Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: Manila Mom is 98th in the Top 100 Philippine Blogs According to Ratified.org

This is a good wake up call to my lethargy. According Ratified.org, Manila Mom is number 98 in the top 100 blogs in the Philippine blogosphere. The ranking is based on Technorati data and feedburner stats.

Ratified.org also says I was ranked 96th yesterday. Too bad I was only able to check it out today.

Based on the stats displayed in my current ranking, though, the 98th position is based on Manila Mom's having 211 links from 125 blogs and a Technorati ranking of 36,280. As of today, however, Technorati reports that Manila Mom has links from 129 blogs and has a Technorati ranking of 35,172. I'm, therefore, looking forward to another update at Ratified.org. Hopefully, the blog could still rise up the ranks again a bit more.

This whole thing is really a surprise for me, considering that this blog is just a little more than two months old! Thank you very much for the support that all of you blog readers have shown here. You've been great during all my high and low moments.

It's also as if my Mom and Dad are nudging me to get on with the program already. And that's exactly what I'm going to do.

We're back on track, friends. Full speed ahead!!!

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Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: Choo-Choo...Here Comes the Feed Link Train

The train I'm talking about began as the Feed My Feed Train created by Bob. Trinity at Female-Gamer added my Cafe Romanza blog to it, and I added this blog plus two others.

The rule is that once you are tagged, you should add to the list three blogs that you think are worth reading. Please note in your post, too, how the game began and who made it, as well as who tagged you - with all the corresponding links.

The list encourages readers not just to visit the blogs listed but also to subscribe to their feeds. The good news is that these blogs have, therefore, practically been pre-screened to be worth subscribing to. Trinity has kindly noted the gaming and tech sites.

The List…

Subscribe to Yugatech
Subscribe to eMomsatHome
Subscribe to Earn Global
Subscribe to Manila Mom
Subscribe to Macuha
Subscribe to Textmates
Subscribe to Female Gamer (Gaming)
Subscribe to Maia Jose’s Cafe Romanza
Subscribe to The City Lifestylist
Subscribe to Garry Conn
Subscribe to Kyle’s Cove (Tech Blog)
Subscribe to George Manty
Subscribe to Madhur’s Blog(Blogging/Tech/Gaming)
Subscribe to Eches
Subscribe to Shaarique
Subscribe to Rishi(Tech)
Subscribe to Lyte Byte(Tech)
Subscribe to News Blog
Subscribe to Life Rocks ! 2.0
Subscribe to Shankar’s Tech(Tech)
Subscribe to Brown Thoughts (Gaming, etc)
Subscribe to MeAndMyDrum
Subscribe to Zath
Subscribe to A Virtual Exit (Tech)
Subscribe to Underground Revolt (Tech)
Subscribe to Bill2Me(Gaming etc)
Subscribe to Wampago(Gaming etc)
Subscribe to Technical Itch(Gaming etc)
Subscribe to Ailurophile
Subscribe to Vincent Chow
Subscribe to BobmeetsWorld
Subscribe to LifeisRisky
Subscribe to Thoughtsfrommylife
Subscribe to CountRamblings
Subscribe to TheThinkingBlog (Gaming etc)
Subscribe to NotsoBoringLife
Subscribe to DoshDosh
Subscribe to KumikosCashQuest
Subscribe to Fuery
Subscribe to Technospot.net (Tech)

Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: John Chow Dot Com Helps Us Make Money Online

If like me, you want to learn how to make money online hands on, hie over to John Chow Dot Com.

First of all, John Chow concretely helps bloggers by offering a valuable link from his PR6 blog in exchange for a review of his site. It's not even a contest. Just make sure to follow the rules of the review and he'll link to your blog. There's even more: he'll link to you using anchor text of your choice, i.e., your most important keyword/s.

The rules are simple:

1. The post must be purely on a review of his site, not incorporated in other posts or topics.

2. Two links are required with specific anchor texts. "Make money online" must be linked to his main page while "rules of the review" must be linked to the rules page. See my example above.

3. Once the review is posted, send John an email with the url you want linked to and your choice of anchor text.

This review offer is fantastic and a great help toward boosting the page rank of any blog. Aside from this, though, John Chow Dot Com has other treasures for a blogger visitor to mine.

I, for one, intend to make use of the affiliates listed in his recommended moneymakers page. They are the affiliates he himself uses to create income streams which he reports in actual monthly figures. He does have a dot com mogul income from his blog: $11,702.66 just for April 2007! It becomes even more amazing when he discloses that his blog has been monetized only for the last nine months.

Another valuable gift John Chow offers to blogger visitors is a partnership he has with Kontera. Normally, Kontera only accepts affiliates with a minimum of 500,000 page views per month. John Chow instructs us, though, to "fill out the application and enter 'John Chow Kontera partnership' into the Comments field." His representative will then screen applicants based on blog content rather than traffic. Now isn't that worth a try?

As I said, get yourself over to John Chow Dot Com and learn how to make money online from a true master of the game!




