I have been making passive income from my blogs since 2017. After posting on forums for money for many years, I finally decided to launch my own forum about two years ago. Since then I am trying to generate passive income from my forums as well. However, I have not become too successful in generating revenue from forums.
Forums and Blogs as a Passive Income Source
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It is hard to make income out of individual web projects. Mainly because of how people invest in SEO and other efforts. They pump in a lot and earn a lot. There is a good chance that money is lost forever.
I think a forum income is going to be the biggest challenge.
As for blogging, I was earning about $150 a month on my main blog with ads. That was when I posted once a week. I've recently started posting a post every day (thank God for the scheduling feature!) and it is significantly increasing.
Now I need to be transparent. I didn't monetize the blog until 5 years into it. A lot of content was made before that.
I also do strategic SEO on all my posts. I pat myself on the back for being as good at SEO as I am but its always changing and you have to keep up with it. But I've been able to get on Google page one and stay on page one with most of my content.
Successful blogging takes work. Successful blogging that makes money takes hard work.
But it's worth it if you love doing it! I write every single day and I love it!
As for blogging, I was earning about $150 a month on my main blog with ads. That was when I posted once a week. I've recently started posting a post every day (thank God for the scheduling feature!) and it is significantly increasing.
Now I need to be transparent. I didn't monetize the blog until 5 years into it. A lot of content was made before that.
I also do strategic SEO on all my posts. I pat myself on the back for being as good at SEO as I am but its always changing and you have to keep up with it. But I've been able to get on Google page one and stay on page one with most of my content.
Successful blogging takes work. Successful blogging that makes money takes hard work.
But it's worth it if you love doing it! I write every single day and I love it!
That's a very good amount of traffic that you getting to able to get that amount
Forums are harder but what if you have both..? blog on a forum website 🙂
Back in the day, I always ran a blog on the front page and a forum as a sub-directory.
I just leave forums as is anymore these days.
Same, but it was feeds on the front page that goes to the blog page
I think I did it that way, too.
Of course, that was back when that was popular, hahaha. Forum portals.
I feel that blogs will probably bring in more money than forums these days. Unless you already have an established forum, it's going to be hard to make a certain amount of money.
They are! I'm a freelance writer. I create about two articles a week for just one blogger client. I get paid over $100 for each article.
My own blogs, I'm investing in them myself. I've just recently started posting daily on two different blogs. Once I turn it into a habit, and profit increases from ads and affiliates, my next plan will be budgeting for freelance writers.
I own a blog and a forum, but never made more than $100 in a month on blog and forums nothing. I have observed adsense doesn't make much money for me and many others.
I have seen so many successful bloggers who spends much money for content writers.
I have seen so many successful bloggers who spends much money for content writers.
I have a wordpress site with a blog on the home page and a forum on the sub directory. I have blog on the home page because my blog gets search traffic.
I'm not saying it's a bad idea but I would try to integrate the two as much as you can.
it might take a lot of manual work.
Maybe post a "snippet" of an article on the blog but they have to click the "read more" link to see the rest on the forum.
I used this method in the past when I was running a multi-author blog, but it did not help much in terms of traffic and engagements.
I have in the past run forums in hopes to earn some passive income myself but I slowly realized that it was quite difficult to do that running a forum. It's not impossible but it does take a lot of work and a lot of investment to see something come back in the end. I also earn income from forum posting and I have also earned money through blog posting as well which seems to have been the most successful for me as many people are always looking for posters or blog writers.
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