Why We're Doing This in Public
Most people building niche sites keep everything private. The traffic numbers, the affiliate earnings, the failed experiments — none of it gets shared until the site sells for a clean multiple and the builder writes a victory lap post about how easy it was.
That's not useful to anyone. The honest version of niche site building involves months of zero traffic, rejected affiliate applications, content that doesn't rank, and constant second-guessing. We're documenting all of it — the good months and the flat ones — because that's what actually helps people understand whether this is something worth doing.
There's also a practical reason: transparency builds trust. When we eventually list these sites for sale, a buyer can look at the full build history and know exactly what they're getting. No gaps, no mystery traffic spikes, no suddenly-discovered-backlink-profiles. Just a clean record of how the site was built from day one.
The model in one sentence: Build niche authority sites from zero using organic content and SEO, monetize through affiliate programs, document everything publicly, and sell the sites as digital assets once they reach consistent revenue.
The Two Sites
Both sites launched in March 2026. Both are live, indexed by Google, and in active content growth. Here's the snapshot on each:
An NQ and MNQ futures day trading authority site. Covers day type classification, open range breakout strategies, VWAP frameworks, prop firm reviews, and broker comparisons. Audience is retail futures traders — specifically people trading the Nasdaq on prop firm accounts.
A credit repair authority site. Covers disputing errors, raising scores fast, secured cards, credit builder loans, and comparisons of credit repair services. Audience is people with damaged or nonexistent credit who want practical, honest guidance — not paid-to-say-it affiliate fluff.
Why These Two Niches
Both niches were chosen against the same criteria:
- Real search volume. People are actively searching for answers in both spaces every day. NQ futures trading and credit repair are not niche in the sense of obscure — they're niche in the sense of specific.
- Affiliate monetization without pay-to-play. Both niches have legitimate affiliate programs that are free to join. We refused any program that charges a fee to participate — a line we're not crossing regardless of commission rate.
- Content that doesn't require a license. We're not giving financial advice or legal advice. We're documenting trading frameworks and explaining credit mechanics. There's a clear difference and we stay on the right side of it.
- Different enough to be interesting. A futures trading site and a credit repair site attract completely different audiences with completely different monetization paths. Watching the same SEO and content system applied to two different niches is more useful than watching it applied twice to the same one.
The Monetization Plan
Comborb monetizes through trading tool affiliates — TradingView (active, aff_id=164779) and TradeSyncer (active, ref=TS9DCF6292). Prop firm affiliate approvals are pending. Long term, the site could support a paid trading journal or course, but we're not building products until the traffic warrants it.
Credit Score Reset monetizes through credit repair service affiliates (Credit Saint, Lexington Law comparisons), secured card affiliate programs through major card issuers, and credit builder loan programs like Self. We applied to Impact.com as a publisher — free on the publisher side — which gives access to dozens of financial brands running programs through the network.
Neither site runs paid ads to drive traffic. Everything is organic. If a page can't rank without spending money to promote it, we reconsider whether we should have written it.
The Content Strategy
Both sites follow the same structure: one page per topic, written for a specific search query, with clear affiliate placement where it makes sense. No stuffing links into every paragraph. No writing articles just to have articles. Every piece of content has a reason to exist — either it targets a real search query with real volume, or it builds topical authority around a topic that does.
We're publishing on both sites concurrently rather than finishing one before starting the other. The goal is 2-3 new articles per site per month at minimum. Traffic reports will show whether that pace is sufficient or needs to increase.
What Success Looks Like
Twelve months from now, the goal is consistent affiliate revenue on both sites — not life-changing money, but enough to demonstrate real monetization. A site generating $500-1,000/month consistently is typically valued at $15,000-$40,000 on Flippa or Empire Flippers at current multiples. That's the target: build the asset, document the process, sell when the multiple makes sense.
We'll publish a traffic report every month. When there's nothing worth reporting we'll say so. When something works we'll explain exactly what and why. Everything in public.