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Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: Clarifications on Maximizing the DoFollow Movement

Another day, another lesson learned.

I have just been gloating at how I have been maximizing the DoFollow movement by traipsing along the trail of DoFollow blogs, reading and commenting merrily along. I was under the impression that merely leaving comments relevant to the post I had just read on a DoFollow blog would result in a link back to my page. Apparently, it ain't necessarily so. (If I am again mistaken here, I would love to be enlightened some more.)

According to Andy Beard, from whose blog I learned how to remove nofollow from my blogger template, one should instead choose to comment on posts tackling a topic that you have also written on in your own blog. Your comment, while being relevant to the post, should also be linked not just to your blog in general but to your specific post on the topic. Links should always lead to related content and should also be "wrapped" in related and meaningful content.

I take this to mean, for example, that when I go to a DoFollow blog I better search for a post that talks about something I myself had already written about. The simplest way would be to find a post on DoFollow. After reading the post, I could then make a meaningful comment and leave a link within it - choosing relevant anchor text - leading back to my specific post on the topic. I hope I got it right this time.

Of course, I am not limited to DoFollow posts. I can find other posts on topics that I have also tackled.

Perhaps reading other blogs will also give me an idea of topics I would want to write on, giving my own opinions and angles. I could link to the blog that inspired me and return there to leave a comment linked to my new post.

So now I have a new way of doing things here.

What I have been doing hasn't been a total waste, though. As of this moment, this blog has been favorited by 107 members at Technorati and has 148 links from 89 blogs, upping its Technorati rank to 47,671. And I just saw that I have a Google page rank of 2/10. Not bad for less than two weeks' participation in the Favorites Exchange and a little more than a week in DoFollow, and for a blog that's just little more than a month old.

Things will improve even more as I implement what I have just learned, I hope.

And the more I surf and read, the more I learn. Part of my processing is expressing all those lessons learned here, both to share with my readers and to solicit advice in case I got things wrong again. I very much appreciate constructive straightening out.

P.S.

Engtech very kindly dropped by here and left a comment with a wonderful gift attached - a free software to automatically fave back everyone who faved you at Technorati. Clueless me had to go ask him how to use the software after I download it. He again kindly gave me instructions. Now I have it up and running. Hurray!!! This will save us a lot of time, folks. Just remember to run the program often, he says, because it may miss a few links on first pass but will definitely get all of them with succeeding passes.

Angels abound on the blogosphere and there are more to meet out there...


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I Joined The Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange; You Can, Too
The Favorite Link Exchange List - My Addendum To The Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange

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Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: The Favorite Link Exchange List - My Addendum to The Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange

The Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange began by DoshDosh and which I'm also hosting here continues to be a great success for this blog. In fact, as of the time of this writing, I have been favorited by 101 members at Technorati.

I also have 131 links from 78 blogs. Although I believe most of those links are from my DoFollow activities, I also see a significant number of links from The Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange.

Having seven blogs poses a problem for me, though. I only have one Technorati account and can, therefore, only fairly exchange once with those who own only one blog. My other blogs are beginning to feel lonely. (If you have more than one blog, please let me know so we can do the corresponding exchange - if you're game, that is.)

To accommodate my other blogs, I put up my Favorite Link Exchange List at Cafe Romanza.

So how does it work?

1. First, you have to join The Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange here. (Follow the instructions in the post, including leaving a comment so I can fave you back.)

2. Go to the Favorite Link Exchange post at Cafe Romanza. Fave that blog, too, and leave a comment there that you've faved both Manila Mom and Cafe Romanza. I will add your blog as a permanent link on the Favorite Link Exchange List.

3. I have put a sticky announcement on the front page linked to the Favorite Link Exchange List so others can come see you on the list. They'll know you're open to a fave exchange and will most probably visit your blog to do so.

Nice exchange, don't you think?

If you feel like it, I will also appreciate very much if you link to Cafe Romanza in your blog. It's not a requirement, though.

It seems like the more I do here, the more there is to be done. The more I learn, the more there is to learn. I'm not complaining, though. I feel even more alive than ever! :-D

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Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: How to Grow at a Faster Pace

These past days have flown by at a dizzying rate for me. The first entry on this blog was last March 22. In about a week's time after that, I had put up five other blogs on different topics, all documented here, too.

Now, after only a month, this Manila Mom blog has pulled away from the other five in Technorati. How? Two very potent tools: The Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange and The DoFollow List!

I only posted the Favorites Exchange last April 15, and the DoFollow List last April 21. As of today, Manila Mom has been favorited by 86 members and has 118 links from 70 blogs. Its Technorati rank is 60,696. And every time I check, even within the same day, the numbers are changing.

Of course, all this is happening with work on my part, too. My comments are moderated so I check my email several times a day to process them. I do the favorites exchange and add links to the list. I also surf the dofollow sites and sites on my favorites list to read and comment. Well, this last part doesn't really feel like work because I enjoy doing it. I discover new blogs and learn a lot along the way. And I'm creating new links to my blog as I do it.

