A $2,000 a year programmatic SEO site

3 years ago I built a test programmatic SEO site that took about 8 hours to build

- I found an untapped niche
- Scraped a bunch of data
- Wrote pSEO directory templates for it (basically madlibs)

It's made me $2000 a year ever since with a DR of 9 and just 119 links (all natural)

To make that much with the S&P 500 without selling shares I'd need 6 figures invested

This costs me $9 for the domain and $60/yr for hosting

The crazy part is this:

using AI tools I could build a better version of this in 30 minutes! Anybody could..

I have a bunch of these little experiments that for most "normal" people is life changing annual income, but compared to $100k MRR stories on here seem pointless

The boring, simple (and hidden) niches are out there if you know where to look

What you’re living on

Full S&P 500 total-return (price + dividends)	Typical rate	10% yr/yr long-term average	Lump-sum needed to spin off ≈ $2 k/yr
Dividends only (let your shares grow)	1.3% current yield	YCharts	≈ $155 k

$2 000 = 0.10 ≈ $20 000$

$2 000 = 0.013 ≈ $154 000$ (or about $110 k if yields revert to the 1.8% long-term average).

Remember: averages hide big year-to-year swings, so plan for bad years (cash buffer, diversification, etc.).

Sources: YCharts