
The Do You Even Blog Podcast
Helping bloggers, podcasters, and online business entrepreneurs grow their business! Host Pete McPherson chats with the world's TOP creators, including names like Seth Godin, Michelle Schroeder-Gardner, Neil Patel, Matt Mullenweg (creator of WordPress), John Lee Dumas, and way more.Topics include blogging (duh), SEO, affiliate marketing, podcasting, and monetization (especially digital products and FUNNELS!). ;)
Latest episodes

Jun 17, 2019 • 15min
[Affiliate Marketing 1] What's working NOW?
This is part 1 of a multi-part series to help you make more money from your affiliate marketing.Today we’re diving into the OLD vs NEW ways of promoting affiliate products, a high-level overview of an effective strategy.****Looking to grow your blog income, but not seeing a ton of value in taking another online course?The Affiliate Workshop launches June 2019. Learn more at https://blogschool.co/taw/Adios!

Jun 16, 2019 • 15min
[Affiliate Marketing Series] The Intro
Howdy Do You Even Blog Tribe! This week on the podcast, I’m doing something DIFFERENT.I’m going to bring you a 5-part series that’ll help you make more money from your affiliate marketing.Today = why this matters, and a broad-level overview of affiliate ‘marketing (for beginnersPart 1. What’s working NOW.Part 2. How to find “better fit” affiliatesPart 3: Active vs Passive PromotionPart 4: How to Sell Anything to AnybodyPart 5: The Blueprint.Enjoy, direct all questions to pete@doyouevenblog.com! ****Looking to grow your blog income, but not seeing a ton of value in taking another online course?The Affiliate Workshop launches in June 2019. Learn more at https://blogschool.co/taw/Adios!

Jun 12, 2019 • 52min
When should you niche down for SEO? John Doherty
Just how specific do you need to be these days in terms of SEO? Does it matter? Long-time SEO and Credo founder (https://www.getcredo.com/) John Doherty joins us today to talk...* tips for hiring contractors/freelancers* why relationships are crucial to SEO (and life success 😃)* when and where to be more specificFull notes here: https://doyouevenblog.com/niche-down-seo-john-doherty-credo/Ciao!

Jun 5, 2019 • 1h 2min
How to Blog Legally (What You Need & How to Do It) - Liz Stapleton
Joining me today is Liz Stapleton (https://elizabethstapleton.com/), an attorney (and blogger)--and we're here to lay out the legal side of blogging!I created a full guide for this here: https://doyouevenblog.com/how-to-blog-legally/, and you can grab Liz's pre-made templates here: https://elizabethstapleton.com/dyebThey're amazing, super affordable, and will cover your legal bases until you're making millions and can get your own lawyer :) :)* Affiliate disclosures* Privacy Policy* Freelance writing contracts* and more!Enjoy!My own disclaimer: I am not your lawyer, and neither is Liz! The information we share in this podcast episode is for informational purposes only, and we can't be held liable for any legal trouble you get into, etc, etc.

May 29, 2019 • 59min
An Instructional Designer helps us build better digital products - Melody Johnson
Online courses are VERY widespread, especially in the blogging & digital marketing niche--and these can often have TERRIBLE c ourse completion and success rates!Today's guest, Melody from http://herdesignedlife.com/, is an instructional designer by trade, and is here to help us figure out how to serve and teach our students better (and therefore grow a better business?).Full transcripts & notes here: https://doyouevenblog.com/online-courses-dont-drive-success-melody-johnson/Enjoy!P.S. If you're on iTunes, could you leave me a review? I only need 5 more reviews to get to 100! :)

May 22, 2019 • 50min
Why SEO Link Building Is Not Rocket Science - Tim Soulo
Today's guest is none other than Tim Soulo--marketing guru at Ahrefs!We're here to chat about link building, SEO, outreach emails, marketing systems, and way more!Full transcripts can be found here: https://doyouevenblog.com/seo-link-building-not-rocket-science-tim-soulo/Ciao!

May 17, 2019 • 14min
What's CLV? MRR? CPL? Cash Flow? KPIs?
Today's episode is short, sweet, and covers some fancy-pants business metrics--and how bloggers can use them to help grow their blogs :)Enjoy! No show notes today, but did you know I just launched a free SEO course? You can find it here! - https://doyouevenblog.com/60-minute-seo/Pete

May 15, 2019 • 1h 7min
3 Essential Questions to Build a Better Blogging Brand (with Business Coach Kyla Roma)
Biz coach and marketing strategist Kyla Roma stops by to share with us how to...* figure out which social channels will serve us best* build a brand that resonates with our followers* build a "life proof" business.Full takeaways here: https://doyouevenblog.com/questions-better-blogging-brand-business-coach-kyla-roma/Boom!

May 10, 2019 • 19min
How to self-publish a book - Part 2 of Follow Your Detour
Here's a bite-sized bonus episode w/ Dan and Lindsay from Follow Your Detour!You can catch their previous, full episode here: https://doyouevenblog.com/pitching-sponsorship-growing-instagram-follow-your-detour/No show notes for today. Have a good one, blogger!--Pete

May 8, 2019 • 50min
Growing Instagram, connecting followers, and how to pitch sponsors.
This is part 1 with Dan and Lindsay from https://www.followyourdetour.com/!We're going to chat:* how they learn what strategies will work for their blog/brand* how to connect with and pitch blog sponsors* how they grew their Instagram following to 40k+ in 2 years.and more!Ciao ;)