My days - and nights - have been busy. My friends based in the US and Canada are surprised to find me still online at 3 or 4 a.m. Manila time.

And I still dared to put up another blog just a few days ago - Manila Mom's Veranda at PinoyNetwork.org.

Well, it was an offer I couldn't refuse. PinoyNetwork.org is a very new baby of a fellow Filipina who shares the same contagious enthusiasm for exploring all that the internet can offer. I can already see the powerful potential of the network and am honored to be with her from this building up stage.

So that's where I'm at now, folks. All of these have been accomplished with the help of fellow bloggers and other friends, so I'm sharing it all with everyone, too.

Now to my life offline...yes, I still do have one! :-D

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Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: Reward Your Readers and Do Follow the DoFollow List

It’s raging through the blogosphere. The DoFollow Movement, that is. Marhgil tagged me for it. All 5 of my blogs, actually. And it isn’t even my birthday yet! :-)

DoFollow is the latest way to spread link love to your readers – those who deserve it because they have read your post and liked it enough to leave a relevant and meaningful comment. Their comments become links to their pages; links that are counted by Google spiders to improve their rank. Sweet huh?

So how do you do this?

I, myself, followed Andy Beard’s instructions on how to remove the NoFollow for comments from the html of my Blogspot template. He has instructions for Wordpress and other formats, as well. There are plug-ins you can search for, too.

Once your comments are DoFollow, you can have the DoFollow List on your site.

These are the instructions: (Start copying here.)

1. Write a short paragraph at the beginning of your post and link back to the blog that put you on the list in the paragraph. This isn’t a suggestion. You need to break up the duplicate content. Someone took the time to add you so the least you can do is give them an extra link back.

2. Copy the list of originals below COMPLETELY and add it to your blog. If you would like a different keyword for your blog then change it when you do your post and it should pass to most blogs with that keyword.

3. Take the adds from the blog that added you and place them in the “Originals” list.

4. Add at least 1 new blog that you KNOW is using the DO FOLLOW plugin to the list in the “My Adds” section. (Add no more than 5!) Let the people you’ve added know, so that they can keep the list going!

My Adds:

Keep the Faith
jsonvlog
Suncoast Scribe
Blogging Kenneth
My 2 Centavos Worth

Originals:

Manila Mom
3 Dogs, 3 Pigs and A Family
Cafe Romanza
Earn Global
Credit Ability
Macuha.com
Flee the Cube
Smart Wealthy Rich
MomReviews.net
Fellow Eskimo
Pajama Mommy
Amanita.net
WebStyle
Meredith’s Weight Loss Blog
Pink Blog
Tricia’s Musings
Ugh!!’s Greymatter Honeypot
Midlife Musings
Utterly Geek
Whatever I Feel Like
My Dandelion Patch
Surviving NJ
GeekySpeaky
Simple Kind Of Life
3DayMom
BuyMeBlog
The Hockey Dad
Brown Baron
Unseal My Lips
Blog ng Taong Walang Magawa
MacBros’ Place - Everybody’s Entitled To My Opinion
MacBros` Reviews Reviews on Movies, Games, products, and services.
pomdla
My Money Making Finds
My Tech News Blog
The Sassy Southerner
Up the Hill Gang
Vanidosa Marie
HiPnCooL
Bulong na Pasigaw

(Stop copying here.)

I will be leaving a sticky on my front page pointing to this list so that latecomers can still catch on.

If you happen to host the list somewhere down the line, or through a different branch of this chain, and want to be included in my list, just add me to your list then leave me a comment. Include a link to your list and after I check it out I’ll add you here, too.

If you can’t host this for any reason, you could visit the blogs listed here and comment on those you find interesting. Your comments will stand as links to your page so you’ll be doing yourself a favor, as well.

So get busy!

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Clarifications on Maximizing the DoFollow Movement

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Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: Don't Hate Me Just Because I Want To Make Money Online

I read some very strong words against making money from blogs and, frankly, I'm shocked at the hate that oozes from many of those bloggers - mostly from the comments. I could understand perfectly having differences in opinion - a natural part of any community - but does it have to be nasty?

I respect the stand of personal bloggers who want to keep their blogs purely personal and devoid of ads or any hint of commercialism. I hope they respect the right of others to monetize their blogs, as well. After all, it is their own time, their own efforts and their own writing skills that they are monetizing. Isn't that what entrepreneurship is?

I also bristle at the snide comments that earning from blogs is earning from doing nothing or from no effort at all. It's not as easy as it seems. The money doesn't just come rolling in. Try asking those who are already earning well from their blogs. As a newbie it's almost discouraging for me to see meager cents dropping in after maximum effort. It does not happen overnight. All that effort - giving time and writing your best - needs to be coupled with a lot of learning, networking plus more time. It's real work.

As Yuga said, bloggers are like publishers who are also the authors and editors of their own publications. For probloggers who author blogs owned by networks, it may mean only being the author and editor, or even just the author. It's still a very respectable job.

