How blogging provides passive income

Blogging is now, without a doubt, a certified way to make money online. Many bloggers around the world have relied — and are still relying on blogging — to provide them with a regular stream of income, which they use to buy a car, house, laptop, or LCD TV.

For some, blogging has become their source of passive income. Passive, because they don’t have to write articles or monitor their blog every single day. Passive, because they don’t even have to be online and yet they earn money.

Take, for example, this PinoyMoneyTalk.com blog.

During the first week of October, I moved to a new place and, until now, I don’t have internet access at home. I simply connect to the net using free wifi offered in coffee shops (read: Krispy Kreme LOL). That explains why I was able to make only 11 articles in the month of October. That’s roughly one article every three days, a surprisingly slow rate considering I was posting 1-2 articles every day without fail during the past months.

And yet, my online income from Google Adsense did not significantly change. Below is a graph comparing the number of articles posted daily on the PMT Blog and the dollar income level everyday in October 2008.

As seen in the graph, my Adsense earnings during the days when there was no article did not vary much compared to the days when there was an article posted (red circles). In fact, there is no longer a direct relationship between the level of online income and the number of articles I post. This is probably due to the existence of 800+ other articles previously posted on the PMT Blog during the past three years which make money for me even if I don’t make new posts now.

What does this mean to you as a blogger?

This goes to show that you need to keep on writing so you can build a portfolio of articles that will earn for you even if you don’t add anything to that portfolio anymore.

Don’t worry if you think your online earnings don’t seem to increase despite the fact that you have been posting blog articles everyday. Based on my experience, there appears to be a lag between the time you post an article and the time it makes money for you.

If, for example, you will be offline for a certain number of days or weeks, you can still post articles by preparing them beforehand and scheduling their publication using the blog’s “Schedule Publication” function. In Wordpress, you can find this under Publish Status > Publish Immediately – Edit link located under the right-hand sidebar of the Write Post section.

The key here is simply to keep on writing and writing. Soon you will see an exponential increase in income vis-à-vis the number of articles you post.

Once you’ve achieved making a consistent amount of money despite you not posting as often as before, congratulations! Blogging has officially become your source of passive income.

Some more online money-making tips and tricks:

• How to get started in blogging
• How to optimize your Google Adsense ads
• How Filipinos make money online
• Analysis of Adsense income thru Google Analytics