What’s the weirdest niche you’ve ever built links for?

Faisal Mirza

Faisal Mirza

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Doing link building for years has taken me to some… interesting corners of the internet.


Most people think it’s always SaaS, tech, or marketing. But sometimes you end up building links for niches you never even knew existed.


I once had to find guest post opportunities for a client selling something so specific that even explaining it to site owners during outreach felt like a mini TED Talk. :confused:


But that’s the funny part about off-page SEO, no matter the niche, links are still the currency.


Now I’m curious.


What’s the weirdest or most unexpected niche you’ve ever had to build links for?
 
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Honestly A casino + pet niche crossover Sounds weird but it worked Built links on blogs talking about pet care with subtle placements SEO is wild if it is relevant enough it can rank
 
One of the weirdest was a spiritual healing + crypto niche Sounds random but we made it work with smart placements SEO can get strange but if the context fits it works
 
Remembered I build lazy text generator. The background was, in my country if you want another A+ you need like wrote note in you book and send it via chat to your teacher, many of us lazy about that, so just get bored and build that
 
Faisal Mirza said:
What’s the weirdest or most unexpected niche you’ve ever had to build links for?
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hair dyes!

Around 2010 I've set up 5 MFA (Made for Adsense, yes this was a thing back then) sites in 1 month, in these niches:

- bose ipod docking stations
- hair dyes
- led recessed lighting
- bed wetting
- surround sound systems

And of all 5 of these sites (most of them with higher CPC than the hair dyes one) the hair dye site had taken off like crazy. I am talking about $250-300 passive (Adsense) monthly revenue from google traffic within 1 month without me doing anything other than publishing a few articles to EZA (the biggest article directory of that time, which nowadays doesn't exist anymore sadly), which had made me start building links to this site to try and make it rank for even more keywords...

And the reason this was a weird niche for me is because I have never in my life - or in my dreams - thought about dying your hair being something that people do. Yes, I have seen and met people with dyed hair before 2010, but I never noticed it since I never cared about this thing, for me - even today - dying your hair is such a stupid thing to do, I feel like whoever's doing this is insecure as fuck and / or unhappy in their own body, but that's a discussion for another forum probably :)

So anyway, I chose this weird (for me) niche out of curiosity and in a "WTF, why does this thing exist?" moment more than anything, I never expected it to even rank or get impressions, much less make money. And yet, it's been my most profitable niche of all 5 that I've chosen back then, even if only for a few short months until a google core update had tanked 3 of these sites in one sweep :D
 
One of the weirdest niches I worked on was industrial odor control for wastewater plants had to constantly explain to site owners why managing bad smells is actually a serious and valuable business need.
 
I have always been a huge fan of space tech, but never ever would I imagine working for a space agency. Well... I did that recently, and boy, the topics I covered were absolutely foreign to me.

Other time I helped an adult PPV grow their outreach and it was indeed interesting to explore how the subject is officiated to prevent being caught by social media filters.

On both occasions I used a tool I developed that creates a graph with the website content and build clusters of topics that I then expand to fill gaps. It helped me indeed to understand subjects I have never seen before.
 
tazarbm said:
hair dyes!

Around 2010 I've set up 5 MFA (Made for Adsense, yes this was a thing back then) sites in 1 month, in these niches:

- bose ipod docking stations
- hair dyes
- led recessed lighting
- bed wetting
- surround sound systems

And of all 5 of these sites (most of them with higher CPC than the hair dyes one) the hair dye site had taken off like crazy. I am talking about $250-300 passive (Adsense) monthly revenue from google traffic within 1 month without me doing anything other than publishing a few articles to EZA (the biggest article directory of that time, which nowadays doesn't exist anymore sadly), which had made me start building links to this site to try and make it rank for even more keywords...