I don't think it's wrong to be paid to write. Isn't that what professional writers do? Isn't that what freelance writers do? It's called making a living. It's honest work.

There is even more hate thrown at paid posts. But aren't these required to be labeled as sponsored posts? If so, then they are not misleading the readers. It's just like serving ads, except the blogger writes the ads himself/herself. It's like copywriting in advertising - another legitimate career.

And for some of us, earning from the hours spent online is the only way to rationalize spending the time that way. With a family to support one can't have the luxury of spending so many hours just for one's personal enjoyment. But if you can incorporate money making in something that you enjoy doing - like writing online on topics you've read about online - then it's a win-win situation. Is that such a crime?

The blogosphere is like the universe. There is room for everyone. We don't need to bring each other down. We should, instead, be helping each other. Or, at the very least, let each one be.

I enjoy reading blogs giving tips on how to make money online, optimize blogs, do search engine optimization (of which much is still beyond me), apply affiliate marketing techniques, and other related stuff. I also enjoy reading blogs that talk about one person's life, or day, or hobby, or profession, or dreams. They fill different needs. They resonate with me on different levels.

Diversity is good. Diversity enriches us. Let us not hate that which is different.

Discussion and debate is good, too. But let's not allow it to get nasty. Please.

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Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: I Joined the Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange; You Can, Too

Feeling lonely at not having a lot of people who have listed your site among their favorites?

This post at Make Money Online The Quick and Easy Way alerted me to the Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange, an ongoing experiment began by Dosh Dosh.

Based on the original concept, this is how it goes:

1. You click to make me one of your Technorati Favorites. I'll make it easy for you by putting this button here: Just click on it and come back here.

2. You have to leave a comment on this post so I can return the favor. Tell me your Technorati username so I can find you among those who will Favorite me from this post. (There will be droves, I hope! :-D )

3. This is very important: Include in your comment a link to your site (one site only) and, to keep things easy, the Technorati Fave button linked to your site. Also, please let me know if you only want me to fave you, or if you also have the Link List in your blog so I can add you to the list, too.

- Go to Technorati Tools. Click on Favorite Buttons.

- If you have several sites, make sure the one you have chosen to place here is the one in the "Make a custom button for" box.

- Copy the first code and paste in with your comment.

- I will click on that button later to add you to my Favorites.

- My Technorati username is tessasandiego. It will appear in the list of those who have made you their Favorite at your Technorati account.

- If this does not happen after 24 hours, leave me a new comment.

If all you want is one exchange, you're done.

If you want more exchanges, though, possibly enough to put you high up there in the Technorati Most Favorited blogs, you can do as I am doing and hold the same Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange in your blog.

1. Make a new post on this.

2. Give the same instructions, but in your own words.

DO NOT COPY AND PASTE from my post or any of the previous Exchange posts. Duplicate posts will hurt all of our standings, including yours.

3. Include a link to this post, mentioning that you learned about the Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange here and that it is still ongoing.

When I see this link through Technorati, I will add you to the list of Exchange hosts below. (If this does not happen within 48 hours, please leave me a reminder via a comment.)

4. Put a linked list of Exchange Hosts in your post, as below. This time, you may copy and paste the list from here. I've already added my link at the bottom. Add yours to your list, too.

If you just want an exchange of links without having to host the Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange, that's fine with me, too. You can either mention this post in your post, with a link to it, or you can add my site to your links list. Just let me know and give me your link so I can reciprocate.


Here are the Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange Hosts:

