71: Mastering the SEO Game, Building 6-Figure Blogs and Nomading Full Time in an RV with Bill Widmer

Bill Widmer takes us on his journey of growing up in Pennsylvania, deciding to nomad full time in an RV, and shares the pros and cons of RV travel life.  ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He also opens up about and failing at multiple business ventures and takes us through his biggest setback of losing 90% of his income overnight, hitting rock bottom, and what it took to emerge from that. Bill then shares how he co-founded and built multiple 6-figure businesses, including The Wandering RV blog, with his wife Kayla, that now gets over 250,000 organic web visitors from Google per month and nets them a multiple 6-figure income. Bill takes us behind the scenes and shares the specific tactics for how to master the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) game. He explains how to do keyword research the right way, assess “content gaps” with your competitors, best practices for creating a “skyscraper post”, how to optimize it. He explains the “hub and spoke” model, how to use internal linking the right way, and how to use “latent semantic indexing”. He shares his 3 most effective tactics for conducting a “link building campaign”, both to get traffic to the site and to build domain authority. He explains the most highly leveraged activities you can use for SEO, based on where your domain authority currently lies and emphasizes the importance of “white hat” tactics for building consistent long-term traffic. Bill also shares some personal reflections and tips for doing business with your spouse and how to separate the business from the relationship. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn  See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally.  You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

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Meet diverse travelers and digital nomads from every continent who share their personal journey to location-independence as well as their reflections on identity, the power dynamics that shape our world, and how we can be more thoughtful, conscious travelers as we move through it.  Hosted by Matt Bowles—your typical Irish-American hip hop DJ turned human rights activist turned location-independent entrepreneur turned minimalist world-traveler and podcaster—these in-depth conversations take place all over the world (often over a bottle of wine, or 2).  Listen in as Matt draws out stories of their most epic adventures, and unpacks the skills, tactics, and strategies they use to build their remote businesses and design their lifestyles. Ranked the #1 Digital Nomad Podcast by Web Work Travel and the Top 1% of all podcasts by Listen Notes, each episode pulls out actionable tips and advice you can implement in your own life each week.  In 2024 The Maverick Show hit the Top 100 on Apple Podcasts and ranked the #1 “Places and Travel” podcast on Apple.