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Passive Income is income that can be earned automatically without the need to spend much time, effort, or care. Many years ago, I saw this statement on the Internet. As an ordinary working office worker, salary income is probably our single source of income. The ultimate goal of passive income is to build some businesses that can operate and maintain themselves automatically, and these businesses can still bring us a steady stream of income even if we don’t need to invest too much effort in the later stage. Passive income can bring us a sense of financial security to a certain extent. Even in the face of unemployment and financial risks, the benefits of passive income are enough to help you alleviate or solve financial crises.
Since I started blogging, I have also tried how to use the Internet to generate some passive income, such as placing Google Adsense advertisements in the blog, and earning advertising fees through traffic and clicks. Unfortunately, the number of clicks on the advertisement is not high, and the minimum payment amount of Google Adsense is 100 dollars, and the advertisement has only made more than 50 dollars after hanging for a year or two, which cannot reach the minimum threshold of withdrawal. The efficiency of making money is really a bit low. Then just gave up. Up to now, there are still more than 50 knives in the account, which is regarded as a souvenir.
first try
When it comes to true passive income practice, I started in 2017. At that time, Douyin was not yet popular, and video self-media and live broadcasts were not as popular as they are now. The more traditional way of bringing goods on the Internet is: Affiliate Marketing, also known as a marketing alliance . It is to carry out marketing and publicity through the URL link with the recommendation code. When an order is sold, the merchant will give the recommender a rebate.
As a relatively early VPS player , my first VPS started to toss in 2010. In 2016 and 2017, there were only a few famous VPS service providers at that time. Among them, the bricklayers are also quite well-known. The lines provided by the bricklayers before are also relatively general, and their products are all at low prices to obtain word of mouth and users. Since 2017, their family has successively launched VPS of CN2 line and CN2 GIA line. Since then, domestic VPS players have started competing to buy, and sales were once hot.
From that time, I decided to do VPS hosting promotion to earn commissions. In the spirit of tossing VPS is a hobby, and I am familiar with this aspect, and I am more confident in promoting it. The bricklayers were also in the stage of expanding their business at that time, and their promotion commission ratio was also very good. One order could withdraw up to 22% of the commission, which has not changed until now. And the 22% commission rebate is still cyclical. As long as the purchased user continues to renew the subscription, the 22% commission will go directly to you in the next month’s renewal fee. What’s even more amazing is that their commissions can be withdrawn in a flash, which is basically withdrawn to the Paypal account in minutes. Until now, I have not seen other VPS merchants can do this level.
Since late August 2017, my first article promoting the bricklayer VPS was published on the blog, and this was also the first article that brought income to my personal blog. Since my blog was established earlier, there is traffic from Google, as well as traffic from RSS subscriptions and friend chain exchanges. On the day of publication, I also sent the URL of the article to some technical communities for promotion. Looking at the earliest commission record, this article has 4 people who have ordered VPS since the day it was published, bringing a total of $24.8 in revenue, which is much faster than Google Adsense. From that day onwards, there have been commission income for the following days.
The first time I tasted the sweetness, I decided to further develop the promotion business. Afterwards, I published a few more VPS and line evaluation articles, each with a promotion link. With the weight of Blog itself in Google is not bad, almost every new article is quickly included in Google, and a little more keyword optimization, many keyword searches can be directly ranked first on the first page, or the first three pages. This naturally leads to more traffic, and with it more commissions.
Horizontal development
Of course, organic traffic from Google alone is not enough. In order to introduce more traffic and improve the transaction rate of orders, I also tried various ways to attract traffic. In order to send the written evaluation articles to major domestic websites and forums for promotion, I have registered accounts on Nuggets, Zhihu and Jianshu, and I will also send the promoted articles to the forums V2EX and V2EX where programmers gather more. Twitter. Thanks to the high weight of these websites in search engines, the review articles published on them can also appear in the top pages of the search results page. This wave of operations also brought good income. But later, due to the vicious competition among “peers”, several articles were reported and deleted on Zhihu and Jianshu. Later, Zhihu’s account was also permanently banned due to multiple reports, and I also gave up this promotion method.
Because the VPS sales of the bricklayers were once hot, the newly released batch of VPS will be robbed in a short period of time, and players who want to buy can only wait for the next batch of machines to go online. These news were previously spread by word of mouth on Blogs, forums and QQ groups. Later, some people developed a VPS inventory monitoring website, mainly by monitoring the changes on the service provider’s page, and sending out emails or other notifications when new machines can be ordered. Later, I also followed up with a website dedicated to monitoring VPS inventory: https://vpsdalao.com , in addition to monitoring the VPS inventory of bricklayers, I also monitored the inventory of some other VPS merchants, and also embedded promotion links by the way.
In addition, I also tried to build a special VPS evaluation website to promote VPS including bricklayer VPS and various merchants. There are also buying ads from Google, buying keywords to bring in traffic.
The road to earn money
From the beginning of 2017 to the present, the monthly commission earned from the movers is enough to cover all the expenses of promoting websites and domain names, and there is still a lot of surplus. Since 2017, I have been able to play a bunch of VPS for almost no money, and earn dollars by the way. After a careful calculation of 17 years to the present, about 5 years, the total commission extracted from the bricklayers is about 36,332.99 US dollars, which is about 245,000 yuan according to the current exchange rate. On average, he earns 49,000 yuan a year. Well, in addition to this, I also promote the VPS of other merchants. After a calculation, the income is about a few thousand dollars. Bricklayers earn the most here. The earning income brought by these side jobs can also be regarded as earning some pocket money for myself as an amateur. Although the amount is not large, the process of earning while lying down is quite enjoyable.
A little thought and conclusion
From 2017 to the present, it is obvious that the promotion of VPS hosting is not as popular as in the past. With the continuous expansion and upgrade of a certain qiang, the bricklayers have become the “hardest hit area” every time, and many VPS players’ machines have been blocked inexplicably. In addition, the bricklayers are no longer taking the cost-effective route, and the new machines are not as cheap as before, which indirectly leads to the business promotion of their family becoming more and more difficult to do. Although there is still a monthly commission for the bricklayers that can be withdrawn, I haven’t put too much energy on the sideline of host promotion.
Summarizing the operation of the sideline of host promotion, it is not difficult to find that it is similar to the routine of other business promotion. I also have a few experiences to share here:
- Any side hustle or way of earning money, just like software development, has its own life cycle. Look at the right time and enter in the early stage. When the industry is known by more people and becomes popular, you can get a head start in the competition and fully enjoy the higher and more opportunities brought by this blue ocean market. Benefit.
- Traffic is king. As the saying goes, if you are good at drinking, you are afraid of deep alleys. How to make your promotional articles visible to more people and increase the order transaction rate can bring more commissions and profits. You can try various promotion methods, go to various forums, groups and communities to find target users for purposeful promotion.
- For VPS promotion, in addition to writing review articles, you can also take into account the needs of players in this area, dig deep into their needs, and make corresponding products, which is also very conducive to promotion. Such as VPS price comparison website, VPS inventory monitoring website, VPS second-hand transaction website, etc. I just don’t have the energy to keep going…
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