And the reason this was a weird niche for me is because I have never in my life - or in my dreams - thought about dying your hair being something that people do. Yes, I have seen and met people with dyed hair before 2010, but I never noticed it since I never cared about this thing, for me - even today - dying your hair is such a stupid thing to do, I feel like whoever's doing this is insecure as fuck and / or unhappy in their own body, but that's a discussion for another forum probably :)

So anyway, I chose this weird (for me) niche out of curiosity and in a "WTF, why does this thing exist?" moment more than anything, I never expected it to even rank or get impressions, much less make money. And yet, it's been my most profitable niche of all 5 that I've chosen back then, even if only for a few short months until a google core update had tanked 3 of these sites in one sweep :D
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LMAOOOO BRO :D

So you literally spent your time hating on hair dye people while their money was literally SAVING your life? That's the most legendary hypocrite energy I've ever heard and I'm here for it.

You set up 5 sites in a month, threw some articles on EZA like you were speedrunning life, and then the hair dye site (the one you thought was the dumbest) decided to print money like a fucking ATM machine? $250-300/month passive from doing NOTHING?

Meanwhile the other 4 sites with better CPCs are sitting there like "bro what?"

The funniest part is you STILL think dying your hair is stupid but you were out here getting paid by insecure people (your words lol) like some kind of accidental villain origin story.

Me sitting with my boring profitable site: :cool:
Google 6 months later: "Nah we're deleting 3 of these"

RIP to those sites my guy. That core update was a straight assassination.
 
I once had to do outreach for a very niche legal service that only handled a specific type of maritime law. The outreach felt like I was writing a textbook every time I emailed a site owner. It’s funny how in the beginning you think everything is just 'tech' or 'finance,' but then you realize how deep the rabbit hole goes for specialized services. At the end of the day, a high-DA link is still a high-DA link!
 
Faisal Mirza said:
So you literally spent your time hating on hair dye people while their money was literally SAVING your life?
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I didn't know there's money in that niche, that's the point that I made :)

Faisal Mirza said:
That's the most legendary hypocrite energy I've ever heard and I'm here for it.
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um, that's not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy means pretending to be what you're not... or behaving in a way that contradicts what you're bragging about believing in. Neither of these have anything to do with the fact that I didn't care about hair dyes and I said as much.

Faisal Mirza said:
You set up 5 sites in a month, threw some articles on EZA like you were speedrunning life, and then the hair dye site (the one you thought was the dumbest) decided to print money like a fucking ATM machine? $250-300/month passive from doing NOTHING?
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yep! Dem were the days back then :)

Faisal Mirza said:
Meanwhile the other 4 sites with better CPCs are sitting there like "bro what?"
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no, they were still making money ($20 to $100 or something, I don't remember the exact numbers but they were lower).

But what I didn't mention earlier was that the other niches were tougher, the surround sound one for example was the most competitive and was only getting trickles of traffic here and there cause the site wouldn't rank for good keywords because the keywords that the PLR content was targeting were very tough.

The hair dyes niche had literally been the easiest to rank, which is why it's gotten me so much traffic and money despite of the lower CPC. There was no (or almost no) affiliate site ranking in that niche back then, so you could say it was a golden nugget :)

Faisal Mirza said:
The funniest part is you STILL think dying your hair is stupid but you were out here getting paid by insecure people (your words lol) like some kind of accidental villain origin story.
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you're right, it's wrong of me to say that dying your hair is stupid. I shouldn't have said this, sorry about that!

Faisal Mirza said:
RIP to those sites my guy. That core update was a straight assassination.
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meh, I got over it, nowadays I don't care, it's been fun while it lasted :)
 
tazarbm said:
you're right, it's wrong of me to say that dying your hair is stupid. I shouldn't have said this, sorry about that!
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Nah man, no need to apologize - I was just keeping it real between us. My bad if it came off the wrong way.

tazarbm said:
yep! Dem were the days back then :)
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Appreciate the breakdown!

Real talk: Zero competition > high CPC every time. While everyone's drowning in saturated niches, you found hair dyes just chilling like "take my traffic"

Honestly, I probably would've done the same - saw a dumb niche, ignored it, then watched someone make $250-300/month. That's the move. :D

The lesson? Don't chase passion, chase opportunity. You didn't care about hair dyes, but you understood the ranking difficulty and traffic - and that's what mattered.

Those Google updates hit hard though. But hey, you cashed out before the crash. That's a win.
 
Its crazy how every niche no matter how small still needs strong backlinks.
 
