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A comment on Ask HN: Anyone making passive (or not passive) income from a content site?.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone making passive (or not passive) income fro... by guohuang on Sunday September 10, 2017 @08:44PM (#15215089)
I am not sure if affiliate marketing count as a content site, you are always "selling" something directly or indirectly in order to make income, at http://toptalkedbooks.com, we present the best books to users from HN, stackoverflow and reddit. I think the bottom line is, give quality content to users, income will follow.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making passive (or not passive) income fro... by gillyb on Monday September 11, 2017 @04:43AM (#15216994)
Can you share at least a ballpark figure of how much you make from the affiliates on the site? And how many monthly users you have?
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making passive (or not passive) income fro... by guohuang on Monday September 11, 2017 @01:26PM (#15220282)
It really depends on the traffic, we have launched the site for only a month, we've got about 9k users so far (mid aug til now), revenue is about $200
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making passive (or not passive) income fro... by modernyogihippy on Sunday September 10, 2017 @09:48PM (#15215330)
Interesting site but how do you drive traffic?

There's no traditional blog or long-form content. The site is literally a compilation of books. Though it's useful, useful I don't see how users will find it online organically at least.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making passive (or not passive) income fro... by wingerlang on Monday September 11, 2017 @07:18AM (#15217616)
I guess one way it posting it on HN. This is probably the 10th time I've seen the page mentioned and I guess HN people are the exact audience for the site.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making passive (or not passive) income fro... by guohuang on Monday September 11, 2017 @12:01AM (#15215796)
Good question, we don't have an answer yet, we are still finding a better way to get more organic traffic.

Thanks for finding it useful.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making passive (or not passive) income fro... by znpy on Monday September 11, 2017 @11:26AM (#15219196)
Happy to see a book I linked the other day is now on that website.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making passive (or not passive) income fro... by guohuang on Monday September 11, 2017 @01:31PM (#15220321)
Happy to hear that, we just did another update this morning. :)
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