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This sounds like a good plan. I like the content strategy and the traffic benchmarks. Monetizing too early is problematic and gives you a false sense of security when you really have nothing.Initially, I plan to make a content/niche website. Post as much quality content as I can and SEO the content as best as possible.
I'll focus on the quality of the website first and I don't plan to monetize it until I have at least ~100 articles and maybe at least 5,000 monthly visits.
When I achieve those numbers I plan to apply to AdSense and Amazon. If this project succeeds, then I intend to create new sites on different niches, and hopefully achieve a semi-passive income (I don't think there's ever such a thing as fully passive income.)
AdSense, however, is notorious for being murderous on users’ privacy for obvious reasons - it tracks you all around the Internet. For this reason, legislators are cracking down on it. CalCoppa and GDPR are the examples I know. The more they move stuff around, the more legal language you have to put in the site to protect yourself. And GDPR makes running Adsense near impossible. You’ll need to block all traffic from the European Union. No customers from Spain. :/
Adsense applications can take months to approve, too. And users block ads. For example, this very site we are posting on - the ads use up so much of my iPads’ processor that this site is barely functional on that device (I still don’t block them though). It’s disastrous for the mobile web. I also use slow internet and ads use up bandwidth, which is probably more true in Mexico than here in the U.S. For these reasons, I don’t think Adsense is a sustainable business model over the long term.
If I were to do this, I would focus on contacting direct affiliates and hawking my own products, doing a mix of that instead of relying on the Google overlords. Yes, it is more work of contacting people and product development, but I think it will serve me better over the long haul, and frankly that was the part of my affiliate experiment I enjoyed the most. The goal would be to keep myself out of a cube and enjoy the flexible work schedule this allows, and so I would want this to work on a long term basis. But you do you.
This was a huge fad on Twitter back in 2016 that I got involved in, actually. You’ll want to check out the Hubspot website and Twitter page as a starting point for research if you haven’t already. If you follow them, you’ll get a huge amount of organic traffic related to internet marketing from other sources as well. The experts on internet marketing ironically market themselves very well.There are a lot of sites like that in English, but I don't think there's a lot in Spanish (or maybe they don't exist at all.)
I want to help people learn how to make money online basically.
But if have a Spanish-speaking audience, you’ll want to adapt Hubspots’ strategies for them. (Hubspot is in English, and you know the Spanish web more than I do.) You may want to consider selling or giving away an ebook in Spanish that you’ve written on the subject of making money online. There may be other books you can affiliate market, though your Amazon partnership or otherwise. But since you have 15 years of experience in the web design field, I’m confident that you got this. Go for it, and may the Lord be with you.
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