A real umayseo project with open revenue numbers — not just traffic and rankings.
hotelsburbuja.com is a site in a narrow niche: renting “bubble hotels” — transparent dome cabins for a night out in nature. The main market is Spain, later expanded to a handful of Latin American countries. The site is entirely in Spanish, with no other locales.
The project is monetized through an affiliate program that pays out per confirmed booking. That’s why this case study can show real revenue, not just traffic and rankings.
The site is built on Tilda. The basic technical setup (indexing, page speed, site structure) was solid from day one, and no significant technical issues came up over the whole nine-month period we tracked, which let us focus almost entirely on growth work.
The domain was registered 3–4 months before work began and sat idle. A homepage went up after that and was left untouched for another month. Active work started in November 2025 — a completely clean slate, with no prior traffic or backlink history.
We didn’t set any traffic KPIs — in a CPA model, traffic for its own sake is meaningless; what matters is visits that turn into bookings. The target was a specific, financial one:
$300 a month on link building for 6 months, aiming to reach at least $400/month in revenue.
In November 2025 we built the keyword core by exporting data from Semrush and structured the site as “country → region → city.” For Spain, the original single focus market, the hierarchy came out shorter: home → region → city.
When other countries (Andorra, for example) were added later, they got an extra layer: home → country → region → city. The mismatch in depth between markets never caused any indexing or ranking issues.
Most of the work from the second half of November through mid-January went into publishing landing pages. That stage ended with:
Link building is our strongest suit, and it shows in this project. Over 6 months we built roughly 150 links across several channels:
on authoritative platforms like Amazon, Apple, and Spotify — a simple, inexpensive source of strong domains early on.
about 20 a month, anchor-free, to keep the link profile natural.
added from month two, roughly 30 placements total at an average price of $40–45 each.
5 in-house resources plus 15 from a contractor.
DR and site traffic · TF/CF ratio checked in Majestic · topical or regional relevance (a donor about the Murcia region got a link pointing to our Murcia page) · permanent placement, not noindexed · a direct path from the homepage to the article · indexation verified manually, with targeted indexing pings when needed (only for 2–3 articles).
PBN and article links mostly pointed to the homepage and priority pages — either close to ranking or acting as a structural hub — and were anchored. Forum links, by contrast, were anchor-free to balance the overall link profile.
One of the article donor sites itself ranked around position 7 for our target keywords for a while, and sent hotelsburbuja.com 10–15 referral clicks a month — before we overtook it in the rankings. A topically relevant, high-traffic donor pays off twice: as an SEO signal and as a direct source of visitors.
Google Search Console data, not counting Bing and AI sources, which together add a small amount of extra traffic. Hover over a bar to see exact figures.
Starting in February, we worked specifically on how the snippet looks — rating, image, and description via structured data — and it showed up directly in CTR.
Keyword position tracking by region — going from outside the top 100 to top 1–5 — plus a current snapshot of commercial keywords from Ahrefs. Click a screenshot to enlarge.
Current snapshot from Ahrefs. These aren’t long-tail terms — they’re the niche’s core commercial keywords, and almost all of them are in the top 3 (the few outside the top 10 in the full export are other brand names or a different accommodation type, glamping).
Affiliate payouts arrive with a 2–3 month delay — July’s revenue reflects March–April bookings, not July’s. Adjusting for that lag, the $400/month goal has effectively already been reached for more recent booking periods; the money for those just hasn’t landed yet. Around 30% of bookings don’t end up confirmed overall, which is a normal rate for this niche.
Since expansion beyond Spain wasn’t planned from the start, the structure depth ended up different for Spain versus other countries. In practice this caused no issues — markets outside Spain contribute little revenue anyway, due to lower demand and purchasing power.
A platform limitation meant we had to manually replace more than 1,000 referral links on the site by hand — a couple of hours of work, but straightforward to fix.
Thorough keyword work for Spain and a well-thought-out landing page template (2–3 working days to build) — the foundation everything else stands on.
This is our strongest area: combining PBN, topical guest articles, and a forum-driven profile delivered fast, durable growth in a competitive commercial niche.
We offer full-scope SEO, but our biggest strength is tying link building and keyword research together with site structure. We handle technical SEO fully too, but we don’t treat it as our main differentiator — we set it up once at the start of a project and check on it periodically after that.
This isn’t a case study with someone else’s numbers hidden behind an NDA — it’s our own project, from zero to #1 in the rankings. We’ll take a look at your niche and show you what would actually work.
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