How To Start A Profitable Local News Website
I was recently reading a Guardian news article bemoaning the death of local journalism: Small-town Alaskan newspaper seeks new owner. Price: $0 It’s a now-familiar trope: local news is unsustainably unprofitable. It made me think. Is it really? I don’t think it has to be. The problem with a lot of these local news agencies […]
Continue readingRanking For Random Dates In Time
In the past, I’ve written about a variety of niches that are somewhat strange and obscure. These include expired food searches, ranking for random people’s names, ranking for license plates, and ranking for phone numbers. In this niche report, I’m going to analyze sites that rank for dates and time. There are searches for literally […]
Continue readingThe 25+ Best Insurance Affiliate Programs | How To Monetize Them
The international insurance market is a trillion-dollar industry (Source). Selecting the right coverage can be incredibly complex for buyers, with a range of different providers offering a variety of membership levels. On the provider side, when you sign up someone for an insurance plan, they rarely leave it. Where I live, in fact, our beneficent […]
Continue readingRanking For TV Episodes: How To Make A Living Writing About Reality TV
Recently I’ve been binge-watching Kitchen Nightmares on YouTube. It’s one of my favorite shows. Gordon Ramsay, the famous British chef, tours failing restaurants in the United States and the United Kingdom, and conducts a rapid-fire intervention with outrageous and hilarious results. After every episode, I look up the restaurant online to see what happened […]
Continue readingHow To Start A Book Blog That Makes Money
If you are thinking about starting a book blog, I’m going to give you some practical advice and show you what the big sites are doing to succeed and make big money. (For credibility’s sake: my portfolio of websites is making over $65,000 a month.) A lot of the content out there demonstrating how […]
Continue readingRanking For Colors: Cool Color Wheel Cash
When I first started building websites, I was obsessed with emulating what the pros were doing. With good reason. I had learned early on that I had zero design instinct. Some of my early websites were ghastly. I wish I had saved screenshots. Utterly abysmal. Which is why I imitated what better-looking authority sites […]
Continue readingScrabble SEO: Ranking For Auto-Generated Anagrams
There’s a board game cafe in my Brooklyn neighborhood. Whenever I walk by late at night it’s packed full of Dungeons & Dragon types obsessing over make-believe worlds: I’ve never been into board games. I find them stultifyingly dull. Though I did love the card game, Uno… Nevertheless, I can’t resist writing about this […]
Continue readingHow PissedConsumer.Com Taps Customer Outrage for 7 Figure Ad Profits
Has a business ever made you blind with fury? Maybe you were deceptively billed. Maybe they refused you a refund. Or perhaps their wireless coverage is just iffy: Nowadays when consumers get angry, many resort to the internet to channel their rage anonymously. The website I’m profiling today warehouses that anger, slaps some AdSense […]
Continue readingCemetery SEO: How FindAGrave.com Makes Millions From Ads In Morbid Organic Search
How’s this for a niche: death? Talk about unsexy… I generally embrace boring and weird niches, but this next niche goes a bit too far, even for me. Not that I wouldn’t love to own this particular website and its absolutely insane rankings, but this is probably the most morbid niche I’ve come across. […]
Continue readingHow Instagram Scraper Sites Automate 7 Figure Ad Profits
When I started building affiliate marketing websites back in 2015, I was pretty clueless. I built out a seat cushion review website (weird niche) using the cheapest writer I could find on Upwork. I supplemented his writing by using a WordPress scraping tool to import thousands of Amazon products into my site. All of […]
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