Vibe Coding Week 2: The Real Work Begins After the Website Goes Live

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

● It's best to submit to Google Search Console first

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

● The overall 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 actually a common practice among many independent developers in the US.

This approach has several benefits:

First, it saves money on domain names.

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 quality of the domain.

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

But to be honest, 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 after the website goes live, which counts as a bit of knowledge accumulation this week.

In the past, when I built a website, I stopped once it went live.

But actually, after the website goes live, 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 start to be seen.

So I plan to further optimize this "to-do list after website development" and share it separately later.

In the coming period, I should be running three things simultaneously:

It sounds a bit messy, but this might be my current state: I want to make money through Vibe Coding, but before it really takes off, I need to support myself with other side hustles.