😲 A Different Success Story

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Shawna Newman
August 07, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

I didn’t intend to be sending out another niche site success story, but here we are.

Last night I was on Facebook and saw someone selling a site and I could not believe the price ($999,000).

Then I clicked on the Flippa listing and was even more surprised.

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I’ll skip right to the point here - this site managed to escape HCU.

It’s a 12-yr-old food blog and it’s still getting a bunch of traffic from Google. Yes, it has a high DR but that hasn’t insulated all the big authority sites from HCU.

Here’s what the seller said about it on Facebook: Started in 2012, over 1,400 recipes, average 292k users monthly (487k views monthly)

Honestly, I don’t know what this site owner did to continue thriving.

Hopefully you see something interesting that I didn’t.

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Coming up…

More on what I’m working on and how it’s going.

Stay awesome,

Shawna

P.S. If you’re looking for high level discussions or tips on things like local SEO and Rank & Rent, I highly recommend Jacky Chou’s Advise community. I’ve been in it for over a year now (I think?) and there’s tons of value in it, including a SOP for local SEO.

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