✔️✔️ These Niche Sites went from 0 to 1M+ traffic in 2 years

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source - Ted French​

https://gypsyplate.com ➝ Expired Domain: No | Display Monetisation: Mediavine
July 2020 - 5,000 visitors | Jul 2021 - 23,000 visitors | Jul 2022 - 1,680,000 visitors

https://www.musicgrotto.com/ ➝ Expired Domain: No | Display Monetisation: Adthrive
July 2020 - 42,400 visitors | July 2021 - 174,000 visitors | July 2022 - 1,054,000 million visitors

Some points;
  • These sites have a few hundred articles each (300-700 ish). They are both probably making 5-figures a month in $ - Grotto site low-to-mid, Recipe site mid-to-high.
  • If you want to follow this path then you will either have to 1) produce a decent amount of content yourself for your site or 2) have money to invest beforehand. Preferably the latter if you’re lazy.
  • You will need to invest in links. Music Grotto used HARO links for its exponential growth.
  • The truth is that if you’re looking for easy money then you won’t find it building content sites. Anyone that tells you it’s easy is probably trying to sell you something. You invest either time or money to get started
 
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RealDaddy said:
The truth is that if you’re looking for easy money then you won’t find it building content sites. Anyone that tells you it’s easy is probably trying to sell you something. You invest either time or money to get started
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Nothing good comes entirely easy or free. Especially in this IM world.

What year did the second site start? Same 2020?

Assuming it was started in January of 2020, how were they able to boost search traffic to 42k in less than 7 months?
 
@RealDaddy I have been viewing your threadsin silence and just wanted to say I appreciate all the valuable/trendy shares.

It has inspired me to share a bit more myself.

As for my sites, I always use fresh domains and as little backlinks as possible, then if the site doesn't get traction, only I am to blame.

Doing 1M organic in 2 years is great tho, I enjoy back engineering sites from conception. Sometimes when I really want to get granular, I will check whois domain registry date, wayback machine for first website content.

You can learn alot about the site operators budget, size of team, how planned out their project was just by looking at the time between when the domain was registered and the first wayback archive.

Most well financed projects will come out with high quality content within 3 months and have regular content production.

Then there's sites which will sit fairly empty for over 6 months to a year and then mass generate pages.

But they can both still lead to the same outcome in traffic after 2 years.
 
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RealDaddy said:
source - Ted French​

https://gypsyplate.com ➝ Expired Domain: No | Display Monetisation: Mediavine
July 2020 - 5,000 visitors | Jul 2021 - 23,000 visitors | Jul 2022 - 1,680,000 visitors

https://www.musicgrotto.com/ ➝ Expired Domain: No | Display Monetisation: Adthrive
July 2020 - 42,400 visitors | July 2021 - 174,000 visitors | July 2022 - 1,054,000 million visitors

Some points;
  • These sites have a few hundred articles each (300-700 ish). They are both probably making 5-figures a month in $ - Grotto site low-to-mid, Recipe site mid-to-high.
  • If you want to follow this path then you will either have to 1) produce a decent amount of content yourself for your site or 2) have money to invest beforehand. Preferably the latter if you’re lazy.
  • You will need to invest in links. Music Grotto used HARO links for its exponential growth.
  • The truth is that if you’re looking for easy money then you won’t find it building content sites. Anyone that tells you it’s easy is probably trying to sell you something. You invest either time or money to get started
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True things take time.

But many would want to make money a bit quick online and that too without investing. What are the options for them other than the Redbubble thing? :P
 
Look like a normal - these sites has strong backlink profiles.
 
RealDaddy said:
source - Ted French​

https://gypsyplate.com ➝ Expired Domain: No | Display Monetisation: Mediavine
July 2020 - 5,000 visitors | Jul 2021 - 23,000 visitors | Jul 2022 - 1,680,000 visitors

https://www.musicgrotto.com/ ➝ Expired Domain: No | Display Monetisation: Adthrive
July 2020 - 42,400 visitors | July 2021 - 174,000 visitors | July 2022 - 1,054,000 million visitors

Some points;
  • These sites have a few hundred articles each (300-700 ish). They are both probably making 5-figures a month in $ - Grotto site low-to-mid, Recipe site mid-to-high.
  • If you want to follow this path then you will either have to 1) produce a decent amount of content yourself for your site or 2) have money to invest beforehand. Preferably the latter if you’re lazy.
  • You will need to invest in links. Music Grotto used HARO links for its exponential growth.
  • The truth is that if you’re looking for easy money then you won’t find it building content sites. Anyone that tells you it’s easy is probably trying to sell you something. You invest either time or money to get started
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Very impressive figures. All the revenue came from ads? Or from product sales/subscriptions etc?
 
Sartre said:
I would add petkeen.com to these. Very fast growth
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Yeah OP did a write up on them also. Crazy amount of content. As someone who does local it's amazing how much content is needed to get to these levels and how much traffic you actually need to earn decently. Local is such a whole different ballgame.
 
About: https://musicgrotto.com
The site has been active since 2018.
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I checked in the way back machine and it seems like it was a music site before as well but most possibly the owner might have changed or there might have been a total revamp of the website somewhere in late 2020.
 
dank_chocolate said:
I checked in the way back machine and it seems like it was a music site before as well but most possibly the owner might have changed or there might have been a total revamp of the website somewhere in late 2020.
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Yes, and they also have a few 301 redirects (if I can remember correctly).
 
Surfdbreak said:
Would you mind sharing more of your thoughts on this?
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Competition and required topical coverage is much, much less than a product review affiliate site. You can rank single-page lead generation sites still (not saying it's easy or advisable, but doable, which is near impossible with product review sites).

So, speaking purely from a content point of view, you need a lot less content. You do not need 300-700 articles to make 5 figures with lead gen. In fact if you did you'd likely cover a niche entirely and you could try and dominate nationally/in the major cities. In which case, depending on the niche, you'd probably be making 6 figures. The great thing is that there are so many ways to pivot with local that you could make 7 figures per month:

  • Take a revenue share of the generated business.
  • Setup a contracting crew to actually handle the work.
  • Subcontract out the work and take a markup or commission.
  • Etc.
Just as an example. One of the most lucrative local niches (very competitive, as you can imagine) is disaster restoration (extensive mold, water and fire damage, etc.). The money in this is nuts if you can rank. I read a press release from one of the major players (actual restoration company, not a lead generator) back from 2017 and in the NYC metro they were doing something crazy like 400 leads per day. You can make $200 for a restoration lead. So the skies the limit really, assuming you have the knowledge and experience and budget. You can still make good money in smaller 100-300k population areas also, where you might be able to rank for maybe <$1,000 or low thousands and bring in that per month.

Your conversion rate is higher on traffic with lead gen and your link building cost is lower. IMO, it's just a much better bang for the buck. It's near impossible to saturate also.

I've been doing lead generation for a few years now. But I've done product affiliate also, so I feel like I can compare both models objectively.
 
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