# Side Hustle From Home

> Practical guides, tool reviews, and starter ideas for launching a side hustle from home — from picking a niche to getting your first customers.

Side Hustle From Home is an independent publication by Steve, a web developer and SEO consultant in Louisville, Kentucky. It covers how to start and grow a home-based business: choosing a niche, building a simple website, getting traffic through SEO, and monetizing with affiliate programs, digital products, and services. The site is static HTML hosted on Cloudflare; every page has a Markdown-friendly structure and JSON-LD schema.

## Key pages

- [Domain Names](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/domain-names/): Where to register a domain name cheaply, plus a list of premium side-hustle domains Steve owns and is willing to sell to someone ready to build.
- [Hosting](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/hosting/): How to choose a WordPress host for your side hustle site, with the providers we actually use and recommend.
- [WordPress: A Guide to Its Past, Present, and Future](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/wordpress/): A friendly guide to WordPress: where it came from, why it still powers most side-hustle websites, and where it is headed.
- [Tools I Use](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/tool-i-use/): Domain, hosting, cart, email, and writing tools used to run this site and other side hustles.
- [About](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/about/): Who writes this site and how it makes money.

## Starter ideas

- [Through-Hiking the Colorado Trail](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/starter-ideas/colorado-trail/): A starter idea: a niche site for Colorado Trail thru-hikers, with gear guides, resupply info, and affiliate revenue.
- [Dividend Investing Books: A Starter Idea](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/starter-ideas/dividend-books/): A starter idea: build a niche site reviewing the best dividend investing books, monetized with book affiliate links.

## Articles

### Getting Started

- [The Ultimate Guide to Making Money Blogging](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/getting-started/): The ultimate guide to making money blogging: picking a niche, hosting, content, traffic, email lists, and monetization.
- [Hobby to Hustle: Making Money From Your Hobbies](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/hobby-to-hustle-making-money-from-your-hobbies/): How to turn a hobby into a side hustle: pick the right one, validate demand, and choose a way to get paid that fits your life.
- [6 Steps to Find Out If Your Niche Ideas Are Profitable](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/6-steps-to-find-out-if-your-niche-ideas-are-profitable/): Discover 6 proven steps to test if your niche idea is profitable—before you waste time or money. Validate demand, research keywords, and find your sweet spot.

### SEO

- [Importance of On-Page SEO](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/importance-of-on-page-seo/): Why on-page SEO still matters: titles, headings, internal links, content quality, and the on-page checklist every side hustle site needs.
- [Grow Google Business Profile Audience: The Ultimate Guide to Boosting Visibility and Engagement](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/grow-google-business-profile-audience-the-ultimate-guide-to-boosting-visibility-and-engagement/): The complete guide to growing your Google Business Profile audience: posts, reviews, photos, Q&A, and engagement tactics.
- [Attract More Visitors to Google Business Profile: Unlock the Power of Local SEO](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/attract-more-visitors-to-google-business-profile-unlock-the-power-of-local-seo/): Practical local SEO steps to attract more visitors to your Google Business Profile and turn searches into customers.
- [Featured Snippets: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimizing Your Website Content](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/featured-snippets-a-step-by-step-guide-to-optimizing-your-website-content/): A step-by-step guide to winning Google featured snippets: question-based headings, concise answers, lists, tables, and schema.

### WordPress

- [How to Change Link Colors in WordPress](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/customizing-link-colors-in-wordpress/): Five ways to change hyperlink color in WordPress: the Customizer, custom CSS, page builders, per-link colors, and plugins.
- [Setting up a CNAME record with Network Solutions](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/setting-up-a-cname-record-with-network-solutions/): Step-by-step instructions for adding a CNAME record in Network Solutions so you can point a subdomain at a landing page or app.

### Tools & Reviews

- [WP Engine Review: Elevate Your WordPress Journey](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/wp-engine-elevate-your-wordpress-journey-with-excellence/): WP Engine review: managed WordPress hosting speed, security, support, and pricing, and who it is actually worth it for.
- [Grammarly is a Game-Changer for Productivity](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/grammarly-is-a-game-changer-for-productivity/): Grammarly review: how the grammar, tone, and plagiarism tools save time for bloggers and side hustlers, and whether Premium is worth it.
- [ThriveCart Review](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/thrivecart-review/): ThriveCart review: is the lifetime-deal shopping cart worth it for selling courses, digital products, and memberships from home?

### Books

- [Book Review: Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days by Chris Guillebeau](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/updated-book-review-side-hustle-from-idea-to-income-in-27-days-by-chris-guillebeau/): Review of Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days by Chris Guillebeau, the day-by-day plan for launching a side hustle without quitting your job.
- [Book Review: The Unfair Advantage by Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/book-review-the-unfair-advantage-by-ash-ali-and-hasan-kubba/): A review of The Unfair Advantage by Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba: the MILES framework and how to find the edge you already have for your side hustle.

### Inspiration

- [Daniel Goetz and GoodPop: A Side Hustle Success Story](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/daniel-goetz-goodpop-side-hustle-success/): How Daniel Goetz built GoodPop from a college kitchen side hustle into a national popsicle brand with a mission. Learn how he started—and what you can too.
- [Side Hustles Need A Nudge](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/side-hustles-need-a-nudge/): Stuck at the idea stage? A short nudge for would-be side hustlers on why starting small and starting now beats waiting for perfect.
- [Wake-Up Call to Digital Marketers and Content Creators](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/wake-up-call-to-digital-marketers-and-content-creators/): Ahrefs found 96.55% of pages get no Google traffic. What that means for content creators and what to do differently.

## Optional

- [RSS feed](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/rss.xml): latest articles
- [Sitemap](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/sitemap-index.xml): every indexable URL
- [Full text](https://sidehustlefromhome.com/llms-full.txt): all articles concatenated as Markdown