Comments on: Blogging for Income – A Passive Income?

By: Jeff Paul Internet Millions

Jeff Paul Internet Millions — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:57:37 +0000

As I browsed through a tones of sites, I feel I should even internet market my site. I’m basically a computer graphics person, but I sometimes feel that it will be time consuming, but what’s also the harm in doing it.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:31:40 +0000

Kudos on your efforts.

The number of comments you have already signals how successful you are in driving traffic and ‘earning a passive income’ actively.

thanks for putting up great content. Perhaps that’s why u rank tops for many keywords.

cheers!
Paul
http://www.passivelifeincome.com

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:24:55 +0000

Hi Darren!

Have to share something with you that came as quite a surprise to me.

When checking my stats this morning I clicked over to a google search link I found within my stats to see how well I ranked in the results. It was a search that led to a post on my blog titled “Blogging for Income – Be Prepared”

The keywords were “blogging for income” so I expected I would be buried at least several pages down if not more.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered I had come up in the #1 spot out of a little more than 6.2 million results just above a link to this post of yours!

So tell me, how did I do that? I just might want to do it again. :-)

Hmmm…interesting. Just checked it again and now you’re back in the #1 spot and I’m in the #2 spot. Could that have anything to do with the fact that I just clicked on this post which is the link of yours at the top of the search?

By: haloman

haloman — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:54:50 +0000

I am just starting out with this blogging/income and very confused where to start to start earning, maybe you could point me in the right direction……

By: Passive Income Blogging

Passive Income Blogging — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:28:09 +0000

Well, obviously I think there is some hope for passive income. LOL But in contemplating this, I think residual income is more accurate. With some membership affiliate programs, one can certainly get a residual income started via blogging. But for it to be truly passive, it would have to be large enough and with a good enough service to carry on on its own once you sold the blog or lost interest in it. That of course rules out MLM. And it rules out blogs with updating ads, but no one managing it.

The funniest thing, in my digital contemplation, I searched for ‘passive income blog’ and the #1 position was a post on Passive Income from WealthyBlogger.com … from August 2005. No passive income advertising other than Adsense (ads for ‘Smart Financial Freedom in 3 Days). And no new posts since the end of August. Go figure.

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freelancer — Sun, 27 May 2007 18:31:30 +0000

Nice work at this web site. You gave me inspiration for my own blog which i hope will be to the benefit of its users.

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By: Neil Galloway

Neil Galloway — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:58:21 +0000

Great article. I started my blog a couple months ago and there is nothing passive about it, but I do find I enjoy it. I post an article a day on average and I write every article title I can think of in the my own drafts section so that I always have something to write about. My problem has still been getting traffic though. The same as everyone else’s problem I guess. I have only used a few techniques like using article submissions and a few of my articles get quite a bit of google traffic. I feel I have some good quality content, but no one links to me offhand.

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smriti.com » Blog Archive » Blogging for Money - A Passive Income? — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:05:41 +0000

[...] See this informative article on the various things you need to do to run a successful website. Although the article is about “blogging”, I think pretty much the same considerations apply to running a good website too. [...]

By: Jacin Steele » Blog Archive » Blogging as Passive Income

Jacin Steele » Blog Archive » Blogging as Passive Income — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 04:29:08 +0000

[...] Darren Rowse over at Problogger wrote an article, Blogging for Money – A Passive Income?, in which he discusses the nature of earning money through blogging and whether it can be classified as passive income or not. I agree completely with his definitions of passive vs. active blogging efforts and the fact that much activity is necessary to keep a blog alive and healthy. [...]

By: A to Z of World

A to Z of World — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 07:48:53 +0000

really an eye opener. I’ve been all these days imagining money from blogging as a passive source of income. But after analyzing what you mentioned I am well convinced that it may be a passive source of income but not a steady passive source of income. Thanks Darren.

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Almost, Not Yet - Weekly Readings 2007-02-02 — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 04:34:46 +0000

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By: Anton

Anton — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:01:07 +0000

Still a long long way to make my blog as my passive income. I give an applause for you, more than 20.000 archive is great!

By: Are You a Passive Blogger? » Aspects of Home Business Blog

Are You a Passive Blogger? » Aspects of Home Business Blog — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:00:49 +0000

[...] Actually, I’m talking about a post over on Shoemoney’s blog about whether or not blogging can be considered a passive income. I must say I agree with him… it’s scarcely passive. Blogging’s a lot of work. [...]

By: Oogly

Oogly — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:41:51 +0000

Actually, there really are “Set and Forget” websites that you can set up, forget about and they’ll just generate passive income: Spoof or Satire sites such as http://www.ModernManEater.com or http://www.IseeJesus.com. Blogs and the updating they require are WAY too much work for anyone with a real job. Many of the successful blogs and sites just point to other sites anyway. Get them to to the work of spreading the word for you. If you can get a spoof site into the Internet’s cultural zeitgeist, you’ve got income forever with no more input on your part!

By: Venkata Krishna Nalamothu

Venkata Krishna Nalamothu — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:35:26 +0000

It is a well written and well thought out article. Darren, is it possible to post a 13 good article for day?

By: StrikesFire

StrikesFire — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:06:46 +0000

I appreciate the Steve Pavlina comment (via Kris). And I think the concept behind “passive” income is even more subtle. True, the term really doesn’t reflect the amount of effort involved in generating $. It’s more about changing your mindset from “I can only EARN money based on the clock or what my boss tells me I’m worth” to “I can ATTRACT money in all kinds of ways all the time.” Once you have this belief firmly engrained, you’re able to open up dozens of channels through which you can attract the object of your desire – cash! Otherwise, you simply attract more ways to “earn” during your waking/working hours – which is fine, but limited.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:00:53 +0000

I suspect that the term “passive income” may be related to the lingering perception of blogging as a low-status occupation… you know, a netful of giggling pre-teens cross-posting about their crushes in a semi-literate stream-of-consciousness texting shorthand. Michael Moncur’s term – “indirect income” – seems a more apt and accurate description for the earnings of bloggers who take the activity seriously, and who see their blogs as a valid alternative to old-school self-publishing media.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:07:07 +0000

All this talk of “passive income” is starting to sound a lot like the infomercials on late at night about get rich quick schemes involving multi-level marketing. It’s really starting to peeve me that bloggers are getting caught in this sort of mentality.

I actually saw a small piece on MLM the other day, and it got me thinking about how blogs and MLM are starting to meld. Then I see this post by Darren, and it just got me thinking that even more.

So I wrote up an essay of what I think is going on in the blogosphere, a sort of call to action for bloggers to stop acting like multi level marketers. Check it out, and please let me know if you think I’m right or wrong:

http://www.onlineindustrialist.com/2007/01/30/blogging-for-money-multi-level-marketing-20/

I value opinions on this, cause it’s something I’ve been pondering the past few days that really irks me. Thanks.