Google Responds to Controversial SEO Tweet, Reddit Blocking Google, and 2 Weird Niche Sites

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The Niche Pursuits podcast is moving to a new channel! Be sure to subscribe at the new channel so you don't miss future episodes! https://www.youtube.com/@nichepursuitspodcast Welcome back to another episode of the Niche Pursuits News podcast! You definitely don’t want to miss this one as it’s packed with interesting insights and thoughts about events over the last week in SEO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Be sure to get more content like this in the Niche Pursuits Newsletter Right Here: https://www.nichepursuits.com/newsletter ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want a Faster and Easier Way to Build Internal Links? Get $15 off Link Whisper with Discount Code "Podcast" on the Checkout Screen: https://www.nichepursuits.com/linkwhisper ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get SEO Consulting from the Niche Pursuits Podcast Host, Jared Bauman: https://www.nichepursuits.com/201creative ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After Spencer talks briefly about his positive experience promoting Link Whisper https://linkwhisper.com/ at FinCon, he and Jared dive headfirst into the big news of the week: Spencer’s unexpectedly controversial post on X https://twitter.com/nichepursuits/status/1716857658920280151 about how Google is slowly killing blogging. Spencer and Jared talk about the general confusion among site owners and content creators over the HCU and their efforts to understand what Google wants, and although Danny references this document https://shorturl.at/eouA4 to help people, people remain very confused and frustrated. Moving on, Spencer and Jared talk about the latest news about Reddit, as the platform is threatening to block https://shorturl.at/FQWZ0 Google. The next big news is that the DALL-E 3 image generator https://shorturl.at/motGK is available in ChatGPT and it’s free. With the right prompts, you can create whatever images you want. Spencer shares a few images he created using the tool, Jared talks about using it to successfully create YouTube thumbnails, and they discuss the quality of the images it creates. As for Shiny Object Shenanigans, Spencer starts by talking about his most recent results with the Amazon Influencer Program. He shares that his videos are back in the carousel and his earnings are around $2k for the month. Although he’s finally cash flow positive with this side hustle, with 767 videos currently, what will the coming months hold in terms of earnings? Also, who’s making more at the moment, Spencer or Jared? Listen to the podcast to find out which host is in the lead. Jared then talks about growing his Weekender Growth email list, which is now at 3k subscribers. He shares his challenges growing the YouTube channel, which has about 12 videos, +1k subscribers, and 2000 watch hours. He hopes to monetize it in the coming months, so stay tuned to see how that evolves! As for weird niche sites, Spencer’s find of the week is the very colorful Sound Buttons World https://soundbuttonsworld.com/, which receives 575k visitors per month from organic search and has tons of sounds that users can download or link to. He and Jared look at the site’s exponential growth and discuss why that may be, and they look at the types of keywords the site is ranking for. Jared shares his weird niche site, Day of the Week https://www.dayoftheweek.org/ This DR26 site ranks for 60k keywords, and Jared and Spencer are very surprised when they take a closer look at those keywords and at the type of ads running on the site. Listen to find out why! And that brings us to the end of the latest episode of Niche Pursuits News! Hopefully, you’re feeling informed and inspired. Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 02:10 - Spencer’s FinCon Experience 03:23 - Spencer’s Twitter Controversy 28:30 - Reddit’s Plans to Block Google 37:25 - Dall-E 3 Image Generator Available in ChatGPT Plus 42:07 - Spencer’s Amazon Influencer Side Hustle 47:12 - Jared’s Weekender Growth Side Hustle 53:30 - SoundButtonsWorld.com 59:31 - DayOfTheWeek.org This Episode is Sponsored by Search Intelligence - https://search-intelligence.co.uk/ -You can learn more about me at and get additional website tips at: https://www.nichepursuits.com -You can learn about optimizing your site with internal links using a WordPress Plugin I created right here: https://www.linkwhisper.com -And finally, if you are interested in buying or selling content or affiliate websites, my partners and I may be interested here: https://www.nichepursuits.com/motioni... Thanks for watching and please consider subscribing to the main Niche Pursuits YouTube channel by clicking here: https://www.nichepursuits.com/youtube