Lately I’ve been reading quite a few AIS (Automated Income Stream) and Adsense blogs (such as PMPR, BuildingMyEmpire, 45n5, Osworld and Nothing Ventured). All these sites talk about how they have content sites which they leave on autopilot and which normally feature some sort of monetization. Most of the time, these people use Adsense, and if they have 100 or so sites earnings on average $1 per day, this can result in a nice healthy living from doing not much work at all.
Naturally, I wanted to try my hand in this form of passive income, and so I decided to use an old domain name to conjure up a fresh new site made using a template.
Introducing Teentrepreneur! This site aims to help young, teenage entrepreneurs (like myself) find their feet online with a selection of helpful Articles, Biographies on other famous young moguls and quotes from the mouths of many a top earner. My aim is to reach the top of Google rankings for the term “Teenage Entrepreneur“, and hopefully that won’t be too hard as my domain name is pretty well optimized for this.
SEO or search engine optimization is an obvious point which I will hope to improve on as time goes by. As this is a passive income site, my only traffic will come from the search engines, and so my site must be well suited for bots and crawlers and should boast a wealth of information for the users. I’ve made use of title tags, meta descriptions and a clear navigation.
At the moment, as well as the site not being completely finished, it also contains an Adsense link unit in the sidebar and some banners further down. These have been strategically placed and this is a topic which I’ll focus a whole post on later on to show you how exactly I produce my HTML pages.
There are quite a few routes and paths that I am able to follow and these include:
- Littering the site with Adsense ads. Hopefully as they are well positioned, they should attract quite a high amount of clicks resulting in a good CPR. However, I know the niche and its not a big payer for clicks, so Im not expecting too much if any!
- Using Affiliate links to link to (for example) Richard Branson’s autobiography at Amazon. I also hope to signup to CJ or Clickbank to make use of their ebook affiliate offers. I know they pay quite a healthy sum of money per conversion so it wouldn’t be wise not to try it.
- Finally I’ve heard quite a lot about site flipping. Khalid in particular flips numerous sites after hand building them for hundreds of dollars. Apparently, I would have to wait 3 to 4 months for my site to have sufficient search engine credibility before I sell it, but nevertheless, the profit margin sounds almost too good to be true with minimal work.
As usual I will keep you informed of my progress and any tips or tricks which I happen to use. At the moment Im just hoping that I can learn the ins and outs of AIS, and Teentrepreneur.com will put me in good stead!
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Good idea,
I’m curious though as to how you will be putting content on this site. Will you be doing it yourself, or through some sort of automatic means from rss feeds or something?
Is it still an AIS if you have to update the site with content on a regular basis?
Thanks Tim,
I do all the content myself and write all articles exactly how I do here on Blogtrepreneur.
But good question and sorry I wasn’t more clear. The idea of this AIS is to spend the time making the whole site (like writing articles and doing everything), and then to sit back and watch it climb. You’re right, AIS means you do all work initially and nothing after, but because Im low on time, I decided to spread the writing over a longer period of time during the site launch.
And I won’t be writing on a regular basis – if ever!
Right now I see,
I’ve heard of this before, but it just didn’t click that this was what you are doing.
I know someone who has done something like this, and is making almost 2000$ per month from adsense alone! Your idea sounds really good, so it’s definately possible for you to match this, and I wish you the best!
Hey Adnan, good luck with it.
AIS is a great way to earn an income. I tend to stay away from adsense sites, rather I build affiliate sites and my own sites to sell my own products. Remember that a $100 purchase is equivalent to an awful lot of adsense clicks!
There are solutions out there for building content sites, onto which you can latch a “drip feed” – in other words, self updating, white hat websites…it’s a case of looking around and seeing what’s available…
Anyway, good luck.
Thanks for the mention and good luck Adnan.
Keep us updated on your progress.
Thanks for your comments guys,
Tim – Thanks a lot and I hope this journey can be as lucrative as your friend’s!
Burty – thanks for dropping by. Yeah I started learning about AIS from you, so Im thankful for showing me the way. You’re right about the affiliates, even if you get a conversion once in a blue moon it’ll probably be a lot better than a whole load of clicks.
Im thinking about writing a short ebook to sell on the Teentrepreneur site. Do you think this could be worth it, and how long should the book be and what prices could that correspond to? Thanks mate.
Finally 45n5, no problem.
As an update Teentrepreneur has made $0.54. I suppose thats better than nothing but most of the traffic has been driven from this site. I’ll keep you informed if I decided to go the affiliate route.
The first eBook I wrote was 12 pages long. As I recall I sold it for $10 or so.
Over time it grew into about 25 pages or so – I asked buyers to provide information for the eBook, in return for which they get a free updated version…works very well ;)
Oh right – 12 pages is about what I was thinking – I should easily be able to write that in this weekend’s computer session! At $10 did you manage to sell many, and how did you monetize the site? Was it a content site like Teentrepreneur.com?
That sounds really good actually asking buyers for info. What form/newsletter program did you use to manage the email addresses? Also did you have an affiliate program for the book or just use Paypal for individual sales? Finally did you send the book manually or an automated process?
Sorry for all the questions but I want to get this AIS thing right the first time! Thanks for your quick response Burty :)
The answers to all these questions are in my blog ;)