Let’s get right to the point on exactly what passive income is. The internet is full of articles on the subject, so this piece is short and answers the most basic questions on passive income.

Mostly you hear about passive income either online or via authors. Passive income is the regular payment generated through an activity you’re not directly profiting from. Wikipedia often has the most basic of answers, but they offered a powerful quote from the IRS. Passive income is “any activity… in which the taxpayer does not materially participate.”

For bloggers, this is ad income. And it’s not entirely a pipe dream to make it a career. For writers, this is the standard royalty check. You’re regularly receiving payment for a product (a book), without clear activity on your part. In other words, you wrote the blog post, you wrote the eBook or novel, but you’re not knocking on doors to sell it.

Passive income is quite a popular buzz word for social media types. Some bloggers, actually, make more from passive income than from directly working with other companies. For instance, some blogging companies cut checks to bloggers for projects like writing posts or starting a brand new blog. This is direct income, and you’d think it would keep many bloggers interested; however, passive income is such a new, powerful reality that more and more bloggers are making it the core of their careers.

For writers, it’s not just novels or other books. It can mean a conversion of page views on a site. You get 1,000 page views for your published article, and you get $1.50 or more. If you want more money, SEO Writing itself is one of the hottest careers online.

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