By AI proof, I mean that this niche isn't shrinking by the advance of AI and by the short format videos getting more and more popular versus traditional text content.
It is an image dominated niche and as you've already guessed, all big players driving huge chunk of their traffic from Pinterest (organic still being the main source, though).
The common monetization method in the niche is the display ads - Adsense, Mediavine, Raptive.
What did I do so far?
Registered a new domain name in December 2025. Built a branding kit and a WP website around that kit (I have a little bit of background in both). Hosted on WPX.
Made up a founder/author persona. Gave Gemini a bunch of instructions to write content acting like that persona. Built a handful of static pages like Contact, About us, etc. and populated them with content.
Published my first article on March 1st, Gemini written. Currently sitting at 30 published articles, each averaging at ~2000 words and having at least 15 images. The images are AI generated too.
Created a quite tight SILO structure and everything is being strictly interlinked according to it.
Made Pinterest, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Reddit profiles. A Fiverr freelances did a couple videos which I then shared to my socials. All the socials except Pinterest are purely for the E-E-A-T.
Bought 2 link insertions + 3 guest posts.
What is the plan of attack?
GSC as of April 15, 2026
GA4 as of April 15, 2026
Pinterest as of April 15, 2025
Bottom words
This, by no means, is a journey thread which I am starting to keep myself motivated and that I will be updating every other day. I will most likely be updating maybe once a week or two.
I am starting this thread to document everything. I have high hopes for this one and even if it doesn’t work out, I want to have something I can come back to and learn from. Putting aside pessimism, I am genuinely confident this one is going to be big.
It is an image dominated niche and as you've already guessed, all big players driving huge chunk of their traffic from Pinterest (organic still being the main source, though).
The common monetization method in the niche is the display ads - Adsense, Mediavine, Raptive.
What did I do so far?
Registered a new domain name in December 2025. Built a branding kit and a WP website around that kit (I have a little bit of background in both). Hosted on WPX.
Made up a founder/author persona. Gave Gemini a bunch of instructions to write content acting like that persona. Built a handful of static pages like Contact, About us, etc. and populated them with content.
Published my first article on March 1st, Gemini written. Currently sitting at 30 published articles, each averaging at ~2000 words and having at least 15 images. The images are AI generated too.
Created a quite tight SILO structure and everything is being strictly interlinked according to it.
Made Pinterest, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Reddit profiles. A Fiverr freelances did a couple videos which I then shared to my socials. All the socials except Pinterest are purely for the E-E-A-T.
Bought 2 link insertions + 3 guest posts.
What is the plan of attack?
- Keep publishing at least 30 articles per month and hit at least 300 published and indexed articles by the end of 2026.
- Keep producing images and posting them on Pinterest.
- Keep buying at least 2 clean backlinks per month.
- Order a couple more videos from the Fiverr freelancers maybe in June or July (depending on how well everything else performs).
- Apply to Raptive at 25k pageviews (the plan is to hit that number by the end of July).
GSC as of April 15, 2026
GA4 as of April 15, 2026
Pinterest as of April 15, 2025
Bottom words
This, by no means, is a journey thread which I am starting to keep myself motivated and that I will be updating every other day. I will most likely be updating maybe once a week or two.
I am starting this thread to document everything. I have high hopes for this one and even if it doesn’t work out, I want to have something I can come back to and learn from. Putting aside pessimism, I am genuinely confident this one is going to be big.
