Giving special thanks to Google’s latest EMD update, I am scratching my attempts at building micro niche sites and moving on to something bigger. My next attempt at creating passive income online involves starting and running another blog. It is arguable whether income from a blog is considered passive or not, and this could be a great topic for another entire post. I’ve taken this into consideration and have some great ideas to make this niche specific blog as passive as a blog can be. I’m going to take what I’ve learned about SEO and combine that with what I knew about blogging and add in a very specific strategy that could build traffic, relationships and even quality links.
Month: October 2012
Passive Income to Offset Increasing Taxes (USA 2013)
I just received a troubling e-mail from a friend. The e-mail is a forwarded e-mail from his accountant that explains in detail some of the upcoming tax changes that will affect more than 90% of Americans starting in 2013. It makes me wonder why I strive to create riches through passive income at all!
“Raise taxes on the rich.” – “The rich need to pay their fair share.” These are just a few of the democratic/liberal talking points being used during the 2012 presidential campaign to try to appease to middle and lower class voters. Unfortunately, many of these less informed voters probably don’t realize that former tax cuts are about to expire, effectively raising taxes on them. This is happening despite the campaign rhetoric that is telling them otherwise.
Excited To Move from Small Niche Sites to Something Bigger
Over the past week and a half or so, I’ve been mulling over and contemplating what I will be doing to create passive income after the setback due to the Google EMD update. Just after the update, my only site that was still ranking and earning was seemingly untouched. This surprised me, because it was my very first attempt at a niche site and was horribly built. It remained at #1 and was still getting a few ad clicks. Just yesterday, I checked again and it dropped from the #1 spot all the way down to #14. Micro niche sites are completely dead to me!
10 of the 12 domains that I own were initially purchased specifically for the purpose of building small adsense niche sites. All of these domains were either Exact Match Domains or partial match domains. Since the EMD update, I went back and did Google first page analysis again for each one of them.
Google’s EMD Update – Setbacks and Moving Forward
If you haven’t heard by now about Google’s latest algorithm change, the EMD (Exact Match Domain) update, well then you are living under a rock as far the internet marketing community is concerned. Just like the former Panda and Penguin updates, this latest one has internet marketers all in a tizzy. More specifically, people who build niche sites and micro-niche sites. It has long been known and accepted that EMD’s held value on their own and were given a little bonus, or boost, when it came to search engine results. If you could find an exact match domain available for a good keyword, it was like finding a nugget of gold in the bottom of your pan!
The niche site community doesn’t know what to think and nobody is certain what exactly the latest update is targeting. One thing that is certain is that Google’s SERP’s are totally different than they were before the update. Everybody has their theories and I’ve been studying up as much as I can to try to figure this out and come up with theories of my own.
Income Report – September 2012
Welcome to the Dumb Passive Income – income report! I can honestly say that I am pleased with the little bit of progress that is starting to happen. Although my niches site efforts are still barely paying off, there are a few streams of internet income that are starting to drip money into my accounts.
Admittedly, some of this income isn’t passive. For example, the article income I am receiving for writing a few posts for the Penny Thots blog isn’t really passive. But, I agreed to write 2 or 3 posts per month for that blog from it’s very beginning, which was just before I started this blog. That is an agreement I plan to see through and look forward to the shared success with the sites owner and the other main writers.
