Niche sites have significant earning potential. They can earn over $1,000 a month within the first 12 months and eventually replace your regular "9 to 5."

But to reach that point, you need to know how to successfully get one off the ground using a step-by-step process.

Niche affiliate websites work by promoting someone else’s product through content and earning a commission from every sale the company makes.

To do this, site owners produce articles and reviews, covering topics like what the product is, who needs the product and why, and how the product co...

It depends on three things:

• Choosing the right niche
• Building the site right from the beginning
• How much time and effort you put into the site to get it off the ground

Choosing a niche with high-ticket items, laying the right foundations, and putting more ef...

Choosing the right niche lays the foundation for everything else going forward. For example, the degree of difficulty to rank your site, the amount of money you can earn, etc.

When you decide on a profitable niche, consider:

1. Personal experience/interests

Too much experience in a niche can make you too personally invested. You may want to vet all the content in the finest detail or write all the content yourself. This makes it very hard to scale.

Instead, choose a niche you find interesting but not too interesting. You shoul...

You may be tempted to jump into anything that is hot right now, but it is probably not going to give you enough scope in terms of keywords to scale your site.

Focusing on seasonal niches, such as tennis, means your site will earn more at certain times and nothing at other t...

When doing keyword research for niche affiliate sites, you’re mostly looking for three main types of keywords:

• General comparisons – Best wifi router, best protein powder
• Branded comparisons – MacBook Air vs. MacBook Pro
• Product...

Pick a domain and build your site using WordPress, as it is customizable and free.

• Choose the right theme as it will form the foundation of your site. The theme should have its own built-in page builder functionality, such as Astra or AffiliateFish.
• Co...

Content is vital to a niche affiliate site. This is where you will put all your affiliate links, which can earn you commissions.

• Ensure you write quality content that will engage your audience.
• Write content for people, not search engines.

This will help you build t...

Links building is getting other websites to link to pages on your own website. Links need to come from high-quality sources.

Top link building choices for beginners are:

• Earned media. Use sites like Help A Reporter Out (HARO), Terkel, and Sourcebottle to build hi...