A self-published ebook, "The Amish Home Savings Manual", 700+ pages with 93 Amish-style money-saving methods that teach people to cut heating, water, electricity and repair costs.
Not a real persOne-line growth story, compiled by us from public sources; speculation is marked separately below.
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“'$47 once. No subscription. Yours forever.'; 'We teach those methods on our YouTube channels' (280,000 subscribers)”Quote from the site
New-user source: Social media (Organic social). Social is 41.3%, all from YouTube (the homepage claims 280K subscribers), direct 44.9%, search 8.3%; search terms are mainly the author's name and the book title. New users are classed as social media, with the YouTube channel driving traffic to sell the book.
Top channel measured by Similarweb, others estimated by rank
| Attributable new users, last month | Share |
|---|---|
| SEO | 2% |
| 41% | |
| Other | 57% |
Direct + brand search 52%. Direct and brand search count as viral only when the site shows sharing mechanics; the largest share wins, under 5% means Other.
| Country | Share of visits |
|---|---|
| United States | 64.21% |
| Germany | 9.61% |
| Brazil | 5.31% |
| Vietnam | 5.1% |
| Pakistan | 2.88% |
English
YouTube
22 keywords · brand ~52% · organic 100% / paid 0%
| Similarweb top 5 keywords |
|---|
| elias yoder |
| the amish home savings manual |
| how was eliasyoder.com made |
| elias yoder.com |
| elias and esther yoder |
Non-brand queries: the amish home savings manual
About 16,129 last month (Similarweb estimate), #204 of 606; the month before was 29,152. Opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue.
New-user source: Social media (Organic social). New users mostly come from YouTube, X, Reddit, TikTok and the like Social is 41.3%, all from YouTube (the homepage claims 280K subscribers), direct 44.9%, search 8.3%; search terms are mainly the author's name and the book title. New users are classed as social media, with the YouTube channel driving traffic to sell the book.
$47 one-time (launch price, regular price $77), 7-day refund
Dossier confidence: high. Parts 1 and 2 come from reading the site and Similarweb data; part 3 from public reporting, founder posts, Wayback snapshots, WHOIS and similar, with speculation marked.
The number: checkout visits is Similarweb's estimate of visits from the site to a checkout payment page; opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue. Small sites land on fixed buckets.
Data through last month. Page updated 2026-10-26.
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