“What’s A Good Idea for A Niche Site?”
If you’ve been online for more than five minutes, chances are you’ve come across people asking, “What’s a good idea for a niche site?”
I’ll answer this question towards the end of the article. But before I do, I’m going to talk you through an amazing formula for generating your own niche site ideas.
What Is A Niche Site?
A niche site is usually a single-topic site that’s designed to make money for its owner. It’s designed with long-tail keywords in mind. It’s also usually designed around affiliate programs for the niche market. Sometimes people will create a niche website and sell a product or do something else – like use Google Adsense – but a niche website isn’t so great for that because you aren’t building a huge audience. With Google Adsense, the numbers used to be huge, but now pay outs are a lot lower and it’s just not a feasible way to make money.
It’s easier to describe a niche website with examples than by explaining it, so I’ll give you an example.
If Clothing is your industry, you might want to write about clothing.
If you’re writing about clothing as a huge topic, then you’re competing for views with every clothing company, every fashion blog and every other person who is writing about clothing on the internet.
So you need to think of a smaller niche within clothing.
Perhaps you want to write about clothing for men. That’s better, but it’s still a massive industry.
So, you figure that you’re a twenty-seven year old man. You write about style for twenties men. Now you’re talking about a niche website. Where do you go from there? You could drill down a lot further. Examples would be:
- A particular type of clothing. (Jeans, Suits, Hats)
- A particular clique’s clothing (goths, jocks, hipsters, geeks, ravers)
- A particular expense bracket (rich guys, poor guys, young professional etc.)
- A particular function (Adventurer, Getting ahead in the workplace, being more attractive to girls)
Every guy has a wardrobe with clothes in it. You could easily write about just one of those topics.
You could find an affiliate program for clothing and do a few sales letter reviews and a few “how-to” guides and then leave it at ten to twenty posts. Or you could literally name your website “clothing for twenties guys” and write about all of those topics.
Either way, you’ve got your site idea, and you’ve got a set of mini-ideas which you could use to populate your site.
Then you have only one other thing to worry about: How do you make money?
The easiest way (and most difficult) is to not worry about this when you start because you know you can create a product later down the line. If you’re a writer who can write about anything, this isn’t a problem, because you can write fifty posts and then eventually sign off each post with “By the way, my book has loads more information in it.”
The reason that’s the easiest way is that you get to keep all the income from your book, and you can start a niche site before you’ve worked out the monetisation.
It’s also hard because you have to do the writing.
The other way is different entirely.
You have to find an affiliate program before you start.
If you don’t do this, then you’re potentially going to end up with a website that doesn’t make you any money. I’ve done this before. It’s annoying to spend $10 a year on a domain name for a site that doesn’t earn money, but it’s even more annoying to spend that $10 as well as the fifty hours or so you’ve spent writing articles for your site.
So, you need to find an affiliate program during the research stage.
If you’ve found a good affiliate program, then you simply write reviews on the products. The usual disclaimer applies: Don’t try and review items you’ve never used. It won’t be as effective.
What’s A Good Idea For a Niche Site?
Other than clothing for guys in their twenties?
The answer to “what’s a good idea for a niche site?” is to follow exactly the same formula as above.
- Find meta-market, like clothing.
- Find customer base, like men.
- Find a big demographic within that customer base such as age, type, location, whatever.
You then have you niche site. You could call it “market-for-demographic-customer base” or be a bit more original. Then:
- Split demographic further down. (Goths, geeks, jocks.) So split market into
- Split meta-market into
- Split meta-market into types of product/service.
- Split meta-market into price-range.
That’s all folks. With this formula, you can create a niche site.
Final Thoughts
This formula allows you to enter any market. It’ll allow you to get a customer base. It’ll give you more topics than you can use. It’ll give you money-making opportunities regardless of the niche, because those are built in to the formula. Obviously, it’ll also give you the keys to your financial freedom and a proven system to STACK MONEY PASSIVELY as well.
(P.S. I’ll put something in here about how I’m giving away this elite formula for free when I should charge loads of cash for it.)
Most importantly, it’s given you one thing that’s even more crucial: Whenever you see someone on the internet say, “What’s a good idea for a niche site?” you can push them to this article and it’ll answer their question.