Learning to generate a passive income online through writing can seem like a daunting task. To date, roughly 22,000 people have signed up to InfoBarrel with the intention to start building a passive income through their writing. Of these 22,000 people roughly 10% of them have tried their hand at writing articles. Less than 100 people have contributed more than 100 articles.
With that said we have a number of writers making over $100 a month as well as a couple that I know of who are over $1000/month.
So why am I rambling on about these InfoBarrel statistics? I want to demonstrate that it IS possible to build a rock solid passive income stream with InfoBarrel.
Instead of just saying that it is possible, and not backing up anything I say up with actual examples, I’ve decided to take on an experiment. In this experiment I will publish a bare minimum of 15 articles a month, possibly more and document the progress I make with these articles.
The Project
Each month I will publish a bare minimum of 15 articles; if I have the time, I will try and publish more. At the end of each month, I will disclose exactly how much money these articles made me and what techniques I used to get them ranked well within Google.
When Will The IBTP Start?
I fully intend on starting to publish tomorrow.
What Username Will This Experiment Be Under?
In order to make this a from scratch experiment, we will be using the account IBTP, short for InfoBarrel Transparency Project.
I have already announced the experiment on the InfoBarrel Writer’s Community, if you don’t frequent the forum, please sign up for my news feed to be informed when I post updates.


6 comments
Kevin Marx says:
Aug 24, 2010
That’s awesome Ryan! I’m very much looking forward to your project and really appreciate you taking time out of your schedule to do this and share it with everyone!
I’ll definitely be following along!
Kevin
JP says:
Aug 24, 2010
I am really glad you are doing this, Ryan. I feel myself on a learning curve, and I think that your experiment might help me fine tune some of the mistakes I make, or don’t consider.
Can you please include the time that it takes you to do the articles? I don’t think I could ever do 15/day, but you say this like it’s fairly easy, so maybe I’m missing something. Perhaps it’s my writing style. I don’t know.
Glad you’re part of our community!
Chezfat says:
Aug 25, 2010
Good luck Ryan – can’t wait to see how it goes – I’ll see if I can follow your lead and post $1000 worth of content by 2011 too. It’s possible, I know it.
TravisAitch says:
Aug 25, 2010
I am so excited to watch this experiment! I think this is an excellent idea and a great for IB’s PR (not page rank lol the other PR). I wish you the best of luck and looking forward to seeing what kinds of backlinking sites you’re using.
dmcmahan says:
Aug 25, 2010
Can’t wait this sounds awesome. Hope this works out it will motivate a lot of people me being one of them. I am one of the people that doesn’t have 100 hundred articles yet but I have only been a member around 5 months. I know some can write 2 or 3 articles a day but I’m not to that level has of today I have 31. Good Luck.
Ernie says:
Aug 26, 2010
I am looking forward to seeing how fast you can build up your earnings.