Every affiliate marketer needs to know what are the most profitable affiliate marketing niches.
Whether you’re new to affiliate marketing or you’re a seasoned affiliate who wants to start a new business, picking a good, profitable niche is definitely important to your success as an affiliate marketer.
However, it can be very hard to pick a good niche. Your favorite niche might not be interesting to your customers. You might pick a trendy niche but now is too late. Or maybe you just want to verify that the niche you chose is in this list and it really is a niche that you can make good money with.
If this sounds like you, continue reading because I’ll be showing you the most profitable affiliate marketing niches to go for this year! And if you don’t believe me, go to Google Trends and type in each of these niches. The data will show you that, lately more people have been searching for these niches!
Now is the time to take advantage of these profitable trendy niches! So, without further ado, let’s get started with the list.
1. Cryptocurrency
At the top of the list is the cryptocurrency niche. Thanks to the economic situation, the dollar has inflated at a rapid pace and, as a result, crypto has grown tremendously in value. Now more and more people are interested in buying crypto to store the value of their assets.
As an affiliate marketer, you can take advantage of the booming crypto industry simply by sharing crypto investing tips, teaching what crypto is and how it works, and then, of course, recommending good reputable websites where people can buy crypto.
Some good crypto websites with affiliate programs include:
- Coinbase is the leading marketplace to buy and sell crypto, with enhanced account security and new cryptos being added regularly. You can sign up for Coinbase’s affiliate program here
- Gemini is another great crypto website with a simple interface fit for beginners. Like Coinbase, Gemini has very strong account security. As an affiliate, you can earn by joining Gemini’s referral program here.
- Binance caters more toward advanced crypto investors, but it’s certainly not a bad choice to promote if your content revolves around crypto. It offers a wide selection of cryptocurrencies and different ways to buy, sell, and transfer them. You will need a good social following to actually be an affiliate. If you’re a beginner and don’t have any social presence, you might want to check out their Binance Futures Referral Program.
2. E-commerce
With the current economic situation, it’s no wonder businesses these days are forced to find ways to sell online. That’s why being in the e-commerce niche can also be very profitable. You get to help startups or established brick-and-mortar businesses start their presence online.
There are so many routes businesses can take to start selling online. So, as an affiliate, what are the best tools that businesses can use to get started in e-commerce? Here are some great examples.
- Shopify: This is the WordPress of the e-commerce industry. With Shopify, businesses can start up a website that functions as an online store, much like Amazon. It even comes with a 14-day free trial so businesses can try out Shopify and see for themselves how beneficial it can actually be to starting an online business. If you’re ready to promote Shopify, sign up for their affiliate program here.
- Squarespace: A simpler and beginner-friendly alternative would be Squarespace. Its drag-and-drop builder makes it easy for businesses to quickly set up their online store and get selling as soon as possible. Ready to promote Squarespace? Apply as a Squarespace affiliate right here.
One more thing: Shopify’s affiliate program seems to be on the stricter side, so if for some reason you don’t get approved, you can instead sign up to be an affiliate for an awesome Shopify theme called Debutify. Learn more about Debutify’s affiliate program here.
3. Online entrepreneurship
More and more people right now are struggling at their jobs and a handful of these people might be sick and tired of depending on the nine-to-five. These are the people who are actively searching for two words on Google: “passive income.” And the answer to passive income is really becoming an online entrepreneur!
Whether it’s affiliate marketing, dropshipping, or simply selling something like an online course, people would love to be able to sell something over and over again on the Internet and earn on a residual daily basis! Demand for online business training is growing, so there is a lot of money to be made selling them.
Here are some great online business trainings you can promote.
- Legendary Marketer: The team behind this training really knows how to push people to online success! For only a buck or two, people can receive an affiliate marketing or copywriting e-book and 15 days of online success video courses. They also get real human coaches and top-of-the-line business blueprints to push their members closer to success. Legendary is perfect for newbies interested in online business and entrepreneurs who want to take their online business to the next level. Apply to be a Legendary affiliate here.
- Affilorama: With Affilorama, beginners and amateur affiliates can learn important skills and techniques to start making commissions with their promotions. Affilorama comes with your own traffic dashboard as well as a few ebooks and their own done-for-you blueprint for affiliate success. Become an affiliate for Affilorama.
