Google Shutting Down 25 Million Websites = Business Opportunity

💬 Fery Kaszoni tweets…

Google is shutting down tens of millions of small business sites from March.

All subdomains hosted on their . business . site domain will be removed next month.

If you’re not aware, this is Google’s free service used by over 25M sites (from search results).

👉 Official announcement about the shutdown.

Fery lays down a “multimillion dollar idea,” based on the assumption that these businesses will be eager for a new website solution…

Use scrapers to extract all [.business.site] websites from Google search results…

Now use new scraper rules to visit each website, and create a perfect clone of the current website on your server…

Now buy a domain name such as business . inc or something generic…

Rent this clone under a subdomain for $5 a month…

He adds…

If you sell this to 20K website owners, you’ll make $100,000 per month just by hosting their website.

Remember, there will be 20 million desperate website owners next month with their website shut down, who will need a solution.

Fery’s idea is ambitious 💪

But you could also do something on a much smaller scale here and earn good money.

For example, you could find .business.site websites in an industry you’re familiar with and reach out to those site owners 🧐

Start by putting this in Google search…

• site:*.business.site [industry or keyword]

I see more than 30,000 results when I use this search…

• site:*.business.site carpentry

Try that for a niche or industry you’re interested in, then check out the sites and find their contact info. 

Next: reach out and ask them if they need help moving their site elsewhere. If yes, you could build it on a service like Carrd, which costs only ~$50/year to host 25 sites 😎

Charge nothing for the setup but then a few $$ per month/year for hosting and maintenance.

With that, you could have a thriving business on your hands 👍

Another idea here: scrape the contact info for these sites and sell access to local agencies or web developers.

Let me know if you give any of those ideas a try. I’d love to hear how it turns out.

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