of the Niche Pursuits podcast, Jim Campbell shares with host Jared his strategies for growing a successful brand in the honeymoon industry. With a background in entrepreneurship and marketing, Jim saw an opportunity in the market and started honeymoongoals.com in 2019 right before Covid hit! And despite the impacts of Covid on the travel niche, Jim remained bullish and cont...

Welcome back to another episode of the Niche Pursuits Podcast, where your hosts Spencer Haws and Jared Bauman, from 201 Collective, bring you all the latest news and insight in SEO, digital marketing, website building, and entrepreneurship. This week the hosts focus entirely on one major event in the space: Google's Helpful Content Update. As this major update has had wide-ranging effects on the n...

Want a masterclass in both online marketing and business? Mar Pages is a former Google employee and founder of Solo Female Travelers who has built a thriving brand in the travel space. And she joins the Niche Pursuits podcast today to share with host Jared Bauman all about it! It all started when Mar and her business partner Meg decided to take over a Facebook group as a passion project for fellow...

Welcome back to another episode of the Niche Pursuits News podcast, where Spencer Haws and Jared Bauman, of 201 Creative, discuss the latest news and important recent events in digital marketing, SEO, and website creation. The first news item that Spencer and Jared address this week is the rollout Google core update, which concluded about a week ago. They share some of the key takeaways from Lily...

Welcome to another great episode of the Niche Pursuits podcast! Sarah Bond joins host Jared to discuss her journey building the food blog Live Eat Learn. The site gets over 1 million monthly visitors, and so she has great insights on content strategy and growth tactics. Sarah started her blog in 2015 with the goal of turning it into a business. She was inspired by the income reports of other food...

Spencer Haws and Jared Bauman, from 201 Creative, are back with the latest news in niche sites, SEO, and affiliate marketing.  The first order of business this week is the news that the Google Core Update has finished rolling out. Jared talks about how, instead of looking at his Google Analytics to see how his sites weathered the storm, he looks at his ad networks. Jared shares information about t...

Want to hear how a first-time niche site builder is succeeding in the finance niche... in less than 24 months? Sammie Ellard King sits down with Niche Pursuits podcast host Jared to share his journey of building a personal finance brand. Sammie's background is in hospitality marketing, but when Covid hit, he had to reconsider his future. He took the opportunity to dive into online business and sta...

Get ready for another great episode of This Week in Niche Pursuits News to help start your weekend. Spencer and co-host Jared kick things off by discussing Google's August Core Update. They share whether it has affected their sites and discuss some of the devastating screenshots they've seen from other site owners. They also discuss a study highlighted in the Search Engine Journal regarding ChatGP...

Want a great story filled with practical insights from someone who successfully jumped into online business without any prior experience? Will I.O. joins the Niche Pursuits podcast this week to share with host Jared how he transitioned from teacher to full-time site owner. It all started with a teacher training program he started growing prior to 2020. He started the side hustle because it was abo...

Spencer is back this week so everyone's favorite duo is together again for the latest episode of the Niche Pursuits News podcast. As always, he and Jared Bauman, of 201 Creative, bring listeners up to speed on the latest in SEO and digital marketing news. Spencer begins by sharing that Google has announced a brand new broad core update, the biggest kind of update Google does. It kicked off on Augu...

In this week's episode of the Niche Pursuits podcast, host Jared is joined by Jason Wilson, Director of Search at Epic Gardening. Jason originally worked with Spencer in banking before diving into online business with his own sites and working on Niche Pursuits. Today he discusses a couple of his 6 to 7-figure site sales, his current role, and the entrepreneurial adventure that got him here. It's...

Welcome back to another episode of the Niche Pursuits News podcast. This week's show is hosted by Jared Bauman, from 201 Creative, and Jacky Chou , the digital asset investor entrepreneur behind Indexsy, Far & Away, and several other businesses. The episode kicks off with the latest about SGE , which can now be used when browsing and also offers users the option of summarizing the article they're...

Wanna hear tips on how to use your SEO prowess to grow a multi-million dollar eCommerce business? Michael Jackness joins the Niche Pursuits podcast today to tell host Jared everything he did to buy, grow, and sell an Amazon FBA and Shopify store in 3 years.  They dive into a ton of awesome points that are crucial for success in this endeavor.  And to illustrate the effectiveness of SEO in growing...

Welcome back to another episode of Niche Pursuits News, with Spencer Haws and Jared Bauman of 201 Creative. This week, like every week, the hosts serve up the latest SEO news as well as inspiration for listeners. They started by addressing the changes Google announced to the how-to and FAQ rich snippets . Specifically, Google will be limiting how-to rich snippets to desktop results and reducing FA...

Want to hear some exclusive insights into the inner workings of the Amazon Associates program? Doug Cunnington joins the Niche Pursuits podcast to share with host Jared what he learned after interviewing an Amazon insider! This is never-before shared access into the biggest affiliate program around. Because despite being easy to join and get started, there's lots of uncertainty and many pitfalls t...

It's Friday, so it's time for another episode of Niche Pursuits News, with your hosts Spencer Haws and Jared Bauman. This week, as always, they bring us the latest in SEO and digital marketing news. They kick things off with a big news item: Google has announced that it's testing live links in the Search Generative Experience. The good news is that it looks like an expanded featured snippet that m...

We got a true dose of inspiration for you today. Founder of The Wayward Home, Kristin Hanes joins the Niche Pursuits podcast this week to share with host Jared her amazing story: How she started her blog with no prior knowledge of website building and living in a broken-down sailboat to now running a successful online business. It all began after being laid off from her job as a radio news reporte...

Welcome back to another episode of the Niche Pursuits News podcast! This week Spencer sits down with Josh Blackburn, a growth marketer at Link Whisper with an extensive background in SEO to talk about the latest news for affiliate marketers, website owners, SEOs, and content creators. They kick off the show by talking about how Google recently released its earnings for Q2 and the CEO, Sundar Picha...

Ready for a HARO (Help a Reporter Out) masterclass? HARO is a platform that connects journalists with 'experts' to include their insights into articles. This is great for link building but can lead to a lot of questions on how to do it right. Thankfully, Chris Panteli joins the Niche Pursuits podcast this week to shed light on: How and when you should respond to HARO queries, What you should say,...

This week's episode of Niche Pursuits News is hosted by Jared Bauman, of 201 Creative , and Shawn Hill, a previous podcast guest and the brains behind The Grilling Dad . The first topic they dive into is Ezoic's announcement of the end of its affiliate program and its plan to lay off workers. They talk about the blow to affiliates but also mention how it created an interesting juxtaposition in pro...

Have you ever considered building a project in public? In this week's episode of the Niche Pursuits podcast, Noah Bragg shares his journey of launching, growing, and eventually selling Potion. It's a website builder built on top of Notion that lets users create optimized sites in minutes. Noah started by using the "build in public" approach, sharing his progress and journey on Twitter. And with th...

It's been another busy week in SEO news, and Spencer Haws and Jared Bauman, of 201 Creative , explain it all here! Don't miss the latest edition of the best news podcast for SEOs, people in the digital marketing and niche site development space, and everyone in between. First, they talk about how Google was recently hit with a class-action lawsuit claiming that it stole data from millions of users...