Here is a step-by-step guide on how to create niche websites and how to ensure that they become a solid source of passive income every month.

Step #1: Brainstorm For Creating Niche Website Ideas

The ideas for creating a niche website are endless, so it can be difficult to pick a topic. Although there are many topics not all of them will make you money. Celebrities are always highly searched on Google. But it’s hard to create a site about a celebrity and expect to make good money. After all, there’s not much to sell there. One idea is to focus on a huge market and then find your niche within that market.

For example, let’s focus on the health industry. Let’s dig deeper, how about weight loss. Let’s go even deeper and choose exercise. Then finally we’ll choose HIIT (high-intensity interval training). A website based around HIIT would be considered a niche website.

This particular topic works because any information you add is more than likely going to be evergreen (it will be relevant now and 5 years from now).

When it comes to choosing a topic, take into account these important things:

• You need to be interested in the topic. Otherwise you will burn out and quit. Therefore, if you’re a meat eater you probably don’t want to create a niche website on veganism.
• The niche needs to have a product you can sell. There’s no point in writing about your love of fast food if you can’t sell anything.
• It needs to have enough search volume. You may have an interest in dogs with long ears, but not many other people do.
• You need to be able to write 100 articles on the topic. If you choose something to narrow, you might not be able to create enough unique content.

Step#2: Creating Niche Websites

To create your niche website, you will need a domain and web hosting. For newbies I recommend using Bluehost. They have a step by step guided process to get your site up.

Choose a domain name that has your niche topic in the domain. Don’t choose a vague domain or use your name.

You can use WordPress to create your website, even if it’s not a blog. To make a site that converts, you’ll want to use professional themes like these to give your site an elegant touch. This step is crucial as the look and feel of your website would have an impact on the traffic driven to your website. Without a proper layout and a solid design, users won’t stick around.

You can take your site to the next level by utilizing plugins like Yoast SEO to properly optimize your site for Google.

Step#3: Create Well-Researched Content That Focuses On Specific Keywords And Products

Content is king in this day and age and if you won’t produce quality content, the chances of success would stay low.

You should firstly identify the topics that you think are most relevant to your selected niche. Afterwards, use Google Keyword Planner from within Google Adwords. You will need to sign up for Adwords to use this tool. You don’t need to spend money on Adwords, just set up an account.

You can use Google’s keyword planner to find relevant keywords that the posts should revolve around. However, once you start making money, you can switch to a more robust keyword-finding tool, such as SEM Rush.

Make sure to create more posts on keywords with a higher search volume as these would be the keywords that would drive the most traffic to your website.

It’s important to also think about products from the get go and you should do your research on relevant products right from the start so that you can place them intelligently within your website’s content.

Focus on creating lists, product comparisons and how-to’s, as this is the type of content that most resonate with people today.

Step#4: Monetize Your Niche Website

This is something that should go side-by-side with content creation. Sign up on for ad programs like ShareASale and Flex Offers.

Look for programs that are in your niche and sign up to promote them. You should focus first on only one or two main products, since your traffic is too low right now to make a lot of sales.

You should also sign up for Amazon Associates so you can promote books and products related to your niche.

Finally, sign up at Google Adsense in order to fully monetize your niche website.