What Will You Learn?
=>  How to understand your prospects?
=>  How to outreach in a creative way?
=>  How to hire and properly manage link builders?

Full show notes: https://www.authorityhacker.com/creative-link-building-with-bibi-raven

#252 - Creative Link Building Outreach Angles With Bibi Raven

What Will You Learn?
=> What are the best services to set up your domain and hosting?
=> Best tools for website building and branding
=> Which tools to use for SEO and site optimization?

Full show notes: https://www.authorityhacker.com/253

#253 - 13 Tools We Use To Build New Sites In 2021

=> Is buying aged domains worth it?
=> How to manage content production at a large scale?
=> Is AI-generated content taking over soon?

Full show notes: https://www.authorityhacker.com/content-creation-process-with-john-dykstra

#261 - 7 Figure Sites Content Creation Process (With John Dykstra)

What You Will Learn
- How we started this website
- How to grow a website and start earning job-replacing income
- How we sold our website and why

Full Shownotes:
https://www.authorityhacker.com/how-to-flip-a-website-for-6-figures/

#269 - How To Flip A Website For 6 FIGURES (Our Golf Site Story)

In this episode, we will review last year's predictions as well as take a shot at guessing what the future of SEO will look like in 2022.

Tune in and find out what the future holds! 🧞🔮

Full show notes:
https://www.authorityhacker.com/seo-predictions-2022/

#273 – 8 SEO Predictions For 2022 By Mark & Gael + Guests

So you probably know all about Chat GPT by now. 

But what if I told you that most people are still underutilizing its abilities? 

In today's episode, we're here to run you through 9 of the most exciting prompts that can help you boost your SEO!

#303 - 9 ChatGPT Prompts To Skyrocket Your SEO

Waiting in fear for the next Google update to destroy your traffic (again)? While SEO is still by far the best traffic source, we've come to accept that with Google's upcoming search changes, we're probably going to lose some traffic. Join us for this week's episode, where Mark and Gael break down the best alternative traffic sources that can generate millions of clicks per month - all without Google!

Full show notes: 
https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcasts/314-11-ways-to-diversify-your-traffic/

#314 - 11 Ways to Diversify Your Traffic

Not all social media platforms are made equal, and Pinterest is one that can really drive serious amounts of traffic. In this week's episode, we chat with Tony Hill, who shares insights on exactly how he generates over 1 million visitors per month on Pinterest.

#316 - Ultimate New Pinterest Strategy

A lot of people find Koray Tuğberk Gübür’s content confusing and difficult to follow. So we’ve set out to decode of the most cryptic people in the industry, and break down what he shares into clear and actionable steps. This week, Gael sits down with Koray to chat all things topical authority in one of the most challenging interviews yet.

Full show notes:
https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcasts/decoding-topical-authority-with-koray-tugberk-gubur/

#318 - Decoding Topical Authority with Koray Tuğberk Gübür

In this week’s episode, Gael chats with Derek Hales, founder of Modern Castle and NapLab, which produce some of the best review content ever seen from a small publisher. 

So good, in fact, that despite the recent Google updates that destroyed many sites in the industry, NapLab has actually seen signficant growth. 

Join Gael and Derek as they break down NapLab’s extensive review process and discuss exactly how Derek continues to be successful in the ultra-competitive mattress niche.

Full show notes:
https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcasts/324-this-proves-that-eeat-actually-works-kinda/

#324 - This Proves That EEAT ACTUALLY Works (Kinda)

Our guest today doesn’t believe in EEAT, doesn't do any link building, uses AI to help in her content creation, makes most of her money from ads, and lost quite a bit of traffic in the recent round of updates. And yet her profits are actually the same now as they were before AI and the recent updates. 

In this episode, Gael sits down with Anne Moss - the archetype of a niche site builder that Google has been going after - to discuss exactly how she managed to do this, so you can too.

