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Sep 2024
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AI Advances! A Look at August Core Updat...

Spencer Haws: NichePursuits.com
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Welcome back to another episode of the Niche Pursuits News Podcast. 

This week Jared and guest host Brooks Conkle take on the latest SEO news and break it down for listeners. They also share the side hustles they've been working on and dissect a few weird niche sites.

The big news this week, OpenAI’s launch of its most sophisticated AI model

They share an open letter to Google and talk about the position of small publishers after the updates.

Takeaways from a study on data from Google’s August core update

Jared goes first with a tool called URL Opener

Brooks shares the site The Useless Web

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