- Joined
- Mar 24, 2015
- Messages
- 16
- Likes
- 33
- Degree
- 0
I was encouraged to join up and talk about this here. This isn't an ask me anything but I'll answer some questions. Maybe. I know this isn't a huge win compared to some of the threads I've seen up in hurr but hopefully it helps inspire some folks none the less, in an "if I can do it then anyone can" sorta way.
In short: I built a website and barely worked on it at all, and then sold it for a decent chunk of change (Probably works out to about $600 per hour spent on it if you include the monthly earnings as well as the proceeds from the sale. That's almost triple what @thehobbster makes on backpages, for context.)
BULLETPOINTS!!!!
If I was going to do this again I would have started with a domain that allowed for a broader niche but still focused on the same area. The site wouldn't have been limited to one smaller topic, and I would have ranked even higher because I could have leveraged social media a lot better and gotten all those sweet signals, virality, and ultimately links too.
The best part about entering the elite group of people who have made more money online than they've spent on WSOs is that I don't even have to find my own gifs anymore. @CCarter be a dear and fetch me a gif.
In short: I built a website and barely worked on it at all, and then sold it for a decent chunk of change (Probably works out to about $600 per hour spent on it if you include the monthly earnings as well as the proceeds from the sale. That's almost triple what @thehobbster makes on backpages, for context.)
BULLETPOINTS!!!!
- All of the traffic was from SEO. Thank you based Google.
- I didn't pay anybody to build links for me because it's easy enough to do it myself and then it's done right.
- Most of the sales came from one inner-page's ranking for a keyword that gets over 20k searches a month.
- I never ranked in the top 5 for that keyword.
- The total expenses were less than $300.
- Domain was registered about two years ago and I put up a little 2 page site that ranked for the main keyword until the main keyboard started to get a lot more competitive. I didn't have any monetization at that point because I'm stupid.
- It just chilled like that for quiiiite a while. About 14 months later I popped up a magazine theme and made it brand-ier (Social accounts, tightened up the style, etc...)
- Started doing some basic SEO at this point. Making profiles (AND USING THEM!!) on relevant sites, some Web 2.0 stuff. Nothing fancy, nothing that anyone can't do. I think some people spend more time trying to find a good provider and fucking around than it would take for them to just do it themselves. I'd rather have 10 of these profiles / web 2.0 / hubpage-esque satellite sites setup than to have 100 that were built by somebody who gives zero fucks and rushes them out with awful content.
- Shortly after this I redesigned the site again, made it unique. It was using a very popular themeforest theme but I got it loading in under a second and decent page size.
If I was going to do this again I would have started with a domain that allowed for a broader niche but still focused on the same area. The site wouldn't have been limited to one smaller topic, and I would have ranked even higher because I could have leveraged social media a lot better and gotten all those sweet signals, virality, and ultimately links too.
The best part about entering the elite group of people who have made more money online than they've spent on WSOs is that I don't even have to find my own gifs anymore. @CCarter be a dear and fetch me a gif.
