How to generate passive income from a website: Part 1
Posted: January 14th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: focus, how to, interests | Tags: how to, passive income |
I’ve been developing websites utilizing Flash, PHP, .asp, MySQL and other important technology and software for the last 8 years. I got into the affiliate marketing game in July of 2008. For the past 6 1/2 months, I’ve been learning a great deal about affiliate marketing, blogs, social media, seo and a host of other technologies and theories.
I am beginning a series of posts now that will walk through my process for establishing a website that earns me money passively. This simply means that people can be visiting the website and clicking links while I am doing other things and I earn a commission while they do that.
When I started, this seemed like a foolproof, easy way to make money. I believe that many people start out thinking they can easily earn thousands of dollars doing this with little effort. I’m here to tell you 1) It’s not easy, and 2) you can earn money if you are diligent and you focus.
Ahhhh, focus.
That word pops up again. Focus is essential in this business. I learned the hard way and probably cost myself thousands of dollars during my learning process.
I’m going to take you through the process I have developed for creating a website that will get a great amount of organic search traffic and will earn passive money.
I will be featuring one of my websites, http://GetYourCellPhones.com. In the beginning(July 08) I got crazy and made a bunch of different sites and this was one of them. If I had focused soley on this site, I would have been much better off. Please read my previous post about focus to understand what I mean.
This will be a work-in-progress as I am nowhere near done with the site. In the end, you’ll know EXACTLY how to create the same kind of product and earn passive income.
I am going to cover the following topics extensively through blog posts and video:
- How to choose a niche
- Researching your niche
- Choosing a domain name and hosting
- Building your website
- Choosing and signing up for affiliate programs
- Targeting certain keyphrases for great traffic
- Making posts to your website
- How to utilize social media
- How to maintain your site
- How to analyze your traffic for better results
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This series of tutorials will teach you to be a better marketer, search engine optimizer, social media maven, web developer and all around good person. 