$1000/Month Website About Costco Hot Dogs?

🌭 CostcoHotdog.com is one of the stranger websites I’ve seen in a while.

The header reads…

THE GREATEST HOTDOG EVER
AN ODE TO THE COSTCO HOTDOG

Looks like it was started in 2012 and only has a handful of articles, the most recent from 2017. It’s monetized with display ads 🤑

Spencer Haws tweeted that the site gets 101,000 visitors from search engines each month (according to Ahrefs).

A response to that tweet…

I assume RPM is low but probably does about $1k/month

Could be more than that, given that Ubersuggest pegs their organic traffic at 374k/month 📈

And it could be less, given that SimilarWeb estimates their total traffic at 49k/month 📉

But it’s probably safe to say that it’s earning at least a few $100 per month… despite being a tiny website about Costco hotdogs that hasn’t been updated for 6 years 🤯

Doesn’t look like the toughest site to compete with either, so if you’re a fan of Costco’s hotdogs it might be worth quickly spinning up your own website on the topic.

But try not to use Costco in the domain. As a few responders to Spencer’s tweet pointed out, using someone else’s brand name like that is just asking for trouble 😱

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