Are Niche Sites Still Profitable? 71 Profitable Niche Sites

In IncomeSchool YouTube video, they shared 74 niches with over 10,000 traffic of which 71 websites are profitable. If you just wish to get the list of websites and reported profits, I included the domain names and profits in a table at the end of this article. 

Like many of you I wonder if niche sites Still Profitable? Niche sites are profitable given there are 71 shown on IncomeSchool videos. The list excludes 633 being sold with profit in Flippa, and many other in marketplaces. The main problem is the passive income from most of these niche sites cannot replace income from full time work.

Based on the 74 niche sites mentioned in the IncomeSchool Video,  1 website was completely ignored as it just copied their site. "You just can't steal success" as they said. There are several others with $0 profit and some with exceedingly high profit for the traffic:-

• SheGirlKnows didn't have profit during the video but the author commented she had $250 profit now
• Off-the-beat.com was excluded since it was not monetized, i.e not profitable.
• JobsinChildCare.com was excluded since it had $0 profit too.
• I assumed Algotrading101 $40,000 was yearly too and divided it into 12 months

Doing some simple analysis of profitability of the 73 niche sites (excluding the one that copied results),

• $899 was the average profit for the 73 niche sites
• 67% or 49 niche sites had profit over $100
• 32% or 24 niche sites had profit over $500
• 24% or 18 niche sites had profit over $1,000
• 12% or 9 niche sites had profit over $2,000

I also did a "Just Sold" search in Flippa with monthly profit over $1, and there were 633 results. There are definitely many niche website that are profitable.   

Assuming that reported profit included all expenses like hosting and outsourced writing costs, we can say that there are easily 700 hundreds of niche websites that are profitable in Flippa and from the video, excluding the many more available in EmpireFlipper or other marketplaces.

My main problem though, is they don't earn enough to replace a full time job.

Niche Sites That Earned Over The Minimum Income

For example, the estimated US minimum sum in a month is $1,256.7. 

Out of all the 73 sites, only 20% (15 niche sites) of the 73 niche sites exceed the US minimum income. 

We can safely said that less than half of the website makes sufficient income to replace a full time job. 

The good news is that some of the website owners lived in poorer countries and that is a lot of money.

The bad news is for those living in US, the number of unsuccessful niche sites exceed the number of successful niche sites. Therefore, if I was to guess the number of profitable niche sites over the entire internet, I would guess it is less than 1%.

Improve Traffic For Existing Website Owners

If traffic is an issue whereby you either got less than 1,000 traffic per post, you should consider the following

Consider Suitable Social Media Traffic

SheGirlKnows was surprising Income School as it was only a few months old and getting over 20,000 traffic due to Pinterest. As mentioned, it only works if the target audiences of your niches can be found in Pinterest which is predomaintly female. It can work without needing to wait for Google search engine to pick up your content as long as you create suitable content in the social media.

Better Keyword Research

The bulk of successful websites in competitive niches like cooking and mental health is surprising too. The key is definitely winning on the keyword research though I am not sure if the sites did backlinking or other odd methods. It does bring hope to many who avoid Your Money Your Life niches and do not even consider trying them at all. 

One example is to use a product comparison (A vs B) post to get more traffic to your site.

Battleship Method

This method was detailed in one of IncomeSchool videos, whereby you don't know where the traffic will come from. But after testing with many contents, you will start to know which content works and just focus on it like how you sink an opponent battleship once you get a hit.

Improve Monetization For Existing Website Owners

If monetization was an issue, whereby you earn less than $1,000 for every 30,000 visits, you should consider the following.

Consider Google Adsense Alternatives

Many of the websites relied on Google Adsense which was strongly discouraged by IncomeSchool as Ezoic usually give better CPM and is faster than Adsense.

The slowness of Adsense is true and surprisingly if you did not know as I tried some Lighthouse speed test and it is always the Google Adsense javascript that was the main culprit. Nevertheless, I will be surprised if Google Adsense Team does not improve it before Core Web Vital (speed of displaying meaningful content to users) became a ranking factor.

It was also mentioned that as an IncomeSchool member, there was a tie up with Ezoic and you can join immediately without traffic too. This is definitely helpful for people who had trouble joining Adsense at the start without any traffic as I see those in forum frequently.

Consider Amazon Affiliate Alternatives

Another key recommendation by Income School was to use better affiliate marketing with higher payout compared to Affiliate like Amazon. This is definitely very useful for those in special high paying niches like health or wealth and also those in niches that aren't product driven (like Anime, even Tennis was considered not a good niche given the lack of products).

Niches with High Profit

I will go through some of the websites with the highest profit

Learnvern.com with $7000/month profit

SimilarWeb stated 86,000 traffic per month and mainly from India. Honestly, SEMRush only gave this site 639 traffic/month too so I believed it is really mainly coming from India.

As a owner who had India traffic before which are really low paying in Google Adsense and also seeing the same thing in Facebook Ads (where many people will specifically exclude India, Pakistan, etc), I think this might be a good way to figure how to monetize cheaper overseas traffic if you really lived there and know the market. There seem to be an Apple and Android applications too.

DsmTool.com with $8333.33/month profit

As a dropshipper myself in my country, I heard of DSMTool before and surprised they reported their earnings to IncomeSchool. 

Anyway, I am pretty sure the profit include their own product so it isn't really a content niche blog per said and not comparable to someone who is writing a content blog.

oneradwheel.com with $5000/month profit

This is probably a content niche website as I did not see any shop or product pages. It seems to rely on affiliate marketing with Amazon Affiliate and ShareASale affiliate disclaimer. 

SimilarWeb reported 0 traffic though and SEMRush reported very low traffic too so I am wondering how it. NeilPatel's suggested around 5,000 traffic mostly on the One Wheel which was a Kickstarter project in 2015 getting over $600,000. Not too sure how this site amass so much profit though

List of 73 Niche Websites Mentioned