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How do you bring traffic to your site?
At first I did lots of SEO, good page titles, meta tags, links from other sites. It brought modest traffic. Since then I haven't done much but the traffic keeps growing. Part of the explanation is that is has a pretty long tail.
I'm making negative 15 USD/month hosting two side projects: http://srctree.net - A pastebin with version control http://blocksim.net - A poor man's online simulink-like thingy I am aware that there is a _lot_ of room for improvement in both services, but the fact that nobody uses it at all is not very motivational.
Same here for me with http://timebot.io/ I just have no clue how to go about getting customers.
I'm making negative 15 USD/month hosting two side projects: http://srctree.net - A pastebin with version control http://blocksim.net - A poor man's online simulink-like thingy I am aware that there is a _lot_ of room for improvement in both services, but the fact that nobody uses it at all is not very motivational.
Same here for me with http://timebot.io/ I just have no clue how to go about getting customers.
The Random Amazon Product Generator brings in enough for a small book purchase every few weeks. It's still mostly for my own amusement. ( http://thanland.com/projects/random-amazon/ )
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Oh wow, this looks like exactly what I've been looking for for my not-so-passive income project, textbooksplease.com, for tracking conversions. ...any chance of an HN discount? :D
Hi Christian - textbooksplease looks great. nice job! I was wondering: 1 - how do you monetize? 2 - how does the post-stickers-get-tshirt marketing channel perform (and how do you know, as it's hard to track..) cheers!
1. Affiliate links. Each time someone buys a book through my site, I make ~5% from the retailer.
2. You know, not very well, but I think its a cool perk to give to customers you interact with ("glad I fixed your issue - want some free stickers?"). My biggest ROI to date is from google adwords, but they're outrageously expensive, so I'm going to be focusing on natural SEO for this next semester.
I run Built With Bootstrap ( http://builtwithbootstrap.com ). It's making 4 figures a month at the moment. It's mostly passive income as I spend no more than a few hours per week actually working on the site. Though I spend considerably more monitoring the stats and feeds etc etc My biggest win with this site is the extremely low cost to run it - something I want to talk about more if anyone's interested. My only rea…