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Would you mind sharing whether your sites are long tail keywords and how much global traffic they receive? Would be very helpful in dialing in such metrics know
by mapster 15y ago
Would you mind sharing whether your sites are long tail keywords and how much global traffic they receive? Would be very helpful in dialing in such metrics knowing they could be profitable to such a degree.
- byoung2 15y agoThe long tail ones get 1000-3000 uniques per month, and earn $5-30 per month. These are random topics like feng shui decorating tips and electric model trains. I hired someone in the Philippines to write articles for $1 each and put 20 on each site, then used RSS to keep updating them. The big earners (if $150 is big) were in travel and shopping and these get 8000-10000 uniques. In both cases a few articles rank well for a keyword. One article on airline miles outranks the airline's site, and one printer review outranks the manufacturer's site. So I got lucky there. The goal was to build thousands of these sites, so that $10/mo average x 1000 sites would be a nice passive income. I may get there, but right now I only built a dozen.
- mapster 15y agoVery helpful thanks.
- mapster 15y agoHow do you keep hosting costs down for 100 sites with each bringing in ~$30/mo?
- byoung2 15y agoI have a hosting account on Rackspace cloud for $100/mo for unlimited sites. The traffic is low enough, that I could probably do it on cheap shared hosting, but I already have the account for bigger sites as well.