update!

I haven't been able to update this site as much as I wanted to. Probably because I went to Manila the past three weeks and I had to give more time to my full-time job rather than this blogging business. Anyway, I'm back! Though there are a lot of things I need to to so I can update this site.

But good news! I was able to earn $420 dollars in a span of 3 weeks! Yes! I was given a link my a company which required bloggers to have their own domain names and then link the keyword that the advertisers have and publish them.

There were 42 entries at that time with $5 dollars per entry. Again, the main requirement was for you to have a domain and not a free registered blog (e.g. blogspot, wordpress etc.) and since I have 2 personal weblogs, I hurriedly kept posting and posting till I my hands swell.

When I got to the middle of the process, I realized I didn't have much time. That's when I also realized that the requirement wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. They even allowed me to backtrack my tasks (or changing the date to a later time). That's when I realized that I was wasting my time trying to compose as many entries as possible. Because what happened was that I just used my old blog entries and then integrated the keywords directly into those posts! Which wasn't at all hard to do!

I'm so glad that I got to earn as much as that in how many weeks! But you might wonder where's the money now? They're almost all gone cause a lot had been allocated to house expenses and such. Oh well, easy come, easy go. But it was really that easy! hehe.

importance of having a domain

I bought a domain already. But it's a domain for a personal blog that I'm not publicizing much. The reason why I bought one is because of some certain limitations of having a just a blogger or a Wordpress account.

Here's what happened. I created a personal blog in Wordpress. I posted some entries until it reached a certain number of posts and I made sure that it would be ready to get accepted by paid post sites. I signed up for some accounts already; some sites approved my blog, some didn't because it's not yet ranked. But there was one paid post site that informed me that they wouldn't accept that Wordpress account because Wordpressdoesn't allow paid posts in its site. My eyes became wide open at that time, being dumbfounded. And I thought Wordpress was all that. According to the TOS (Terms of Service), they really don't allow paid posts. So I resulted to just buying my own domain and host, that's what you get for not reading. sheesh.

Because I didn't want to move all my entries to another account like blogger/blogspot that allows paid posts (since I also have two other accounts here, edearns.blogspot.com and edsnaps.blogspot.com, I suddenly bought a site already. That was the driving factor for leading me to getting my own domain.

Other factors that are still important are that paid post sites would give priority to those sites that have their own domain. So, even if your free blogger account gets approved, advertisers would still hire you if your blog is worthy. It's just that they'd give more importance to those who aren't hosted to a free account.

Also, since I didn't know how to set up my own site. Because of this, I'm able to understand the concept of FTP servers and PHP permissions and plug-ins. This will add to my credibility since I have encountered the many frustrations of building a site; especially that I'm not a technical person. I just like to learn a lot so I won't look like a fool when people ask me questions on how I did what and where.

In the mean time, just to clarify things, you can still use a free blogger account (I guess blogspot would still be the best choice). As for me, I have to deal with some paid post sites that I've already created tasks for. I hope it wouldn't be back to the drawing board.created tasks for and see how to manage this predicament.

At least the hosting isn't that expensive, actually it's quite cheap for me. I don't even know how to compare it with other hosting services out there. But I got this data from a colleague at work who's credibility I don't have any question about. So I tried this host out for myself. If ever you're interested, you can click the banner below which serves as my referral bonus if some of you might want to purchase an account. I bought the host for a dollar a month, their most affordable package.

Creating a Blog

Of course, before you can earn some money online thru blogging, you need to have a blog in the first place, which totally makes sense. hehe.

I definitely recommend that you try to set up you blog here in Blogger/Blogspot more than anywhere else. Just to let you know, I used to have a blog in Blog-city, but when it folded up, I wanted to try a place where it's still simple. I tried using Wordpress, and yes it is simple. However because of Wordpress' simplicity, it also came with limited features. You can't customize it as much as what you can do with Blogger when it comes to themes and layouts, making money, Google adsense (since it's powered by Google), paid posts and mostly everything!

Honestly, I'm not really trying to sell Blogger, it's just that as of the moment, no one can beat this blog host; which explains why the lack of available user IDs to choose because it's already congested.

Anyway, you can simply apply online for blogger, that is you need to have a Gmail account. If you don't have one, then you can let somebody who has one invite you to create one. Every Gmail user has about 50 invitations he/she can send out to anyone. If you wish to have one, just PING me and I'll invite you.

After you have created a blog, then of course you need to maintain it. You need to update it regularly, it doesn't have to be everyday though it's good if you do. The reason why this is so is for you to establish your blog from different search engines to have a mark on the world wide web. Your blog can be whatever you'd like to put in; sports, music, hobbies, personal, etc., there are endless topics to choose from. If you don't have any specific topic to blog about, then you can just blog about anything! Again, the technique is to leave a mark in the web space.