Niche Pursuits Podcast: Find Your Next "Niche" Business Idea!

We had Travis Jamison back on the podcast recently to talk about Investing.io. We cover Travis's 13-year entrepreneurial background, which includes: Ecommerce companies An SEO agency A domain flipping service Angel investing and more Travis obviously has a diverse background and experience in a range of online business and investing circles.

It's great to have Richmond Howard on the podcast this week. Rich has found a way to successfully grow his niche sites all while working full time as a pastor, studying for a master's degree, and being a husband and new dad! 3 or 4 years ago he was in a job that he hated and was looking for something new. He heard about blogging and affiliate marketing through listening to podcasts and decided to give it a go. He started a finance blog and worked half-heartedly on that for a couple of years, but it didn't really come to much. However, there were a couple of posts he'd put together on meal prepping that were ranking really well. After investigating the meal prepping niche further he saw a lot of opportunities and decided to start a site dedicated to that instead. He moved those successful posts from the finance blog in August 2019 to his new site mealprepify.com. He doubled down on content and links and now this site is making over $6K per month. In January 2021, traffic was at 140,000. Pretty incredible! In mid-2020, Rich made a move that really helped to fuel this growth. He bought a site from Motion Invest that was making around $600 per month. This site was in the same or similar niche as Meal Prepify and had about 150 articles on it.

On March 11th, 2011 I quit the corporate world and I've been a full-time entrepreneur ever since. Quitting my job was scary.

I'm excited to have Larry Ludwig on the podcast! Larry has been building websites for decades. He was doing web development and web hosting in the 90s. However, he eventually started building his own blog, InvestorJunkie.com. He grew this site from scratch to a 7 figure exit in 2018. In fact, he sold the business for $6 million! That's a life-changing amount of money! So, during the interview, we dive into the weeds on how he built the site. We discuss why he built the site, keyword research, content strategy, why user intent is so important, the type of team he built and so much more.

How would you like to buy a site making $70 a month and then 10 months later its making $6,000 a month? Well, that's the exact story we are going to tell with Gharav Dhir. Gharav has been building niche sites for a while, but he happened to buy a site from MotionInvest.com in April 2020. Gharav also runs the content service called ContentForWeb.Site.

I'm excited to have Colin Ma on the podcast! I've known Colin for a couple of years and actually had the pleasure of meeting him in person a few years ago at a conference. Colin has been building niche sites for years and in 2020 he had not 1, but 2 six figure exits. One of these sites was one that he built from scratch. The other site he bought, quickly grew, and sold within in a period of about 6 months. He has a ton of great strategies related to building a team, content idea generation, and link building strategies as well. We dive into how to know if you are getting good links and other link ideas that have worked well for him. These ideas can be applied to anyone building a site from scratch or anyone buying and growing a site.

Yoyao Shea bought a site for just $2,000 in mid-2020. The site was making less than $100 a month. After about 7 months, the site was making $6,800 a month! He also bought a second website around the same time that cost even less than $2,000 and now it's making $5,000 a month. How did Yayoa Shea increase the earnings of these sites so much? Well, today he is going to share his story of buying 2 sites, what he did to grow the sites, and how much money they are making now. He purchased these sites around the middle of 2020 and now by the end of 2020, he's was seeing significant results. The 2 sites combined are now making more than $10,000 a month.

Today, I'm excited to share with you an interview I did with Steve Wiideman from Wiideman.com. Steve has been in the SEO industry since 1999...a dinosaur in internet years! His first job out of college was doing SEO and search engine marketing. So, Steve bring all of his SEO knowledge and experience to the podcast today. In particular, we discuss how his SEO consulting group is working with clients doing local SEO, eCommerce SEO, and much more. During the interview we discuss specifically how the Wiideman group helped Bob's Watches: eCommerce SEO Bobs Watches has grown to over $40 million a year in revenue and much more We also discussed his view on affiliate sites and how it relates SEO. Are affiliate sites really providing value or are they just doorway pages? What sort of link building and keyword research should be done? Ranking affiliate sites in Google Steve is also a professor at Fullerton college and UCSD where he teaches SEO and online marketing. He's put together lots of video materials that he is giving away for free. If you want to get free access to Steve Wiideman's SEO videos you can go to AcademyOfSearch.com. Use coupon code SEOSteve to get free access.

Jeff Oxford is the founder of Link Hunter and has been in the SEO industry since 2010. He shares 4 really unique link building strategies that get results. Listen in to hear Jeff's story and to get some high quality link building ideas that don't involve guest posting.

How can you know when you make a change to your website that it's not hurting your rankings in Google? Well, you can set up SEO tests. Today, I'm excited to share my recent interview with Matt Diggity where he drops some serious knowledge bombs as it relates to SEO tests, affiliate marketing, ranking in Google, and much more. Why SEO testing? Well, there's a lot of noise in the SEO industry. You can listen to one expert or you can listen to another person and not know if they're an expert. And of course you can try to listen to Google. How do you know what SEO strategy is the best for your site? Listen to the full episode to hear some of the SEO tests that Matt has performed and how you can set up your own tests.