I'm about to show you guys a website
that I build a couple years ago the cool
thing about this website is in the last
few years it's made me over seven
thousand dollars and even cooler than
that I've had to do very little to make
that money this has been really really
easy for me to do and it's very easy for
somebody else to replicate what I've
done I've I no means is this something
special or specific to just myself you
can do the exact same thing on my
youtube channel I have a goal of being
incredibly transparent I don't want to
lead people astray and make it seem
easier or more difficult than it really
is I really just want to give you the
real facts so I'm never going to tell
you to start a Shopify store and then a
week from now you're gonna be making
thirty thousand dollars in sales I mean
no that's just stupid like I want to
give you the cold hard facts and this is
how I built this website and it really
was not that difficult this is
absolutely something that you could do
for yourself to generate some extra site
income and I'm gonna show you how to do
it right now what is going on guys
welcome back to the channel I'm Bryce
with sane sense where we talk about
everything from personal finance to real
estate investing today we're gonna talk
about how you can build a side hustle
from a website to help you generate some
passive income whenever I begin any kind
of new site hustle I have one rule in
mind and that rule is that it has to be
passive at some point in the future I
mean I realized that there's a lot of
work that it'll have to go into it right
now but that's totally fine but I'm not
gonna start a for example a
housecleaning business or you know
anything like that because it's not it's
not passive it's it's I'm gonna have to
trade my time for hours and at no point
can that business become passive unless
I build it big enough to have employees
underneath me but you know I just I
don't have interest in that so like I
said the businesses that I do and try to
create on the side it has to be passive
and this is absolutely something that is
passive so before I get right into it I
want to give you a little bit of a
backstory about why I created this
website and kind of what the the purpose
and intent of it was for those of you
who don't know I went to college at a
private university in a really small
town in Idaho and when I say small I
mean small the town has a total
population of I think twenty five
thousand and fifteen thousand of that is
the student population so when the
students go home at the end of the
semester the city legitimately loses
more than half of this population the
town itself has maybe seven miles in
diameter so I mean it it's yeah it's
pretty small
now because of the small size of the the
town and the school itself there there
wasn't a lot to do I mean there wasn't
like a big nightlife there wasn't really
a music scene so basically if you wanted
to go out and have fun you had to create
it yourself if you weren't a local to
the city you were coming from a bigger
city I mean this was definitely a
culture shock it was a very kind of a
unique place to go to school it was
really interesting to me because
everywhere I went when I was on campus
when I was off I would I would hear
people walk past me and they would say
man I hate living here it sucks it's
small there's there's nothing to do I I
just I hate it here
but I found that so interesting because
I was having the time of my life like I
was out with friends we were doing this
we were doing that and I was having a
blast so I just didn't understand why
all these people were saying there's
nothing to do right in that moment I
decided you know what I'm gonna build a
website and I'm just gonna list all of
the things that I found that are really
fun to do around town throw it on a
website and then hopefully that can help
other people just kind of generate ideas
and you know find out some fun things to
do in the town and so that's exactly
what I did
every time my friends and I would go out
and do something I would take out my
phone and I'd you know jot down like a
couple of notes I would take my camera
and just snap a few pictures of the
different things that we were doing and
then when I got home I would just do a
quick write-up on the website and say
this is something that we did it was
really fun this is how you get there
these are the directions here are some
pictures it was kind of cold I wish I
brought a jacket or the shoes that I
brought weren't you know the best maybe
you should bring some hiking shoes you
know just I kind of just did a brief
description of what we did and what I
wish I had known before going so that
when other people did that they would
know what I thought I had known before
now I just kept this up
I would do this over and over as we go
out and do more things I would just
create a new write-up and just then
create another write-up and create
another right up and over time there
became a decent amount of articles on my
website of all these things that do in
this really tiny college town now when I
began this website I legitimately had no
plan to monetize it whatsoever I had no
plans of making money from it I really
just wanted to build this website to
help other people one day I was going
through my Google Analytics and I
clicked on this website and I kind of
forgot about checking my analytics
honestly like I just I built the website
and I didn't bother checking to see the
traffic up the website so I looked at my
analytics and like I was blown away at
the amount of traffic that was coming to
my website in that moment after seeing
all that traffic I said to myself we'll
shoot I'm gonna throw some ads on here
and I'm gonna see if I can make some
money on it and so that's exactly what I
did I signed up for Adsense Google
Adsense
I threw some ads on the website and
within a couple of days I was making
money well the website that I built is
called Rex Burton fun that's that's the
college town that I went to is called
Rexburg you feel free to free to check
it out but you know you can just go
through here and for example the college
town that I went to is really close to
Yellowstone so I did a write-up of how
to do Yellowstone and see the majority
of the sites in just one day so as you
scroll through here you can see you know
some some pictures of me and some
friends I just go through and say hey we
went we saw this spring we saw Old