Full show notes:
https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcasts/325-ultimate-new-facebook-strategy/

#325 - Ultimate New Pinterest Strategy

Predicting the future in this industry is NOT easy. But in this week's episode, Mark and Gael take a look at the predictions they made last year... and some of them are scarily accurate 😳 They also make a new set of predictions for 2024 of all the major changes they expect to see in the next few months, so buckle up!

Full show notes:
https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcasts/can-we-predict-the-future-again/

#326 - Can We Predict The Future AGAIN??

In this week’s episode, Mark and Gael take a look at the sites who are acing the latest Google paradigm, analyze what worked for them, and adapt the business model so everyone can grow and thrive going forward.

Full show notes:
https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcasts/8-ways-to-adapt-your-seo-in-2024/

#327 - 8 Ways To Adapt Your SEO in 2024

In the last two years, Ahrefs, a tool that many people in the industry would agree is the best tool for the job, has lived long enough to see itself become the villain and many now associate the brand with corporate greed. So how did that happen and is it justified?

No topic was off the table in this week’s episode with Tim Soulo from Ahrefs. Gael gets the 4-1-1 on their credit system, whether their search engine yep.com was funded by the price increase or not, and compares Ahrefs and their value proposition to the competition.

Full show notes:
https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcasts/328-did-ahrefs-fk-us/

#328 - Did Ahrefs F**k Us?

When a talented SEO like Cyrus Shepard becomes a Google Quality Rater, you know we'll get someone who has excellent insights on how Google evaluates your site and where you fail to impress them.

So in this week’s episode, Gael asks Cyrus all the questions that matter to figure out:

👉 How much does EEAT really matter for Google and quality raters?
👉 Does Google give an unfair advantage to larger sites?
👉 And what's coming next from Google based on their recent updates to the Quality Rater Guidelines?

 Full show notes:
https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcasts/329-make-google-love-your-site/

#329 - Make Google ❤️ Your Site

6 months after a series of devastating updates for many legitimate sites, and the best advice Google could come up with is "𝘜𝘴𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴" ?! 🙄  

Honestly, we're getting a little annoyed by Google's attitude towards all of this, and in today's episode, we tried to do what Google could not.

We give you real examples of real sites that are not only surviving, but thriving ✨ in the current version of Google, to help you plan what to do next for your business. 

These sites have won despite Google's relentless updates and we've tried to identify:
👉 what they do
👉 why they may be winning
👉 and how you can emulate them. 
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Full show notes:
https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcasts/7-sites-beating-googles-algorithm/

#330 - 7 Sites Beating Google's Algorithm

Did you know that Google is about to introduce a new web vital metric? 😨

Neither did we.

But this news did prompt us to take another look at our site speed setup, and we wanted to bring in a pro to help us out.  So in this week's episode, Gael chats with Brian Jackson - the guy behind the enthusiast site speed plugin, Perfmatters.

He's seen hundreds of site setups, this week he critiques our setup and gives you tips on how to fix your setup as well.

If you've ever wondered:
👉 if the number of plugins you use is cutting your site speed
👉 what the best CDN setup is
👉 what caching plugins you should never use...

...or even if you should delay or defer your JavaScript, then you won't want to miss this one.

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A special thanks to our sponsors for this episode, the all-in-one SEO tool set, Ahrefs.
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Check out the latest video on our new ✨news channel ✨:
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Full show notes:
https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcasts/site-speed-nerd-roasts-our-setup/

#331 - Site Speed Nerd Roasts Our Setup 🔥

Google just released a fat core update and all the rules you know about SEO are about to change again. As Google has already started de-indexing what they deem to be low quality sites, content auditing has never been more important.

It's the process that might save you from an extinction event during the next update, or could resurrect your site if you've already been affected. Plus, it's the only process that's consistently shown results for websites affected by previous large updates like Panda, medic, spam and core updates.

