TheVigilante
Banned - Multiple Rules Violations
- Aug 31, 2010
- 14,993
- 16,105
It’s easy: leverage a viral trend. Like a ship stuck in the Suez Canal.
He created a website called Istheshipstillstuck.com.
To begin, he was just wasting time on the internet, and when he Googled “is the ship still stuck” he realized there was an opportunity. So, he built the website.
To cut it short, the website received 50M visitors in 5 days. At its peak, there were 8,404 requests to the site per second.
Genius move, right?
https://notfunatparties.substack.com/p/inside-a-viral-website, he tells the whole story, including the technical side of quickly creating a website that will host a huge amount of traffic.
But we’ll jump to the monetization part.
Ads: He didn’t use ads, firstly because he doesn’t like them (pssst), but also because going through the approval process of an advertising network would have taken more days than they took to free the ship in the Suez Canal.
NFTs: He tried to sell an NFT of the page. It became one of the top 8 most viewed out of over 15 million NFTs on the OpenSea platform. Still, things didn’t get interesting, and he sold the piece of art for $200 worth of cryptocurrency.
Affiliate marketing with Amazon: Getting approved for the Amazon Partnership Program is quite fast. So, he decided to start suggesting books on his meme website. Revenue? $279.
Despite the lack of easy monetization, there are some funny stories – like some beef the website generated on Twitter.
So how would have you monetized all that traffic?
He created a website called Istheshipstillstuck.com.
To begin, he was just wasting time on the internet, and when he Googled “is the ship still stuck” he realized there was an opportunity. So, he built the website.
To cut it short, the website received 50M visitors in 5 days. At its peak, there were 8,404 requests to the site per second.
Genius move, right?
https://notfunatparties.substack.com/p/inside-a-viral-website, he tells the whole story, including the technical side of quickly creating a website that will host a huge amount of traffic.
But we’ll jump to the monetization part.
Ads: He didn’t use ads, firstly because he doesn’t like them (pssst), but also because going through the approval process of an advertising network would have taken more days than they took to free the ship in the Suez Canal.
NFTs: He tried to sell an NFT of the page. It became one of the top 8 most viewed out of over 15 million NFTs on the OpenSea platform. Still, things didn’t get interesting, and he sold the piece of art for $200 worth of cryptocurrency.
Affiliate marketing with Amazon: Getting approved for the Amazon Partnership Program is quite fast. So, he decided to start suggesting books on his meme website. Revenue? $279.
Despite the lack of easy monetization, there are some funny stories – like some beef the website generated on Twitter.
So how would have you monetized all that traffic?
