Oh.. Sam Oh (Ahrefs recent site review video)

[t2van]

So I like watching these videos because you never know what you can spot and use to work for yourself, if your smart enough to figure out whats going on.

I normally find them interesting but this one, no offence to you Sam Oh and I'm only like 5min into it but it seems lazy and painfully obvious... Site gets traffic, when his niche becomes popular.

The guy runs a prepper site and then Sam is shocked to see spike in traffic around times when events happen. It's like shock horror.


I've not gotten that far into it but I'm going to guess will be a part about trying to prepare for what's coming, planning ahead or whatever a bit like if you sell Christmas products dont wait till Q4 to start marketing or creating content use the rest of the year.

Those that are interested here it is:

 

[Zwielicht]

That’s actually a pretty good niche right now.

He’ll, we were at Hobby Lobby a couple of months ago, and there were books like, “How To Be Rapture Ready”. All of these “doomsday niches” are especially popular right now, and are good opportunities for projects.

 

[t2van]

That’s actually a pretty good niche right now.

He’ll, we were at Hobby Lobby a couple of months ago, and there were books like, “How To Be Rapture Ready”. All of these “doomsday niches” are especially popular right now, and are good opportunities for projects.

Yup totally agree..

The best bit is you don't need to run off and start a whole new project around it, if you think hard enough there will be a way to link whatever you currently sell or market now back into that topic with cross promotion linking...

 

[roydan]

Yup totally agree..

The best bit is you don't need to run off and start a whole new project around it, if you think hard enough there will be a way to link whatever you currently sell or market now back into that topic with cross promotion linking...

Not everybody is that creative, and especially when paired with shiney object syndrome.

 

[t2van]

Not everybody is that creative, and especially when paired with shiney object syndrome.

I can help you with that if you get stuck

 

[polecat]

The niche could make people okay to good money.

I know you get some people who fill whole home so you got like 2 years supply or got enough stuff to supply a full small town.

I think Sam acting here he probably already knew it Ahrefs staff would have to smart when they getting paid like $200,000 wages and Sam probably on that or higher.

 

[Starblazer]

In SEO, you can't take anything for granted. There will always be some people trying to steal those spikes.

 

[t2van]

In SEO, you can't take anything for granted. There will always be some people trying to steal those spikes.

Well you can't steal the spikes.

I guess you mean you can rank in a better position vs another company for ranking. BUT that's exactly SEO anyway that goes on daily...

But in terms of the spikes themselves, you can't do anything about it anyway, as taking the "prepper" example, you can't control the external disasters i.e viruses, wild flires, aliens whatever

Same applies to Christmas, it's the same time every year. The spike and holiday trend wont change.

The "steal" you refer to is just every day SEO

 

[Starblazer]

Well you can't steal the spikes.

I guess you mean you can rank in a better position vs another company for ranking. BUT that's exactly SEO anyway that goes on daily...

But in terms of the spikes themselves, you can't do anything about it anyway, as taking the "prepper" example, you can't control the external disasters i.e viruses, wild flires, aliens whatever

Same applies to Christmas, it's the same time every year. The spike and holiday trend wont change.

The "steal" you refer to is just every day SEO

There are several micro-niches that gives spikes during particular seasons. The webmasters need to grow the sites over time as the competitors and new players will eventually find these niches and steal their traffic. The big players became greedy and they are trying to take over everything, so SEO became witch hunt over time. If you just realize during Christmas that your site no longer has the much anticipated spike, then you can't do anything about it.

 

[t2van]

There are several micro-niches that gives spikes during particular seasons. The webmasters need to grow the sites over time as the competitors and new players will eventually find these niches and steal their traffic. The big players became greedy and they are trying to take over everything, so SEO became witch hunt over time. If you just realize during Christmas that your site no longer has the much anticipated spike, then you can't do anything about it.

What you described there is the bare bones of SEO and Marketing.

That's nothing new. Been going on since there has ever been a product to sell.

 

[Starblazer]

What you described there is the bare bones of SEO and Marketing.

That's nothing new. Been going on since there has ever been a product to sell.

Same as Google trends having spikes during events and holidays.