How Jesse Cunningham Builds AI Directories
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Watch & read transcript : How Jesse Cunningham Builds AI DirectoriesIn this video, I detail how I build AI websites that sell for $1,000s
Original video: How I Build $11.57 AI Websites that Sell for $1,000s (No Tech Skills)
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0:00My goal in this video is to help you make as much money as possible building awesome websites for less than $100. Now, we can build a website that's good enough for a $20 million company. I How do I know this? Like, okay, what does that even mean? Well, I've done this. I've done exactly what I'm going to show you here and you can do it yourself. It is absolutely crazy, right? So, come to the qualified remodeler top 500. We can locate companies that are some of the best in the United States. Very cool.
0:25And we can look at their websites and get inspiration. This is a cool website. It has some cool features. Okay, what can we be inspired by? What can we use from their CSS and make it our own? Same with this website. This is a cool website. And the best part is we know we know because the qualified remodeler, the top 500 verifies data, financials from these companies. So, you know, these websites are producing tons of work for them. Therefore, okay, we should pay attention. Now, we're going to use two tools to compare. So, we're going to use GBT. We're going to use
0:56Astra, right? GBT Astra extra high and we're going to use Fable. What we're basically doing is taking the best two frontier models available and we're doing a head-to-head competition. Let's see who can build a better website. So that'll be kind of like a fun thing in the middle. So I have a prompt here. I'm ready to rock. We have the micro site blueprint. Before we go on, what the heck is that? So a micro site, we talk a lot in this channel about micro sites, is just an SEO optimized website, like a properly optimized website out of the box. You can do different things. You
1:24can do AI rank and rent. You can do all these different things, right? But for a local business, they want this too. Why? Because you build the website right the first time. If you want to rank on Google AI, all these things, build the website right structurally, right? What we're talking about in this video is design as well. So, we're going to come here and we're going to say, I like the designs of this website, particularly the bold color choices and buttons seem very userfriendly. The things I like the most are above the fold, the viewer, the viewer projects, and the footer. So, the
1:53one I'm talking about there is this one. I like this section, the viewer projects. Maybe, just maybe, Fable or Astra GBT, right? Can do some things. And come here and be like, all right, that's doable. That's not doable. We can consider this and that, right? We're going to put them headto head. And then let's come down here. For this one, we're taking two websites. Can you see how we do this? For this one, Curtis Kitchen. Now, for this website, I do like this section, blah blah blah. That allows users to toggle between different core services. What I'm talking about specifically is if I come I think up a
2:23little bit further. I like this section here. Maybe I went past it. No, no, it's right here. You see how I can click this? That's cool, right? That feels good. Maybe these are basic WordPress websites. And what you're going to learn as you go through a list like this and you look at their websites, you can use hyperbasic websites to make a lot of money. They have to be structured correctly first. That's what really matters. If you build a quote unquote sexy website, well, it if it's structured wrong, it's not going to make money and the owner of the business or
2:54yourself are not going to be happy because you're not going to rank, right? So, we need to do two things. Let's make a website that looks nice and can rank on Google. Now, 15 minutes into the future and this is what we're left with. And I'm pretty darn impressed. Now, it doesn't have the images correct yet, but this is looking really good. So I told it I basically went to GBT like a regular GBT instance and I said just give me a logo for Orlando custom pools.
3:19So the website we're going to build in this video is for Orlando custom pools which is if you could get the EMD the exact match domain which works really well then it could be very viable if that was your type of business. Right. So this could you guess can you guess which one did this? Right. Do you think at this point in the video Claude did better or GBT? Like I'm giving you an opportunity to take a guess. Like this is looking pretty darn sweet. That's custom, right? And the H1 custom pool builders in Orlando, Florida. It is following our micro site build guide,
3:53right? We want H1's and H2s and PEX to be very purposeful to rank on Google. Right? So, if you guessed that this was Fable, you would be correct. This is Fable. And I think you're going to be surprised. So, I'm going to come down here to GBT Astra. And after 15 minutes, this is all that Astra has. It has a broken image top left. And I don't even think it's close to what Claude was.
4:20Claude Fable, right? And the H1, it was not optimized, right? It wasn't optimized for our blueprint. Our blueprint is very, very specific on how to build a website. So, this is pretty darn interesting that, you know, Astro, which is supposedly the best model out right now, is is obviously not taking care of this pretty simple task. So, let's go line by line here. Let's see what we like, what we don't like. So, the H1 custom pool builders in Orlando, Florida looks nice. We have, you know, a nice call to action right here, a button, and a call button. Very nice.
4:52Sometimes we do CTAs with form fill and that can work well, too. Um, but this is really nice. Um, if I come here and I click this, let's see if this little widget works. Um, now it's freaking out right now. That would have told me uh H2 and H3 structure. If we have custom images, which I'm going to show you how I do this for these different services, this would be nice. So, you have custom pool construction, all these things. I come over here, I hover custom pool, looks nice service areas. This is looking very, very nice. Um, if I do an
5:20H, what would F12? If I [snorts] do F12, does it render well on mobile? Let's come down here. It's not bad. Yeah, it looks really good, actually. Um, coming down. Not bad. All right, let's keep it rolling. So, coming back to where we were. Uh, why do Orlando homeowners choose a true custom pool builder? Looks nice. Free 3D design. Which pool project is right for your backyard?