Dosh Dosh - kawaiikuma
AskaX World - Andika Kusuma
T Jantunen.com - T Jantunen
CalvinWarr.com - Calvin Warr
Vinod Live! - Vinod Ponmanadiyil
Bil2me dot com - William Toomey
Zath - Simon Barker
VersaCreations - Vivienne Quek
Azazil.net - Gary V. Vaughan
MrGaryLee.com - Gary Lee
Blogging for Money - Michael A. Setyaputra
Money Consciousness - Nenad
Brown Thoughts - Brown Baron
Quasi Fictional - Diogenes
Foreign Perspectives - Arnold
Home Based Business - Brian Pratt
The Million Dollar Experiment Down Under - Rob St George
Sexy in Red - Norlina
JameoTips - ValkrieAngel
I Thought, Therefore I Blog - Bet Shop Boy
My Online Collections - Star500
Ramblings of an Undisturbed Mind - Beth
Make Money Online The Quick and Easy Way - ejcooksey
Manila Mom - tessasandiego
Gauravonomics - Gaurav Mishra
Digital Mail - atul
Rishi Raj - rishimac
Keeping Fit Is A Daily Battle - Nash Trout
Serendipity - Sharique
PinoyBlogosphere - pinoyblogosphere
Life in the Fast Lane - Deborah
Our Journey - sy
Localingo - tanguy
Middle Zone Musings - Robert Hruzek
India PR Blog - hobbithob
My Journey to One Million Dollars -Laura
Sleeping Princess - Jocelyn
The Filipino Entrepreneur - mmontala
SquareCookies
Nukilan Jejari Azhad - azhad
Earn Money On The Web - Kent
i.ndustrio.us - Jason
Making Money Through Internet - MarriedMelody
Blogs et IE - T@blogosphere
IT Experts Central - Marcus
uncleboob.de - uncleboob
The Rojak Blog - ApOgEE
ShanKri-la
The Anitokid Chronikos - Billiards and Philippine sports
Technix Update — Tech News,Web 2.0,Orkut Tricks,Vista Tricks,Internet Tricks.
Light Within
DOX
Niche Marketing - Andy Beard
My Affiliate Journey - Affiliate Marketing Blog by Vlad
Mr & Mrs. Imran
Me and my net
Klamath Design: Starting A Home Based Web Design Business — Helping Web Designers Succeed In Business
Techlivez.com irresistible technology
Shankar's Tech Blog 2.0
Anti-Spyware and PC Security News
TECH LOCK-RAHUL
PLANET APEX
Our Journey
Travel Blog for Business
Ms. Latina's Site - Ms. Latina's Site
ReviewSaurus - The Techie Dino! The Dino which deals in all kind of technical related stuff.
Share Everything In Life
BlogoSquare — Fun 2.0 news & tips
Ms. Latina Renee Enterprise, LLC
Show Me The Money
Shakeroo's Gold - BlogCharm
IndiaPRBlog!
Mom of Many Redheads
Because I Was Bored…
MsMoneyGirl.net - Blog
The Blog for DesignCreatology
IT Experts Central - Free Computer Programming Tutorials
Blogs et Intelligence économique
Earn Money on the Web
Making Money Through Internet
The Legal Two-timer
Mother's Home!
Sophistishe.Org Just a Personal Blog
Panopticum
Travelogue of a Blogger
Search Useful Articles
The Voice In My Head
My Life Is Murphy's Law - Ev Nucci

Visit them and get Favorited!

You could also get the following automatic favoriting program that faves back all those who have faved you. I got it from One Wacky Mom's post.

grab the program here [2.4MB]

Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: A Blogaholic's Rationalizations

Yes, I'm a blogaholic. With 6 blogs now running, I have to own up to that :-)

It's a fairly recent affliction. My first blog was just set up last March 22. I've been very busy since then.

It seems like the more I read about blogging and adsense and optimization, the more I had to set up my own experiments for some actual hands-on learning.

I've come to love three of my blogs so much, though, that monetization seems to be just a bonus when it comes to them.

Of course, first on my list is my first-born blog, Manila Mom. I believe this blog will chronicle my growth in this field. I also hope it can help other newbies like me and that, eventually, I become successful enough to be an inspiration as much as those who came before me have inspired me to go in this direction.

Next is my Cafe Romanza blog. It presents my romance writer persona - a very major part of my career. It also reflects my views on love, marriage, relationships and romance, something that's central to my own growth as a woman and a person. I couldn't do without this blog the same way I couldn't do without romance in my life and my writing career.

And then there's 3 Dogs, 3 Pigs & a Family. This was something I had always wanted to write about. I held back initially because it seemed too personal. Who would be interested? Then the blogosphere itself gave me a nudge by linking me up with an advocate of askals (native Philippine dogs andmixed breed dogs). I found a compelling reason to write about how we should love our askals as much as purebred pedigree dogs. Of course, it couldn't not include our other pets and our crazy family life, as well. (Yes, crazy, as in naming our dogs Poop, Booger and Barf.)

My other 3 blogs have been calculated to fit into particular niches. They are more challenging to write for but I like to think of it as a professional challenge. I am my own content provider and, as such, I have to be able to write on whatever topic is called for.

My 2 Centavos Worth focuses on TV shows, celebrities and what's hot on the web. It's entertaining for me, too, in that I get to keep abreast of the entertainment industry.

My Earn Global blog was initially meant to support and drive more traffic to my affiliate business with Global Domains International. Well, the business was a failure but I decided to keep my blog and focus it on various home based web businesses instead.

Earn Global will be closely related to Manila Mom in subject matter although this blog will be more personal and more reflective of my own journey while the other will be more of a review of what's out there.

Finally, there's Credit Ability, my most "calculated" experiment. It is meant to test whether a blog on supposedly highly-searched and highly-paid keywords will succeed.

So there you have it. These are my rationalizations for being a blogaholic.

Wait, I forgot - making this an income-generating attempt also rationalizes the time I spend surfing :-) Now I can call it research!


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Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: Don't get intimidated by keywords and KEI

I'm sorry for being away the last two days. I was spending more time with the family, it being Holy Week. My intention was to stay away from the laptop. It didn't happen.

It wasn't so bad, though. My laptop is just beside the dining table which faces the TV and where everyone converges during all our waking times, anyway. So I'm always talking to everyone even as I work.

I wasn't posting but I sure was working. I was doing research on the net, reading up on how to further optimize my blogs and how to earn more. (There's so much to read out there!)

We all know about how important keywords are. For newbies like me (or noobs, as my friend, female-gamer, puts it), these are the words directly related to our main topic which we need to include in our blog title, headings and blog posts.

