The Golden Trifecta of Niche Site Monetization

Sean Ogle has been a full-time blogger since 2009 and has built three well-respected content sites 🧑🏼‍💻

He writes…

If your site is littered with display ads, affiliate links, and pop-ups from day one, guess what is almost impossible?

Yeah; building trust.

For any of the monetization strategies I mention below, you’re going to need your audience to trust you.

Sean says to forget about making money for the first 3-6 months of your new content site.

Instead…

• Provide value.
• Be unbiased.
• Add personality.
• Prove why you’re different from anyone else in your niche.

He continues…

I promise you, if you show some restraint early on, you’ll make 10 times the money down the line.

Then, down the line, Sean advises monetizing in three ways 👇

1. Affiliate Marketing
2. Membership Community/Recurring Digital Product
3. Display Advertising

The order is important there, and you can read Sean’s reasoning in the full article.

Near the end he mentions that one of his sites averages over $200/day from display ads alone 🤑I’m guessing it’s his golf site, Breaking Eighty, which gets ~150,000 visitors per month via search engines (source: Ahrefs).