When last we left, the latest of my money earning sites seemed to be lost in the desolate wastelands of ~ No. 300 in the Google search results. No one was ever going to find my website, and it was surely never going to make any money! Obviously I did something wrong, and Google wanted me to know. Thankfully, I was able to get a clue as to what my sin was and what I should do to correct it. Here’s what I did to get my niche site back on track. If you’d like to read previous chapters, follow the links at the bottom of this post. … [Read more...] about Building My Money Earning Sites – Niche Website Update Part 4
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Taking a “Pay Off Credit Card” Niche Site to the Next Level
A brief introduction for those who don't know me: My name is Matthew Allen and I blog over at Dumb Passive Income about all the things I've been doing to try to create online passive income. Creating sites and systems that will earn money passively has become an absolute obsession of mine. Admittedly, there is nothing passive about the amount of time I have spent and continue to spend to build up these sources of income. But, I am finally beginning to reap some of the rewards for all of my hard work. The coolest thing about building sites or systems to earn money passively is that once the work is done - you can just let it sit and earn while you work on something else. I've experimented with several different strategies, trying to find … [Read more...] about Taking a “Pay Off Credit Card” Niche Site to the Next Level
Building My Money Earning Sites – Niche Website Update Part 3
It’s been only 3 months now since I really started to crank things into high gear and focus on developing my new niche website. For anyone who wants some background, you can read about my development in Part 1 and Part 2. My goal is to figure out what works and create a portfolio of money earning sites that will contribute to my passive income initiative. If you’ve been following along (and I appreciate the interest), here is an update on how things are going: … [Read more...] about Building My Money Earning Sites – Niche Website Update Part 3
Niche Website Project Part 2 – The Unveiling
Thank you for being patient with me and returning this week to see the unveiling of my niche site. If you’re just now joining me, then you should know that last week I talked about how I was finally going to get to work on the next of my extra income ideas, and that idea was to create a niche website (a smaller and more concentrated website that is built around a very specific keyword). If you follow the blog carnivals, then chances are you may have come across it already. But in case you haven’t, without any further ado, here is a snapshot of my niche site project: … [Read more...] about Niche Website Project Part 2 – The Unveiling
Starting the Next of My Extra Income Ideas – Building a Niche Website
With P2P investing off the table as one of my extra income ideas, I got right back on the horse and turned my attention towards a new type of side project: Building a niche website. For those of you who are not familiar with what a niche site is, it’s generally a smaller type of website that focuses on a very specific topic. If its full of good content, then they can be of great value to readers who are interested in that subject. Chances are that you’ve probably typed a very detailed search term into Google and one of the first results that you’ve clicked on was a niche site that someone created. … [Read more...] about Starting the Next of My Extra Income Ideas – Building a Niche Website
Ghosts of Personal Finance Bloggers Past
Did we really just quote some Dickens’ to open this post? A Christmas Carol was always one of my favorite Christmas stories, but that’s not what’s got me thinking about this topic. This week I was trying to clean off some of the broken links from my site in hopes of FINALLY raising my Google Page Rank score in the next update. While running the link checker, I kept noticing the same trend of broken links popping up in the results window: Past personal finance bloggers. Yes, if you really want to bum yourself out, go visit your post archive from about a year ago, and look at the names of the people who used to leave you comments. I was finding that a pretty significant number of them no longer visit my site. I decided to find out why. … [Read more...] about Ghosts of Personal Finance Bloggers Past
Do You Reply to Every Blog Comment?
Bloggers – Do you reply to every blog comment that is left on your site? Given some pretty tough work weeks and time constraints, I’ve been asking myself that question lately as I try to optimize the time spent on this blog. Like many newer bloggers, I’ve felt compelled to respond to each and every blog comment left on my site out of respect and appreciation for the time spent visiting my site. But sometimes when its 11 PM at night and I’m just now getting around to logging onto my site for the first time, it can be extremely difficult. Plus as my blog grows, comment volume increases, and other activities take priority, I question whether replying to each and every comment is really value-added or even necessary. … [Read more...] about Do You Reply to Every Blog Comment?
More Blogging Tips and Celebrating My One-Year Anniversary
Today is one year blogging anniversary! It was a little over two years ago when I first read the book ProBlogger and said to myself “What a bunch of crap. There’s no way people can make that much money from running a blog!” Boy was I wrong! Despite my initial skepticism, the idea of creating a blog appealed to me in so many ways: 1) I’d have a motivator to encourage me to continue to learn more about money, 2) I’d finally have an outlet to utilize my passion for helping others with their money, 3) it would cost almost nothing to start, 4) if the prophecy of passive income was true, this would surely be one of the better ways to find out. So one year later there I was – with my very own blog. It took a lot of dumb blogging mistakes and … [Read more...] about More Blogging Tips and Celebrating My One-Year Anniversary
