Niche sites earning from sold text links
Runs two small sites that earn mostly by selling text links through a link marketplace, plus some AdSense.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Content and media84% surex
- Earns from
- AdsLow confidence52% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- $100 to $1kLow confidence57% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Hands-off81% surex
- Where
- Online99% surex
- Coding
- No coding needed87% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by damoncali in “Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?”, March 23, 2011
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