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One small geography site, bringing "only" like 600-700$ a year, but it is passive. https://random.country/ https://random.country/ I made few more similiar site
by t0mislav 8y ago
One small geography site, bringing "only" like 600-700$ a year, but it is passive. https://random.country/ https://random.country/
I made few more similiar sites, but they all failed.
- uvu 8y agoFrom ads?
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- t0mislav 8y agoYes. Only ads.
- t0mislav 8y agoTo be honest, I don't even know how to montize such small and simple site. This is not service where you return every day, or every few days. It's like you use this site for a minute, two, than you forget about it.
- minhaz23 8y agoWhat about a newsletter? Like random country/city facts emailed daily/weekly? Keeps traffic and interest in your brand more consistent and eventually you can funnel it into a bigger project? I imagine it would do well with the trivia crowd
- blocked_again 8y agoNice. Did the domain cost you too much ?
- t0mislav 8y ago.country domain is something like 20 to 30$ a year I think. It was free domain when I searched for it.
- tosh 8y agolike the simplicity and ux. what is the business model?
- t0mislav 8y agoThere was no business model. It was just to learn code few years back. Then after a year I noticed there is some traffic on site. So I put ads there, and that is basically everything.
- tosh 8y agothanks for the reply. didn't see the ads (blocker). might also work to feature some amazon products (books, maps, globes, …). i wonder how to drive more traffic. maybe a social (media) aspect like inviting friends/posting scores.
- alehul 8y agoCan I ask how you bring in site visitors? For such a niche site, I imagine you didn't do any advertising-- or did you do some based on search keywords on Google? I have a lot of ideas for small interesting websites like this, but I've no clue how to popularize them at all. Maybe a Show HN or something, but that seems like a short burst if the site is more of a novelty.
- t0mislav 8y agoCorrect, there was no advertising. At first, It was not even plan to make money from this site. It was to learn few new things. In first year, I maybe leaved link on one or two subreddits, with not too many subscribers. I had little bit of traffic from reddit. I had this url also in signature in 2 discussion boards, but boards were in Croatian language. So only little bit of traffic from there. Then after some time I got better Google ranking. (there was no too much similiar sites there, so it was easy to get better ranking). Once someone on 4chan or similair chan site posted link. Basically, it has grown without marketing/advertising. But still, it is small site.
- chrismorgan 8y agoFYI, you’ve got encoding problems. When I was told about the “Aland Islands” (no accent on the A, but I’ll forgive that as a content error rather than an encoding error), the Wikipedia excerpt spoke of “The Ã…land Islands” while the actual Wikipedia article had “The Åland Islands”.
- t0mislav 8y agoThanks. I noticed that but tbth I was lazy to fix it as I needed to work on other things. But it will be fixed.