5 Directories Under a Year Old That Are Already Making Money
Frey Chu
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Five directories under a year old that are already monetized through display ads on Mediavine and Raptive: a rest area finder, a peptide clinic directory, a bar trivia directory, a second chance apartments site and an F1 driver salaries site. I go through each one in Ahrefs, what it ranks for, how it got there, and what you can take from it for your own directory.
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Timestamps
00:33 How long it takes to monetize a directory (and why content beats lead gen)
01:40 restareasnearme.com: a DR 0 site ranking for a 69,000-search keyword
04:25 What a Mediavine Journey site actually earns (about $200 a month)
04:57 mypeptidematch.com: 28,000 visitors seven months in
06:16 The peptide units converter: boring calculators beat directory pages
07:05 Branded keywords: the Friday Plans listing page and its 50,000 searches
09:10 trivianearme.net: the sourcing problem AI coding solved
10:25 Pop culture trivia at KD 0, and the blog articles that get you into an ad network
11:27 A DR 65 link from visitwichita.com (worth $500 to $1,000 if you had to buy it)
13:26 secondchanceaparts.com: a bad directory that still got into Mediavine
15:08 How an exact-match domain gets past Zillow, Redfin and Trulia
16:36 The lesson: enter a saturated niche through one underserved keyword
17:26 f1salaries.com: 12.8K visitors on Raptive at 10 months
19:21 Adjacent niches: other sports, celebrities, cricket
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Iβve been seeing a few of these local tourist travel directories popping up lately. I think it could be cool to do a video covering a few of them and highlighting what they offer.
5 Directories Under a Year Old That Are Already Making Money
Frey Chu
18,286 views
Five directories under a year old that are already monetized through display ads on Mediavine and Raptive: a rest area finder, a peptide clinic directory, a bar trivia directory, a second chance apartments site and an F1 driver salaries site. I go through each one in Ahrefs, what it ranks for, how it got there, and what you can take from it for your own directory.
π Link Outreach on Autopilot: https://www.heylinks.ai/
π’ Join SYD Pro: https://shipyourdirectory.com/
π’ Join SYD Free Community: https://ship-your-directory.circle.so/
βοΈ Subscribe to SYD Newsletter: https://shipyourdirectory.kit.com
π Follow me on π @freychu
Timestamps
00:33 How long it takes to monetize a directory (and why content beats lead gen)
01:40 restareasnearme.com: a DR 0 site ranking for a 69,000-search keyword
04:25 What a Mediavine Journey site actually earns (about $200 a month)
04:57 mypeptidematch.com: 28,000 visitors seven months in
06:16 The peptide units converter: boring calculators beat directory pages
07:05 Branded keywords: the Friday Plans listing page and its 50,000 searches
09:10 trivianearme.net: the sourcing problem AI coding solved
10:25 Pop culture trivia at KD 0, and the blog articles that get you into an ad network
11:27 A DR 65 link from visitwichita.com (worth $500 to $1,000 if you had to buy it)
13:26 secondchanceaparts.com: a bad directory that still got into Mediavine
15:08 How an exact-match domain gets past Zillow, Redfin and Trulia
16:36 The lesson: enter a saturated niche through one underserved keyword
17:26 f1salaries.com: 12.8K visitors on Raptive at 10 months
19:21 Adjacent niches: other sports, celebrities, cricket