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Case Study #1
$900+ in one month from a single site, with Bing traffic only
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
Google over the same month, for comparison:
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:
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.
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.
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