Ways I Created Passive Online Income & How You Can Too!

I did three things in a couple of days last month that increased my freelance writing income. You can too! What are they?

3 Ways to Create Passive Income as a Freelance Writer

1. Amazon Store: I added an Amazon store to my website.

It was easy to set up as I blogged about here. The best part -- it's passive income. Now that it's set up, I don't have to do anything else.

2. New Blog: I set up a money-making video new blog. This came about because I do a lot of surfing on how to make passive income online. Many of the articles I read tend to have the same rehashed info. So, I started to view videos (on a fluke one day, I viewed one and was amazed at the detail it provided).

So, I thought to myself, "Wouldn't it be nice to have a "channel," if you will, of just good videos showcasing how to make money online?" As blogs are easy and free to set up, it only took about 20 minutes (I played around with layout, font, etc. -- it could have taken a 1/3 of that time).

Did you know that you can post YouTube videos to your blog right from their site? Similar to sending an email, you just type in the info and wham, it's posted to your blog (no extra interfaces to go through, links to add, etc.).

Tres cool feature! Technology never ceases to amaze me.

3. Get Listed in Search Engines Faster: This is an indirect money-making tip I got from Paula Mooney's blog. I now submit each new page I create on my blogs and websites by hand to Google -- the instant I create them. Why?

They get indexed faster -- which drives traffic to my site faster (which ostensibly creates a sale faster).

Example: I created my money-making video blog site last Friday night (12/7/07). It was already showing up in results the next day (12/8/07).

Either Google is lacking info on this topic (it was light on results in this category which is one of the reasons I created the site), or the bots indexed my site Friday night or Saturday morning. Either way, I didn't have to wait days, weeks or, pray not -- months -- for it to start popping up.