6-Figure Niche Site in 2 Years With Zero SEO Experience

Grady Hudd’s Twitter bio reads…

I built a 6-figure niche website in 2 years with zero previous SEO experience.

He doesn’t reveal his site, but he shares a lot more about how he and a friend built it in a recent interview…

The main site that we have is around 2.5 years old. It’s got 215 posts on it. At its peak it was doing around 170,000 pageviews a month and bringing in around $9,000 AUD a month in profit.

$9000 AUD = $6000 USD approx 💰

About 80% of the revenue comes from display ads, and the rest from affiliate marketing. 

Grady’s site is in a seasonal niche, which apparently peaks in the summer. At the time of the interview he said the website was only earning around $2500 per month, but he expects it to rise again soon 📈

As for how they chose their niche…

You could call it a hobby niche… it’s something that both my mate and I were really kind of into and interested in… We’re certainly not experts, it’s something that we enjoy doing.

Grady didn’t have any experience with SEO before starting the site. Neither did his buddy. They learned on the fly how to get traffic from Google and other search engines.

One tactic they found useful for keyword research was Income School’s alphabet soup method 😎…

Grady’s advice for anyone thinking to start a niche site…

Just do it, just start one… give it a good crack for eight months and if you’re not seeing any movement, then maybe reposition. But just have a go.

It was around the 8 month mark that Grady’s site made its first dollar. They’d already published 80 articles by then.

So this kind of business definitely takes a while to get going 😰

Which is another reason to focus on a niche you’re interested in and enjoy researching and writing about. Otherwise it’s hard to stay motivated long enough to break through and see results.