Search engine spiders pick up on these and use them to include us in relevant searches. Google Adsense also uses our keywords to provide us with relevant ads.

I already knew my keywords for each of my blogs. As I mentioned in previous posts, I intentionally targetted certain niches for each one.

Then I read that Google Adsense pays publishers varying rates depending on keywords. In other words, some keywords earn more than others even with the same traffic because advertisers pay more for certain keywords.

I found some sites that list top-paying keywords. (Just search Google for top-paying keywords.) Much to my dismay, my own keywords were nowhere there.

As an experiment (here I go again) I created a new blog based solely on a cluster of some of the highest paying keywords I found on the list. Credit Ability is on credit cards, loans, credit counseling, credit management, loan consolidation and everything else related to that.

We'll see how that blog performs in Adsense.

After I had set up that blog - including finalizing it's look, putting in Adsense, researching and writing a decent post, claiming it at technorati and including it in MyBlogLog - I found out about KEI.

Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI) compares a keyword's popularity in searches to the number of sites using it and competing in the searches. In other words, we should want a keyword that a lot of people are searching for but relatively few sites are using. That means having a KEI of at least 10-100 or, better still, 100-400.

Wordtracker offers a trial use of their software to measure your keyword's KEI, so I immediately put it to work, of course.

I exhausted my list of keywords for all my blogs, including more related keywords that Wordtracker came up with. The result? Most of my keywords didn't even score a 1! Less than 5 scored, well, less than 5 points.

Imagine how depressing that was!

But no, I didn't let it get to me. I thought about the biggest blog networks, B5media and Creative Weblogging. They each have numerous blogs that do not necessarily fall under the top-paying keywords category. Several of their blogs are also on the same topics I write about. So I guess I'm not totally off-track then, am I?

So I won't let myself get intimidated. I'll just keep on writing in my blogs, doing my networking and I'll see how this experiment goes in the long run.

Please, if there's something I'm not getting here, will someone let me know?

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Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: Launching a New Blog to Widen Your Reach, Get More Traffic and Maximize Your Use of Adsense

I just launched My 2 Centavos Worth - a blog on tv shows, celebrities and whatever's being buzzed about around the web.

This is to follow my own advice on streamlining the topic of each of your blogs to your target niche market.

I felt that I wanted to comment on the hot topics of the day concerning pop culture but it wasn't appropriate to this blog or my Cafe Romanza blog. It needed it's own place for its own audience where it could serve up its own targetted ads.

By expanding to another topic area, I get to reach out to people who may not be attracted to the topics covered by my work-at-home-and-make-money-online blog or my romance-writing/reading blog. I get to draw in traffic that may not have been accessible to me before. Of course, my new blog also has Adsense to monetize this traffic.

I realize I will need to promote this blog, too, by surfing similarly themed blogs and leaving relevant comments. I will have to build a community for it.

Having several blogs on various topics you are interested in and on which you know you can write on regularly is a good way to widen your reach in the blogosphere and maximize your use of Adsense. Make sure you write effectively for each blog and its topic, though, paying attention to the special interests and styles of each site.

This is actually fun for me. It's like writing several columns on different topics for a magazine.

Do come and visit my new blog, too.

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Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: Get Interviewed to Get More Traffic

Yes! My interview is up at 5 Minutes for Mom, a wonderful blog site owned by twin work-at-home moms, Susan and Janice.

They list Mom websites for free, and with your registration comes an interview.

There were a lot of questions but you can choose which ones to answer. I was quite stingy and I regret it now. I should have gone for the whole caboodle to make a more in-depth interview. Oh well. I wonder if there's a way to improve on it? I'll go and find out later.

This means that I'll always be listed in their Readers' Blogs under Writer Moms. That's something of real value because it's not just a simple link list. It comes with your photo and a short blurb you get to write about yourself and your blog.

I also like how I can find other writer moms from the list. They all seem to be so interesting and I intend to go visit each of them. And then I'm moving on to the other Mom blogs under the other categories. Boy, I can spend the whole day just exploring those blogs.

This is what I like about blogging. Even the task of networking to get more traffic for your blog is in itself so much fun. It's not a chore at all. In fact, I have to tell myself to write my own post first before I go networking or else I'll just go gallivanting around the blogosphere.

Mission accomplished for the day in this blog so I'll just have to post at Cafe Romanza and then it's bloghopping time for me. Yey!

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Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: Shameless Promotion for My Daughter's Blog, The City Lifestylist

I'll take my license as a Mom to post this plug for my eldest daughter's new blog, The City Lifestylist.

She talks about skincare, makeup, fashion, shoes, bags and accessories.

Although she has been blogging privately at various sites for years, she just very recently caught the problogging bug from me and this is her first attempt at it.

I guess it will also further hone her skills as an incoming junior majoring in Communication Arts and Advertising.

You're always welcome to drop by.

By the way, promoting other blogs can also benefit your own blog's traffic if the blog you're promoting agrees to link back to you, too. It's a win-win situation.

