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by swimminginlove 1916 days ago
Congrats on the launch!

Just out of curiosity

How much are you making from the Amazon affiliate program? Also, how do you plan to get people onto the site?

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Thanks! The site's been up for a few months now, so it's been making a bit of coin. I realized that long-tail SEO works really well for user acquisition, because there is a lot of content that can be created with the data. I wrote a blog post about how it's been working for me: https://tavis.cc/long-tail-seo/

Transparently, the site is close to 50K visitors/month now, and resulting in about $10/1K visitors (i.e. $500/month).

So to grow revenue, I need to figure out a combination of increasing SEO performance and monetization, which I guess would be better content (SEO), ads ($$), better affiliate deals ($$), and maybe a subscription of some sort ($$).

The bigger plan is to use the technology we're building for https://reviewr.ai and create a much better version of RecoRank.