4. Cooking and baking
With more and more people spending time at home, cooking and baking has become a new hobby for many. While there aren’t many cooking training choices, you can promote cooking video courses as an affiliate. After all, when it comes to learning a hands-on skill, video is the best way to teach.
You can find cooking video courses on a few websites: Udemy, Skillshare, and a professional website called Rouxbe. All these sites have places to sign up as an affiliate marketer and they have great videos that can teach people how to make their own culinary creations.
Simply find a good online cooking course in Udemy or Skillshare, look over the cooking lessons people can expect, sign up as an affiliate, and simply send people to that particular course.
Finally, Rouxbe offers cooking classes from professional chefs and cooking instructors. This is a great place for people who want to get serious about their cooking and baking skills, and possibly get employed at a good restaurant!
Learn more about Rouxbe and sign up as an affiliate.
5. Mobile technology
The mobile tech industry is rapidly growing thanks to spending more time at home as well as keeping up with the latest Samsung phones. More than ever, people would like to buy sleek and speedy smartphones, and your job as an affiliate would be to simply recommend a good smartphone.
You can either recommend specific smartphones for desirable features like gaming, storage, speed, user-friendliness, etc. Or you can review a specific phone model like the latest iPhone or Samsung Galaxy. Then simply send your audience a link or two to the phones you’re referring to, and if your content is useful, people will be willing to spend money to get that awesome phone you’re telling them about.
One place you can use to promote smartphones is Amazon Associates. You’re probably familiar with it. When you sign up for Amazon Associates, just find the smartphone you want to promote and get your link.
However, the commissions you earn are pretty small, as low as 1 to 5% of the sale price. The best way to earn from promoting smartphones is by joining the big tech affiliate programs: either the Samsung Referral Program or the Apple Performance Partners Program.
However, I recommend that you deliver several pieces of quality content on smartphones before you apply. That way, when these companies review your application, they will see you as a great fit for their affiliate program.
6. PCs and software
If you’re interested in being an affiliate for tech, don’t settle for just mobile. There’s a lot to be made in personal computers (Windows and Mac) as well! In fact, half of this blog’s visitors come from mobile devices and the other half from PCs. So the opportunities to earn are just as big as they are with mobile!
Anyway, a great place to get affiliate links for your tech content is a website called NewEgg. This site allows people to find their ideal computer or different computer parts so they can build their own PC. Check it out and then feel free to join the NewEgg affiliate program here.
Software is also another hot niche in the tech industry. More people are using computers and in need of different types of software: from word processors like Microsoft Word to antivirus programs like Avast. My best place for you to find computer software to promote is Avangate. They have a wide variety of great programs that you can promote as an affiliate. Here’s the link to sign up for Avangate’s affiliate program.
Not sure about what software? Take a peek at the programs they sell here!
7. Weight loss
If you know of creative ideas to lose weight, whether it is picking the right diet, doing a specific workout, or eating the best foods, you can use your content to recommend a diet plan that can solve overweight or obesity problems.
- A good diet plan to promote as an affiliate is Nutrisystem. This is a system that allows people to go on a diet that includes specific amounts of various kinds of foods they should eat per day. Those foods will be sent to the customer’s home for absolutely free! The best part is many people have been able to lose 1 pound per day with Nutrisystem, so if it works for them, it will work for your customers! Here’s a link to join Nutrisystem’s affiliate program.
- An alternative program you can promote is Weight Watchers. This is a special club people can join, which is priced slightly cheaper than Nutrisystem. Unlike Nutrisystem, Weight Watchers does not send you free food and instead, you get access to your personal recommended diet plan as well as a bunch of coaching videos and special weight loss tips and tricks. Become a Weight Watchers affiliate here.
Weight loss is a fantastic niche to get into, but it’s also a very competitive one. So make sure you go above and beyond with your content, such as niching down on the titles of your content, or even if it means spending some money on paid ads.
8. Health and fitness
Outside the competitive weight loss niche, there is great money to be made in any topic related to the health and fitness niche. Whether you want to promote dietary supplements, detox juices, or health plans, your health content can become very profitable.
A very good health product to promote as an affiliate is Organifi, which is a popular detox collection that can provide all sorts of great benefits to your body, like helping you relax at night, preventing you from aging, or even just giving you energy. Check out Organifi’s affiliate program here.