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Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: Reviewing A Site Like "The Thinking Blog" Can Bring Traffic to Your Blog

Look around for offers like the one at The Thinking Blog's Review Contest.

In exchange for doing a review of his site and posting it at your blog, he gives out two links to your blog plus the chance to win a free redesign (for the best review) or a free favicon for the honorable mentions.

The blog author, Ilker Yoldas, is a whiz at graphic design and there are a lot of samples of his excellent work at the site.

Even if you don't win the blog redesign (where he gives your blog a visual makeover with a new template) nor the icon, just getting the two links prominently placed in his post is already worth it. After all, The Thinking Blog claims to have the 5th largest community at MyBlogLog. Think of the traffic this could bring to your blog.

It will also give you a new topic to write a post on. This is handy because there are days when we, bloggers, just get stumped at what to write about.

Well, here goes my review then.

If The Thinking Blog's primary purpose is to showcase the author's graphic designing talent and skills, then it definitely is succeeding.

The sample site makeovers shown - with before and after screenshots - are enough to convince anyone of this. Ilker even redesigned John Chow's blog and I like his version much better. Too bad John Chow hasn't taken up his offer to use his redesign for free.

Aside from promoting the author's graphic designing services, though, the blog also offers many interesting posts.

The video on the polar bear cub is just adorable. My kids demanded that we watch it over and over.

Far from cuteness but very insightful is the post on the evangelist marketing technique using apple's ipod campaign as an example. This is a post that resonates well with the blog's title.

I like the mix of informative and entertaining posts on the site. It makes very interesting reading.

I was initially concerned with the "ToplessWomen" link at the upper part of the sidebar but I clicked on it to investigate first before commenting and I'm glad I did. It actually leads to a very interesting discussion which includes the issue of breastfeeding in public. (My comments would be off-subject to this review so I'm just going to comment at the site.)

All in all, I would be visiting The Thinking Blog regularly with or without the contest. It was a great idea, though, and I'd like to thank him for it.

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Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: Trying to Get More Traffic to My Blog, I Made a Big Booboo at MyBlogLog

I am so embarrassed!

I discovered MyBlogLog a few days ago when I saw those nice windows in other blogs with pics or avatars of Recent Readers. I clicked on the link and joined immediately to get the same widget on my blogs.

I got even more excited to discover that MBL enables you to build a community for your blog. Members just click to join.

I am also able to join as many communities as I want. The only limit is joining 15 per day. No problem, I thought. So I started clicking on pics and avatars and joining communities of blogs I found interesting.

And then I got this notice on my page saying these people had added me as a contact and that I could reciprocate or just ignore it. They were strangers but, hey, they found me interesting enough to add me as a contact so I thought it just polite to reciprocate. And since I was flattered by what they did, I thought it was fine and normal at MBL to add other strangers as my contact, too. So I started to do that.

Then I got messages from still other strangers inviting me to check out their site and join their communities. No problem, I thought. I checked out the sites and joined the communities of those I thought interesting. Then, because I thought again that it was the normal thing to do at MBL, I also began posting the same invitation to the communities I was joining. When I reached my 15 communities limit, I even posted the same invitation to communities I intended to join the following day.

What a neat way to do networking, I thought. So I planned to write about MBL on today's post. I planned to write about exactly what I did.

Good thing I checked out the MBL blog first.

What do you know! I found that a big controversy had just happened that I was unaware of. Reading through the whole thing I found to my horror that many experienced bloggers hated just what I had been doing. That it was even considered spamming! Oh. My. God. What have I done?

Apparently, it isn't kosher to make total strangers your contact and you're not supposed to leave messages inviting people to visit your blog or join your communities. I wouldn't have done this elsewhere except I thought it was the normal thing to do at MBL.

Perhaps MBL should give clear guidelines to new members upon joining. Something clear and easy for newbies like me. The Terms of Service link just won't do.I did scan through that but I thought it just dealt with legalities and such.

Now those people who have read my invitations at MBL could be thinking of me as a cheap spammer. I hope they do visit just to see that it ain't so. This blog may not be much but it's an honest effort of a newbie to learn the ropes and help other newbies along the way. It's not a get rich quick gimmick relying on dirty tricks.

I hope my blog doesn't get burned by this. I'm barely taking off here.

I guess it's true here as elsewhere. You'll learn by doing. And it isn't always pretty. You'll stumble sometimes. I just have to get up, brush off the dirt and get on with it, a day wiser.

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Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: I Earned 5$ Just By Joining "Paid Forum"

You can, too, with a free sign-up.

And if you do, you stand to earn even more. Each referral you send to them resulting in a free membership sign-up gives you a dollar.

Furthermore, each thread you start on the forum earns you 5 cents while each reply brings you a cent.

This may not seem like much but remember that if you have a blog or site, participation in forums is a must to drive traffic to your site. So in effect, Paid Forum is paying you to promote and drive traffic to your own site, resulting in a higher probability of clicks to your ads and more income for you. If you look at it that way, isn't it just perfect?

