Back in 2003, I was introduced to passive and active income through the book of Robert Kiyosaki’s, Rich Dad Poor Dad. This made me realize what kind of life I want to be and , I have been hunting for potential passive income since then.

Fast forward to 2005, my buddy Sherwin Baluyot, mentioned Google adsense as potential passive income through website publishing. I installed one in a forum that I maintan. Since I was busy putting up my retail business, I did not care much about adsense income really. A year after, I received a $100 payment from Google. It’s really a small amount of money but a legitimate passive income.

So I contemplate and alter my plans as I migrated to Canada. I did browse a lot about adsense, adwords, blogs, e-book publishing, and online affiliate marketing. Above all these, Blogs or Website publishing got my interest because I have skills necessary to develop a website.

I did launched 3 websites and giving me more than $100 a month of passive income now. Again, it is a small amount but the initial development is the only work I have done.

I veered away in Blogging as source of passive income because blogs usually associate itself to the author. That means, I have to write my own posts most of the time that makes it an active income. Well, these are what I have seen with most of the blogs.

Yugatech is my favorite Filipino blog and the author Abe Olandres is making good money from his blog. His site is identified with him. To keep his readers satisfied, he has to write at least once a day and making it as an active income. Yugatech blog is Abe. The popularity of his blog made him popular too and landed as an endorser (now, this is passive) of Ad Auction.

One solution I know of is to create a blog with other writers posting that no single author will be identified with it. Abe does have one with Pinoy Tech Blog.

Are there other ways that you know to make a blog a source of passive income? I am willing to partner and invest if you have a sound idea.

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