The best website to find other health and fitness products to promote is ClickBank. Check out how to get started with ClickBank as a beginner. Once you’re on ClickBank, find the Health and Fitness category in the Marketplace. There, you’ll find all sorts of products that can help people stay healthy and that you can promote as an affiliate. Find the one (or a few) that interests you, get your link, and introduce your customer to them. Be sure to tell them how the product can benefit your audience and improve their health.
9. Cashback
You probably know that online shopping has been taking off lately. As an affiliate marketer, you can tell your audience about getting cashback for things they buy online and what apps and websites are best for doing that.
Here are some services you can promote to allow your audience to get cashback:
- Rakuten: This is a popular website that can send cashback to your card whenever you use it to pay on many different websites, like Walmart.com, Samsung, and even the travel website Expedia! It is a rapidly growing cashback service and, as an affiliate, simply create a Rakuten account and, inside your account, you have a referral section where you and your referral can earn $20 once they spend $20! Join Rakuten and refer people here!
- Dosh: Dosh is very similar to Rakuten and has a lot of websites where you can earn cashback. However, this is specifically for mobile devices, so you’ll need the mobile app to be able to refer people. Learn more about Dosh and what stores people can buy from. Go here for more info and to download Dosh!
- Ibotta: Another good cashback service to promote is Ibotta. Just like the other two apps above, Ibotta pays cash back for shopping online, but they also pay for you to shop in-store. The way you prove that you shopped in-store is by scanning your receipt. They are even encouraging affiliates like you to promote them. Sign up for Ibotta’s affiliate program here!
10. Home security
With more people staying home and ordering online, home security has become increasingly important. Nobody likes facing the risk of trespassers like porch pirates. So this is a great opportunity for you to jump on as an affiliate, by making content around home security products like SimpliSafe, Google Nest, and Amazon Ring.
The only good website to get your affiliate link to promote home security products would be Amazon Associates. Simply sign up for Amazon Associates, find a home security camera to promote, and be sure to retrieve your special Amazon link to start sharing it with others.
People would feel a lot safer with home security, so as an affiliate, you can earn a lot of money putting people’s worries to rest.
11. Dating and relationships
If you’re the kind of affiliate who is interested in sharing good dating or relationship skills, you can earn a lot of money. With people feeling lonelier, they have that desire to find some love. And they do need serious advice on how to date successfully or how to maintain a strong relationship.
One website to find great relationship courses to promote is ClickBank.com. Sign up as a ClickBank affiliate. Then head over to the marketplace and pick the Dating and Relationships sub-category under the Self-Help category. You’ll see a few relationship training products that you can recommend to your audience.
One good relationship course that you can recommend to a couple considering divorce or separation is called Marriage Fitness at marriagemax.com. You can learn more about Marriage Fitness here. And be sure to join their affiliate program so you can earn money promoting it.
12. Cameras and camcorders
Making videos for social media has become increasingly popular these days to make high-quality content, people will need a good camera. But which one? This is where you come in as an affiliate: you get to review cameras and show you the ones that you’d recommend.
Obviously, the GoPro is the go-to for a quality camcorder. But, while you can create content around how awesome the GoPro is, maybe you can find some alternatives to it. Perhaps there is a camera that has slightly more features than the GoPro or a camera that is essentially like the GoPro, only slightly cheaper.
For example, here are some good GoPro alternatives you can review. (These are all links to Amazon.)
- Dragon Touch
- Crosstour
- VanTop
- Campark
Or, if you’d rather stick with GoPro, here’s a tip! There are actually different models of GoPro: the Hero 7, the Hero 9, etc. In your affiliate reviews, you can compare and contrast GoPro’s different models.
Then you can take it to the next level by recommending some good tripods, gimbals, and camera mics. By doing this, you can become your audience’s go-to for everything video recording.
By sharing the different kinds of action cameras people can choose from, you can earn great money as an affiliate. There are millions of YouTube videos posted every single day. Take advantage of this huge number and earn from the people who want to take their video content to the next level!
13. Headphones
From podcasts to songs to simply listening to videos without interfering with others, headphones have become an important part of our tech life. With more people turning to technology these days, the demand for headphones is greater than it has ever been.
Hands down, Beats is the leader of the headphones industry. But again, you can find good alternatives to Beats and review the different types of Beats headphones out there. Big companies like Sony, Bose, and even Apple (with the EarPods) are bringing headphones to the market that are worth mentioning and reviewing! There are also smaller companies that make good headphones and earbuds, like Edifier (my personal favorite).