5:44Customizations. Very nice. Mind you, this took 15 minutes, right? What happens after you call? Um, where has Orlando pool custom pools built near you? This is kind of taken from that other website, the inspiration at least, which I believe they're using a thing like project map it or something similar, which is an actual like sub CMS in a way. So, I'll take this out, but it was interesting that it actually, you know, attempted it, right? Pretty cool.
6:10Um, let's keep it going. These are all the service location areas. Coming down, what does a custom pool look like in Orlando? Nice. I like that. That was kind of the structure of the other website. And I want to come down to the footer. The footer is excellent, right? So, I'm very, very happy with what this has done so far. A few things that I need to point out. Like, I've done it in front of you, but you need to realize why is it special. Number one, we're building with a flat HTML website, which means it's going to be faster than most
6:36websites. Like, like way faster than most websites. And that really matters for Google, especially with mobile, right? Flat HTML is amazing. It's just HTML, CSS, ship it, right? You can do anything with Fable or GBT, right? Number two is we took inspiration from other websites. Some people are going to be upset about that because people just get upset upset about AI in general.
6:56They're just mad about AI that it even exists. But designers have always had their mockups based upon previous designs of different websites of different things. There is no original idea. Like no one comes up with like, ooh, I want my header to look this way. No, like there's a cabillion websites. Go out and figure out which ones you like. Take inspiration. Don't do one to one parody, but get inspiration from it.
7:18Right? But the trick with all this, and we'll talk about the money aspect in a second, the trick was the logo. Most people miss that. You get a logo first and you give it to these LLMs because the logo has the color scheme. If you're like me and I'm like partially colorblind, right? I suck at color. I can't do color. But when you give it the logo, it knows the vibe and it knows the color scheme and everything looks hyper professional after that. Now, check this out. Pretty darn sweet. after I had it go out and get free stock imagery. Now
7:48we're cooking with fire. Now the website is legit. It doesn't suck at all. It's really darn good. Like look at this. If you came to this website and you were or in Orlando and you wanted to pull, I'm betting that you'd feel pretty darn comfortable with it. Let's keep scrolling down. I would take this out. This kind of sucks, but that's beside the point. I'm curious if it did Oh, that's wild. It did different images for each one. Check that out. That's crazy.
8:10It got the concept. I mean, you have to give it credit for getting the concept right. Coming down here. Yeah, really cool. Coming down here. Let's see. All right. Really nice. So, I hope you see that this website compared to a true website from a 15 almost $20 million company. There is in my mind no real difference on the homepage, right? Like this one arguably in some respects I like better than the other ones we were looking at. And if that's the case, then we we have to kind of segue into how do you make money with this? Because if I'm
8:43able to in 15 minutes build the homepage for a website that is this good, right? And we have the basis to make it structured so so well, right? Let's come over here back here. That's platinum group. That's different. Let's come here classroom. Let's come here to the Microite Empire. If we have the ability to basically give an LLM, right, a zip file that says here is how I want the website to be structured and here's the design and in 15 minutes we get something like this and we could complete this and push it live for free.
9:17Right? All I would have to do at this point is buy the domain because we built with a flat HTML system. I do not have to pay hosting cost. This website right here costs me what 15 minutes of my time if you even count that and the domain cost which would be $11 and change if you include tax. Everything has changed. There's a commoditization happening of websites of design of rank and rent everything. And this right if you've seen any of my other videos is how a lot of people in the community make money.
9:48So we come over to the rank expand academy. This is, you know, my community where a bunch of people are working together to make money online, right? Using strategies kind of like a think tank. And we have competitions in here, right? Very, very cool. You can see this one. I'll zoom in. Here's a competition. We're going to choose a query and whoever can rank in the top will will win that competition. But if I come over to wins, you're going to see a lot of similarities uh on micro sites. You're going to see micro sites, people getting calls into their micro sites. because
10:16they can build websites off of our system so fast, so easily that one website's not a big deal anymore, right? The people who are successful are building hundreds of websites and some I'm I'm thinking this year are going to approach thousands of websites. They may call they may, you know, like call like take off websites that aren't performing well and only keep the winners. So maybe you'll be below a thousand over time, but the whole idea is build as many as you can because it's a gold rush, right?
10:44It's a gold rush right now. You can build a website this good, this fast for $11. And you could sell it to a local business owner. You could build it for micro site rank and rent, AI rank and rent. You can do a bunch of things, but hopefully you realize the game is different now. Yes, people still sell websites like this for tens of thousands of dollars. And yes, you could sell website like this one right here for tens of thousands of dollars. It takes the relationship, right? You need a relationship with a contractor who trusts you and you can build value. And
11:13just because it took, you know, five minutes of your time to build this doesn't mean it's not worth thousands of dollars to someone else. You have to realize that, right? So, pretty interesting. I think for me, the most interesting part was that if we come back over here to GBT, it did such a bad job. I thought cuz my buddy sent me a website he built with Astra. Maybe I did it wrong. You can tell me in the comments. I thought Astra was going to beat Fable, but Fable absolutely crushed. Right. If I come back over here to Fable, it um I asked it to go out
11:46right here, go out to pixels or other free stock imagery sites and get the images to make it look 100% professional and unique. And that's what it did, right? So, pretty darn happy. Let me know what you think in the comments. If you want, I have a 7-day free trial in this community right now. This is the Rank Expand Academy. It is one of the fastest growing SEO AI communities on the platform. 7-day free trial. Come check it out.