DigitalFilipino Blogger’s Meet
Today, I attended the DigitalFilipino Blogger’s meet held in Davao City, Grand Regal Hotel together with the TECHREADY team. It was a great event, hosted by PAGCOR. We enjoyed the food, which was free by the way, and we were updated about the local blog trends by the speaker Janette Toral, author of Blogging from Home and the administrator of DigitalFilipino.com.
Blog4reviews.com Launch | Work in the Philippines through Blogging
Janette Toral announced the launching of Blog4reviews, the local counterpart of SponsoredReviews, Payperpost.com, and SocialSpark.com, where you get paid to blog about companies, events, and certain topics. You can apply for Blog4reviews here. Joining is free, and aside from being a blogger you can also apply as an affiliate where you can earn commissions from people you invited to sign up.
I’m looking forward to the growth of Blog4reviews and am positive that they can become one of the stable sources of income for Filipino bloggers. I for one believe that blogging is one of the best online jobs out there and it is a good investment of time.
Earning money online is possible with one of the biggest online companies in the world: Google. Through their Adsense program, you can earn by displaying advertisements on your blog. Every time a person clicks on an advertisement, you earn from as little as $0.05 to a dollar or more.
WARNING: NEVER CHEAT!!! With Google being a giant company, I must warn you that they are very strict and they do not tolerate any form of cheating or abusing their system. You must NEVER EVER click on your own ads, no matter if you’re on another person’s computer or on an internet cafe. They will know if you’re trying anything fishy and if there’s suddenly a hundred clicks for your ads when your blog is only having a few visitors per day. Trust me, they know. And once you’re banned from their program, you can never reenter again.
That said, let’s get started with how to earn from adsense. If you’re starting from scratch, the following process shouldn’t take more than two days for you to learn. After that, your success will depend solely on your persistence and eagerness to explore and learn more.
Start a free blog site. For a free blog, sign up at Blogger.com.
Have a goal of 100 or more unique visitors per day. Earn Money from Adsense | Tips and Tricks
Your goal will be at least 100 unique visitors to your blog per day. Most of these visitors should come from search engines such as Google, Yahoo, or MSN. There is something called Search Engine Optimization, and it’s very effective in bringing more visitors to your site. You can learn more about how to do this on my SEO website here: Download the free SEO ebook on the site to learn more about how to apply Search Engine Optimization to your blog.
Choose a specific topic, and focus on it. Choose a topic that you are comfortable with, and focus on it. You can have a blog on music. You can have a blog on technology and gadgets. You can have a blog on health. But whatever you do, choose one topic and only one topic for a blog. If you must write on several topics, then just create one blog for each topic. Remember, One Blog, One Topic.
Make your visitors stay! Let me tell you a trick. Write content that will make your visitor stay on your site. The rule is, you must make the visitors stay on your site for at least 30 seconds. The longer, the better! To do this, you must write an article that can intrigue your readers. You can also do so with a video. But make sure that you write a good title that can attract your visitors and make them stay while the video is still loading.
Why does this work? A simple way of putting it is this… When search engines send a visitor to your site, they have the ability to detect whether or not the person immediately presses the BACK button on his browser. When the person doesn’t do that, then search engines ASSUME that the visitor is satisfied! That means that for search engines, your site contains information that visitors are interested in! And so search engines will continue to send visitors to your site!
Don’t place up your adsense first! Grow your site first before deciding to place ads on it. Your site will grow faster as people will tend to trust your site more at the onset if it doesn’t display ads. Once you are receiving a steady stream of traffic and the minimum 100 unique visitors per day, then you can start displaying ads and watch your traffic grow.
Ideal placement for Adsense. The orange spots are the most effective places where you can place your ads. The darker the orange color, the more results to expect!
Well I hope that helped! Good luck on the journey to earning money online from the Philippines!
I’ve been quite busy running a small outsourcing business these past three months that I really wasn’t able to update my blogs much. However, now that I have a moment of free time let me bring you some good news!
July 1, 2009 – SharedReviews is back! One way to earn money online is by writing reviews on SharedReviews.com. The first 3 months I joined them, I was able to earn a bit at the start, and then on the third I got $112 for my efforts. I only spent a couple of hours each day on my free time, since I was working for a company then and was also studying. $112 is not so bad at all considering the amount of time and effort that I invested.
Shared Reviews pays you for voting for other people’s reviews, and they also pay you in commission for writing reviews. But unlike Triond or Associated Content that only pays you for your page views within the month, Shared Reviews pays you when other people vote for your reviews! They give away $2000 every month and distribute it to their members.
Aside from the revenue sharing, they also have contests where you can win from $5 to $25 per month.
Shared Reviews is a legitimate company and they have been around for quite a while. They did have to turn off they revenue sharing for the past 6 months, however, they reinstated it just two weeks ago. I’m glad they decided to bring back their revenue sharing program and I’m looking to participate more on the site.
It has been a while since I posted an article about working from home in the Philippines, but let me bring you something good! Inviting all creative writers who can write in the genre of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, particularly on the realms of wizardy, necromancy, and magic! Earn $250 for writing a 5,000 word story! Aside from earning $250, you also get 50% pro-rata share for any earnings in the future! And no, this is not from a small company, this is from Prime Books publishing house, and from the acclaimed author John Joseph Adams.
John Joseph Adams is the author of the anthologies: Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, Seeds of Change, The Living Dead, and Federations. He is also the assistant editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
For more details and for the mechanics of this opportunity, see this article: The Way of the Wizard!