Over 1 year ago, my progress was completely derailed due to Ehow's buyout by Demand Studios. At that point, my immediate means of creating passive income online were completely thwarted. At that same point in time my wife was in her third trimester of pregnancy. Needless to say, the ending of the Ehow writers compensation program and the birth of my first child worked to my detriment.
With less time to search for a new venue for my creative writing, and more time spent caring for a newborn child, it wasn't until April of this year that my free time for writing picked up again. April was also the month that I happened to research squidoo.com. If you have seen my previous posts, you will note that I have written 27 articles on squidoo.com over that past month. Since squidoo pays writers on a two month lag, I will not see my first earnings statement until mid-June. I wait for this with great anticipation.
So what's the plan going forward? For the next several months I plan to write squidoo artciles until I am either satisfied, or dissatisfied with the results. By August, once I have built up a significant amount of quality lenses, I plan to diversify my passive income stream. Thoughts thus far are for testing out a few niche site ideas I have, possibly writing a short ebook on a niche topic while I am on vacation, or beginning to incorporate clickbank.com into my squidoo lenses.
As I write my lenses, I plan on posting the best-of-the best to another site such as ezine in order to increase traffic, google rankings and backlink strength.
Although I have been writing online for several years, I have learned alot over the past 2 months about how to drive traffic to websites. In the near future I plan to post (and create a lens) on the top mistakes I have made over the past several years and how you can easily correct them.
I look forward to posting my first squidoo earnings statement later next month. Feel free to help my cause by checking previous squiddo lens posts.
