Just stick to the basics and don't quit.

Lots of answers Omosomi, hope things work out.

Hey Blessing Omosomi,

You have not mentioned how many posts you have created so, or their frequency, or any steps you have undertaken to attract traffic. Without this very important information it is difficult to offer you the exact help you may be looking for.

However, you may find great tips in the following blog post: Simple but effective ways to Get Traffic Free! Hope you find this helpful.

There are a few conditions of understand how websites can generate traffic. So, important facts....

1. Training for generating Traffic
2. Key Word Search
3. Low Hanging Fruit / Content
4. Sharpen your content / Additional key words
5. Jaxxie - Word Search QSR / Alpha search
6. Understanding Google rating
7. Word Affiliation, Key words are the path


With these list of things it should help you to reach that potential you are seeking.

I wish you great success!

Perhaps you'd be interested in this article: https://sumo.com/stories/first-10000-visitors-sarah-peterson

Also, Lazy Ass Stoner (on YouTube) has some suggestions which seem relatively simple yet potentially viral in outcome.

Be patient and keep adding contents.

I have around 50 indexed posts (my website is 3 months old) but I don't mind yet about traffic.

I just am just focussed on adding more contents and I am exploring additional advertising methods.

Courage!

Google "traffic exchange". I like Trafficbunnies.

Keep adding keyword rich content. My first blog took a while before it was seeing regular traffic, about six months. My second is going through the same "growing pains." I'm adding one new keyword rich post per day and still haven't seen much but my new niche site is only two weeks old. Just worry about getting your posts indexed and traffic will come.

Hi Omosomi
Are you doing the training step by step as this is how you will learn to do everything
I see by your profile it doesn't say you have completed training and this will really help
Vicki

https://plus.google.com.
You can also link Your YouTube acct. with your google+ acct. everything be on your google+ information. Dr. J

Looks like Trish has you covered on this one Omosomi

Hey Omosomi,

Here is Google's guide: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/6320390?hl=en

Hope you find this helpful.

In your profile settings

Glad Gordon helped you out

Gordon-D has a great response thanks for sharing

Hi, looks like Gordon has you covered. All the best.

Hey Gordon,
Thanks for being so helpful and quick to respond!!!

Tried and True

Elaine

Setting Up Google Search Console

For me, the passive income is totally different from the real income.
Example of Passive or Recurrent Income. The new WA affiliates that register through you and then become a Premium Member.
WA will pay you $ 23.50 each month for that affiliate, as long as he maintaining your membership over the months.
The Real Income is for example when you quote a certain product or service and then receive the payment.
They are also, for example, the collection of rentals, etc. I hope I have been clear, if not contact me again.
Claudio

Hey Omosomi,
Simply put passive income is income made though auto sales.
Active income is made through direct sales.
They are all considered real income!!!

Tried and True

Elaine

Passive income is real income, infact as soon as you have income it is always real ;-)
Its more about passive or active income. In active income you trade your time for money while fulfilling a task.
While for passive income you prepare to sell a service or product (for example on your website) and once this is set up you dont have to do anything anymore. Like this people buy your product without you having to spend time for the actual sale - so the money comes in while ur passive.

Hope this helps!

“Passive income is income resulting from cash flow received on a regular basis, requiring minimal to no effort by the recipient to maintain it."

This was the definition I found yesterday as I was working on a blog.

Mary Ann

Hi Omosami
My definition of real income is monies dutifully earned from actively making your own decisions and working hard at the passion of your choice. Without "all that" my income without a doubt would be flowing flowing out.
This question is a thinker.

Just my take... I don't think there is a difference. Passive income is real income.

Passive income is generally defined as income that is not directly correlated to your efforts. Rental income that you collect for property you own as an example, or stock dividends.

An author also receives passive income when their book sells. They may have written their book 10 years ago but they still earn money from it today. Their income is not a direct result of their current effort.

They may sell copies while they sleep or while they're on vacation.

As an affiliate marketer you can create something once that pays over and over again. That's passive income... and it's real income.

Where it differs is that you are not trading your time 1:1. A unit of time for a unit of money with a clear ending. For example, when you put one hour of work in at a job, they will only pay you for that one hour. They don't pay you for it repeatedly over many years.

Where passive income gets misrepresented is when people imply that it doesn't require any effort. That's false.

An author still has to write that book. A real estate investor who collects rent still has to come up with money (work) to buy their first property. An affiliate marketer still has to put all of the effort into their site, funnel, A/B tests etc.

I agree with both answers. You can only get to the point of creating ‘passive income’ when you have set the foundations in order to achieve that income such as creating the post and adding links etc to get visitors to purchase something.
The more authorative and popular your site becomes due to the work you put in and the posts you are creating, the more potential to earn the passive income due to more visitors, who will still come across your site and may purchase something even whilst you’re not online. (Which is what they mean by passive)
Best of luck :)

Passive Income is Real Income however passive income is income that comes in over and over. It's income that you do the work once and get paid for a long period of time. Here's a real world example.

You go to a job every day and you get a paycheck at the end of the week this is real income right? But unless you go to the job week after week you don't get paid anymore.

You go out and you purchase a home that you intend to rent. You did the work once to purchase that home but the rent will come to you month after month as long as you keep the home occupied with renters. This is passive income.

The reason you want passive income is because it allows you to have freedom.

So here at Wealthy Affiliate we spend time building our sites and getting them ranked. Then we monetize them so that they begin to bring in income. We do this work over a period of time but at some point the site will continue to provide us money for years to come. This is passive income. Yes it's also real income.

Hope this clears things up!

- Glen B

Nothing Really!

It's just most income from affiliate marketing doesn't really require you to do anything once the post you are earning from is set up.

For example, you write a review post, you post it on your website, it gets ranked people visit it, purchase the product and you receive the income. This keeps happening without any intervention from yourself, (you are off writing more review posts)

That is all that is meant by passive income. Due to the Time difference, I make most of my money while asleep.

Once you have a website to a certain level if you choose you can stop working and just let the money roll on in.

To a point anyway.

Passive income IS real income. But the idea that you did not have to participate actively at all is false. You must first do the work, then the passive income will come.

Hey Omosomi,
See the comment below about setting as feature image!!!

Tried and True

Elaine

I'm assuming you have the image within your article, correct? Have you tried setting the same image, as the "featured image"?

This feature is located within the create a post page. If you look on the menu on the right, below your tags, there is a section called featured image. Click the "Set a featured image" link, and select the image you want to be featured. This should fix the problem.