You may call me Marcion and the traditional white hat disappointed me for 11 years

Hi friends,

Since 2010 I've been trying to get free from the corporate rat race by using blogs to establish passive income. It's basically blogging plus adsense. I keep it strictly white hat because I don't want Google to just wipe out my hard work like Thanos.
Yet, years later, I am earning only 100 dollars every eight months. Then, the pandemic hit and my income further plummet.
Granted, I cannot regularly update my blogs because of other responsibilities like.... you guess it... the corporate rat race.
Feel like I'm trapped in a cycle. Should I just forget my aspiration of freedom and be the best corporate drone that I can be?
This AI technology gived me hope that I would be able to post consistently this time and grow my blogs. However, I am also afraid that with many people using them, the competition will be tight so I might as well look for other techniques to promote them.

I'm not sure what else I can say about this introduction. I live with a wife and a son in a quite gated community in Southeast Asia.

Hello @marcion & Welcome to Black Hat World!

Here is the newbie guide: https://www.blackhatworld.com/forums/newbie-guide.242/

A compilation of helpful threads for beginners: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/searching-made-easy-master-list-of-all-newbie-guide-threads.1389081/

Another (this time, smaller) compilation: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/seo-where-to-begin-as-a-newbie.1106210/#post-11916701

After a while, when you accommodate, check this one: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/guide-tutorials-a-short-beginners-guide-to-blackhat-seo.1134018/

And, the best of the best, in any circumstance, the search button is your friend. Use with trust!

Enjoy!
M

Welcome here. You can learn everything here, I made my ffirst 1k from the knowledge I got here. Goodluck with your journey