These are the tools we use to build high-quality niche sites.
We keep our niche site toolbox updated so it will always represent our current favorite tools.
We’ve built relationships with some of our favorite companies on this list. As a result, using some of these links support what we do at no cost to you. We greatly appreciate your support!
Essential Niche Site Tools
A WordPress plugin that lets you add, manage, and display your affiliate links from any program, including Amazon. Increase conversions. Find new affiliate link opportunities. Earn more revenue! Less than 5 minutes to set up.
Grow your business exponentially with high-converting organic traffic. Whether you need help from research and writing to publishing and link building, Catalyst Content can help you improve your site’s SEO strategy.
With Catalyst Content, you’ll rank higher and grow faster.
Email Marketing Services
ConvertKit is THE creator marketing platform. They help you grow your audience, foster a community, and earn a living online. We used them for years to help with list building and engaging our community. Use it to create sign-up forms, landing pages, and send simple emails with branded templates.
Active Campaign is an email marketing solution with a full suite of capabilities that help you create personalized email campaigns, build landing pages and forms, craft automated messages, and has fantastic customer support. It’s brought our marketing to the next level, and we use it with all of our campaigns.
Hosting Providers
Rocket.net offers fast, secure, managed hosting with top-tier support and unlimited free migrations.
We host all of our sites with WP Engine, nuff said. They are the best WordPress managed-hosting service that we've found. And we've tried most of them. Nothing beats the power and ease of use of their admin tools.
WordPress Themes
GeneratePress is one of the most popular WordPress themes on the market. It's lean, fast, and easy to customize.
Carbonate is a simple WordPress theme designed for online businesses. It makes it easy to create a stunning niche website without all the fluff.
Site Speed
Make your site load faster in a few clicks. WP Rocket is recognized as one of the most powerful caching plugins for WordPress. We use it specifically for image lazy loading.
If you want serious speed that just works, this is what you've been looking for. Their performance and bang-for-your-buck are unparalleled. They also deliver a ton of value on their free tier.
ShortPixel is an image optimization plugin for WordPress that optimizes image sizes, serves next-gen file types, and increases site speed.
GTmetrix is a website performance testing and monitoring service that rates your site's speed and provides more in-depth analysis and better explanations than Google's Pagespeed Insights.
SEO Tools
Ahrefs started as a backlink analysis tool, but over the years, has added more features. It's our go-to when performing keyword research, rank tracking, and competitor analysis and has been instrumental in helping us run our online businesses.
Link Whisper is an internal link management tool for WordPress and Shopify that identifies orphaned pages and suggests internal link opportunities.
Yoast is a WordPress plugin that helps you create SEO-friendly posts and pages. It displays your on-page metrics, readability, schema markup, and gives you a preview of how your post will display on social media. We use Yoast in tandem with Clearscope to ensure our content creations are optimized.
SE Ranking is a keyword analysis tool that shows your approximate monthly traffic and competition for your targeted keywords.
Content Optimization
Clearscope helps make your content more SEO-optimized. It tells you what phrases to target based on keywords people are already searching for and suggests related words for a given search term. We don't write a single blog post until we've run a Clearscope report for our target keyword.
Grammarly is an AI-powered writing tool that finds your grammatical errors and spelling mistakes. But it also provides stylistic suggestions such as your text's clarity, delivery, and tone. You can use it on your desktop app, as a browser extension, and on mobile keyboards.
And, they have some amazing plagiarism tools to make sure you have unique content!
Topic is a tool created by AdThrive to help their publishers optimize their blog content. Use Topic to increase your site's CTR and RPM.
Our Favorite Blogging Courses
The Blog Builder Kit from MoneyLab is five courses in one, walking you through how to start, monetize, and market a blog like the pros do.
The Authority Site System walks you through every step of creating a profitable niche site, from niche research to building a site and creating content. Take the course thousands have used to create job-replacement income.
Jon Dykstra's Niche Sites Profits Course is often called the only course new bloggers need. Jon will walk you through how to build a profitable, modern niche site that stands the test of time.
