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03-06-2018, 08:59 PM
I have a niche site started in October doing 200-300 USD. Not much promotion at all except finding a hole in the market and writing good content. I think it soon will have earned enough to warrant the time spent, then it will be nice hourly wage from there. It has a limited growth potential though.
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03-07-2018, 06:52 AM
I have an idea for a hustle that would require a high quality web site with interactive features. I need the customers to be able to submit/send files to me. Also need the website to be able to accept orders and process payments.
I'm successful blue collar but nearly computer illiterate. I know very little. So my basic questions are:
How hard is it to learn to build a website like that? Like I said, right now I wouldn't even know where to start, but I'm smart enough to learn anything.
Are there programs available to help me build a website that complex?
Roughly how much would it cost to have someone build a website like that for me?
* I know this is a little off topic. I didn't think it was worth starting a new thread and it sounds like you guys know what your talking about.
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03-07-2018, 08:17 AM
Pretty simple. Basic WordPress site + a checkout service like Stripe or PayPal. You could learn how to do most of it with YouTube.
As far as price, you'd probably be able to hire a Filipino or Indian remote worker for cheap to do something that basic. Of course, that cheap price may come with it's own set of headaches.
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04-20-2018, 02:33 AM
What do you think of adding curated content to a niche website and monetizing the comment/summary section with affiliate links?
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04-20-2018, 12:32 PM
How would you guys make money off of a general travel site? I'm thinking of documenting my travels through the Middle East with detailed guides on every place I visited. I guess I could advertise certain products, tours, hotels, and companies and make money off of affiliate marketing that way. Not sure how else to go about it.
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04-20-2018, 01:06 PM
Understood. I can see this working, but it would be hard to rank. Google is likely to give more love to the original.
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05-22-2018, 04:11 AM
Hoping someone knows how to see who linked to you from Facebook.
I have a short-term traffic spike (300 visitors in 2 days) to a rather unpopular article in the last two days and I can see in my analytics that almot all traffic is coming from Facebook. So I'm guessing someone must've shared it on their page or linked to it.
My question: can I somehow find out where?
Jetpack and GA just gives you Facebook as a source but not the exact link where the traffic came from. Or I don't know how to find it. I tried googling for a solution but couldn't come up with anything that made sense. Searched for it on FB myself but also no results.
Cheers.
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05-23-2018, 11:28 AM
Superb post! Everything was in detail! Now I am browsing your sites! (You can check from Google Analytics! Ha! Ha! )
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06-07-2018, 01:31 AM
I'm beginning to toy with doing major email lead efforts on my niche sites.
Loading up the auto-responder (I have hundreds of emails I've written over the past years) and just selling the same products that I do on the site as is.
I'll update this if it's successful.
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06-18-2018, 02:06 PM
I spun up a new site last week and started hitting ranking within a week of posting.
May be some new Google voodoo, although admittedly it was really low competition. Still, nice to know it can be done.
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08-28-2018, 09:35 AM
Hey guys,
So what do you do when your website is done? Do you do any marketing like payed ads or something? Or will the site simply grow by itself if the content and seo is good enough?