Are Blogs a Passive Income Source?

There is some significant debate in the passive income community over the passiveness of blog income.  In general, my view is that blogging is not a real passive income source.  Blogs take effort to manage and require new posts to attract traffic.

This blog is not designed to generate passive income (or much income for that matter).  Rather it is intended to provide a place for discussions and networking.  It will provide a place to flesh out ideas and try concepts.

There are some aspects of blogging that can be passive income oriented though.

1.  Old blog posts can still attract traffic.  A Google search proves that - try Googling something and add the word blog.  Chances are some of the top sites will be inactive or dead blogs. There must be millions of dead blogs out there and some are still earning adsense revenue and maybe affiliate link revenue.  However, a dead blog can not be expected to consistently or perpetually earn income.



2.  The right affiliate links can earn repeatedly soon after the blog post and long after.  It is no secret that this blog uses affiliate links - I will always make that clear.   I hope to learn and share more about the science of affiliate links through this blog and through discussions created here.

3.   By providing links to other revenue generating activities.  Links to revenue sharing websites can help generate passive income.  Some people will find the links and follow them, plus the search engines will give credit for the back links. This blog will include links to ehow articles that are on the topic of the post.  This makes sense because I write on the blog and ehow about things I know/have researched and figure other people will be interested in too.  

If you blog, do you consider it a passive income source?  I'd love to hear comments.