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parking_question_chap · 22 April 2015 at 7:37PM

Evening all

Does anybody have experience of this? I a looking to create a passive income stream that I can build upon. I know there will be a lot of work involved but I am using a topic that I love and know a lot about so that should help.

Planning to self host a wordpress style website and looking for any tips/advice from people who have already done this.

droopsnoot · 23 April 2015 at 11:21AM

Have a search in this section of the forum using the word "blogging" - I was going to link to a few of the threads but there's more than I thought. Quite a long one about blogging for a second income, among many others.

System · 23 April 2015 at 11:27AM

Here is a post that might be of interest: http://blog.themoneyshed.co.uk/free-hosting-vs-paid-hosting/

Personally I have paid hosting and definitely recommend it.

parking_question_chap · 26 April 2015 at 8:57AM

Thanks both,

Katy, do you use a self hosted word press? The format looks familiar as one of their templates.

shmeeko69 · 29 April 2015 at 11:41AM

parking_question_chap wrote: »

Evening all

Does anybody have experience of this? I a looking to create a passive income stream that I can build upon. I know there will be a lot of work involved but I am using a topic that I love and know a lot about so that should help.

Planning to self host a wordpress style website and looking for any tips/advice from people who have already done this.

I have a mixture of Wordpress themed sites and the good thing about them is that, you don't have to do much manual updating which is good with regards all the recent Google updates about being mobile friendly and enjoying favourable ranking.

As for monetisation, you could try and promote related items (as an affiliate) from the Amazon marketplace and/or get involved with Adsense program and stick a few ads on your blog/site?

InsideInsurance · 29 April 2015 at 11:49AM

parking_question_chap wrote: »

Planning to self host a wordpress style website and looking for any tips/advice from people who have already done this.

What do you mean by "self host"? Normally this would mean setting up your own server at home and running it on your computer. In which case, dont.

For a start this is normally a breach of your ISPs T&Cs so can get you cut off.

Secondly, professional web hosts have professional solutions so your website is much more resilient. A former client, one of the largest consumer insurers, had a website outage of just 5 minutes once and despite the millions they spend on web advertising it hammered them for weeks as it happened as the search engine spiders were crawling the site and all of a sudden vast amounts of the site was reported as gone and so lost rankings. Without (a) millions to spend and (b) the ability to directly contact relevant people in the likes of Google then a similar issue for you can take months to resolve.

You can get straight forward hosting for a reasonable sum and it will repay itself in time.

uptomyeyeballs · 1 May 2015 at 10:46AM

If you want to run Wordpress, don't use Worpress.com to host it, buy some hosting elsewhere and set up Wordpress in that hosted space. It's much more flexible that way.

I have a long term relationship with Vidahost, who are excellent for back up and service, and if you want to have several websitess running at the same time, buy a 'reseller' account, it'll be much cheaper. I have a reseller account with space for 50 websites and pay only £20 per month.

PM me if you need any advice.

mickaveli2001 · 1 May 2015 at 12:04PM

I used WIX, which is very modern, easy to use and edit with plenty of 'good' templates. I have been with companies in the past with generic templates I've seen 100 times already.

You pay around £10 a month, but depending on your business, it may be worthwhile

TheAdvantageGambler · 1 May 2015 at 8:58PM

parking_question_chap wrote: »

Evening all

Does anybody have experience of this? I a looking to create a passive income stream that I can build upon. I know there will be a lot of work involved but I am using a topic that I love and know a lot about so that should help.

Planning to self host a wordpress style website and looking for any tips/advice from people who have already done this.

Given the price of hosting I'd have thought self hosting is more hastle and cost than it's worth.

You might find it useful to check out pay flynns smartpassiveincome.com he's one of the most we'll known of the Internet marketers sharing tricks to generate 'passive' income

uptomyeyeballs · 1 May 2015 at 9:09PM

I run several Wordpress sites and they are very flexible. There are thousands of plugins and themes to choose from and Wordpress is Google friendly as you can pick a mobile compatible theme without too much hassle. Install the Woo Commerce plug in and you can sell on your website with a shop, including support for digital product delivery (eBooks, software). Click bank affiliation is easy to set up too, so you can promote for passive income.

lIKA · 1 July 2015 at 10:50AM

Have you ever checked Amazon Affiliate.club? It helped me greatly to start business with Amazon. I learned how to build and promote Amazon affiliate sites. Amazon.com is the leading online store. It’s amazing just how many different products are on Amazon when you start researching products for your affiliate program. So, you can try it too!!

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