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The Best Blog Niches That Make Money + Examples
This post is all about the best blog niches that make money and get traffic.
If you’ve been thinking about starting a blog then you may have been hearing that it’s important to have a defined niche for your blog.
A niche is simply a topic that you blog about. Your blog niche can be broad, like “travel”, or it can be more narrow, like “Disney travel” or “Hawaii travel.”
So why do you need a niche? If you want to turn your blog into a business and make money blogging, you should have a niche. Having a defined focus for your blog allows you to create helpful, valuable content for readers while establishing yourself as an authority figure and making it easier to monetize your blog.
If you DON’T care about making money and just want to blog for fun, then it really doesn’t matter what you write about and you don’t need a niche. You can write about your life, your family, your pets, your favorite books, etc.
Need help deciding on a niche for your blog? This blog niche list will help! I put together this list of blog niches that make money, along with examples of successful bloggers so you can see exactly how much it’s possible to earn.
Here are seven blog niches that make money and drive traffic!
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Without further ado, here are some of the best blog niches that make money!
1. Making Money Online
This is the niche I’m in, so I’m addressing it first. Blogging about how to make money online is a very profitable niche because there are so many opportunities for high-paying affiliates and creating your own digital products to sell.
It may seem like bloggers in this niche are making more than others… but that’s just because they are usually the ones talking about their earnings and publishing blog income reports. A food blogger or a fashion blogger would be a lot less likely to share their income, but if you blog about making money online then it makes sense to provide evidence of your results.
Some popular bloggers in this niche are:
- Start a Mom Blog (make money blogging for moms)
- Believe in a Budget (online side hustles)
- Melyssa Griffin (blogging and online business)
How much do these bloggers make? Suzi from Start a Mom Blog made $24,000 in one month. Kristin from Believe in a Budget made $38,000. And Melyssa from Melyssa Griffin made $140,000 in one month. So as you can see, there’s a lot of potential for profit in the “make money online” niche.
2. Personal Finance
Another really popular niche for making money is personal finance. This is a broad niche that can cover many topics, like saving money, budgeting, debt payoff, investing, frugal living, side hustles, making money online, etc. (So as you can see there is a little crossover with the make money online niche.)
Some popular bloggers in this niche are:
How much are these bloggers making in a month? Michelle from Making Sense of Cents earned $159,000. Rosemarie from The Busy Budgeter made $86,000. And Kelan and Brittany from The Savvy Couple made $11,000.
This is another niche that enjoys a high income potential due to many reasons. You can easily get a lot of traffic, leading to earnings from advertising networks. There are also a lot of high-paying affiliate opportunities in the finance niche. You have the ability to create and sell your own digital products. And finally, there are opportunities to work with brands on sponsored posts.
3. Health and Fitness
Health and fitness is really a timeless niche that will always be popular, because people will always be searching for ways to get healthy and lose weight.
The main ways that you can make money in this niche are ads, affiliate marketing, and selling your own products like fitness plans.
Some examples of bloggers in this niche are:
- Avocadu (weight loss and healthy living)
- Fit Mom Journey (keto diet)
Lauren and Alex from Avocadu made $20,000 from blogging in one month, while Gretchen from Fit Mom Journey made $10,000.
4. Parenting
There are many topics within the parenting niche. Some bloggers choose to stay broad and write about many topics, while others focus in on a specific area, like pregnancy, breastfeeding, or taking care of newborn babies.
You can make money as a parenting blogger through ads, affiliate marketing, and working with brands on sponsored posts.
Here are some successful bloggers in this niche:
So how much can you earn from the parenting niche? Let’s take a look. Carly from Mommy on Purpose made $5,000 one month. Caroline from Swaddles ‘n’ Bottles made $11,000. And Paula from Easy Baby Life made $4,000.
5. Fashion and Beauty
Fashion and beauty is a really popular niche that has a high potential for making money. Many fashion and beauty bloggers also cross into social media influencer territory with a large following on Instagram or YouTube.
Some bloggers in this niche include:
- Fit Mommy in Heels (fashion and fitness for moms)
- The Chic Pursuit (fashion and beauty)
Maria from The Chic Pursuit made $4,000 in one month, while Lauren from Fit Mommy in Heels earned $5,000 in a month.
This is NOT a niche known for sharing income reports, but it is safe to say that many fashion and beauty bloggers are earning even more than this. Some of the most popular bloggers and influencers in the fashion and beauty niche are earning six or even seven figures a year through ads, affiliate marketing, working with brands on sponsored posts, and selling their own products.
