🫣 Crawling Into The Sunlight

will there be more?

Shawna Newman
February 03, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

Apologies for the crazy late email today. I took the day off and have been out having fun and eating good food.

Recently I was lamenting the disappearance of the niche site community as most everyone either disappeared after HCU or started working on something new.

Then, today, I saw a name that I hadn’t seen in a while.

I think it was a little over a year ago when I saw him resurface on YouTube with a podcast with Emilia (another once everywhere niche site owner).

And if I recall correctly, he mentioned doing Faceless YouTube and local SEO as his possible post-HCU plans.

But apparently, he actually just ended up hibernating for a while and is back in the niche site game.

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An Interesting Resurfacing

I don’t know if you ever followed him on anything, but I’m talking about the guy from Niche Safari.

And here’s his recent tweet -

I remember seeing a tweet from him a month or two ago and wondering what he was gearing up to announced and apparently this is it.

He’s apparently making new niche sites and focusing on Pinterest traffic…and using human written content.

And he’s updated his website….though you have to subscribe to his newsletter to view the content…or just put in a dummy email cause you immediately get to see the content.

I’m super interested in how people have been adapting to the post-HCU niche site world, and obviously Pinterest has been a big part of that for a bunch of people.

Anyways, I don’t know Chris but I’m rooting for his success here. And, honestly, shocked he’s doing this with human-written content.

Though, if he’s outsourcing content, it just might not be 100% human…

Coming up…

More on what I’m working on and how it’s going.

Stay awesome,

Shawna

P.S. If you’re looking for high level discussions or tips on things like local SEO and Rank & Rent, I highly recommend Jacky Chou’s Advise community. I’ve been in it for several months and there’s tons of value in it, including a SOP for local SEO.

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