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Niche Pursuits
United States
Приєднався 15 кві 2010
Niche Pursuits is your resource for niche business ideas, online business tips, and niche website strategies created by someone that is actually in the trenches building these businesses.
Hey there, I'm Spencer Haws, founder of NichePursuits.com. I've been creating online businesses since 2006 and actually got good enough at in 2011 to quit my job and do this "internet" thing full-time ever since.
I've create hundreds of sites (not recommended) in various niches, been blogging for over a decade, created several software tools (including Long Tail Pro and Link Whisper), sold dozens of products through Amazon FBA, and have generally tried, failed, and succeeded at dozens of different niche business ventures.
If you are looking for strategies, tips, and small business advice from someone that does more than just talk about it, I'll hope you'll subscribe to my UA-cam channel and follow along!
Hey there, I'm Spencer Haws, founder of NichePursuits.com. I've been creating online businesses since 2006 and actually got good enough at in 2011 to quit my job and do this "internet" thing full-time ever since.
I've create hundreds of sites (not recommended) in various niches, been blogging for over a decade, created several software tools (including Long Tail Pro and Link Whisper), sold dozens of products through Amazon FBA, and have generally tried, failed, and succeeded at dozens of different niche business ventures.
If you are looking for strategies, tips, and small business advice from someone that does more than just talk about it, I'll hope you'll subscribe to my UA-cam channel and follow along!
30 Year Blogging Evolution in 15 Minutes...
Did you know that the first recognized blog was setup 30 years ago in 1994?
Today, I'll show how blogging has evolved over the past 30 years. What the first blog looked like, how platforms and strategies have evolved, and several blogs along the way.
In addition, I'll share my own story of blogging including what my very first blog in 2006 looked like and what my blog looks like now.
Oh and stick around for the part where I reveal how much money my current blog is making from display ad revenue.
Get $25 off Link Whisper with coupon code "NichePursuits": www.linkwhisper.com
Subscribe: @niche-pursuits
Podcast channel: @NichePursuitsPodcast
Today, I'll show how blogging has evolved over the past 30 years. What the first blog looked like, how platforms and strategies have evolved, and several blogs along the way.
In addition, I'll share my own story of blogging including what my very first blog in 2006 looked like and what my blog looks like now.
Oh and stick around for the part where I reveal how much money my current blog is making from display ad revenue.
Get $25 off Link Whisper with coupon code "NichePursuits": www.linkwhisper.com
Subscribe: @niche-pursuits
Podcast channel: @NichePursuitsPodcast
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Google Featured Success Websites Get Penalized
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I Just Lost $5,000 on a Business Idea...Now What?
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6 Month AI Challenge Complete: Rank in Google for $2,500!
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5 Months of AI Content = This Much Google Traffic
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Google is HAND-PICKING Winners and Losers
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How I Went from Employee to Online Entrepreneur (And Made Millions)
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Don't Start a Blog, UNLESS...
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Google Search Team Deletes Tweets, Gemini Pro, Amazon Influencer, and 2 Weird Sites
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The long form content and interviews with Jared are the reason I follow this channel, so it’s good to know i’ll still enjoy them. Could not care less about the editing, but I agree different audiences expect different things and separating things while maintating a consistent brand voice is the right decision! 👏🤗
The key to this video I got was dedication and patience.
reddit might be outdated and garbage, but quora si pure spam. why they rank?
that sleep site looks spammy as hell. probably thats why it got hit
This 12 mins clip should be 2.5 mins clip!!
14:09 - Interesting bit 1 17:07 - Interesting bit 2 21:41 - Interesting bit 3 22:30 - Interesting bit 4 53:11 - Interesting bit 5
Really cool vid Spencer ---- and wow, I knew you were OG, but you're even more OG than I originally thought!! 😜😜
Yes, I'm old :)
Really good tip to hear about the link building. Thanks
Great video Spencer thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
And to think that the grandfather of all blogs still receive more traffic now than I do after the recent HCU update...sad times...
Sad indeed
Thanks for taking us down memory lane. Those "lenses"... Haha Wish we you met earlier
Glad you enjoyed it!
everyone should search for "enshittification" to understand why we are at where we are in this point in time...
I just found this out. why and how? I'm surprised. I'm sad :(
Yeah... 😢
Well isn't this cool. Doing SEO, I've been blogging-adjacent on and off for the past 20 yrs online. This video was a really interesting overview of something I've known but haven't known for a long time!
Great to hear!
Can you please make a about about How we can get traffic from Quora..
Okay, maybe...
Enjoyed! :)
Glad you liked it!
What was your first blog about?
My first blog was about learning to play the pipe organ. The second blog was about writing thank-you messages. My third blog is about Cats.
