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I built a themes website (https://jekyllthemes.io https://jekyllthemes.io) in a weekend that's monetized using affiliate links and Adsense. After the initial wo

• shanecleveland 10y ago
  What sort of traffic numbers do you get, and how do they discover you? This is the sort of thing that I believe can be easily duplicated. Not copied, but translated to different ideas. Generating traffic can be difficult, so the subject, plus actually useful content, is important.
  • tylercubell 10y ago
    In the last 30 days the site received 27,000 page views and 7,000 sessions. Organic search made up 80% of traffic. The concept of a curated list for XYZ can be translated for other ideas, sure. Getting traffic was part luck for me. At the time it was a low competition keyword but now there are a lot of similar sites up.
    • shanecleveland 10y ago
      Good info. Thanks. I've had similar experiences where, with some luck, I've hit upon a keyword/subject ripe for the picking or perhaps just too small or specific to have generated much competition up to that point. It's fun when you find something like that! The hard part is know when you've found it (or not).
• kowdermeister 10y ago
  You would make much more if the hosting weren't so slow.
• eibrahim 10y ago
  $80/month ??? Is that a typo or did you actually mean 80?