About Andreas De Rosi
Andreas De Rosi runs a portfolio of six online publications. RankingHacks is the field journal of how he runs them — multi-channel growth tactics for solo publishers in 2026.
I’m Andreas De Rosi. I run a portfolio of six websites — most of them in the publishing and affiliate space — and I’ve been doing this full-time since long before it was a category.
RankingHacks is where I write up the tactics that actually move the needle across that portfolio. Not the prescriptive “10 things every blogger must do” kind of post. Real workflows from a real publisher with skin in the game.
The portfolio
These are the sites I run, in roughly the order they pay rent:
- PhotoWorkout.com — photography gear and education. The biggest, oldest, most heavily monetized property.
- Mappr.co — geographic data, mapped content, and travel-adjacent journalism.
- RankingHacks.com — this site. The field journal.
- SampleShots.com — sample-image archive for camera and lens reviews. Specialist resource.
- AirportRoutes.com — airline route data. Niche but defensible.
- HuskyLol.com — Pinterest-fueled visual content. Different playbook entirely.
Across the portfolio: 600+ published posts, six income streams (Amazon Associates, Mediavine, Impact, Awin, CJ, Sovrn, plus a handful of direct partner programs), and one human full-time. No team. No agency. No outside funding.
What this site is
RankingHacks isn’t a tutorial blog. It’s a public notebook of what works in 2026 across five channels and a layer of cross-channel methodology beneath them:
- Channels — SEO, AI Search · GEO, Social, Paid, and Owned Audience (newsletter, video, podcast).
- Systems — the methodology underneath: testing frameworks, portfolio strategy, business models, the meta-game of running a publisher business.
The thesis: a solo publisher in 2026 should pick three of these five well, not all five poorly. Most of what’s on this site is me figuring out which three are the right ones for any given site, and how to run them.
What I won’t do
- I won’t list tools I haven’t used myself. The Tools page is exactly the stack that runs my sites today.
- I won’t promote courses or paid communities. Plenty of those exist; none from me.
- I won’t anonymize results. The numbers on the homepage are real numbers from real dashboards. If a tactic worked, I’ll say so. If it didn’t, I’ll say that too.
- I won’t write what I don’t actually believe. If a category is dying, I’ll tell you. If a “best practice” is theater, I’ll tell you. Editorial independence beats friendly relationships.
How I work
I’m based mostly in Berlin, with extended stretches in Aizawl, India. I write in the mornings, ship in the afternoons, and travel as often as the work allows.
The technical setup behind RankingHacks (and the rest of the portfolio) is documented as I go in the Tools page and across Systems posts. Stack updates happen whenever something earns or loses its slot — not on a schedule.
Reach me
- Contact form — via /contact/ (lands in my inbox the same way email does, just less typing for you)
- Email — [email protected]
- Newsletter — Subscribe for new posts and the occasional behind-the-scenes note. No drip sequences.
- Twitter / X — @andreasonline
- LinkedIn — andreasderosi
If you’re reading this and you run a publishing business too, the door is open. I read everything.