Welcome to another episode of Niche Pursuits News Podcast!
This week, Jered and Thomas talked about Google’s March 2025 core update, the news is that AI search engines struggle with proper quotes, and doj push to break Google’s monopoly. When it comes to Hustle Xinigons, Thomas revealed a viral Facebook page strategy, which prefers 22,000+ for just $ 200. Finally, they share some strange niche websites, including a secret gaming site and a vintage toaster business.
Let’s dive into the details!
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Google’s March 2025 core update
Google’s March 2025 core update is officially rolled out, and it comes with an interesting promise: prioritizing material creators. While the core updates usually take two to four weeks to roll out completely, initial signals show that man-made materials are promoting.
key takeaways:
- Google’s declaration emphasized improving visibility for material creators.
- Some website owners, such as Thomas, have already seen significant traffic growth on the original human-written material.
- Google Discover Traffic is up, which suggests to focus more on quality, attractive materials.
- This change may not be purely philanthropist-Google depends on high quality human content to train its AI model.
- There is speculation: Will AI-related material see a decline in ranking?
Although it will be too early to ensure how it will play, the initial data suggests that the struggling material after the previous update can see a win at the end. However, ups and downs are common during these rollouts, so patience and monitoring are important.
AI is a major quotation problem in search
A recent study of Columbia Journalism Review analyzed eight AI search engines and found that they all Conflict with proper attention and accuracy Citing news sources.
key findings:
- 60% AI-rebuked quotes were wrong,
- The quotes of a chatbot, Grok3, had 94% error rate.
- The AI device rarely accepted uncertainty and often fabricated information rather than refusing to respond.
- Some chatbott disregard the robot.
- AI is often associated with syndicated versions of news rather than basic sources, leading to issues for publishers.
This highlights a major defect in the AI-borne discovery results: they struggle with real time, breaking news. Unlike Google, the AI models mainly rely on old training data and struggle to integrate new information.
For publishers, it increases concerns about AI scraping materials without proper attention and potential mudification effects. With the inclination towards bringing out more man-made materials with Google, can it be their competitive advantage against the AI-operated discovery contestants?
Doj push to break Google
US Department of Justice (Doj) is intensifying it Antitrest case against GoogleProposing a series of rigid measures that can reopen the search and digital advertising landscape.
Doj’s major proposal:
- Forcing Google to divide Chrome, which will greatly affect its ability to collect user data.
- Ban on exclusive agreements that make Google a default search engine on browser and equipment.
- Google needs to open their search data for the contestants for a decade.
- Implementing government inspection on AI-related investments to prevent Google from AI discovery.
While Google intends to appeal, bilateral support for strong antitrust measures suggests that real changes may come. If the chrome is divided, the ability of the user to track the behavior on Google may be severely reduced, affecting its advertising dominance.
For digital explosives and website owners, its broad-causes may have implications. More competition in search can mean more traffic variety, but it can also disrupt advertising revenue models.
Facebook page growth for Penny
Thomas shared his recent success with a Facebook page growth strategy, taking advantage of viral-style engagement advertisements.
His strategy breaks:
- Focused on viral, high-proclaimed subjects (dogs, cats and religion).
- Used AI-Janit Advertisement to create attractive posts.
- Rain is a Facebook per campaign $ 0.006 per choice – a fraction of specific cost.
- Increased the page to 22,000+ likes in less than two weeks.
- Using with mudification options including Facebook bonus program and external traffic arbitrations.
This experiment highlights Facebook’s ability to build low -cost audiences. Next step? To find out how this audience is best masked through direct mudification on Facebook or through traffic on external platforms.
Weekends of the week
A site about Pak schools that seem to be a center for really unlocked games, possibly targeting students trying to bypass school internet filters. Place, Pak schoolA children’s gaming has a gaming gaming.
- The site receives 500,000+ organic trips per month.
- It is excessive rank for “[game name] Unblock “Quarries, browsing restrictions also help children reach the game while browsing.
- Given the high-page view and engagement time, the mudification is advertising-based.
This clever pivot shows that by rebranding and targeting new audiences, it can completely change the success of the website.
Michael, a vintage toster enthusiast, has created to restore a business and resume antique toaster Tooster Central,
- His website ranks for terms like “Vintage Toster” and “Antique Toster Restoration”.
- Some refurbished tosters sell for hundreds of dollars.
- He provides educational material on toaster history and maintenance, ranking himself as experts going to the niche.
This is a great example of a passion-driven niche that has turned into a profitable online business.
final thoughts
This week’s topic – from Google’s update to AI’s citation failures and the rift of Doj – complete the rapid changes in search and digital marketing. Major takeaways for material creators and aberves:
- If you produce high quality human-written materials, you may benefit from the latest updates of Google.
- AI search still struggles with accuracy, especially for real -time news materials.
- Major antitrust changes can shake search and advertising – tuned.
- The growth of low -cost Facebook audience is possible, but the real challenge is mudification.
- Strange below can be goldmine, whether it is children’s gaming site or vintage toaster.
As usual, these developments will continue to develop, and it will be important to keep a close watch on the trends. Be sure to tune in next week for more updates!