So in this episode, we dive into what this latest core update means for SEO practices, and break down exactly what you need to do to curate content that will keep Google - and you - happy.
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A special thanks to our sponsors for this episode, Digital PR Agency, Search Intelligence.
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Full show notes:
https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcasts/4-proven-steps-to-beat-google-updates/

#332 - 4 PROVEN Steps To Beat Google Updates

RTINGS.com is one of the most successful product review sites of all time. Despite 'only' having a DR 75 domain and competing against sites like PCMag, Tech Radar, New York Times, the Wire Cutter, and CNET (all DR 90+ sites), they have over 4 million monthly organic visits. 

So how exactly did they pull this off?

In this week’s episode, Mark sits down Pauline Duthiel, Head of Digital Marketing at RTINGS.com to take a look behind the scenes at what SEO looks like at one of the world's most loved review sites - and it was nothing like we expected.
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A special thanks to our sponsors for this episode, Digital PR and link building solution, BuzzStream:
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Full show notes:
https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcasts/the-secret-to-rtings-seo-success/

#333 - The Secret to RTINGS.com's SEO Success

As we come to the end of the March 2024 Core update, many things have changed in the Google landscape, and it’s time to start looking at where we landed.

To help navigate these changes, we wanted to bring a guest that’s out in the trenches every day - prominent and very opinionated character in the industry, Lily Ray 🔥

She hares a ton of interesting insights about SEO on social media, including a lot of original research.

In this episode, Lily and Gael get straight to it and cover many of the hottest topics in search right now, including:

👉 the visibility changes of pure content sites and how your business model may affect your visibility
👉 Reddit and Quora monopolizing search results and how long it may last
👉 HCU, and the divergence between Google’s guidelines and what we observe
👉 signals outside of the“traditional” that Google is giving a lot of importance to these days

We also take a look at specific examples - and they often break the rules - so don’t miss out on this one.
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Host: Gael Breton
Guest: Lily Ray

Full show notes:
https://www.authorityhacker.com/334-march-core-update-analysis-lily-ray/
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#334 - March Core Update Analysis with Lily Ray

Let’s face it.
Google is probably never going to be the same easy traffic source it has always been.

You won’t be able to solely rely on Google traffic to run an online business anymore, if that’s what you’re used to.

So the question a lot of people are asking now is:
What now? 😳

While nothing is a 1:1 replacement to Google search, in this episode, we talk about ONE of the things we are doing to diversify away from Google traffic: Meta ads.

We’ll show you exactly
 👉 how we plan and build a funnel
 👉 how we angle our ads, how we target them
 👉 how much money you should spend…
 
 … and a ton more practical details for those of you who are interested in taking action.

We’ll also talk about why we think it’s one of the safest ways to go for traffic and a bunch of other high level debates for those of you who are still on the fence.
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Full show notes:
https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcasts/335-how-we-make-money-from-facebook/
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#335 - How We Make Money From Facebook

In this episode, Mark and Gael dive deep into real-life Facebook ad funnels that actually work for small sites. Using the free Facebook Ad Library tool, they break down ads from small businesses in several niches that have been profitable over time, including their strategies for maximizing conversion with upsells and other tactics. 

If you're looking for actionable insights backed by success stories, this is an episode you won't want to miss.
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#336 - 5 Small Sites Making Money Without Google

In this podcast, Perrin & Gael talk about the tips & tricks they use to generate 4 figures/month with the Amazon associates program and how you can make more with similar traffic.

#41 Tips to Optimise Your Site For The Amazon Associates Program (While Dodging The Ban Hammer)

In this episode Gael & Mark discuss Google's new anti opt in pop up update, what it means for webmasters and how to live in the post mobile pop up era.

#42 The Google Opt in Pop Up Update, What it Means & What To Do Next

In this episode, Gael & Mark go through their failed websites. This candid discussion shows how even experienced marketers can make horrific mistakes.

#43 - The 6 Websites We Utterly & Completely Failed At

Perrin is joined by Bjork Ostrom to talk about how Pinch of Yum makes over $50k per month from ads alone.

They also discuss sponsored content, including how much you can look to charge.

#84 - How Pinch Of Yum Use AdThrive And Sponsored Posts

The SERPs used to be chock-full of small, single topic sites. They all had bad content, even worse links and exact match domains in common. This all changed with Google’s Panda and Penguin penalties. 

