Looking for ways to make money online? Business Owl has come up with 101 ways to do exactly that! Number four on the list – develop a content website.

What is a Content Website?

Content websites provide website visitors with high quality, genuinely useful information on a particular nîche topic.

How Does a Content Website Make Money?

Your content website can make money…

Through paid content (a subscription-based service) – Website visitors will pay for high quality content which holds a value for them. Examples include consumer reports, marketing statistics for specific industries and scientific journal articles.

By selling ad space on your site and/or getting sponsorships – Providing that you generate enough web traffic to attract advertisers, you can become a virtual landlord, making money by selling advertising space on your website, or getting brands to sponsor articles or reviews.

Through affiliate programmes – By being part of an affiliate programme of a major brand, like Amazon, you can make money online. As an affiliate, you will place adverts on your content site for your affiliated brand and each time someone clicks on the advert (or buys a product, depending on the particular affiliate programme), you will earn a small commission.

Through advertising networks –like Google AdSense. Google automatically matches advertising content to your target audience, and you get rewarded each time a website visitor clicks on an advert.

How Do I Create a Content Website?

  • Come up with an idea – focus on nîche areas, like bird watching, dog training or Italian cooking
  • Choose and register a domain name – it should include a popular keyword
  • Choose a reliable web hosting company to host (store) your website
  • Create your website – there are plenty of free website builders out there, including Yola and Weebly
  • Once published, keep adding fresh search engine optimised web content.

Get Some Content Website Ideas…

Have a look at these nîche content websites which are making money online…