Hey there 👋
In this week’s newsletter, I talk about investing in a new layer 2 and about my new website which is live and about to get a ton of content.
In the discord, member grimghost asked for a new #microsaas channel to validate his new biz Submetrics, a dashboard for creators (like me) which aggregates metrics such as newsletter audience and community size. He’s building in public on Indie Hackers.
And Mark Whitman also posted about his KeyClusters business which groups keywords into topical clusters to maximize SEO efforts (something I’ll be doing for my new sites).
Right, let’s get to this week’s updates.
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#contentsites
I’ve now got ownership of a really great aged, brand domain from Odys.
Odys also did the setup which is great as I hate touching any of this technical stuff:
WordPress setup
One year free hosting
Free SSL certificate
DNS setup
Cloudflare setup
301 redirect setup (old pages mapped to newly created pages)
The domain is in the poker niche and has a domain rating (DR) in the 30s and a couple hundred unique referring domains (RD).
I’m going after the biggest poker sites, aiming to surpass their number of indexed pages in google to beat them with topical authority (rather than domain authority).
To do this, I’m starting by getting 100+ fully optimized longer-form (~1500 words on average) blog posts created and published by Content at Scale within the next 4 weeks.
By the way, if you’re looking to buy rather than build new sites, both Domain Magnate (link was emailed and now removed) and Onfolio (link) are selling small sites from their portfolios right now.
#crypto
I think the current metagame in crypto (as Cobie puts it) is a move from the alternative layer1s (to Ethereum), back to ETH layer 2s.
Metis is a layer 2 rollup platform, similar to Optimism but has its own $METIS token. It’s only recently launched and its TVL is already 3rd, but it has a lot of room to grow with a market cap of ~ $500M.
In comparison, Polygon (a layer 2 scaling solution which is a commit chain rather than a rollup) has a market cap of $17B which means METIS has the potential for a 30x if it becomes as popular.
And I think it has a chance with the co-founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin’s mother Natalie Ameline involved in the project!
Discord member EatenByPlants got me into $METIS which I’m thankful for.
I’ve also bought $NETT on Netswap, as well as $TETHYS on Tethys Finance due to insight from member Knucks (who has just launched his own Discord). And I’ve loaned out some $METIS on Agora which has an airdrop coming soon.
Ok that’s it from me for this week.
Cheers!
Richard
Nothing in this email is financial advice and I'm not a 'professional investment adviser'. I send weekly updates on what I'm doing personally - consider it 'informational' and 'for entertainment purposes only’ (as the podcasts say).
Great newsletter, Richard. I can't wait to see what you do with the Poker site - since you're a "subject matter expert" in that field :D