6. Food
Food blogs are notorious as being hard to make money from other than display ads, because most people are just looking for recipes and aren’t going to buy anything (so it’s harder for affiliate marketing or selling digital products.)
However, while it can be harder to make affiliate sales or sell your own products, the high traffic potential of food blogs creates opportunities to earn a lot of money from ads. Sponsored posts are also popular in this niche.
Here are a few successful food bloggers:
How much are these food bloggers making? Lindsay and Bjork from Pinch of Yum earned over $100,000 in one month. Bailey from Whole Kitchen Sink earned $10,000. And Trevor and Jennifer from Show Me the Yummy earned $46,000.
7. Lifestyle
Lifestyle is a catch-all niche for bloggers who cover multiple topics instead of just one thing. Blogs in the lifestyle niche may include content related to fashion, travel, home decor, money, parenting, or other lifestyle topics.
One popular direction for lifestyle bloggers to go is to become an “influencer” with a large following on Instagram or YouTube. This can lead to working with brands on sponsored posts. A lifestyle blogger with a good following can easily earn thousands of dollars per campaign with a brand.
Other lifestyle bloggers focus less on social media and more on their blogs and traffic, earning money from ads and affiliate marketing. There are really so many opportunities with this niche, and you don’t have to limit yourself.
Here are a few lifestyle bloggers making a lot of money:
- Just a Girl and Her Blog (organizing, decorating, DIY)
- It’s a Lovely Life (family and travel)
- By Sophia Lee (college, relationships, and home decor)
- Chasing Foxes (literally everything)
How much are these bloggers making each month from their lifestyle blogs? Abby from Just a Girl and Her Blog made $41,000 in a month. Heather and Pete from It’s a Lovely Life earned $132,000. Sophie from By Sophia Lee earned $12,000. And Grace and Silas from Chasing Foxes made $19,000.
The beauty of having a lifestyle blog is that there are many different ways you can monetize it, and you can potentially get a lot of traffic by writing about different topics and not being limited to just one thing.
Which Niche Should You Choose?
Obviously, these are just a handful of examples of blog niches with great income-earning potential. But there are hundreds, if not thousands, of other blog niches out there that you can be successful with too!
Related: What to Blog About: 150+ Profitable Blog Niche Ideas
Although I did not mention either of them on this list, I have two other blogs in different niches. One is in the travel niche and the other is in the college niche. And guess what, I make money from both of them!
So it’s really a matter of personal preference which niche you choose for your blog. You can also start off with one or more niches and change direction later.
I recommend choosing a niche that you have at least some knowledge and interest in, because that will make it easier to write about.
Niche Selection Secrets
If you still need help choosing a niche for your blog, I wrote an entire ebook on how to pick the perfect blogging niche for you.
It’s called Niche Selection Secrets and it’s the ultimate guide to brainstorming the perfect blog niche, along with validating to make sure it’s profitable.
Check it out if you need more help choosing a profitable niche for your blog!
What’s Next?
Deciding on your niche is the huge first step in starting a blog. Be sure to read about the most important things to do before starting a blog for the other important steps you should take before you start!
Once you’re ready to start your blog you can follow the steps below!
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1. CLICK HERE AND THEN CLICK THE “GET STARTED” BUTTON:
2. SELECT YOUR HOSTING PLAN
3. PUT IN YOUR DOMAIN NAME
Related: How to Choose a Blog Name & Blog Name Ideas
Select this option and you can go ahead and set up your blog now, then use the free credit to buy your domain name later.
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4. CREATE YOUR HOSTING ACCOUNT
5. CHOOSE YOUR PACKAGE AND PAY
I recommend the 12-month plan for $2.95 a month, for a total cost of $35.40 for the year. But you can also choose a 24-month or 36-month plan.
6. CONGRATS, YOU’RE DONE!
Now you’re all set! Bluehost will automatically install WordPress for you.
Then you can log in to your WordPress dashboard and start blogging!
Keeping Your Blog Legal
I wanted to cover one more topic here, and it’s something that is often overlooked by new bloggers but is actually extremely important!
And that is making sure your blog is legal. If you want to make money from your blog, there are certain legal pages that you need to have.
I recommend enrolling in the FREE Legally Blogs course, an amazingly helpful resource that was created by a lawyer and legal expert.
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