Project Description
This personal project, initiated in 2020, involved developing a profitable movies website by scraping data from IMDB using the OMDb API. Over 130,000 movies and TV series were integrated into the website’s database.
The primary goal was to achieve high organic visibility through SEO, leveraging minimal investment—total expenses amounted to approximately $40 for backlinks, plus domain and hosting costs.
SEO Services Provided
- Technical SEO Service: Conducted a comprehensive audit, resolved indexing issues, and optimized the website for search engine crawling and indexing.
- Content Development: Populated the site with extensive movie and TV series data, enhancing content relevance and depth.
- Off-Page SEO Service: Acquired niche-relevant backlinks with a modest budget of $40, significantly boosting domain authority.
- Monetization Strategy: Implemented popunder ads and partnered with a media-center affiliate network tailored for movie websites.
Results
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Generated substantial revenue through popunder ads and affiliate marketing, making it one of the most profitable personal projects of the year.
- Achieved 366,000 organic clicks and 4.25M impressions (Jan–Aug 2020).
- Average position: 11, Average CTR: 8.6%.
- Organic traffic constituted a significant portion of the user base, with 285,147 users from organic search out of 386,219 total users (73.8%).