Faisal Mirza said:
The lesson? Don't chase passion, chase opportunity.
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such a good take

Faisal Mirza said:
You didn't care about hair dyes, but you understood the ranking difficulty and traffic - and that's what mattered.
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I probably have taken the competition and traffic into consideration when choosing this niche, but the main factor was like I said earlier: the "WTF, who cares about this?" moment. I was curious how such a thing would perform rather than me being meticulously, methodically professional or whatnot about it :)

Faisal Mirza said:
Those Google updates hit hard though.
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yeah, but back then the updates were not as frequent as today... the major ones I mean, because otherwise google have been tweaking their algos multiple times a day / week since day 1...

But that particular update had screwed me over big time, I only managed to bank for like 3-4 months and then poof! Most income gone within days... I think this was in February 2011 if memory serves me well... or 2011 anyway, not sure whether it's been February or other month, but I think it's been in 2011 as I remember that in that year a lot has changed for me money-wise (including suffering my biggest scam ever, which I don't want to talk about...)

Anyway, it was still easier to make money with google than today, that much I can guarantee :)

Faisal Mirza said:
Nah man, no need to apologize - I was just keeping it real between us. My bad if it came off the wrong way.
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we're cool, man! I genuinely shouldn't have said that and I genuinely feel sorry about saying that dumb thing. Like, it's not my f**king business what people do with their hair, body, life, etc...

Peace! :)
 
I am not building much links these days because now I am lazy and I buy them...but when I used to build links with GSA and Xrumer , I did some for Posture Correction For Gamers. It was a course on a site..... How To Stay Straight With no Back Pain, How To Play WOW Without Intreruption....

Smart people can sell anything lol.
 
tazarbm said:
yeah, but back then the updates were not as frequent as today... the major ones I mean, because otherwise google have been tweaking their algos multiple times a day / week since day 1...

But that particular update had screwed me over big time, I only managed to bank for like 3-4 months and then poof! Most income gone within days... I think this was in February 2011 if memory serves me well... or 2011 anyway, not sure whether it's been February or other month, but I think it's been in 2011 as I remember that in that year a lot has changed for me money-wise (including suffering my biggest scam ever, which I don't want to talk about...)

Anyway, it was still easier to make money with google than today, that much I can guarantee :)
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You're right – those early 2010s updates hit harder because they were rare and massive. Losing 3-4 months of income in days in 2011 must've been brutal.

The irony is that despite constant tweaking today, it's somehow even harder to compete. Back then the rules were clearer, now it's like chasing an invisible target.

But that experience probably taught you more than 10 successful years would have. The survivors of those early updates usually know the game way better than anyone grinding today.
tazarbm said:
we're cool, man! I genuinely shouldn't have said that and I genuinely feel sorry about saying that dumb thing. Like, it's not my f**king business what people do with their hair, body, life, etc...

Peace! :)
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No worries at all, man. We're good. That's what I respect – you kept it real and didn't let it drag on. No hard feelings here either.

Life's too short to sweat the small stuff anyway. We all mess up sometimes, it's how we handle it that counts.

Peace! :)
 
Faisal Mirza said:
Doing link building for years has taken me to some… interesting corners of the internet.


Most people think it’s always SaaS, tech, or marketing. But sometimes you end up building links for niches you never even knew existed.


I once had to find guest post opportunities for a client selling something so specific that even explaining it to site owners during outreach felt like a mini TED Talk. :confused:


But that’s the funny part about off-page SEO, no matter the niche, links are still the currency.


Now I’m curious.


What’s the weirdest or most unexpected niche you’ve ever had to build links for?
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Packaging company. Like boxes. A Company that makes carton boxes. I don't it's weird, I just never expected it. Didn't know the industry was kinda huge.
 
Had one in industrial cleaning parts and outreach was painful. Nobody understood the product so getting placements was way harder than normal niches.
Weird niches can rank easy but link building is a grind.
 
Probably super niche industries like adult toys or obscure gambling sites those tend to be the weirdest due to strict rules and unique link building challenges
 
Ha, there have been stranger ones. I once built links for a client in vintage fishing reel restoration—tiny audience, a lot of passionate blogs. It worked because the crowd actually cares about the craft, not fluff. If you crack the community vibe, the rest falls into place. What’s the craziest niche you’ve seen?
 
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