If you're trying to earn money through websites you should be reading Pat's Smart Passive Income blog. Along with Viperchill it is one of the two most directly useful resources that I have found, with tons of good advice and a healthy dose of inspiration.

The competition involves picking a niche from scratch and building out and monetizing a niche site, explaining all the pitfalls and techniques used along the way. Super educational.

My site is already up at www.Spanishexamples.com, and I am going ok so far in terms of the building. Lots has been learned. The blog you are reading now details my progress from the beginning and I'm hoping that joining the challenge will give me even more motivation to get things moving. Nothing like a bit of public scrutiny.

This is actually one of the reasons that I picked the Spanish language niche, as I wanted to put more pressure on myself to study Spanish. My study has dropped off quite a bit in the last year or two, and I seemed to have reached a plateau.

Back to the challenge, the site has some content, it is attractig small scale organic traffic from keywords that are attractive to me, and I am feeling positive. The next steps are to write more content and start to promote it. My monetization strategy is Adsense for now, Amazon soon, and hopefully a subscriber list in the near future. This is all new to me so it may take some time.

Here are my previous posts that talk about the process of choosing my niche and setting up the site.

Let the peer pressure begin!