And if you don’t think the headphones niche isn’t profitable, guess what? There is an affiliate marketer who goes by the name ODi Productions, and he runs the website RecordingNow.com. This is a fantastic affiliate website that can give you ideas on what headphones you can review and how to best review them. Thanks to this website, Odi has been able to make hundreds of dollars in affiliate commissions!
14. Dog training
I think we all know that a dog is “man’s best friend.” As more and more people stay home, they get to spend time with their furry friends. But what if their mutt happens to be out of control and ruining their life? This is where good training can help.
There are several places to find dog training courses. Head over to websites like Udemy and Skillshare. There, you can become an affiliate for particular courses, find good canine training courses, review them, and make money.
A good website that offers dog training, along with an affiliate program, is Dunbar Academy. They offer 9 free courses and then paid access to 28 additional training courses for $20 per month. That’s a lot of value just to make your dog behave better. Check out Dunbar Academy here.
15. Crafting
With more time on our hands, many people have that itch to use those hands to create art. Promoting arts and crafts training can be profitable if you enjoy crafting and cater to people who need help with their craft.
Again, you can find many great crafting courses to promote as an affiliate on sites like Udemy and Skillshare. Now there are also two specific crafting course websites that you might want to check out. They both have affiliate programs so you can start promoting their crafting classes.
Both of these sites allow professional crafting instructors to teach students different kinds of crafting.
- Creativebug offers classes on basic arts and crafts, like painting, sewing, knitting, and jewelry. This site comes with a free trial and then at least $8 per month to access all its courses. It’s a nice simple website for people to learn the basics of crafting.
- CreativeLive goes further from Creativebug and offers a wide selection of creativity classes: not just arts and crafts, but also video editing, photoshopping, songwriting, and even business courses like freelancing, marketing, and leadership skills. Better yet, this site offers its students two payment options: a membership of at least $13 a month that gives them access to any course, or they can purchase access to a course individually. There are a lot of great skills that your crafty audience can learn from if you decide to promote CreativeLive.
Final Words
So, there you have it: 15 great profitable niches that you can take advantage of as an affiliate. But remember to keep your content in a single niche. It’s easy to get distracted by all the appealing niche choices here.
Pick which one interests you the most and keep learning all you can about it. Then post quality content to help your audience in this niche, and use it to promote different kinds of programs and services that you believe in.
After a while, your brand will start to grow and you might start making hundreds of dollars a day in a manner of weeks (or months or years, depending on how much work and investment you put in.)
Need Help Being a Successful Affiliate?
Now maybe you’re not sure of how to be a good affiliate or maybe you’ve been doing this kind of affiliate work and you’re still not earning money. You probably already took an affiliate marketing training site, like Affilorama.
Well, thankfully, there’s a great place where you can do affiliate marketing the right way and make the most money out of it. It’s called Legendary Marketer.
Sound familiar? I mentioned it as a good online business training you can promote as an affiliate. Well, actually, they can help you out if you’re struggling with your affiliate marketing!
What Do I Get with Legendary?
For just a few bucks, you get to spend a 15-day challenge learning how you can earn thousands of dollars by learning some important online skills. And many people don’t even know these skills! I personally went through this challenge and got a lot of great inspiration as an affiliate that has encouraged me to work toward more money online.
Legendary even has a $1 affiliate marketing e-book that has everything you can do to make the most money out of affiliate marketing!
Here are some skills you get to learn inside Legendary:
- What kind of products to promote to make the most money with affiliate marketing
- All the programs and services you should invest in as an affiliate that can give you a huge return on your investment
- How to become a more productive person so you can start making money as an affiliate a lot faster
- Discover other online high-paying skills you should take advantage of
Not only that. They give you access to a personal business advisor certified by Legendary, who can work with you to help you succeed in your online journey. No more searching for mentorship or a support forum to help you out. Your business advisor is one phone call away!
Sound exciting? I promise you won’t regret getting started with this challenge. When you’re ready to go, the link is below.
TAKE THE LEGENDARY MARKETER 15-DAY CHALLENGE!
Conclusion
I really hope this article gave you good ideas as to the best niches you can focus on as an affiliate marketer. They are all very lucrative and have amazing potential. All you need to do is keep promoting inside a single niche and, with enough work, time, and investment, you can earn income that can easily replace your full-time job!
One more thing: If you’re not sure exactly how to promote as an affiliate, you can review my step-by-step affiliate guide here.
I wish you all the best in your affiliate marketing journey.