Faithful we saw the Yellowstone Grand
Canyon tower Falls the hot springs and
you know I just snapped a couple
pictures showed some of the animals you
know and then I just wrote up and said
we did this we did this I really wish I
had done this and I just that's all I
did is I just wrote about our experience
and then I threw it online there are
also some really cool caves around the
area that you can hike up to so I
I did did I write of the the trailhead
is kind of hard to get to and so I put
some GPS coordinates so that people
could see and then you know I just
snapped some pictures and just kind of
show it my experience as we went through
this whole thing shuts him in you know
some inside pictures of the cave and
yeah so it's really cool so over time
people began to to see this website and
their thing on cool you know I'll go and
do that that's a good idea nearly six
years later since I started this website
it's still generating income for me and
I don't touch it at all I literally
haven't added a new entry since June of
2017 and I still make anywhere between
100 and 150 dollars a month every month
from Google each and every month Google
just automatically does a direct deposit
into my checking account and that's all
there is to it like I said I have not
touched this website if you don't
believe me let me let me show you the
deposits into my bank account so if I
search here for Google and hit enter
okay so here's one for one hundred and
twenty one dollars use another one for
one hundred and seven dollars one
hundred sixty two hundred and forty six
hundred and ten one hundred and six
hundred and sixty three so Google just
deposits these into my bank account and
like I said I have not touched this
website in a couple years and yet the
checks still keep rolling in now of
course one hundred and fifty dollars
like that's not that much money it's
it's really not going to be
life-changing but for the amount of work
that I put into this website like I
really just haven't had to do that much
so like I said before what I did is
absolutely something that you could
replicate what I mean what I did was no
secret anybody could create a website
and throw some content on there and if
it's valuable enough and people want to
read it then you can absolutely make
money through ads but the biggest thing
that I have to stress is you have to
provide value if you do some quick write
ups throw it on a web page and just
expect traffic to come that's not going
to happen you have to do a little bit
more than that it has to be actually
something that people really want to
read in fact I have a friend who lives
in Dallas and he saw the money that I
was making from this website and he
tried to do the exact same thing he
tried to replicate but he did exactly
what I told him not to do which is
create a website and then in one day he
wrote 20 articles they were this short
he pulled some images off Google threw
it on the web page and said okay maybe
you know where's let's make some money
after six months he was wondering why he
wasn't making millions of dollars and he
said Bryce your system is broken it's
dumb I'm not doing this anymore and he
you know he deleted the website I think
the difference is the motive and the
perspective I genuinely wanted to help
people that was the purpose of my
website and so I wanted to answer the
question that tons of students had which
was what is there to do around here so
people had this question and I provided
them with the answer not only that I
provided extra value with descriptions
and maps and pictures and things that I
wish I had done differently I provided
the value which ultimately brought them
to my website but if that sounds like
something that you want to do then I'm
gonna show you how you can build your
own website right now and do the exact
same thing the first thing you're gonna
need to do is sign up with a web hosting
company now myself personally I choose
Bluehost just because they're cheap and
they've done really well for me if
you're not tech savvy at all I'm gonna
try and go through this and hopefully I
don't lose you it's really not that
complicated
but I'll try and make it as simple as
possible essentially web hosting is just
your rent on the internet when you build
a website you have to put it in a
central location so that people all
around the world can access it so if
you're not paying for web hosting then
how is anybody gonna find it
I like Bluehost so much that we've
actually teamed up with them and there's
a link down in the description where you
can sign up with them and you can get
hosting for three ninety-five a month I
mean four dollars a month for web
hosting is super cheap you can't beat
that and Bluehost is a great company to
go through I use Bluehost for the
majority of my websites when I was first
starting out and you really just you
can't beat the value okay so first
things first you're gonna click on the
green get started button and then it's
gonna show you all these different
options basic plus choice plus Pro just
choose basic I mean you you can expand
as needed but just if you're getting
started just choose basic click on that
okay now we need to choose a domain
either you've already purchased a domain
which I'm going to assume that you
haven't so we need to create a new
domain the domain name is essentially
just the name of your website what do
you want to call it like I said my
website was Rexburg fun let's say we're
gonna do this in Dallas so we're gonna
try Dallas fun calm and say next ok so
it looks like that domain is not
available for registration and that's
that's very common a lot of times you're
going to try and purchase a domain name
but it's already taken so you're gonna
have to kind of do some trial and error
until you find a domain name that hasn't
already been purchased or is not being
used so let's try no let's try ok next
you're going to go through and you're
gonna fill out all of this information
and under package extras this is a lot
of extra crap you really don't need so
you can go ahead and uncheck all of that
ok we're gonna put in our credit card
information and we're gonna click on
submit once you finally get signed into
the Bluehost portal you're gonna have to
go through and verify your email address
and go through a couple more pages but
just go through it's really easy they'll
walk you through once you get logged
