How Bob Vila attracts 14.5M monthly visitors [+ his 'Best of' money page template]

Did you know that one of the biggest content affiliate sites in the world is named after 80s-90s home improvement TV host Bob Vila?

It's true. And more successfully than sites that use the brands of people like Oprah and Martha Stewart.

According to Semrush, the site is number 309 among the top organic sites worldwide.

It's been steadily growing over the years, and as of July 2022, it receives at least 14.5 million organic visitors a month (from both Ahrefs and Semrush).

So we decided to dig in to see what exactly they were doing and what tips we can learn from their success.

Check out some helpful takeaways from the site


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Long time SEO and affiliate expert Stephen Hockman is giving Niche Pursuits readers a special $196 discount off his complete SEO bundle.

The 3-in-1 SEO course bundle includes:

  • 100+ Niche Site Ideas
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These are the same strategies and tactics he's used to have 6-figure exits and run his $20,000 a month portfolio solo.

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Some new sites available on Motion Invest

Closing in on 2 years old, this food site already has 905 posts and is looking for a new owner to take it to the next level.

The site ranks for nearly 7k keywords and the top 5 pages only account for 7% of traffic. Plus the site has an average time on page over 5 minutes. With all this and its potential to improve optimization and monetization further this could be a good opportunity for the right owner.

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This 2 year old kayak niche site has just been added to the marketplace.

Over 75% of its traffic comes from the US and the site has 73 posts live. There's a lot of room to improve its optimization and monetization though with many Amazon links missing their affiliate tags.

Get more details here


A 2 year and 7 month old bowling site is new on the marketplace.

The site already ranks for nearly 1,500 keywords including some with good buyer intent. It has 212 posts live and over 90% of its traffic comes organically. This could be an interesting niche.

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This 6 month old gaming site already has 216 posts live on the site bringing in nearly 61,000 monthly visitors.

95% of its traffic comes organically and the current owner only spends 30 minutes per day on the site. The site is currently monetized with Ezoic and there is a lot of room to expand this.

Get more details here


How ThoughtCo. Attracts 13.5M Visitors a Month to Dominate the Education Niche

ThoughtCo is owned by the digital media giant Dotdash Meredith (formerly About.com) and is the largest educational resource on the web today.

How did ThoughtCo. become such a powerhouse in the world of online education? We created this site breakdown to find out!

Find out more about this amazing site here


Internal Link Audit: 4 Tools to Help You Spread Out Your Link Juice

If you take the time to create a robust website, you want to make sure that it can rank with search engines, namely Google. Many theories and strategies exist for improving your ranking in the SERPs, and a good internal linking strategy is one of them.

The question is, how can you conduct a thorough internal link audit to see where you can improve? Well we look at 4 tools to take care of this for you!

Get your internal link audit handled here


15 of The Best Google Keyword Rank Checkers To Help Track Your RESULTS

Critical to all SEOs, affiliate marketers, and anyone else running a website is the tracking of data. You can’t improve what you aren’t measuring.

To help you better check and track keywords, we created a list of the top Google keyword rank checkers on the market.

Check them out here


39 of the Best Automotive Affiliate Programs To Speed Up Your Earnings

With over two hundred million vehicles on the road in the United States alone, the automotive industry and related services can be a gold mine for niche and authority websites.

So check out the top automotive affiliate programs to help you monetize your website if you're in this group.

Get the full list here


Thanks for reading!

Spencer

P.S.

You Might Want to Check These Out

  • Link Whisper: An easy to use Wordpress plugin that speeds up the internal linking process to give your site its needed boost!
  • SurferSEO: An on page SEO tool that helps you write or update your content to rank higher in Google's search results.
  • Semrush: An SEO marketing tool with over 50 different features to help you boost your content and site's overall success.

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