How to make money from niche websites [9 Easy & Doable Ways]

Do you want to grow with a niche website? Any idea how you can make money from a niche website? Here I will share different ways to make money from a niche website. This post is about, how to monetize a niche website.

These are the 9 easy and doable ways to make money from niche websites like:

1. Display ads
2. Amazon affiliates
3. Product reviews
4. Direct advertisements
5. Selling digital products
6. Selling physical products
7. Selling professional services
8. Sell a training course
9. Earn from sponsored posts, etc.

If you want to make money online, one of the profitable ways is to create a niche website targeting USA traffic. Traffic from the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, etc. is significant if you want to earn money from fewer page views.

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If your website is ready and getting a little traffic, check out how to make money from your niche website.

How to make money from niche websites

Most of cases, the more page views you will receive, the more money you can make. But there are monetization options you should try even if you are getting as low as 5000 page views per month.

So, let us check out the various monetization options you can try to implement in your niche website to start making money online.

Here is a list of ways to make money from niche websites.

1. Display ads

Have you ever noticed, that when you open a site, you will see a few ads displaying on the page? Those are called display ads.

Display ads are one of the best passive ways to make money online from a niche website. Start applying Google Adsense if your site starts getting some traffic. If your site is rejected by Google Adsense then there is a problem.

Make sure, you follow all the guidelines provided by Google before applying for Adsense approval.

Once you get some traffic, you can apply for other ad networks like Ezoic, Adthrive, or Mediavine.

The drawback of this monetization option is you need more traffic to make a decent amount of money.

The advantage is that this is a passive source of income. You just need to add a script in the page and ads will be displayed automatically.

The more page views you will get, you can earn more money by using display ads. And if your traffic is from the USA, you will get more $ per 1000 views.

In the case of display ads, you just need to focus on content and growing the website.

2. Amazon affiliates

This is another good way of monetization even if you are having less traffic. With less traffic, you can start making money from your niche website.

When someone buys a product that you have recommended, then you will get a commission without costing anything to the buyer. Suppose you bought a laptop by clicking a link I have shared in a blog post, then I will get a commission without costing you anything. And this is called an affiliate income.

Once you join an affiliate network, you will get a unique link to promote. If anyone uses that link to buy the product, then you will get a commission. That’s how affiliate marketing works.

There are a lot of affiliate network companies where you can make money and they pay decent money. A few are:

• ShareASale
• Amazon Associates
• CJ (Commission Junction)
• ClickBank
• Rakuten Marketing
• Avantlink, etc.

One of the easiest affiliate networks to try is Amazon associates. If you are getting around 10K traffic from the United States of America, then you can earn a few dollars from Amazon affiliates. Here you can check out a screenshot, I got around $100 from a niche website.

There are a few niche websites making millions of dollars from Amazon affiliates.

There are also companies, that pay a commission when you sell their product. Suppose you wrote a well-written product review of a hosting company like Bluehost. And if someone buys a hosting plan then you will get a commission of like $50 per hosting.

If your website is in a particular niche, then it will be easier to find products to promote it. Let us say, your website is about electric bikes, then it will easier for you to find various electric bikes to promote.

So, it is very much necessary that your website should be on a particular targeted topic or in a particular niche. The more specific the website is, the easier for you to find a product to promote.

3. Direct advertisements

If you will get direct advertisements then you can earn a decent amount of money from your niche website.

There are different banner ad sizes for a website, you can use like:

• 250 x 250
• 468 x 60
• 728 x 90
• 300 x 250
• 336 x 280
• 160 x 600

There are websites that are charging $3000 per month for one ad spot. So, if you get more traffic then you can earn a lot of money from a niche website.

Suppose, if you have a niche website on web hosting, then there are a lot of hosting companies that directly approach you to display their banner on your website.

For example, let us say WPX or Bluehost will directly contact you to display banner ads on your website for 3 months or 6 months.

If your website is about electric bikes, then a lot of electric bike companies might contact you to display a banner on your website and you can charge a decent amount from them.

You can also use BuySellAds.com and you can display ads on your website from this company. BuySellAds.com is a company that will sell your ad spots on your behalf of you.

You can get more advertisers from them and can make more money. So this is another option to make money from a niche website.

I have experience of selling one Ads spot (728*90) for $600 for 3 months

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4. Product reviews

People used to read product reviews before buying a product. So, a lot of companies want to publish a review of their product on websites.

So if you have a niche website where you talk about hamsters, then maybe companies would like to write reviews about a particular hamster food.

You can charge about $300 to $500 if your website is getting more than 100,000 traffic organically.

A lot of companies even will offer you a product and tell you to use it and write a review about the particular product.

