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The Side Hustle Show

631: How to Get Traffic to Your Website Without Relying on Google

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

How can you drive traffic to your website without relying on Google? The last 12 months haven’t been easy for content creators, especially those hit by Google updates. Some people saw a massive drop in traffic — up to 90-95%! So is online publishing done for? Is the niche site era over? Not quite. For those who adapt, new opportunities arise. Jon Dykstra from Fat Stacks Blog was among those affected but has since turned his attention to other strategies — and here are some of his strategies you can adapt. Full Show Notes: How to Get Traffic to Your Website Without Relying on Google New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Mint Mobile — Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! Shopify — Sign up for a $1 per month trial! This is Small Business — Learn how to start and grow your small business with “This Is Small Business,” an Amazon original podcast, on your favorite podcast app.

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Here's how to get traffic to your website without relying on Google.

0:04.0

What's up, what's up Nick Loper here.

0:06.0

Welcome to the Side Hustle Show.

0:07.0

Part of the entrepreneur podcast and network,

0:09.0

it's the business podcast.

0:10.0

You can actually apply.

0:11.0

Now, the last 12 months have been challenging to say the least

0:14.4

for individual content creators people making money from their websites but does any online

0:19.6

publishing is dead is the niche site era officially over well don't throw in the towel just yet because

0:24.4

well my guest today has definitely been through the ringer when it comes to losing traffic

0:28.4

from Google updates. He's also proved his resiliency as an entrepreneur and tapped into new traffic sources that you can

0:35.3

too. I'm excited to welcome John Dykstra from fatstax blog.com back to the show. It's been far too long,

0:41.8

eight plus years. John welcome back.

0:43.6

Hey thanks a lot for having me Nick yeah it's been a long time eight years I was

0:48.4

surprised I remember doing it too I distinctly remember docking you so this is great to be back. We may have still been

0:54.1

recording in the in the corner of the living room at that point. It's a different era times

0:59.2

times have changed but one thing remains constant and that's well how, how do you make money on the internet?

1:04.3

That's what we're diving into today.

1:05.3

Stick around.

1:06.3

We're talking creative ways to build traffic and revenue to your website from email, from

1:12.0

Facebook, from Pinterest, from other sources that don't rely on the whims of

1:17.0

SEO algorithms, so you can still build that viable online income.

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