Niche Pursuits Podcast: Find Your Next "Niche" Business Idea! (blogging)

Today's guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast is KK Ezekiel.

He chats to Jared about the process he took from the start with the blog and details updating content and provides the exact process he took to make his content worthy of ranking high in the search engines.

Direct download: NP_KK_Ezekiel.mp3
Category:blogging -- posted at: 6:54am EDT

Carrie Forest is a successful food blogger and the latest guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast.

She talks about the content decisions she had to make, her thoughts on Google Web Stories and how you can write stories to get substantial traffic spikes on your blog, plus a lot more.

Direct download: NP_Carrie_Forrest.mp3
Category:blogging -- posted at: 12:37pm EDT

Mike Dinich from Wealth of Geeks is the latest guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast.  It’s the second time he’s been on the show, and today he's talking to Jared (Niche Pursuits host) about how to recover from a Google core update.

Direct download: NP_Mike_Dinich.mp3
Category:blogging -- posted at: 12:46pm EDT

Hilary Ericksen is today’s guest on the Niche Pursuits podcast. Hilary has been blogging since 2005, starting with a mom blog that became a massive hit on Pinterest.

Hilary highlights her journey from the start. She discusses what she did in the early days for content and where her focus is today for her two blogs.

Direct download: NP_Hilary_Ericksen.mp3
Category:blogging -- posted at: 9:53am EDT

Today's guest on the Niche Pursuit podcast is Brandon Gaille. Brandon is the host of the popular podcast 'The Blogging Millionaire'

Brandon goes deep and provides some great tips and solid advice for a range of topics that most website builders will find super interesting.

Direct download: NP_Brandon_Gaille_1.mp3
Category:blogging -- posted at: 9:01am EDT

Brock McGoff owns the website TheModestMan.com which now generates over 400,000 visitors and $30k in revenue per month.

Over the years of building websites, Brock has learned a lot. Including getting hit by the first Google Panda update taking his traffic down to virtually zero.

Since then, Brock has made every effort to make sure a Google penalty would never happen again and only aims to build content and links that he is genuinely proud of creating.

So how does someone go from a corporate employee to a fashion influencer? Listen to this interview to find out.

Direct download: NichePursuits_Ep_Brock_McGoff.mp3
Category:blogging -- posted at: 4:25pm EDT

Over the last little while, I've come to the realization that I need to make a major shift in how I blog.

All thanks to Google.

Direct download: NichePursuits_Ep_Shift-in-blogging.mp3
Category:blogging -- posted at: 1:12pm EDT

Substack is a platform where independent publishers can easily earn money from their writing with paying subscribers.

Substack allows publishers to collect payments from subscribers and publish their content online and in email format.

If you do some googling or twittering, you’ll see that Substack is pretty hot right now. They got some $15 million-ish from Adreessen Horowitz and it feels like publishers are flocking there.

 

Direct download: NichePursuits_Ep_SubStack.mp3
Category:blogging -- posted at: 12:58pm EDT

Listen in to find out why I closed blog comments on Niche Pursuits and perhaps why you should consider doing the same.

Direct download: NichePursuits_Ep_176.mp3
Category:blogging -- posted at: 2:37pm EDT

Learn how to create content groups in Google Analytics so that you can better track the performance of certain segments of content on your site.

Direct download: NichePursuits_Ep_175.mp3
Category:blogging -- posted at: 5:54pm EDT

Harsh Argawal is a well-known blogger in the WordPress and digital marketing space.  

Shout Me Loud gets over a million pageviews a month, which is really high for a blog in just about any space, but especially the Wordpress and Blogging niche.  Not only has Harsh built a significant business, but he's also found a way to a have a proper work life balance.

Listen in to hear how Harsh has grown his blog, how he finds content ideas, how he runs his business, and how he makes time to travel, meditate, and more.

Direct download: NPP_HarshAgrawal.mp3
Category:blogging -- posted at: 7:09pm EDT

1 to 1.2 million pageviews a month with 80% from search engines.

$238,000 in top line revenue in a month, with a 50%-60% profit margin.

Are those the kind of numbers you would like to see in your business? Well, I’m happy to say that you are about to hear an interview with a business owner that has those exact numbers. 

Today, you’ll hear from Jeff Proctor, co-founder of DollarSprout.com and breakingtheonepercent.com.

What you’re about to hear is the story of how Jeff and his partner Ben built Dollar Sprout into a six-figure-a-month business with most of its traffic coming from Google. Tons of valuable tips and lessons to be learned, so I hope you listen until the end. Enjoy! 

Direct download: Niche_Pursuits_Episode_147.mp3
Category:blogging -- posted at: 5:09pm EDT

Today, I'm excited to bring you another interview for the podcast!  I had the opportunity to chat with Deacon Hayes from WellKeptWallet.com and discuss how he's grown such a large website.

 

I love the story of Well Kept Wallet for a couple of reasons.  First, Deacon has been able to grow the site to over $100,000 a month in revenue!  But secondly, his site was not an overnight success.  In fact, it took him about 5 years to grow the site to over $1,000 a month.

So, the first lesson here is that often the rewards come to those who stick with it.

However, Deacon also has some great SEO tips to share.  Most of the traffic to the site is coming from Google, and so I wanted to dive into the details of what is workings in terms of his SEO strategy.

Enjoy the podcast!

Direct download: Niche_Pursuits_Episode_141_Deacon_Hayes.mp3
Category:blogging -- posted at: 1:03pm EDT

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