Wouldn’t you like to have a true passive income?
Sure you would, everybody would but can this be accomplished with a simple blog? Read on.
The beginning
Back then when I have started this blog I didn’t have an intention to make a lot of money with it. I was pretty active reader of various webmaster forums so I knew what Adsense was, I knew that one could make money online but the core reason I have started a blog was to learn more about SEO which very fascinating thing back then and it is still today, at least for myself.
If you take a look around this blog you will find out that at the begging I was publishing new articles pretty fast, a couple of articles per week surely. This made my blog get some visitors, some publicity and a free book from David Meerman Scott – The new rules of marketing and PR which is the most valuable asset in my book collection.
So you’ve got free stuff, big deal
What, you don’t like free stuff? Everybody loves free stuff but as I have mentioned earlier my intentions were to learn SEO not to make a lot of money of get free gifts. What happend after some time? I have discovered that I could make some passive income (even dough not truly passive) from my blog so Adsense ads came to this site. Adsense can make you some decent money if you have a lot of visitors or high cost per click ads on your website. I had neither.
Affiliate programs came to my attention when I saw some threads on DigitalPoint forums. I was pretty sure that I will be able to make some money as an affiliate. And I did, not much but a couple of bucks here and there.
Today
Today I can say that I make truly passive income. As you can see, my last post was written three month ago and since than I have made almost 600$ with Adsense and affiliates. I know that it doesn’t sound much but it is pretty good considering that no work has been done since. No here is where my problems start to rise. So should I keep developing this blog, redesign it and produce more quality content for or should I sell it to somebody? Investor in me says: Keep the passive income fool, you can always sell your blog! So this is my decision. Not only I will keep this blog but I will build one more with different niche but pretty interesting.
What would you do? Would you sell or build more?
I will check your blog later to get ideas. I am struglling to monetize my blog.
Adsense + affiliate offers is what makes my income.
Sasha
Hey, $600 is very good revenue. If you can earn this much in a few months, you can easily pump this up. Keep up the good work
i will definitely build one more. Werebu i am regular visitor since 2006 , if you remember i emailed you. I have been seeing your progress and i can say that in a small time you have learn a lot. I wanna say you best of luck and i wish you will earn lot more in future.
Thank you for this wonderful and truthful form.
Hi CG,
I know your name since the beginning of this blog, nice to see that I have at least one regular reader
I hope you will make way more than me so you can teach me something 
Wish you all the best.
Sasha
p.s. sorry for not responding quicker
Pointing out how your thought process went is helpful for people in a similar position. Listening to the investor in yourself is probably a better idea than listening to the short-term thinker in yourself. The idea that your passive income will continue makes selling the site an option that is not as appealing.