Ch. 7: What Year One Actually Cost Me — Every Line People ask if niche sites are "passive." Here's my first year on a gardening-tools site, full ledger: — Domain + hosting (Cloudways): $312 — Content …
Ch. 5: $6,400 in One Month — But Look at the Mix Month 22 on my home-office niche site: $6,400 total. I post the breakdown because the headline number lies. — Display ads (Mediavine): $2,950 on a $34 …
Ch. 4: The Update Wiped 60%, and I Did the Opposite of Panic My recipe site was doing $3,100/mo on 71,000 sessions. A March core update took it to $1,240 in nine days. I almost listed it on a marketpl…
Ch. 3: I Published 40 Posts in 30 Days. Here's What Broke. I ran a velocity experiment on an air-purifier site: 40 posts in 30 days, all human-edited, ~1,400 words each. Cost: $1,720 in writing. The t…
Ch. 2: My First Dollar Took 84 Days My pressure-canning site sat at zero revenue for nearly three months and I checked Analytics like a man waiting on test results. First commission: $4.20 on a $140 c…
Ch. 1: The $0 Niche Nobody Wanted I bought a dropped domain for $11 because it had 4 referring domains pointing at a dead dehumidifier blog. Everyone said appliance reviews were saturated. I rebuilt 1…
