Blogging for Passive Income

Posted on November 2, 2007
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After an enforced layoff from blogging, I have just returned to the blogosphere and received a pleasant surprise. Monetize Your Blog has continued to make money (albeit a dribble rather than a flood) even though there has been nothing new posted here in quite some time.

While the traffic levels are not what they were when I was posting regularly, a steady stream of visitors have been landing on this blog even in my absence. The composition of this traffic is interesting as well. In the past, there was no dominant source of traffic. Visitors were being referred from other blogs, social media as well as search engines. In recent times traffic has been coming predominantly from search engines. It seems there are a few posts on this blog which the search engines have taken a particular liking to.

So what conclusions can be drawn from this? Perhaps a few well written posts which rank well in the search engines can do almost as well as a constant barrage of new content. I don’t know. But I do like the idea of owning a piece of web real estate which earns passive income 24 hours per day, each and every day of the year - whether I am there or not…

The Bad News

A not-so-pleasant surprise was the amount of spam which had accumulated in the comments on my posts. I know that sometimes there can be a fine line between legitimate comments and spam. And I try to be as understanding as possible when reading through any comments I receive, but some of the things people have written border on the ridiculous. I don’t mind a commenter leaving a link to their blog or other website provided they have something useful to say - that’s all part of blogging. However, pasting your agloco referrer link into a comment is beyond a joke.

ice dragon captured my thoughts succinctly in his comment “Every comment here looks like spam…” on my post Add Flare to your RSS Feed.

Lastly, I would like to thank all those who showed interest in Monetize Your Blog through comments and email during its hiatus. I will endeavor to respond to each of you as time permits.

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6 Responses to “Blogging for Passive Income”

  1. Chris on November 5th, 2007 1:54 am

    Hey Brett, glad to have you back with us :-)

    The level of obscene bot-spam is getting worse every day it seems. If you’re back to blogging, you may want to consider a swap to WordPress or other platform which has better spam protection.

  2. monetizeyourblog on November 5th, 2007 2:13 am

    Thanks Chris.

    I have been considering a change to WordPress. You will be the first to know when I do…

  3. Redwinder on November 11th, 2007 7:34 pm

    does`t blogger use the Captcha system?, i guess that would drive away most spammers,anyway great blog hopefully some of your tips will help me since i just started a blog hoping i can win some much needed dough,if you have the time could you visit http://elitefreeware.blogspot.com/ and tell what am i doing good or bad?, i just started this week.

  4. monetizeyourblog on November 12th, 2007 1:51 am

    Thanks redwinder. Unfortunately I didn’t have Captcha’s turned on…

    I’ll drop by and have a look at your blog when I get a chance.

  5. Redwinder on November 12th, 2007 7:26 am

    Thanks! :)

  6. Ram Sathish on December 2nd, 2007 10:49 am

    I wll vouch for captcha system to be implemented on blogs too if they can drive away spams….I need your comment on my blog mate..
    http://mytechfindings.blogspot.com/

    have a look and mail me some tips dood ! awaiting !!

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