Even if you don't have a blog or site to monetize, you can still make money from Paid Forum. The sign-up bonus, for one, is easy money from the start. Then you can talk about anything you want in the forum (within bounds of decency and legality, of course) and get paid for it.

Furthermore, you can continue to invite people to join. You don't need to make them buy anything. It's free. In fact, you are giving them the chance to earn $5 automatically, and yourself to earn $1. It's a win-win situation.

So how do you refer people to Paid Forum if you don't have a blog or a website?

I suppose you use email? Most email applications allow you to add a signature to your every message. Write in an invitation to Paid Forum like the one I have at the bottom of this post. Make sure to include your special referrer link so that people can click on that to join. This will ensure that the sign-up is credited to your account. You'll get your referrer link when you sign up at Paid Forum.

This is also one of the few paying opportunities in the net that does not exclusively use PayPal. For those of us in the Philippines, and in other countries not allowed to receive money from PayPal, this is a relief.

I chose to receive payment through Western Union. You could also opt for a check mailed to you.

Okay, then, off I go to Paid Forum.

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Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: Optimize Your Blog by Streamlining to Your Niche

Clean up your topic clutter.

If you want to use Adsense as a major income stream, remember that it serves contextual ads. It gives your blog ads that match the keywords you are writing about.

If you write on too many topics, Adsense may serve you ads that you did not intend to offer to your readers. If your ads are not of interest to your visitors, they wouldn't be interested to click on them. You lose revenue.

This blog, for example, was primarily intended to share lessons I am learning as I try to make money online. Since I also write Filipino romance novels as Maia Jose, I thought I could incorporate that into this blog, as well.

I realized, however, that there are already so many things I want to write about on problogging, earning money online and working freelance. And there are also so many things I want to write about under my Maia Jose persona - writing romance novels, reading romance novels, being a romantic, being in love, relationships and such.

I further realized that although I may have visitors interested in both aspects of my work, there are many more who may only be interested in one or the other. If I put everything in one blog, I may be losing focus. I may also be sending mixed signals to Adsense, prompting them to send me ads that are not as targetted to my niche as I want them to be.

I decided, therefore, to create another blog: Maia Jose Romance. This way, I can streamline each blog to its target audience while still proving a link between the two.

The Maia Jose Romance blog is still under construction. I hope to get it up and running within a day or two.

Having several blogs covering your various interests is a good way to reach out to as many visitors as possible without "muddying up" one catch-all blog.

I am just about to test what I have written about so we'll see how this goes in the next few months, shall we?

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I'm Starting to Earn Online!

Today is my husband's birthday and this is part of my birthday package for him.

Yes! I started to see some earnings from my online activities yesterday, on my third blog post. Of course, I'm still talking cents here but, hey, it proves that problogging does work.

Now even my three kids want to learn from what I'm learning so they can set up their own blogs that they can monetize, too. Might as well earn from all that time they spend online, right? And they do have a headstart on networking with friendster and such.

I've been very productive work-wise yesterday, too.

I joined MyBlogLog and put it up on this blog. Yey! It not only looks good but it's also a terrific networking tool. I already "met" a number of people and joined a number of communities. I also began to build a community for this blog.

Do join MyBlogLog and join my blog's community. It's free and you won't be sorry for the exposure it will give your site. Just click on the link below this post.

Now I'm joining my family to celebrate :-)

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Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: Feels Weird to Want Traffic

If you know Manila, you know what I mean.

To really monetize your site, though, traffic is what you want to generate for it. Lots and lots of traffic! Think EDSA at rush hour! Instead of cars, however, visualize visitors reading through your site and clicking on your relevant ads.

Now how do you attract this kind of traffic to your site?

First, of course, you have to have the right content. You have to be able to offer something they have been looking for. What exactly this is will depend on your niche and the target audience you have decided to serve. Make sure your content matches your market.

Next, get the word out. Promote your site. Let people know about it. There are many ways to do this.

One is to interact with fellow bloggers who write on similar topics. Read their posts and leave well-thought-out comments. Don't forget to leave your url with your signature. The blogger and his or her readers will, hopefully, pay you a visit. If they like what they see, you could expect them to come back again and again. Do this with a lot of other bloggers and you'll be linking up your blog with a community.

A complementary strategy is to join blog networks. They will usually ask you to post on the network site with some regularity. This is a good opportunity to show people what you have to offer. Your posts, of course, link back to your site.

You should also join forums relevant to your topic. Make sure you give a good impression by being sincerely interested and involved in the discussions. This will attract people to take a look at your site.

Do not, however, join forums just to advertise for free. You'll most probably be banned for spamming and you'll be building a bad reputation for yourself and your site. That is NOT what you want.

Another very important thing to remember: If your site uses Google Adsense as a source of income, stay away from quick fixes such as automated traffic generators and traffic exchanges. This will get you banned from Adsense and you will lose a major income stream.

Okay, now I have to go follow my own advice and generate some more traffic into this site.

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