Make money online with a Niche content site

There are a whole lot of ways to make money online, but if you happen to be a freelance writer you will find this one the least hassle and the easiest to do. What the concept basically involves is to make a niche website on a topic which is getting searched a lot on google , yahoo and bing.  Here is how you go about it.

Step One  - Fix your niche

Naturally the niche that you pick will decide to a large extent just how successful you will be. So pay considerable attention at this stage to exactly what you wish to write about. Remember to pick a niche that you are somewhat familiar with as it becomes so much easier to write about it.

Step Two - Key word research

Now that you know what you want to write about find out how people are hunting for it online. You can use tools like the google adwords keyword research tool to see what phrases and keywords are being hunted for the most in the niche that you have chosen. Now make a list of five main keywords and about 20 associated keywords that your niche site must mention.

Step Three - Build that site

The website does not have to be something too complicated. Just about five to ten pages depending on the content that you are putting up. You can book a domain name from NameCheap  and make sure that you add one of your main keywords in the domain name. Some sites allow you to build a website and point your own domain name to it. Here you can find a list of 14 sites where you can build a free website.

Step Four - Monetize it

The site is up and your content is good. Now you will get some traffic coming in via the search engines so you need to monetize your site without upsetting the traffic flow. Here you can use contextual advertising as given by google adsence and you can add more value to your content by using in text ads from Kontera. You can also use Chitika ads which are only shown to search engine traffic and not to regular readers.

So there it is the blueprint to making money online with niche content sites. It is fairly easy to do for someone who has a basic knowledge of how the online industry works. And if you are a freelance writer who does considerable ammounts of SEO article writing this really will be a piece of cake for you.