Behind the Scenes – 2025 Finances

How does Residency2spain.com make money, and how much money does it make? I’ve just finished crunching the numbers and can elaborate on how these guides stay financially solvent.

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Web Traffic

Every year since 2022 when the project started, the number of visitors and views have at least doubled. I have a simple strategy when it comes to SEO and increasing web traffic.

SEO

1. Create high quality content. No A.I. and no B.S. I do extensive research before publishing new guides. My information always comes from my own experiences, the experiences of others, and official sources such as consulate pages, published laws, and BLS (even though they aren’t always reliable). It’s important to me that my information is accurate.
   
   
2. Make the guides easy to follow. I got so frustrated by incomplete information and hard to follow guides when first joining the NALCAP program. Make it simple, and include all the necessary information. I try to reword and reorganize information if it is confusing.

Help Others

I frequently answer questions through DMs, email, my Facebook page, and Reddit. I have a lot of knowledge and experience that can help people who are stuck. Bureaucracy is hard, and many people find themselves in Catch-22s or utter confusion. I try to help when I can, and whenever I do, I link them guides that can help them in the future, kindly asking if they could share them with others later on.

Sharing my content is the easiest way to help support Residency2spain.

Social Media

Besides Instagram, I try to share information on any platform I can: X (eww), BlueSky, Facebook, and LinkedIn. The dedicated Facebook page is the only social media platform that really took off. People can ask questions, provide information for others, and find their own community. It also helps me stay informed on what’s happening to the program.

Labor

I still work as an Academy English teacher in Spain. I try to limit the amount of work I put into Residency2spain during the school year. During various school breaks, I try to update and expand the guides available.

Once a month – run a scan of all the linked sources and find new sources to cover them if I receive a 404 (Spain loves disservicing government links and information).

Every Spring and Winter break- Update visa guides, NALCAP application and renewal guides, and TIE renewal information. Additionally, as new laws and regulations are introduced, I also have to adjust the prior guides.

Every Summer – Expand information. In 2025, I published 17 new guides. The biggest updates involved including guides for Canada that year.

Answering Questions – If I’m able to, I try to help people in difficult situations. I usually get at least a few questions a week.

Overall, I spend about 2 months working full time on Residency2spain – roughly 350 hours a year.

How the Website Makes Money

My motivation for making these guides has always been to help others first and foremost. If I wanted to maximize the profitability of this website, I would create a Freemium Model.

Instead, I try to find highly recommended services that people moving abroad would need anyway, see if they have an affiliate program, and apply. On some occassions, I have found ways to get my viewers a discount without even receiving a benefit for Residency2spain in return

Why do I recommend Wise for money transfers? Because they offer the best rates for an international transfer.

Why do I recommend N26 as a bank? Because unlike Spanish banks, they don’t freeze your account when your TIE expires. They don’t charge maintenance fees, and they don’t try to sell you insurance.

I’ve been contacted by many service providers and have rejected any and all that are not a good value proposition for my community.

Examples include:

-Cryptocurrency gambling.

-Prohibitively expensive study abroad programs.

-Travel credit cards (with crazy high interest rates).

In the end, it’s a Win-Win-Win situation. You get recommended the best services available for your needs (with an added discount from the affiliate link), my website gets a referral payment, and the actual high quality services get more customers. So before you open a new bank account or make a money transfer, see if I can give you a discount that also supports the website.

Referrals make up 90% of the revenue, but donations from generous viewers really help me make ends meet and justify the work that goes into this project.

How Much Does the Website Make?

However, don’t forget to subtract the expenses. WordPress subscription costs, domain registration, taxes, and the hefty freelance fees make a big dent in that number.

Unlike most other countries, a good portion of the freelance taxes come out of a flat fee in Spain. That means, if you only made $50 in one month, you still have a $500 tax bill. You can easily receive a tax bill that exceeds 100% of your revenue.

On top of that, even if you are currently working and paying social security, by becoming a freelancer, you are expected to pay double social security (and not receive double benefit when retiring). Below are the expenses and final numbers.

So THANK YOU! To all my viewers and fans for sharing my content and supporting the guides that I have spent blood, sweat, and tears making. It is thanks to you that I am able to continue doing what I love.

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