The website isn't the money maker.<p>It's the backlinks that allow it to rank. Getting them requires a lot of knowledge & work, like publishing articles on Medium or receiving links on HN.<p>Unsurprisingly, it looks like the creator is an SEO-expert with years of experience and dozens of projects.
This is what happens when a web site, or any business, is actually useful for visitors. Too many sites now only focus on selling someone else's product through marketing. This site focuses on being helpful.
Look, I'm no businessman, but clearly if you manage to attract the right audience and find a way to get paid, you make money.<p>People asking for disk prices probably have looser standards in terms of UX. That's why it works. Backlinks and an audience who actually doesn't care about UX that much. Doing the same stuff in the fashion industry may not work.
I'm a bit surprised Amazon allowed this page to do affiliate marketing like this. I had a similar page but much more generalized to laptops and they told me my site had to have some other content: it couldn't just exist to promote the amazon products. If they've changed their stance on this then great!
Sidenotes:<p>I'm a huge fan of this type of well-done advanced filtering-faceting. Is there a standard/popular library/tool for this?<p>It's a shame the link to the parent organization on <a href="https://diskprices.com/faq.html" rel="nofollow">https://diskprices.com/faq.html</a> is broken. I'd love to see more sites in this style.
Honestly that site has great UX/UI. Mobile view could be improved but it doesn’t have any distractions and a clear user interface with all the relevant information, so it’s ahead of most over designed “beautiful” websites.
<i>This site is a good example of a simple, ethical affilate marketing site.</i><p>Of course, as other posters have alluded to, setting up a site like this does not just involve creating the web page itself -- it also necessarily would involve SEO and backlinks, etc., etc.<p>Again, as other posters have alluded to.<p>But that being said -- this web page still ranks pretty high in my book for simplicity (and elegance from that simplicity), in a money-making website.<p>It could be argued, successfully, that any website these days, any website at all -- would need visitors -- and if those visitors aren't coming from social media and/or Google ads -- then getting visitors there would necessarily have to involve SEO and backlinks.<p>Unless of course, you have some other creative and/or good way to get visitors to your website...<p>So, an excellent example of what a simple website can do -- <i>if</i>, <i>if and only if</i> you can solve the problem of getting visitors to your website, by one or more ways...
The author's description of diskprices.com:<p>> He created a website that looks like it was made in HTML with total disrespect for the user experience [...]<p>As I try to read more of the post:<p>> Create an account to read the full story.<p>> The author made this story available to Medium members only. If you’re new to Medium, create a new account to read this story on us.<p>Please tell me more about this "user experience" and "disrespect".
Archived version of article: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231224124818/https://medium.com/@petervoica/how-an-ugly-single-page-website-makes-5-000-a-month-with-affiliate-marketing-c4974a8d1d69" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20231224124818/https://medium.co...</a><p>The website making $5k/month: <a href="https://diskprices.com/" rel="nofollow">https://diskprices.com/</a>
I assume this is using some kind of amazon pricing API under the hood. Does anyone know how to get access to that kind of API without already being a successful affiliate?
Interesting that this site makes money despite pcpartpicker existing. Gives me hope that there are a bunch of opportunities to build something like this for other hobbies.
This is interesting to me because I recently made a website for a niche type of product and was denied Amazon Affiliate.<p>“We want an associate site to be one that adds value to the customer by giving them insight on a subject or product they might not get easily.”<p>Listing all of the products available (Amazon and elsewhere) in one place (there are like 20 total ) so a shopper could compare features seemed liked it would suffice.<p>Perhaps I should reformat the website to be like Diskprices and try again.
I don't think all that info is available via Amazon's API so the site owner must be scraping Amazon page listings. Surely this isn't allowed? What am I missing?
Yet another example that being "ugly" has little impact on utility. This looks right in line (if on a smaller scale) with the masterpiece that is McMaster-Carr <a href="https://mcmaster.com/" rel="nofollow">https://mcmaster.com/</a>
Brilliant, the site does what I do myself every time I research something to buy. Basically a spreadsheet, where I gather all the data points myself, it's tiresome. Capitalism to work, it's supposed to be done by rational agents. This removes all the emotionality from choosing a product.
I don't know what's going on here but Amazon normally shuts stuff like this down in 1 second because you're not allowed to make "affiliate sites with no other content" like much of this space.<p>Really not applicable for anyone else than this dude.