Hello. I'm the only employee of my small company in a large American city. I have a website and all the social media platforms. I want more people to come to my website. How do I do that? Money, specifically spending it, is not so much the focus. The focus is it working, and, in second place, not being taken advantage of. With AI hitting, I am reading that SEO needs to be specifically tailored with that in mind; plus the rate at which the game is changing due to AI. Generally speaking, I don't like the subscription model of things. Whether it's $200 a month to cut my lawn, or $1000 a month to do my books, or whatever. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind paying, but if the lawn is covered in snow for half the year, why am I paying you monthly to cut it? Ditto, everything else. If work is slow and I have barely any books to keep for months at a time, why am I paying? "But, but, but sir, you signed an agreement on annual terms, blah, blah, blah." I have read tha...
Over the past few months, I’ve built a collection of simple static web tools, content archives, and utility sites. I’m currently looking to step up their UI/UX, drive actual traffic, and figure out realistic monetization routes for small-scale projects like these. Here are a few examples of what I’m working with: [Site 1 Name]: [https://speculativenaturalist.pages.dev/] [Site 2 Name]: [https://thoughtarchive-65m.pages.dev/](https://thoughtarchive-65m.pages.dev/) [Site 3 Name]: [https://hardwarecheck.pages.dev/](https://hardwarecheck.pages.dev/) [Site 4 Name]: [https://devcanvasprivacy-studio.pages.dev/](https://devcanvasprivacy-studio.pages.dev/) [Site 5 Name]: [https://mundanearchive.pages.dev/](https://mundanearchive.pages.dev/) Where I’m stuck: Traffic & SEO: Static .pages.dev sites are quick to deploy, but what are the best zero-budget ways to start getting steady organic traffic for niche tools/archives? Monetization Options: Aside from basic display ads (l...