into Bluehost you're gonna click over
here on the left side where it says my
sites and then you're gonna click on the
big blue button that says create site so
you click on that what about the site
name to be we're doing and a tagline is
fun things
again all this you can change after the
fact that's fine so we're gonna click on
next and then we're going to go through
again just a couple more steps it's
gonna ask you a few more things but
eventually it'll kick you back to this
this front front screen under the my
site section and then finally it will
click here and say logging into
WordPress ok so once you get logged in
it's gonna take you to the WordPress
panel and just for the sake of time I'm
not going to walk you through how to
actually build your website there are a
lot of tutorials out there on YouTube
about how to create a WordPress website
just go through and look through those
if I were to include something like that
in here this video would never end
so we're not gonna do that now again I
already said this but I want to stress
again that this is not an instantaneous
thing after you build your website
you're gonna have to go through and
tweak your SEO you're gonna have to add
some meta descriptions you're gonna have
to submit it to Google so that they can
crawl your website to actually get it
listed on Google there there's a lot of
things that you have to do but like I
said like I can't I can't include all
those things in in this video after a
few months you'll slowly start to see
traffic trickle in when I when I built
this website I didn't keep in mind the
fact that I'm targeting a very small
geographic area so I actually did myself
a disservice and I'm limiting the amount
of traffic that I can get because I'm
only going to get traffic from people
from a really small town if you have a
niche that's less competitive or covers
a larger geographical area you have a
lot more potential to get more traffic
than I do
which in turn means more money I also
want to kind of put in here this this
plug if everything that I've gone
through up until this point is really
overwhelming I want to I want to pitch
my own service so I I have a web hosting
company and we take care of everything
we take care of the web hosting we take
care of backups we take care of the SSL
Certificates we take care of everything
so that you don't have to do the
technical stuff all you do is you log
into your WordPress panel you tweak your
website and everything is good to go we
we take care of everything if this is
too daunting reach out to me I'd love to
get you set up on our service it's
really affordable just reach out to me
happy to help you okay
let's fast forward six months from now
let's say your website is set up you've
got everything squared away there's
traffic coming to your website you want
to have a minimum absolute minimum of
1,000 views per month potentially more
if you can more I mean if you can have
5,000 monthly views that's a great place
to start but I wouldn't put ads on your
website until you have at least 5,000
unique monthly views I use Google
Adsense for all of them I add placement
basically what you do is you go to
Google Adsense you sign up for their
service and then they're gonna give you
a code that you just copy and paste onto
your website and then it's gonna
generate all of the ads for you so
whenever you click on one of these
articles you'll notice that over here on
the right side I've got this ad that's
the great part about Google Adsense is
you don't have to do anything
it automatically targets the ads towards
the viewer who's on your website every
time that somebody clicks on this ad I
make anywhere from 10 cents up to I
think one time I had 17 dollars for one
single click that was super rare but
typically it's between 10 cents to a
dollar fifty per click Google Adsense is
really particular on the requirements
before they let you join the program
basically you'll have to yell to Google
and there's there's a list out there of
all the different things that they want
you to do but once you meet all of those
requirements like for example you have
to have a privacy policy on your website
and you have to have a disclaimer that
says hey I run ads on this website once
once you reach all of these different
things then you can submit your website
for review Google will review it and
then they'll approve you let you into
the program and then you can then you
can start making money I'm not I'm not a
hundred percent in love with Google
Adsense there are actually better ways
to make more money without using Google
I could actually remove Google's ads
from my website and target local
businesses and probably make two to
three hundred dollars a month instead of
just 150 that
making like I said though Google Adsense
is really easy you just copy and paste
the code put it on your website and then
I don't have to think about it I don't
have to mark it I don't have to go out
and look for business but I just want to
let you know that Google Adsense is
actually probably one of the ways to
make the least amount of money if you
have a website with good traffic you can
make a lot more money elsewhere using a
different ad network whoo okay so I just
threw a ton of stuff at you guys in a
really short amount of time by no means
is this a comprehensive you know deep
dive of everything there is to know
about will building a website throwing
Google Adsense on there and generating
the income this could very easily be a
two to three hour video if I were to go
through and explain everything that you
need to know but really just the purpose
of this video is to show you that you
can make money and you can make passive
income from a website without doing a
ton of work as I mentioned earlier I
haven't touched this website in two
years and yet I still get checks every
single month from Google doing literally
nothing I've also said this two or three
times already but again I want to stress
this is not something that happens
overnight it's gonna take you minimum of
six months before you start seeing
enough traffic that is worthy enough to
monetize to even begin making money but
if it's something that you really want
to do it's absolutely achievable and
there is a way to make money from it
that's it for this video guys
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I just went over a ton of stuff so if
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