$1000/Month From His Niche Job Board (Paid Per Click)

Alex Gotoi writes about his side project…

I’ve been running a job board for remote Human Resources roles since 2019. In 2022 I started generating some revenue by referring traffic to large job aggregators on a cost per click model.

🧐 The interesting part: he doesn’t charge employers to post. Instead, job aggregators like Adzuna, Jooble, and Joblookup have out-of-the-box partnership programs.

They give you a big XML feed of jobs, each with a CPC price attached. You pick the ones relevant to your niche, post them, and earn money when visitors click through.

I pull about 20K jobs from their feed, then run my script to select about 100 relevant jobs. The other 30% I get manually from LinkedIn, Indeed, etc. I have alerts on all big sites with some deep filtering.

💰 The board grosses ~$1K/month. After taxes and fixed costs, he keeps about $650/month — which he puts straight into an index fund for retirement.

He had a head start: ~5K LinkedIn connections in HR, which helped him reach 100 daily visits and 2K newsletter subscribers within about 2 months.

My advantage was that I was already active in the HR community. I would need another “me” to build in more industries.

The idea 👇

Pick a professional niche you know, sign up for the aggregator partnerships, and curate a focused board.

You don’t need to sell to employers – the aggregators supply the jobs AND pay you 😎

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