May 2026 · 7 min read
Let's rip the bandage off early: my first month was basically a goose egg.
Zero revenue. Single-digit daily visitors. Two sites not even indexed by Google yet. If I were looking at this as a business, I'd shut it down and walk away.
But I'm not looking at it as a business. Not yet. I'm looking at it as an experiment. And here's the honest data.
After 1 month (April 28 → May 28, 2026):
1. Chinese Food Guide (food.eastculture.top)
Content: ~15 pages, bilingual. Best-performing site so far. About 5-6 daily visits, mostly from organic search (Google). The Sichuan pages (Chengdu, Mapo Tofu) are the only ones getting traffic. Everything else is crickets.
2. Travel Guide (travel.eastculture.top)
Content: ~8 pages, bilingual. Zero organic traffic so far. Not even indexed until last week. This is the most content-heavy site and the slowest to get traction.
3. Temp Mail (aichatmail.one)
Single page tool. Gets occasional direct traffic from people who type "temp mail" into Google. Maybe 1-2 visits a day. No ads served yet.
4. AI & Earthlings (ai-earthlings.pages.dev)
Built last. Still basically empty. No traffic worth mentioning.
Too many sites, not enough content. I should have picked one site and written 30 pages for it before launching the next. Instead, I spread 4 pages across 4 sites. Google doesn't take a 4-page site seriously.
No backlinks. Zero. I haven't done any outreach, guest posting, or link building. For a niche site in 2026, backlinks are still one of the strongest ranking signals. I ignored it completely.
Poor keyword targeting. I wrote about what I liked, not what people were searching for. "Mapo Tofu eating guide" has search volume. "Sichuan food cultural context" probably doesn't. I need to check my ego and follow the data.
The sites actually work. For someone who can't code, having 4 live, functional bilingual websites is not nothing. They look decent, they load fast, and they don't crash.
Zero infrastructure cost. I'm not paying for servers, databases, or hosting. If these sites get 0 traffic for a year, my total loss is $10. That's a cheaper experiment than almost any business.
The process is repeatable. I now have a reliable workflow: topic research → content generation with DeepSeek → build page with AI coder → deploy. I can produce a new page in 2-3 hours. If one site eventually takes off, I can scale quickly.
Month 1 was discouraging. I won't pretend otherwise. When you spend 60+ hours building something and the result is $0 and 8 visitors a day, you question whether you're wasting your time.
But everyone who's done this before says the same thing: month 1-3 is just building. Nothing happens until month 6 at the earliest.
So I'm going to keep building. Month 2 plan: focus on one site (food guide), add 20 more pages, fix the keyword strategy, and try to get at least one backlink.
Let's see where we are in Month 2.
— Kuang Shan, $0 richer, 60 hours poorer, still going
2026年5月 · 阅读约7分钟
直接说结论：第一个月基本是零蛋。
零收入。个位数日访问量。有两个站甚至还没被Google收录。如果我是把它当生意来看，早关了。
但我没把它当生意。至少现在不是。我把它当实验。以下是真实数据。
第一个月后（2026年4月28日→5月28日）：
1. 美食指南
内容：约15页，双语。目前表现最好的站。每天大约5-6次访问，大部分来自Google自然搜索。只有川菜相关页面（成都、麻婆豆腐）有流量，其他页面没人看。
2. 旅游指南
内容：约8页，双语。到目前为止零自然流量。上周才被收录。这是内容最重的站，也是起量最慢的。
3. 临时邮箱
单页工具。偶尔有人搜"temp mail"会点进来。每天大概1-2次访问。还没放广告。
4. AI站
最后建的。基本还是空的。流量不值一提。
站太多，内容不够。我应该在开下一个站之前，先把一个站做到30页。结果我是4个站各做了4页。Google不会认真对待一个只有4页的站。
零外链。我没做过任何外链建设。在2026年，外链仍然是重要的排名信号。我完全忽略了。
关键词选择不对。我写了我喜欢的内容，而不是别人在搜的内容。"麻婆豆腐吃法指南"有搜索量。"川菜文化背景"可能就没了。我得放下自恋，跟着数据走。
网站真的跑起来了。对于一个不会编程的人来说，做出4个能正常访问的双语网站，不是零。它们看起来不错，加载快，不崩溃。
零基础设施成本。我不需要付服务器、数据库或托管的钱。如果这些站一年零流量，我的总损失是$10。这比几乎任何生意的实验成本都低。
流程可复制。我现在有一套可靠的工作流：话题调研→DeepSeek生成内容→AI编程助手建页面→部署。2-3小时就能产出一个新页面。如果哪个站起来了，我可以快速规模化。
第一个月挺沮丧的。我不装。当你花60多个小时做一件事，结果变成$0收入和每天8个访客时，你会质疑自己是不是在浪费时间。
但每个做过这个的人都说同样的话：第1-3个月就是建站。最早第6个月才可能有动静。
所以我继续建。第2个月计划：聚焦一个站（美食指南），加20页内容，调整关键词策略，争取至少搞到一个外链。
看看第2个月会怎样。
—— 况山，$0进账，60小时没了，还在继续