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$900+ in one month from a single site, with Bing traffic only

By Published 19 August 2026 Niche: Gutters Network: Lead Smart Inc

Everyone points at Google, because that is where the users are. But a search engine with a smaller audience can still pay you — especially when Google has stopped sending anything at all.

This is a summary of one of my sites. In Google it is close to dead. On Bing it has been performing well for months. Here is the whole thing, kept as short as I can make it.

Revenue, July 2026
$920
Total calls
211
Calls converted
37
Highest per lead
$50

Project overview

Project at a glance

Niche
Gutters
Domain type
Fresh — not expired, not deleted
Domain registered
2025
Domain name
Partial match domain (PMD)
Target market
Nationwide (USA)
Site structure
State pages → city pages, siloed
Network
Lead Smart Inc
Call tracking
Ringba
Traffic source
Bing organic
July 2026 revenue
$920
Bing Webmaster Tools search performance for July 2026: 331 total clicks, 10.3K impressions, 3.23 per cent average click-through rate.
Bing Webmaster Tools, 1–31 July 2026. 331 clicks from 10.3K impressions, a 3.23% click-through rate.

Google over the same month, for comparison:

Google Search Console for July 2026: 7 total clicks, 6.9K impressions, 0.1 per cent click-through rate, average position 67.
Google Search Console, same month. 7 clicks from 6.9K impressions, average position 67.

And the twelve-month view, which is the useful half of the story here — it shows how little Google was sending across the whole life of the site:

Google Search Console over 12 months: 37 total clicks from 131K impressions, 0 per cent click-through rate, average position 62.2.
Google Search Console, 12 months. 131K impressions returned 37 clicks — an average position of 62.2 is page six and beyond, where impressions never become visits.

The strategy I followed

I built a custom nationwide script with a page for every state and every city in the USA.

There is one page per city, and no separate service pages at all. The services are targeted on the city page itself. That keeps the page count tied to geography instead of multiplying it by every service variation.

Internal linking does the rest of the work. Every city is linked from its own state page, and cities under the same state are interlinked with each other. That is the silo.

Keyword tip: if you want a higher lead amount, target installation and replacement keywords. They pay noticeably better than general gutter queries. The highest single lead on this project paid $50.

What to know about Bing before you try this

Bing does not index as fast as Google. You have to be patient. It can take days, and sometimes a few weeks, before Bing starts indexing your site properly. Once it starts, you will begin seeing results.

The other half of that is speed. Keep the site loading fast. A slow site will not give you a single call even when it is getting clicks. Use good hosting — this is not the place to save money.

Revenue

211 calls in the month, 37 of them converted, $920 in revenue through Lead Smart Inc and tracked in Ringba. All of it from a site that Google had effectively stopped sending traffic to.

Ringba reporting for July 2026: 211 incoming calls, 169 completed, 37 converted, revenue of $920.01 at $5.44 revenue per call.
Ringba, 1–31 July 2026. 211 calls in, 169 connected, 37 converted, $920.01 at $5.44 per call.

Final thoughts

Start with whatever knowledge you already have, and build a script you can deploy against niches you are interested in or that have real earning potential. I used ChatGPT and Claude Code to write the custom scripts for these projects, so the build itself is no longer the barrier it used to be.

What to take from this one

  • A site that has died in Google is not automatically a dead project — check Bing before you write it off.
  • City pages that carry the services beat separate service pages for this kind of nationwide build.
  • Installation and replacement intent pays more than generic niche terms.
  • Give Bing weeks, not days, and do not launch on slow hosting.

I hope this was useful. The next case study covers a different site and a different niche.

Mohsin Momin

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Mohsin Momin

Pay-per-call affiliate and SEO

Builds and ranks pay-per-call sites, then writes up what worked and what the numbers actually were.

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