🤬 It's Not Just Forbes

from recipes to Barbie dress-up?

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Shawna Newman
September 04, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

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I know that everyone loves to use sites like Forbes as examples of sites that take advantage of their authority and rank for a wide variety of keywords.

The other day, before my Ahrefs drama, I came across a site that’s just as bad, if not worse, than Forbes.

Ranking for all kinds of nonsense.

More on that in a moment.

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It Started As A Cooking Blog

Though it’s currently owned by Hearst Media, The Pioneer Woman started as a cooking blog on a slightly different domain. Originally it was on Typepad and then this…

Not sure when Hearst Media bought it, but the site definitely benefits from that Hearst brand authority.

It ranks for all sorts of weird shit like…

Sure, these aren’t high value keywords, but they are the types of keywords that small sites are getting hit for going after.

Just something I noticed recently.

Coming up…

Upcoming topics: more tips and ideas on Etsy and KDP, how it’s going with my chatGPT fiction ebook and the AI music thingie, and growing an ecomm site.

If you have a topic you want covered just reply and let me know.

Stay awesome,

Shawna

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