Weird Niche BlackHat Example - 2M Pageviews Per Month

[Sanctioned]

I noticed you all love some juicy blackhat niches and decided to share some of my findings (I will post 1 for now, if it gets enough views will update the thread with more samples).
** I don't own any of these sites but it always fascinates me how they can get millions of views with relatively lower effort than standard whitehat stuff.

Ok, here we go - The first one: Login niche!
Login links have been a massively popular niche in the blackhat community.

Wtf is it? It's basically when you try to rank for keywords such as "Google drive log in", "Amazon login", "Yahoo log in" and many other keywords where the user is trying to log into a platform.

How do they do it? It's all programmatic. They crawl google SERPs for the main keyword and list it in their article. Almost no effort once you write the Python code.
The key is to generate a million pages and get a couple of users on each, it's a numbers game!

Here are some samples: Loginslink.com - Generates 2m users per month, runs AdSense, imagine how much it's making!



Login-ed: 700k pageviews in 6months only, runs AdSense



A couple of points:
1/ A lot of these websites go down with every core update, the key is to spin another one back up and you're back in business.
2/ Why does it work? Cuz these keywords don't have any competition, why the fu*k would any sane blogger write about logging in? It's just a bunch of blackhat dudes competing with each other over ez keywords.
3/ How do they make money? AdSense. Cloaking.


** This is not a shill post, I'm not selling anything.

 

[tazarbm]

like I said in the past, google has become the paradise of hackers and programmers. Honest people are screwed while nerds with glasses in their parents' basements rake in millions per year. And all because google doesn't have enough resources to combat nerds. Sad, really...

 

[Bugfisch]

Yeah, the problem is, that we aren't only talking about blackhat SEO, but classic blackhat in this niche...
And we're not only talking about adsense, but also phishing.

You're right, though, it's a nice niche to test one's SEO skills, because there is basicly no classical authority. You can loose domains by brand conflicts or suspect of phishing pretty fast though - and you might get some problems with scene blackhats, that might ddos you or something

 

[MIRANTHA]

not mine

 

[IM Dude]

I have seen few of these, nothing new. I avoid doing this because you gotta be on some kinda upper like Adderall or something to :
1) rise quickly to millions of page views
2) strike gold before you get hit by Google penalty

 

[Sanctioned]

like I said in the past, google has become the paradise of hackers and programmers. Honest people are screwed while nerds with glasses in their parents' basements rake in millions per year. And all because google doesn't have enough resources to combat nerds. Sad, really...

I agree. Blame the game, not the player.
But studying these new "hack" methods can also help you make a shit ton of money.

 

[Sanctioned]

I have seen few of these, nothing new. I avoid doing this because you gotta be on some kinda upper like Adderall or something to :
1) rise quickly to millions of page views
2) strike gold before you get hit by Google penalty

Yup, not new, but still cool and doable. Yes, they get penalised and die after a while but for the first couple of months they make bank.

 

[Norman_drey]

A lot of these websites go down with every core update,

I don't see any effect of Google update on these sites.
Am I missing something

 

[Bugfisch]

Yup, not new, but still cool and doable. Yes, they get penalised and die after a while but for the first couple of months they make bank.

Sure they do. But the traffic is not that easy to monetize, cause it's not really converting. I guess, you will end up at about $0,03 / 1.000 organic visitor. You would need 5-10mio visitors per day to make it worth it
If you are not doing phishing - that would be pretty profitable =D

 

[Norman_drey]

I have seen few of these, nothing new. I avoid doing this because you gotta be on some kinda upper like Adderall or something to :
1) rise quickly to millions of page views
2) strike gold before you get hit by Google penalty

I think there's an on going update, if I start this method now will i get affected too?

 

[IM Dude]

I think there's an on going update, if I start this method now will i get affected too?

Yes eventually or may be not in the shot term. Depends upon how you are able to game google algo. That's why nerds are doing this.

 

[warriorsam53]

Sure they do. But the traffic is not that easy to monetize, cause it's not really converting. I guess, you will end up at about $0,03 / 1.000 organic visitor. You would need 5-10mio visitors per day to make it worth it
If you are not doing phishing - that would be pretty profitable =D

It depends on the niche. I had a login site in a specific niche and I was getting $70 per 1000 with display ads. It got hit last year and traffic went from 15K a month to essentially 0.

 

[Sanctioned]

Sure they do. But the traffic is not that easy to monetize, cause it's not really converting. I guess, you will end up at about $0,03 / 1.000 organic visitor. You would need 5-10mio visitors per day to make it worth it
If you are not doing phishing - that would be pretty profitable =D

I think the RPMs for these niches are pretty high because they're targeting gullible people. If you search for "Google Drive login" and then click on a random domain, you're probably gonna click on some random ads too - Needless to say, AdSense ads have become extremely spammy as well, I've seen ads with no text and 1 button that says "Start". Imagine the CTR on it when it shows up on this website.

 

[Sanctioned]

It depends on the niche. I had a login site in a specific niche and I was getting $70 per 1000 with display ads. It got hit last year and traffic went from 15K a month to essentially 0.

Legend lol
Why didn't you repeat the same thing for other niches?

 

[warriorsam53]

Legend lol
Why didn't you repeat the same thing for other niches?

It‘s on my to-do list. I prioritize sites that are likely to last longer.

My site was not programmatic. It was researched AI content and way more useful than the other content on the SERP. It took the VA around a month to set up.

 

[Bugfisch]

It depends on the niche. I had a login site in a specific niche and I was getting $70 per 1000 with display ads. It got hit last year and traffic went from 15K a month to essentially 0.

Ah, okay - niche spefic might acutally work. It would be way better targeted.

I think the RPMs for these niches are pretty high because they're targeting gullible people. If you search for "Google Drive login" and then click on a random domain, you're probably gonna click on some random ads too - Needless to say, AdSense ads have become extremely spammy as well, I've seen ads with no text and 1 button that says "Start". Imagine the CTR on it when it shows up on this website.

Yeah, the problem is, that pages like this - I basicly do the same with AMZ spam - need a ton of Keywords to actually build up traffic. I go for 4-5mio Keywords per domain. You will most likly not rank for "google drive login" but for the small ones - idk, something like "aquarium24 talk login" =D
Geo is a thing as well - you will not get the best geos only with those pages.
But of cause you can try to add other layers. I experimented a while ago with Push Ads. It basicly killed my AMZ conversion, so I removed it after a month, but they still make about $100 per month. Such a setup might work there - perhaps not as main earning project, but as a side project.

 

[Norman_drey]

Can a new blog rank on this method?

 

[tazarbm]

I agree. Blame the game, not the player.
But studying these new "hack" methods can also help you make a shit ton of money.

it can't help ME, personally, because I'm not tech-savvy (nor do I care about technology in the slightest), but yeah, it will help those who care about it. But this still shouldn't mean that 90% of the population should suffer for the benefit of the privileged few that are born hackers or programmers. That's what I'm blaming

 

[Sanctioned]

Can a new blog rank on this method?

Sure.

 

[Waifu_tatyana]

Yeah, the problem is, that we aren't only talking about blackhat SEO, but classic blackhat in this niche...
And we're not only talking about adsense, but also phishing.

You're right, though, it's a nice niche to test one's SEO skills, because there is basicly no classical authority. You can loose domains by brand conflicts or suspect of phishing pretty fast though - and you might get some problems with scene blackhats, that might ddos you or something

My cpa locker site was actually a victim of phishing suspect because it had locker pages where users had to put their in-game username (no password) to receive in-game currency after completing cpa offer.
The site shows a red warning page now so basically all my traffic (used to get around 2-3k visitors) is lost.