Google Shutting Down 25 Million Websites = Business Opportunity

Fery Kaszoni tweets…

Google is shutting down tens of millions of small business sites from March.

All subdomains hosted on their . business . site domain will be removed next month.

If you’re not aware, this is Google’s free service used by over 25M sites (from search results).

Official announcement about the shutdown.

Fery lays down a “multimillion dollar idea,” based on the assumption that these businesses will be eager for a new website solution…

Use scrapers to extract all [.business.site] websites from Google search results…

Now use new scraper rules to visit each website, and create a perfect clone of the current website on your server…

Now buy a domain name such as business . inc or something generic…

Rent this clone under a subdomain for $5 a month…

He adds…

If you sell this to 20K website owners, you’ll make $100,000 per month just by hosting their website.

Remember, there will be 20 million desperate website owners next month with their website shut down, who will need a solution.

Fery’s idea is ambitious

But you could also do something on a much smaller scale here and earn good money.

For example, you could find .business.site websites in an industry you’re familiar with and reach out to those site owners

Start by putting this in Google search…

site:*.business.site [industry or keyword]

I see more than 30,000 results when I use this search…

site:*.business.site carpentry

Try that for a niche or industry you’re interested in, then check out the sites and find their contact info. 

Next: reach out and ask them if they need help moving their site elsewhere. If yes, you could build it on a service like Carrd, which costs only ~$50/year to host 25 sites

Charge nothing for the setup but then a few $$ per month/year for hosting and maintenance.

With that, you could have a thriving business on your hands

Another idea here: scrape the contact info for these sites and sell access to local agencies or web developers.

Let me know if you give any of those ideas a try. I’d love to hear how it turns out.