Vibe Coding Week 2: The Real Work Begins After Launch

I used to think that once the website was done, I could just submit it to Google AdSense for review.

But after researching this week, I found there's actually a lot of preparation needed to pass the review smoothly.

For example:

● Legal compliance pages must be in place

● Website content can't be too sparse

● Better to submit to Google Search Console first

● sitemap, robots.txt, and basic SEO items need to be handled

● The site should look like a "seriously operated content site"

So this week, I did one thing:

Set up a personal blog under the main domain.

I realized that using a main domain for a content site and putting other small tools or projects under subdomains is a common practice among many independent developers in the US.

This has several benefits:

First, save on domain costs.

Second, domain, DNS, SEO, and site structure are easier to manage uniformly.

Third, continuously writing content under the main domain can gradually improve the overall domain quality.

Fourth, it simplifies search engine related tasks. For example, in Google Search Console, once the main domain property is set up, many projects can be managed uniformly later.

But honestly, there weren't many "visible" results this week.

Because I also took on an apartment renovation job this week, spent two days looking at blueprints, and postponed my plans to try various product distribution channels.

So the current status is:

AdSense hasn't really passed yet.

Product distribution hasn't officially started.

I did organize a version of the SOP for post-launch, which is a bit of knowledge accumulation this week.

In the past, I would stop once the website was launched.

But actually, after launching, there's a lot more to do:

Submit to search engines, configure analytics, check SEO, prepare content, distribute and promote...

These are the things that truly make a website visible.

So I plan to further optimize this "post-launch checklist" and share it separately later.

In the coming period, I'll probably be running three things simultaneously:

It sounds a bit messy, but that's probably my current state: trying to make Vibe Coding profitable, but before that works out, I need to support myself with other side hustles.