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Maybe not millions, but you could make a decent chunk of money in a number of ways. The obvious 'easy' one would be to spin up affiliate sites and rank quickly
by TomAnthony 9y ago
Maybe not millions, but you could make a decent chunk of money in a number of ways. The obvious 'easy' one would be to spin up affiliate sites and rank quickly and easily for competitive terms (with a site that does not deserve to rank), by hijacking the equity (PageRank essentially) of one site and using it to rank in another region.
For example I could leverage the equity of a US made second hand car marketplace and to rank my site in the UK and list UK Autotrader listings on my site. They have a nice affiliate program for clicks/leads.
Alternatively, I may only operate in one country but I could 'top up' by equity by leeching it from a company in a similar niche in another country. My competitors in my home country would be at a loss to how I'm ranking so well.
It should be noted that there are a number of parameters that may change between my initial experiment and these uses, so we'll never know how viable it really was.
- TomAnthony 9y agoThere are a number of people lamenting about this 'missed opportunity' (and calling me some colourful names!) here: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/immediately-be-in-the-top-results-for-money-terms-in-the-us.1018533/ https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/immediately-be-in-the-top-...
- tagoog_2323 9y agoYou could absolutely make millions off this. Getting to Google's fist SERP for popular terms gives you huge amount of very high quality, free traffic. Once this traffic lands in your site, you can use either CPM ads, sell the traffic on CPC basis or just redirect through affiliate links to the searched product. It will be HIGHLY profitable since the traffic is essentially free.
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- emerongi 9y agoYou could make tens of millions if you stayed under the radar for long enough. There are hundreds of ways to monetize this.