[Journey] An Online Tools Website

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So I'm starting an online tools website
there are thousands of tools that could be on my website, like SEO tools, tag generator, Ideal weight calculator, ...

The simplified plan is:
find potentially easy to rank keywords from Ahrefs
make the tool
write like 100-200 word articles with AI tools to see which tools rank right away
analyze search console to find the ones that are actually easier to rank

Expenses:
Domain $10
VPS $7/m (because shared host sucks)
Ahrefs $11/m

What I've done so far:
Setup PHP / MySQL / OLS on the VPS
Setup Wordpress + Generatepress theme (100/100 on pagespeed and gtmetrix)
Created the API for tools (with plain PHP)
Made the first tool, it's already ranking 156 on google with the target keyword :rolleyes:

Todo:
Making tools daily, I know PHP and JavaScript. depending on the tools I think I can make up to 100 tools a day (for simple stuff like bmi calculator, ...)

Goals:
Rank on page 1 for some long tail keywords
Rank on page 1 for some good keywords
Get enough traffic to apply for Google Adsense or other ad networks
make first $
make $100/day
make $1000/day

Monetization Methods:
1. Ads
2. SaaS affiliates


Wish me luck!
 
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Good luck with this. Sounds interesting on scaling to 1K per day. Report back when you get it set up and going.
 
Woah. How do you make 3000 tools per month? Where do you get them? I mean, the formulas and all that stuff required to make those tools. Even with that in mind, how do you iterate through them so quickly?
 
reaaski said:
Woah. How do you make 3000 tools per month? Where do you get them? I mean, the formulas and all that stuff required to make those tools. Even with that in mind, how do you iterate through them so quickly?
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100 tools a day is best case scenario, If all the tools for that day are like "text to base64 converter"
It requires 10 lines of code (including the HTML form) to make
realistically I think I'll be able to make 20-30 easy tools and 1-3 complicated ones
I get the ideas from Ahrefs as I said in the first post
 
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I made couple thousand pages (most of them don't have the tools yet, just content)
300+ pages indexed
1 low volume / high cpc keyword on page 2 already :rolleyes:
a new plugin installed for related posts (internal links)
I'm happy with the results so far :)
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Nice one dude, there certainly isn't a shortage of help and calculator ideas out there. Good that you know PHP inside out quick enough to build, that's the level I'm aiming for in my PHP skills, done well so far, just working on a wordpress plugin atm. Best of luck, hopefully, you registered megatools.com, which sounds exactly what this will be like! :D
 
awesome. You can take inspiration from sites like omnicalc
 
Best of luck. Certainly enough keywords to keep you going for sometime haha
 
Panther28 said:
Nice one dude, there certainly isn't a shortage of help and calculator ideas out there. Good that you know PHP inside out quick enough to build, that's the level I'm aiming for in my PHP skills, done well so far, just working on a wordpress plugin atm. Best of luck, hopefully, you registered megatools.com, which sounds exactly what this will be like! :D
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Thanks.
yeah there are literally millions of online tools, you'll learn php really fast if you just make projects with plain php (don't use frameworks and CMSs in the beginning) + read other people's codes and try to understand them. and the good thing is when your learn it good enough you can use other people's code (from github/stackoverflow/...) and just edit it if needed. although most of the tools I'm making don't even need server side code, I use client side Javascript (this will use user's hardware instead of my server)
I wish there was a domain like megatools available, I actually made a local tool years ago to mix words and create domain lists. I checked thousands of domains, there were no domains that good available. I registered a longer domain but it's good enough to become a brand.

Sartre said:
awesome. You can take inspiration from sites like omnicalc
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thanks, yeah there are big sites like omnicalc but the keywords are waaaay to competitive for a new website. I'm working on easier keywords extracted from ahrefs/semrush right now. hopefully after getting more authority I could go for harder keywords.

StrixMedia said:
Good luck buddy.
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thanks

vishal9586 said:
ahrefs for 11$? is it from groupbuy?
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of course it's groupbuy, ahrefs lowest price on their site is $99/m

Holzr said:
Best of luck. Certainly enough keywords to keep you going for sometime haha
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yeah there are literally millions of them. thanks god AI writing tools exist so I just need to focus on the tools not the content.
 
l3est said:
Thanks.
yeah there are literally millions of online tools, you'll learn php really fast if you just make projects with plain php (don't use frameworks and CMSs in the beginning) + read other people's codes and try to understand them. and the good thing is when your learn it good enough you can use other people's code (from github/stackoverflow/...) and just edit it if needed. although most of the tools I'm making don't even need server side code, I use client side Javascript (this will use user's hardware instead of my server)
I wish there was a domain like megatools available, I actually made a local tool years ago to mix words and create domain lists. I checked thousands of domains, there were no domains that good available. I registered a longer domain but it's good enough to become a brand.


thanks, yeah there are big sites like omnicalc but the keywords are waaaay to competitive for a new website. I'm working on easier keywords extracted from ahrefs/semrush right now. hopefully after getting more authority I could go for harder keywords.


thanks


of course it's groupbuy, ahrefs lowest price on their site is $99/m


yeah there are literally millions of them. thanks god AI writing tools exist so I just need to focus on the tools not the content.
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which groupbuy do you use because i am searching for ahrefs but i cannot find any reliable and low price,if you want to name it of course,thanks
 
Always wanted to try to make an online tools website after I saw one dude on Youtube have success with it. But the tools for the site, are them free or do you have to pay monthly/yearly/one-time fee for them?
 
Your plan sounds good and interesting. Keep us posted with the update.

I would like to know your success story with tools website.

In the past I also had planned to include similar tools which can attract users, increase the engagement in my website and decrease the bounce rate, but couldn't manage it due to lack of time and focus. But I wish you all the best.

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