Lately, we’ve seen a resurgence in small, single topic sites in the SERPs. 

In this week’s episode, Gael, Mark and Perrin discuss micro niche sites, their demise and their resurgence in a new, improved form.

In this episode, you will learn:

- What a micro-niche site is
- Why micro-niche sites became less successful
- How a micro-niche site can beat a big site in the SERPs
- Why site builders who hate link building might launch a micro-niche site
- Our favorite micro-niche sites

You can find the show notes for this episode here - https://www.authorityhacker.com/micro-niche-sites

#103 - The Death And Rebirth Of Micro - Niche Sites

In this episode, Gael and Mark look back at what happened with Authority Hacker in 2018 and evaluate the good, the bad, and the ugly.

In this episode, you will learn:
- A summary of our best year so far financially
- A status update on Health Ambition, Authority Hacker, and our other sites
- Our major plans for 2019

Shownotes available at: https://www.authorityhacker.com/rewind-2018

#129 - End of Year Review 2018

Gael and Mark review seven of their favorite authority sites, 2019 edition.

What you will learn:
- How some sites are able to climb the rankings in an impossible niche
- How a site can use design and layout to build trust
- Pros and Cons of aiming broad or aiming narrow with a site
- Why you need to focus on your core business first, and only then expand

Shownotes available at: https://www.authorityhacker.com/7-successful-authority-sites

#136 - 7 Successful Authority Sites You Can Model After

In this episode, Gael and Mark reveal the case study of the site we recently sold for a nice juicy six figures.

What you will learn:
- The story of the site from niche selection to what we did with the money we made
- How we were able to build links in a competitive niche without paying for them
- The various steps involved with selling a site
- Why documenting everything from day 1 is super helpful

Shownotes available at: https://www.authorityhacker.com/six-figure-site-study

#138 - [Case Study] How We Sold an 18 Month Old Site for Mid Six Figures

What you will learn in this Podcast

- How to redesign your site with your audience in mind
- How to update outdated content the right way
- The right way to test software and tools

While Mark suns it up on his Honeymoon, Matthew Woodward steps in for some honest marketing real talk with Gael. 

Full Shownotes: https://www.authorityhacker.com/matthew-woodward

186 -Nerdy SEO Debates With Matthew Woodward

What Will You Learn?

=> Can you do HARO responses on the new site?
=> Why should people sell sites?
=> Our thoughts on Keyword Golden ratio

Full Shownotes: https://www.authorityhacker.com/your-toughest-questions-answered

#243 - FAQ: Your Toughest Questions Answered

What Will You Learn?
=> What is YouTube-ing and how it works?
=> Is blogging still viable in 2021?
=> What is more profitable, YouTube or Blogging?

Full shownotes: https://www.authorityhacker.com/blogging-vs-youtube/

#244 - Blogging Vs Youtube: Which One Should You Focus On In 2021

First aired in 2016, voted the Ahrefs #1 podcast for several years running and with over half a million downloads in 120+ countries, “The Authority Hacker Podcast” is one of the most authoritative podcasts for providing actionable online marketing tips and staying ahead of the ever-changing digital marketing landscape. Hosts Gael Breton and Mark Webster teamed up in 2010 and have since worked with several Fortune 500 companies, and launched and sold various successful businesses together. Join them every 2 weeks as they interview site owners, marketers and SEO experts, and share their own expertise on everything needed to build and grow a successful online business. The 300+ episodes cover everything from online marketing, affiliate marketing, SEO, content creation, website building, and more. Whether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out, you’ll get the latest insights and strategies for growing your site and generating passive income.

With a focus on actionable strategies and practical tips, each episode is designed to help you take your online business to the next level. You'll learn everything you need to create high quality content, build links, and get your website on the first page of Google, Bing and Yahoo, and a whole lot more. All of the reviews say that this podcast is honest, insightful and informative. Come and join the international community of Authority Hackers - Subscribe now.

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