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or me to pay my bills and rents.But the blog hadn’t just dropped. It hit zero. I didn’t get it — The site was online. There was no issue with the pages. The ads were working. I’d updated my account on affiliate networks. I even added redirects from my old site to my new site.What in the world had gone wrong?That’s when I learnt that things take time.I remember when I began writing initially, unaware of the all the strings of blogging, I never did consider it an issue whether I made money or not. It was all new to me.Now I’m back to square one. But it’s more of impatient fidgeting now waiting everyday for my articles snippets to pop up on those search engine. After all, that’s the only thing I can do — wait.Whenever I write a new article now, the only thing that drives me is faith. Faith that it’ll be back and up running one day.To make matters worse, when you own a blog — content is just a tiny speck of the blog. There’s always guest posts to deal with, keyword research, site audits to look after, social media pages to manage, speed and performance.These are fun to look after if you have a bunch of people looking after them and your sole job is to write. But I just changed my domain name, didn’t I? The revenue is down to $0, isn’t it?Every part of managing the blog sits on my head.Here lies the catch to the so-called ‘side-hustles’ that writers talk so much of.Sure, your e-commerce site makes$ 3000 dollars every month, your digital product generates $600 dollars a week.And

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yes, it does take effort. It takes time. But what most forget to mention is faith.It takes a leap of faith to put in time and invest yourself in producing something in the uncharted waters. It takes faith to put your money, blood and sweat only to expect its reaps an year later.There’s no telling when someone might bottle you up with spam links and bring down your authority to zero. There’s no telling when someone might take you up for competition and ultimately replicate and upgrade all it content.How does one make sure of their own financial stability in this volatile digital world?Simple — they don’t. Just like any person starting a business takes a risk and invests, not knowing when a pandemic worse than this one might hit, it’s only a matter of faith.Sometimes people get greedy and invest to the last penny. Sometimes they rise to be millionaires. Sometimes they end up on the pavements with wasps fleeing from their wallets. But that’s a whole different story.Don’t get me wrong — I don’t conclude taking a risk is bad. But before you jump to building that empire with your first side hustle, give it a thought.Is money your only source of drive? Do you genuinely want to help people out there? Side hustles are nothing short of a marriage (at least for a time period). Are you willing to commit yourself to it? Do you give your word on putting up with it through its ups and downs?Answer these questions for yourself. See where it takes you from there.Have some faith. Give it your best and money shall follow.</article></body>

Why Managing a Website is Pain in the Ass

“Side hustles are easy,” they said, “They make money,” they said.

I’ve genuinely always loved the idea of owning a blog. And I did — for a long long time. Fast-forward 3 years, I am closer than ever to finishing my Bachelor’s Degree and running a slow but steady growing blog.

Even as a travel blog, it generated considerable revenue during the pandemic. What I’ve always loved about owning my own separate blog is its freedom.

There are literally no limits to owning your own domain and hosting — to its design, monetization method, to its content. It’s your world.

If that wasn’t enough freedom, I decided to take a step to rebrand my site with a new domain name and made huge changes to its theme with a fancy pages and navigation.

That’s where it began to go downhill. While setting up my SEO, I noticed there were thousands of spam links hitting my site — ultimately hemorrhaging the rankings of my site.

To those unaware of SEO, backlinks to a site play a huge part when ranking for a keyword on Google. I’d naturally expected my revenue to drop for a short while as everything would take time to fall in place.

A plan I had in the back of my mind was that I’d keep blogging until it made enough for me to sustain, enough for me to pay my bills and rents.

But the blog hadn’t just dropped. It hit zero. I didn’t get it — The site was online. There was no issue with the pages. The ads were working. I’d updated my account on affiliate networks. I even added redirects from my old site to my new site.

What in the world had gone wrong?

That’s when I learnt that things take time.

I remember when I began writing initially, unaware of the all the strings of blogging, I never did consider it an issue whether I made money or not. It was all new to me.

Now I’m back to square one. But it’s more of impatient fidgeting now waiting everyday for my articles snippets to pop up on those search engine. After all, that’s the only thing I can do — wait.

Whenever I write a new article now, the only thing that drives me is faith. Faith that it’ll be back and up running one day.

To make matters worse, when you own a blog — content is just a tiny speck of the blog. There’s always guest posts to deal with, keyword research, site audits to look after, social media pages to manage, speed and performance.

These are fun to look after if you have a bunch of people looking after them and your sole job is to write. But I just changed my domain name, didn’t I? The revenue is down to $0, isn’t it?

Every part of managing the blog sits on my head.

Here lies the catch to the so-called ‘side-hustles’ that writers talk so much of.

Sure, your e-commerce site makes $3000 dollars every month, your digital product generates $600 dollars a week.

And yes, it does take effort. It takes time. But what most forget to mention is faith.

It takes a leap of faith to put in time and invest yourself in producing something in the uncharted waters. It takes faith to put your money, blood and sweat only to expect its reaps an year later.

There’s no telling when someone might bottle you up with spam links and bring down your authority to zero. There’s no telling when someone might take you up for competition and ultimately replicate and upgrade all it content.

How does one make sure of their own financial stability in this volatile digital world?

Simple — they don’t. Just like any person starting a business takes a risk and invests, not knowing when a pandemic worse than this one might hit, it’s only a matter of faith.

Sometimes people get greedy and invest to the last penny. Sometimes they rise to be millionaires. Sometimes they end up on the pavements with wasps fleeing from their wallets. But that’s a whole different story.

Don’t get me wrong — I don’t conclude taking a risk is bad. But before you jump to building that empire with your first side hustle, give it a thought.

Is money your only source of drive? Do you genuinely want to help people out there? Side hustles are nothing short of a marriage (at least for a time period). Are you willing to commit yourself to it? Do you give your word on putting up with it through its ups and downs?

Answer these questions for yourself. See where it takes you from there.

Have some faith. Give it your best and money shall follow.