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by JacobSuperslav 2022 days ago
me and my partner own several "niche sites". over 100k income in 2020. monetized with Mediavine and Amazon affiliate, but we're moving in the direction of pure ads slowly - Amazon is getting worse every year. these are pretty much passive(in my case), my assistant handles all the content outsourcing, and I just check the analytics and make decisions once in a while.

I also sell premade specialized turnkey niche sites to people in the industry on places like /r/entrepreneur, /r/juststart, and my own site and this made me around 140k this year.

i also do some consulting and work with automation, but that's not really passive at all. i specialize in python and selenium.

I quit my 9-5 several years ago and retired to a very low cost of living area.
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xcubic 2020 days ago
Would you go into more detail about this?

How much do you invest in content? How do you pick niches?

What those the turnkey niches site have in terms of content, custom theme, domain?

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JacobSuperslav 2020 days ago
Niches - We work in some pretty broad major niches like "yoga". We just identify ones where the players are a few years behind and try to produce better content. My wife's main yoga blog is outranking yogajournal.com for many keywords, a major publication with a print magazine and a team of writers. You just need to be really good with SEO and know how to create great content -- and that's the really difficult part.

There's also not a whole lot of places you can learn that from :/ All the crap SEO gurus are selling is outdated as heck. Also they all sell you shortcuts - because shortcuts are sexy, but the reality is shortcuts don't work for marketing/content creation. I have literally never seen an SEO course/blog that I would approve of... In my case the knowledge came from working at a digital agency, and then building my own sites. The first 2 years were tough.

The turnkey sites offer a great .com domain in a niche that I think is good, a special theme created by me that is designed for speed/caching and displaying ads well. The content is just starter/filler so the site gets some traction in Google (we age the sites 1+ year before selling them). Unfortunately all sites are currently sold out (fortunately for me, I guess).

Ever want to talk/brainstorm, and I'm not looking to charge anything, send me an email to jacob@superslav.com

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