I use the site hostadvice.com quite a bit to quickly determine where a website is being hosted. It’s not perfect but it’s a nice thing to have in your back pocket.
(Side note: I just submitted my own business to their site in the hopes of getting a backlink which would be extremely useful – might need to look up other lists of hosts and submit myself)
I was using it today and I realized how brilliant of a business strategy it is.
Basically they provide a simple, free tool (the ability to check who hosts a website) and then over additional information and affiliate links off of that.
They get tons of traffic and links with their tool, which helps them also rank highly for other hosting-related keywords.
They don’t really have customers at all. They just sell other people’s products and profit from that.
It’s brilliant!
I would love to do something like that. Build some kind of basic tool that does something people really want, and then build a whole affiliate marketing site off of it.
It checks all of the boxes of my dream job: no sales, no clients, no boss, no employees (potentially), no schedule, and fully remote.
The site is basically a glorified online directory, but with this tool it becomes quite legitimate.
I don’t currently have any ideas of what I could do along those lines but I should keep my eyes peeled for anything like that, and certainly start thinking about what I might be able to put together along those same lines.