Comments on: Blogging as source of passive income

By: Menandro Tomas

Menandro Tomas — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:27:17 +0000

Thanks for advising us not to worry about not making frequent blog updates. It takes away our notion of losing a score – It makes us relax. The lesson I learned from you is not to worry too much. Also, If we have that passion to write (just like you), that is even better because even though we post frequently, we love doing it. That is another reason why it becomes passive income. More power!

By: carlo yu

carlo yu — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:59:33 +0000

sharing what you learned is so generous of you. thanks a lot. congratulations to your success!

By: sean

sean — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:01:21 +0000

i hope 2 years from now i will have a passive income too

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:58:48 +0000

Keep it up sir..sana umabot din ako sa narating mo ngayon. :)

By: James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com

James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:59:07 +0000

@Abs, thanks for the compliment. Blogging is easy but making money from it is not. But success comes to those who strive. Good luck!

@JDB, agree but content is not the only thing one needs to find success online. Building a community around the site and proper search engine optimization are also necessary.

@ferdie, actually if your goal is simply to earn money from blogging, you’d wish you don’t have a lot of repeat visitors. That’s because research shows that first-time visitors to a site, and not the regular visitors, are the ones who usually click on the ads. That’s why I think SEO is really necessary and not just content.

@jonharules, haha kung magwowork din lang ako for an online company, Google na lang kesa Yahoo :) Tama yun, para maging passive earner ang isang blog, kelangan talaga buo na ang user base at marami na talaga articles sa blog. It won’t work kung konti lang ang articles.

By: jonharules

jonharules — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:13:39 +0000

Sosyal pa Singapore singapore ka lang ha. haha samanatalang itong blog mo ay walang sawa naming binibisita! Bakit nagpainterview ka din ba sa Yahoo! para maging online community manager nila? Sayang si Jonas delos Reyes na nakuha..tsk tsk..loko lang. I know siempre make money online nanaman yan. Well good observation, yun eh kapag established kana. Kapag marami ka ng posts, mas maraming chance na mag appear sa search results.

By: ferdie

ferdie — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:20:34 +0000

Semi-Passive i’d say.

It won’t sustain for too long w/o blogging as readers may not be visiting your site knowing you don’t update that often.

By: JDB

JDB — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:47:56 +0000

Content is king in blogging it gives passive income even while your sleeping.

By: Abs

Abs — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:17:30 +0000

There are very few sources of credible, useful and practical information in the ever expanding cyber world. And I’m very thankful I found this site. Before, I was skeptical about blogging but when I read your articles, my mind change 180 degrees. Thanks for this wonderful site. Keep inspiring people like you always do. Your success is truly deserved.

By: James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com

James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:24:12 +0000

@Pinoyentr3preneur, a primary assumption of my article is that a blog already has a good number of articles. Of course, if you only have a couple of dozen, that’s not enough to attract visitors. The goal of the experiment is to check if a blog with a good number of content can be a source of passive income. My experiment showed it was enough to give me a stable income, albeit only for 3 weeks. I could continue not posting anything just to see how long that stable income will continue. However, right now, I’m not yet ready to make that gamble :)

@Renz, that’s correct but you can also write those articles just to exploit the income potential of a high-traffic, short-term keyword. I know several bloggers earning a daily average of $10 able to reach $100-150 per day just because of a high-trafic keyword. But then again, it lasts only for 1 or 2 or 3 days.

@Brian_B, I agree, the blog niche matters a lot of course. But again, my experiment is about determining whether one can stop blogging and yet continue to earn a sustained level of online income. If the goal is to increase traffic and increase income, I agree that more postings are necessary. But I do believe that strategic posting or making infrequent but highly relevant and searchable post is better than making frequent but so-so posts. From the perspective of income vs. blogging effort, I find that rather inefficient.

@James M., yup a good collection of articles is a main assumption of my experiment. True, it’s gonna be hard work but if you enjoy what you’re writing, that won’t really be a problem! :)

By: James M.

James M. — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:43:56 +0000

I like your findings about the number of posts per month being not important as a factor in your adsense earnings. This is because I am not a very prolific writer. I can’t write like most bloggers do, like outputting 3 or more posts a day. But I suppose this passive income state can only be achieved when, as you say, you have already invested by having written a thousand or more articles in your blog archive. In that case, I still have a long way to go. Whew, this is gonna be hard work. But it’s fun though. :)
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By: Pinoybisnis

Pinoybisnis — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:15:13 +0000

Thank you for your great experiment. This would also help us, newcomers, understand how we can generate passive income from blogging. Thanks a lot for your wonderful tips.
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By: Brian_B

Brian_B — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:25:37 +0000

Hmm, depends on your blog of course. You may also want to post more to create more chances for your blog to appear on Google searches. Who knows what keywords you may catch by posting more frequently. You may miss your chance to grow site traffic by infrequent postings instead of more frequent postings.

Also it helps that your blog has a forum sharing the same url. Some blogs may lose their search rankings simply because they’ve been static.

Right now you’re getting traffic I think on a certain keywords (I checked your Alexa), which I think are good, solid keywords. I think this is exactly why you’re confident about leaving your blog alone for many days and weeks.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:54:08 +0000

Hi,

I just come across your blog and glad I did. Great infomation and experiment!

All the best,

Stuart Nunn

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:58:52 +0000

Nice experiment or I should say a good gamble. :-)
You know, your blog is one of blogs that I looked up to.

Keep it up!