Companies will reach out to you if your website is very much about a particular niche.

If you are talking about weight loss on your website, then many companies like weight loss supplements or any gym products will reach out to you to write reviews about the products.

So, product reviews are so powerful way of making money from niche websites.

But here are a few suggestions from my side that you should follow:

• Do not write about any product that is not in your niche. For example, if your site is about gardening, then you should not write a review about bitcoin.
• Use the product before your write about a product. Add original images and write all the pros and cons of the product. Since, they are paying, do not just write about the advantages and skip the problems or disadvantages.
• Never promote a product that you cannot use it. Just for a few dollars, do not write a product review unless you can not use the product.

Personally, in a few of my websites, I wrote product reviews and charged $400 to $450 per post. Those products are specific to my website niche and they are really good product.

5. Selling digital products

Selling a digital product is very easy from your website if you will have a decent amount of traffic. If you have a website that is about a specific topic, then you can create an ebook and sell it online from your website itself.

Let us say, if you have a website about square foot gardening, then you can create a small 25-page of ebook (PDF) and charge about let us say $19. Once a user will take the pdf, they should be able to set up a square foot garden for themself.

You can sell a PDF through teachable and once the user will pay, the pdf will be delivered to their email address.

Let us take another example of a technical website. If you have a website talking about Python, then you can sell a PDF about interview questions for developers.

It is completely passive income. You just need to update the pdf may be in every 3 months to 6 months (if it is required). It will be directly delivered to the user’s email address, so there is no shipping cost associated with it.

The profit is too much in the case of a digital product rather than a physical product.

6. Selling physical products

Apart from digital products, you can also sell physical products through your niche website. So, from your website, people can place an order and you can deliver the product to them.

If you are having a website or gardening. Here, there are multiple ways, you can sell any physical product. For example, you can sell plants or you can even sell potting soil, a lot more things you can sell.

The drawback of selling physical products is that you need to do shipping delivery etc.

7. Selling professional services

Another way of monetizing your niche website and making money is by selling professional services.

Here you can change based on your expertise and hourly basis.

Let us say, if you have a website about Yoga and meditation, then you can provide that as a professional service to your clients and you can charge from them.

Let us say, you are having a website about programming languages or any other technologies, and you can provide your service to various clients hourly basis. If someone has some issues and you are able to solve them, then you can change from them.

Even on your website, you can have a dedicated page for a training page and people can join your training program.

If you have a niche website, that explains how to edit videos, there are high chances, that companies will reach out to you to edit their videos. This way, you can make money by using your expertise.

Even you can host a paid webinar and have 3 hours of live session and make money from the webinar.

8. Sell a training course

This is one of my favorite way of making money from a niche website. And this is another method I use to make money online. Let me tell you, how exactly I am doing it.

Previously, I used to provide live training in SharePoint. Then I started creating a course in SharePoint development training and it took me more than 6 months to complete it.

After that, I have to just add a page to my website and people can enroll themselves.

You really can make a lot of money by selling training courses.

So if you know Yoga, gardening, or any technologies, start making a training course. This will be a purely passive income business.

You can charge them monthly, quarterly, or yearly or even you can change from them as a one-time fee.

Miss Excel sold an excel course for $100,000 in a day.

A few advantages of selling course online is that you do not need a physical office, you do not need any employees to manage, etc. You can just sell it from your niche websites.

In the same way, if you are a video editor course, you can create a course on how to edit videos professionally and make money. Even 5 hours of video course is enough. It should solve a purpose.

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9. Earn from sponsored posts

A lot of website owners are making money by publishing sponsored posts. But I will never recommend it, especially if your website is new.

A company will reach out to you saying, I want to write an article on your website and you just need to provide a backlink to my website. Sometimes, they even send the article itself and they will say we will pay you once you publish the article.

Companies or agencies will reach out to you to add sponsor posts on your website. And almost everyone will ask for do-follow backlinks to their website.

Many more established websites having more domain authority are charging a few hundred dollars to publish a sponsored post.

But I will not suggest it, as you might fail to choose the quality of the article, the niche, and whether the article is relevant to your niche or not. Google may penalize your website as it is purely against Google policies. So be careful.

If you are a new site owner and you have no prior experience, I will suggest staying away from this source of income.

Conclusion

All the approaches I have explained in this article to make money from niche websites are very practical and as a beginner, you can do this.

Till you get more traffic from your website, you can try to make a pdf or an ebook and sell it online. It will not take more time to create it also and there are absolutely no investments required.

If you like to teach online, then you can create a training course or you can provide live training and by doing the course you can make money passively.

So, create a niche website and try out these monetization options and start making money from your niche websites. Got an idea of how to monetize a niche website? Start now.

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