He Turned A Dead Travel Blog Into A $10K/Month Business

Erik Aronesty doesn’t hunt for business ideas. He hunts for dead websites that people are still trying to visit.

He buys the expired domain, then builds the thing those visitors came for.

📝 His rule…

Build what people are already looking for and visiting. Something that’s broken. Then, fix it.

His best one is OnwardTravel – a domain that’s 26 years old and spent years as a travel blog before he picked it up 👀

He rebuilt it as a booking service for proof of onward travel, the return flight a border officer can demand before letting you into the country.

That one site is about 70% of his $15K/month – roughly $10K, at $16 a pop 🤑

He reckons the whole push cost him about $4K, half of that the domain. He’s still working his day job.

Get the rebuild wrong, though, and the inherited traffic evaporates 👇

Google will de-rank a site if you don’t build what people expect. You have to be careful about that.

Dig through ExpiredDomains.net, then run anything promising through the Wayback Machine to see what visitors used to come for 🔥

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