@@Thejoyofcats I think everybody's 3rd blog is about cats
First blog about cellphones plans the second skateboardi g
as a faceless creator myself... it's not easy, but it is totally worth it, i'm not yet monetized but soon though, don't give up.
If they are just letting it die, why not offer to buy it back on the cheap?
Reddit Ad.
A crazy story of incompetence 🤦♂️
Yep
Hey guys, I just wanna know how much you both earning after a google update recently. How its going!
Sad to hear, I had a lifetime license, even though I wasn't really using it, could have been nice if I got back into IM, loved the idea behind it, you did a great job and it's not your fault, sad things turned this way..would definitely be nice to buy it back and revive it if possible to buy it for pretty "cheap", make LTP great again ! 😂🔥 oh by the way..I just remembered about longtail university ? What happend to that project
Long Tail University was created in like 2015 and never updated.
Why not by it back because it will be on fire sale and you will get first priority as a minority shareholder. I am sure you have more experience now on running businesses.
That's an option.
A similar thing happened with my online biz too. I don’t get it ! Plus, my biz is still online, but site content is stale and there are no updates.
For these videos it would be great if the participants and yourself included average word count and general niche category. (IK most don't even want to share that lol) But other than that content is very infomative thanks.
Thank you!
Okay. It makes sense now, I guess. I purchased a lifetime subscription in 2015 or 16 from Alex Becker’s affiliate link when he was promoting it to his list back then(before he got out of the make money teaching SEO business)…. But my access is gone and I have no one to talk to for support. So much for the lifetime subscription I purchased…. I guess they don’t care. But I learned a lesson…. Be careful with trusting “lifetime” subscription offers….
Tell him you'll buy it back for 5k lol
Yeah, I should...haha
You should just buy it back and grow it again.
Maybe so
It was such a great tool back in the day. I kept and used my subscription for years, and it helped my business grow. But I slowly saw the decline. The way they shuttered it was terrible. They auto-renewed my subscription AFTER the site was no longer working. There was no notice and no way to contact the company. It was just impossible to log in. I don't use it all the time, so I logged in to do a project and learned it had been down for a while. I submitted a complaint to my credit card company with documentation and got a refund. Still, it cost me time. I'd be willing to bet they are still collecting subscriptions. I am bummed that I haven't found a good replacement tool.
Ohh those dudes at wire investors seemed super shady.
They had a lot going on.
@@niche-pursuits just seemed like they were running some offshore cayman islands sort of business lol all good - say less though you did your best.
I bought a life membership to this when you had it, then they cut me off.
:(
Does the software still work though
I don't think so.
@@niche-pursuits No, my account does not appear to work.
The software was clunky at best. RIP.
RIP.
Woah.
buy it back for 50k and sell it again
Who knows!
Ya I paid for LTP!
Nice.
Catch and Kill? Are they competitors?
No, they are not.
I use to use this tool back in the day! it was good! That being said... if anybody out there wants to buy anything of mine for $1.8 million and kill it, hmu
I t went downhill after you sold it , it kept getting slower and slower and I stopped using it.
Makes sense
I remember purchasing LTP back in the day for a lifetime license, only to find the software was made inoperable less than a year after purchase.
Bummer!
@@niche-pursuitsyep same here. Knew it would happen once he sold out. You’ve got to catch these things and use them before they get too popular or else private equity comes in and destroys things.
Curious why you sold your business for such a low price. I mean it's like 3x annual earnings
Multiples were lower back then.
Multiples are bonkers now.
@@niche-pursuits That's crazy! It was an awesome tool back in the day.
"I can't believe they killed my startup"😢 It was my favorite long tail search tool back in the day.
Yep!
As soon as they got rid of the desktop app I stopped using LTP. It was never as good when it got sold IMO
Yeah, it was great back in the day.
Can you buy back Long Tail Pro?
Possibly, but not sure I want a broken tool. Lots of work.
My theory is it was purchased by the competition and they simply killed it
Nah
Dear Wired Investors, I'll sell you my complete domain portfolio if interested :)
Buy it back for 0.8 million.
I'm not sure I'm looking to take on another project.
@@niche-pursuits yeah was joking. get it dirt cheap, work on it a bit, resell :D
Back in the day, the early adopters of Long Tail Pro got screwed when you sold them an LTD product on JVzoo and then kicked them out when the product evolved from a user installable application to the cloud. I don't understand why point are you trying to make here with this video.
I believe the new owner is a Billionaire who just don’t cares about his/her $1.8M Investment 😃
Nope. He's someone without much money left at this point.
I am sorry to hear about this! Especially when you build a startup business and make it successful and then sell it believing you sell it to the right company and they will continue to grow it.
That's definitely the expectation.