Passive income journey with Website + Adsense

seobuzz

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I have been a silent reader of this journey section of BHW and always had a wish to create online assets which could give me long term income. According to me having a website is the best way to do so.

I do full time freelancing selling different services for living. And that is the only source of income I have currently. So this project will be side project for me (as of now). Once I get success with this website, I will create more. So that I don't have to sell my services anymore and don't have to worry about delivery deadline.

What I have done till now
Registered a short and memorable domain name.
Developed the website using wordpress.
Written 15 posts on the website, all about 500+ words.
Created a fanpage.

Current status
The website gets less than 10 visitors per day.
The fanpage has 90 likes.
As per SEMrush, 150+ keywords are ranking on Top 100 (this is the only positive thing)
I am yet to monetize my website and will only monetize (with adsense) after I get decent traffic continuously.

Upcoming plans
Write more articles.
Grow the fanpage (I am considering it to be my major traffic source apart from Google)
Outsource the articles once website starts making money.

Due to work, I may not be able to update regularly, but I will try. And another thing, I will not stop unless I reach my goal (I have seen many failed journey here).
I will try to reach my goal within December 2017.
 
Good luck! Will be following this journey. Keep us updated mate :)
 
Keep it up. I'd recommend going for 1000 words articles or more. Since you're monetizing with AdSense you'll have to get as much longtail keywords as possible, every visitor counts. :)
 
Keep it up. I'd recommend going for 1000 words articles or more. Since you're monetizing with AdSense you'll have to get as much longtail keywords as possible, every visitor counts. :)
Yes that is true. I will try to do that.
 
Good luck, Will follow your progress, I had a startup website as well which generates 20-40 visitors daily with 12 articles!
This could help me motivate myself, and kick my ass to back to the work again, and skyrocket it!!
 
Update 1
Added 1 post.
Currently 201 keywords are ranking on Google top 100.
Still no keyword made to 1st of Google.

I am yet to start the link building.
 
Good luck with the journey, did you consider trying to monetize with something else except adsense?
 
Good luck with the journey, did you consider trying to monetize with something else except adsense?
At the moment I am not monetizing the website. Once I get decent traffic I will use adsense. What other medium do you suggest?
 
At the moment I am not monetizing the website. Once I get decent traffic I will use adsense. What other medium do you suggest?

Try native ads, Content.ad will let low traffic websites sign up. I've been getting about $0.10 cpc for USA desktop traffic and $0.05 cpc for USA Mobile. I don't think they pay well for any other geo though.
 
Good one... I am on the same journey, getting 200 daily traffic 98℅ Organic (Google) .... I am heading somewhere.

Looking for ways to increase traffic that wont violate Panda or Penguin...
 
Update
Just when I was starting to get traffic. My hosting was suspended. I was using cheap hosting.
 
Update
Just when I was starting to get traffic. My hosting was suspended. I was using cheap hosting.

Cheap doesn't mean it's bad. DigitalOcean is 5 USD a month and you can handle a truckload of traffic with it.
 
Update:
My hosting provider is not replying to my messages. I want to use a new hosting for my website. Do you know how can I transfer the website?
 
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