Ugly One Page Affiliate Website = $5000/Month

Jeremy Grosser built DiskPrices.com, an extremely simple one-page site with up-to-date prices of hard drives for sale on Amazon.

According to a recent profile, the site makes $5000/month via the Amazon affiliate program 🤑

Jeremy writes…

Back in 2015, I wanted to build a NAS [Network-attached storage] for backups at home.

I found the shopping experience for hard drives on Amazon extremely frustrating. You can only view 10 search results at a time. The first dozen results are sponsored listings.

So…

I decided to write a Python script to find all of the hard drives on Amazon, figure out their capacity, then sort by price per GB.

To do this 👇

You need an access key to use the API which is only available through the Amazon Affiliates program. So I signed up.

But…

Amazon won’t give new affiliates access to the Product Advertising API until they’ve referred at least three sales.

So my Python script turned into diskprices.com. I built a list of hard drives in a spreadsheet and sorted them by price per GB.

A few people clicked my links. Armed with an API key, I was able to programmatically generate the listing and keep it up to date.

The site now gets ~80,000 visits per month (source) and ranks for keywords like…

• hard drive prices
• disk prices
• hard drive deals

📝 Jeremy writes…

People link to diskprices.com from blogs, reddit, hacker news, and other forums pretty regularly, which has helped the search ranking.

I’m not a fan of paid ads or SEO tricks, so I just let things happen organically.

I suspect there could be opportunities to create other sites along these lines.

Maybe one for cameras, smartphones, or some other high-priced electronics? 🤔

The coding side of things would be much easier nowadays with the help of ChatGPT.

But be aware: Jeremy recently had an issue with Amazon Australia…

• Your Amazon Affiliate Account has been closed

Fortunately that got resolved, but it highlights the risk of depending so heavily on one affiliate program 😕

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