How to Get Started on a Passive Income Website

Many people get interested in passive income and the enormous potential that websites have to offer, but have no idea where to start. Here’s my advice for newbies:

1. Keep earning money the way you know how. Don’t start any passive income project with the idea that it will make you rich overnight, or in the next year. It won’t. It’s a long term investment. Stay grounded.
2. Start a blog on a unique topic that you are passionate about. Why a blog and not another form of website? A blog is the easiest tool by far to create content on a regular basis without having any technical knowledge. Blogging also makes it much easier to get started in marketing your website by developing connections with the community of bloggers. Go to Wordpress.com and set up a blog there–it’s free and they have the best blogging platform (in my opinion). Get your own domain name rather than whatever.wordpress.com. It’s not required, but it’s cheap ($15) and you’ll be happy you did later, because you will be building PageRank and incoming links in Google that will be attached to your domain, not to a Wordpress subdomain. Wordpress doesn’t need your PageRank, keep it for yourself.
3. Commit to three things:
   1. Write a new post every day (or at least several times a week).
   2. Learn everything you can about blogging and passive income. Start at www.problogger.net. Consistently apply what you learn to your blog. Research affiliate marketing, e-commerce, copywriting, SEO, ebooks, and anything else that piques your interest.
   3. Develop your online presence. Comment on other blogs in your niche or related niche. Get a profile on Zaadz and connect to others with similar or complementary specialties.

If you do the above and sustain it for a year, you will have:

1. A blog with a decent readership.
2. Enough knowledge to start making some money with your traffic.
3. A good idea of where you want to go next.

If you decide after a year that you want to start an online store drop-shipping golf clubs instead, you will be starting with a much better knowledge of online marketing, and at least one site that gets traffic and has some PageRank which can provide a substantial boost to other projects you wish to start, especially if they are in a related field.

The best way to learn is to jump in. Whatever your passion is, there’s a successful niche in there for you. Go for it!

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