I Built a Rank and Rent Style Directory from Scratch with Wordpress
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I once made $500 in 5 days by renting out my Discoverplasma.com directory to a random guy who wanted plasma leads. That experience got me thinking about the rank and rent model and how it might work inside a directory, so I gave it a try on Wordpress. Enjoy!
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Extra Footage
Designing GD Archive, GD Archive Item, GD Single: https://riverside.com/dashboard/edito...
Designing home page: https://riverside.com/dashboard/edito...
Homepage internal links + footer: https://riverside.com/dashboard/studi...
Timestamps
02:15 My directory niche, idea validation & game plan
10:19 Buying my domain, hosting and installing Wordpress
13:11 Scraping my directory data
16:56 Cleaning my directory data
27:03 Enriching my directory data
40:49 Setting up my Wordpress website
50:13 Restructuring my CSV for Geodirectory's Import function
1:13:19 Fixing Permalinks & Designing the GD single, GD archive and GD archive item
1:16:26 Reviewing my finished re-designs
1:23:11 Generating blogs with claude code