Intro

Welcome back to another episode of the Niche Pursuits News Podcast!

This week Spencer and Jared break down the latest news affecting SEOs and small publishers, they share their side hustle progress, and they talk about some weird niche sites for inspiration.

They discuss Sam Altman’s tweet - https://x.com/sama/status/1854238332534108188

They go over Dharmesh Shah’s tweet - https://x.com/dharmesh/status/1854307883304792294

They talk about how AI Overviews is rolling out to more countries - https://searchengineland.com/google-expands-ai-overviews-to-over-100-countries-447832

They discuss how AI Overviews impacts publishers’ traffic - 

https://community.mariehaynes.com/posts/traffic-down-as-aios-launch-globally-forbes-seeing-declines-chatgpt-search-is-live

They reveal that traffic is up for HCU-hit sites - https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.seroundtable.com/google-helpful-content-update-recovery-data-38358.html&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1731069165137684&usg=AOvVaw1-h6THpgh8jvp1VR5d5YjX

Spencer shares a weird political map - https://electoralvotemap.com/

Jared shares a calculator tool - https://charactercalculator.com/

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