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

Matt Diggity is someone that has been buying, building, and growing affiliate website for a long time. In fact, I had him on the podcast about a year ago to discuss some of his background. Since then, I've stayed in touch with Matt and he started sharing more and more about the recent success of a couple of websites that he purchased. These 2 sites have gone from making less than $1,500 a month combined to nearly hitting his goal of $100,000 per month (combined earnings) before the end of this year! And all of this growth has happened in less than 2 years. How did he do it? Well, that's the focus of this brand new interview that I'm releasing today. We dive into tons of SEO strategies, but we focus mostly on E.A.T. (Expertise, Authority, and Trust) and Link Building.

Mark Webster and Gael Breton are from AuthorityHacker.com and have been in the authority website space for a long time. Listen in as we discuss how they took a website from scratch to a mid 6 figure exit. We dive into how they: Sold a niche site for over six figures they built in 18 months Negotiated affiliate deals three times higher than the public rates Develop their trademarked Shotgun Skyscraper strategy Create successful frameworks to identify keywords and much more. Full blog post at: https://www.nichepursuits.com/shotgun-skyscraper-link-building/

Dave Chesson has self-published nine books on Amazon that now have a combined revenue between $7-9k a month. How does he do this? He describes it as the "Long Tail Pro" of Amazon. Finding undervalued Amazon keywords that drive traffic to the book. He uses his niche sites to drive traffic to his books. We also discuss how he's built a $40k/month niche site by partnering with a true expert in the field.

​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.

Did you know that more large sites (over 1,000,000 pageviews a month) use Ezoic when compared to Mediavine or Adthrive? Tyler Bishop is the chief marketing officer for Ezoic and during this interview we discuss how Tyler got involved in Ezoic and what the company does. We also dive into some of the common misconceptions about Ezoic; such as how it compares to Mediavine and Adthrive (or other ad shops). Does Ezoic slow down your site? You might be surprised at Tyler's answer. How does artificial intelligence play a role in Ezoic display ads? If all ad shops (like Mediavine and Adthrive) get ads from the same place (primarily from Google ad exchange), why would someone choose one platform over another?

Matthew Allen is no stranger to online side hustles. He has been dabbling in online business for about a decade now. He even started a blog over at DumbPassiveIncome.com. Despite driving a delivery truck full-time for FedEx, he's still managed to find time to create AmaLinks Pro; an all inclusive Amazon Associates WordPress plugin. Amalinks Pro allows you to quickly create professional-looking call to action buttons, showcase boxes, product comparison tables, and much more. Today, we'll discuss Matt Allen's story and how and why he created AmaLinks Pro.

I started a case study about a month and a half ago to try and revive a dead email list. This is an email list that has been collecting dust for a "Mom" blog that I own. The site makes several thousand dollars every month from Ezoic display ads and Amazon associates. However, I wanted to see if I could monetize the email list that had been ignored for over a year. My earnings since the project started? $11.15! Well, the numbers don't lie...I still have work to do. Listen in to hear the update and plans moving forward.

Artificial Intelligence for article writing is getting much more advanced. Tools like GPT-3 and First Draft by MarketMuse.com are making quality content production much easier. Will this eliminate the need for human writers? How will this impact the Niche site space and blogging in general?

Matt Paulson has grown MarketBeat.com to $10 million in revenue through SEO, email marketing, and much more. Listen in to hear how he uses email sponsorships to monetize his audience and SEO strategies used to grow his traffic (now at over 15 million visitors a month).

Almost exactly a year ago, my partners and I launched Motion Invest as a new way to buy and sell content sites. We've delivered on being a fast and easy way to buy or sell content sites. Our original plan was to buy sites ourselves, so we would only buy sites that we felt strongly enough about to put money behind. We still buy sites directly if you are looking for a quick, all-cash deal. However, over time more and more people wanted to see if they could get a higher price on other marketplaces than what we were offering. Rather than "lose" out on good sites, we recently turned Motion Invest into a true marketplace. In other words, you can now list your site for sale on Motion Invest marketplace instead of selling the site directly to Motion Invest. As a result, we have gotten an increase in listings...which is great news if you are looking to buy a site. But today we want to shake up the website brokerage business for small content sites just a little bit more.