In this episode, I'm sharing some brand NEW content -- straight from our updates on our Six-Figure Course Creator course that I'm working on right now.

It's all about the pros and cons of selling products on marketplace platforms like Etsy, Amazon, Skillshare, Udemy, etc.

We're big proponents of selling your products on your own platforms like Teachable, Clickfunnels, Kajabi, etc. But you can make really great money selling on marketplace platforms too.

It's just really important to have the right expectations in place when you sell on these types of platforms.

Episode Highlights

• How my brother makes over $20k/month selling courses on Udemy and Skillshare
• Price and competition on marketplace platforms
• Rules on self-promotion on marketplace platforms
• How to get to page 1 of search results on marketplaces

For more information and resources, check out the podcast page on our website.

P.S. The above text contains affiliate links, which means that we receive a commission when you purchase from these recommendations. This is no way affects what we recommend but it does help support our podcast and the content that we share at Create and Go!

We have something exciting to share with you today - our first ever VIDEO podcast!

You can watch the video on YouTube here.

As many of y'all know, we've been spending the last couple of months updating our blogging courses - from scratch.

These updates feature us fully on camera for the first time. In honor of these content upgrades, I think it's only fitting that we finally record one of our podcast episodes on video too!

As I was thinking about these updates, I thought it would be great to get Noah back on the podcast to talk about some of the updates in the SEO world - ahead of our SEO course updates.

Consider it a little sneak peak of sorts.

The rise of AI writing tools like Jasper (our favorite) has brought with it a need for change in the Google algorithm.

Now that everyone and their grandmother can write blog posts about any topic in the world, in a fraction of the time, Google needs to be even better at making sure helpful content stays at the top.

Their Helpful Content Update was designed to do just that with these two key components:

• EEAT
• making sure content is as helpful as possible

Sounds pretty obvious while also being pretty vague, right?

Watch or listen to our latest podcast episode to learn more about the helpful content update and what this means for the current and future SEO landscape.

Episode Highlights

• Current changes in the SEO landscape
• Using AI in your content and how it relates to SEO
• Helpful Content Update: two key items to consider
• EEAT: what's new

For more information and resources, check out the podcast page on our website.

018. You know what they say… Ignorance is bliss.

We made a lot of SEO mistakes when we started Create and Go. But for a while, we were blissfully unaware of those mistakes.

For a long time, we didn’t even care about SEO. Pinterest and YouTube traffic were enough for us.

But when we did start caring… yikes, that was a tough road to go down.

It became apparent pretty quickly that some things were just wrong.

And it took us a full year to really figure them out and get on the right path again.

We owe most of this credit to Noah Riggs.

Noah didn’t have any SEO experience or background before he started working for us. He learned all of it along the way -- working with Alex to right these wrongs.

After a year of deep-diving, hard, focused work learning everything they could about SEO, Noah and Alex were able to:

• finally figure out where we went wrong,
• fix the problems,
• and boost our SEO traffic exponentially.

It wasn’t easy, but for us, it was SO worth it.

This is part 1 of a 2-part series on our SEO journey. In the next episode, Noah will return again to give us the biggest SEO mistakes he sees people making along with a couple of the specific mistakes that WE made along the way.

In this episode, Part 1, Noah and I are discussing:

• Our SEO journey
• Who Noah is, and how he helped us fix our SEO problems
• Why we finally turned our focus to SEO
• Why we wish we had focused on SEO sooner
• Whether or not you need an SEO strategy for your blog
• What to expect in the next episode

For additional resources and show notes, visit the episode podcast page on our website.

Resources and Mentions:

• Related Post: Blog SEO: 10 Step Beginner’s Guide to Ranking Blog Posts
• Related Video: SEO for Beginners: 10 Steps to get More Organic Traffic to Your Blog
• Course Mentioned: SEO Blueprint for Bloggers
• Tutorial: How to Start a Successful Blog
• Start your first blog with our Free 5-Day Blogging Bootcamp

For more information and resources, check out the podcast page on our website.