Subscribe to RSS
Loading ...So you want to be a blogger too?
Dear Lyss
Thanks for your mail asking me how to blog. If you don’t mind, let me write this on a blog post so that I don’t have to repeat myself so often.
I really hope that you can be willing to spend a little of your precious to
help a newbie to get into the blogger world. To be honest, of course I’m most
interested to make some moneyI would be most grateful if you can guide me on this or so much as to give me
some pointers on how to get started. I promise all your time and effort will be
very much appreciated
Here you go :
1) Go to http://www.blogger.com/ and start a new account. If you have no intention of making money, go to Wordpress.Com. Wordpress.Com does not allow you to put ads so forget it if you have intention of making money.
2) Sign up and start blogging! Try it for three months.
3) After three months and if you think you love blogging, please remind me and I will teach you how to monetize your site. I do not wish to go into this when someone starts blogging because it is very de-moralising as you cannot make money so soon. In fact, sometimes,we need a year.
4) So, what should you blog? If you write about your personal life, you need to have some weird characters to attract people to read often. (just like me hahaha)
5) Think first what are some of your strong points, something that you can continue talking and writing without running out of ideas. You need passion.
Here is another post on How to start a blog. More on Blogging Basics for beginners and some blogging tips to keep you informed.
Both Blogger and Wordpress have made things really easy to understand and manage. You can change your blog theme/template, put photos, change colours and etc. Please read their tutorial if you do not know.
Good luck! And see you in three months.
Popularity: 14% [?]
Welcome to Make$ Money$ blog where you can learn how to make money from blogging. Please subscribe to my RSS feed so that you don't miss out any useful tips. Thanks for visiting and hope you learn something useful!
My ‘not interested in making money’ sabbath continues…
I have stopped writing paid posts unless those are what are committed to be done every week. I stopped marking how much I make every day. I stopped surfing and reading about make money news. And I see it as a good sign of moving forward.
It is almost half a month gone and I do not know how much I have made because I want to test if I can live by not making money except for those fixed incomes from banner ads, Google, some text links and internal links in pages.
It is a big burden lifted off my shoulders. Of course, it doesn’t mean I stopped blogging altogether. But it is more a shift of focus. I contemplate more on my faith. I spend more time learning about my faith. And it certainly helps now because of the many things that are going through my life and mind.
It is a very bold move and I am proud that so far, I am coping fine. I see some nice USD25 paid posts on ReviewMe and some LoudLaunch worth USD20. I can easily earn about USD100 from doing those paid posts per day, maybe three times a week. But I clicked on the close window because I think the risk of losing my PR 4/10 is not worth it.
I have stopped logging in to PayPerPost and have taken off SocialSpark’s code because the payout sucks max. Although it is a no-follow link, I still doubt because Google may still see it as a no-quality link and hence, Googlesmack us in future. Why should I write for USD8.50 on a PR4/10?
In some of my blogs, I have gained a lot more regular followers. Note - followers. They follow my blog and hence, I won’t risk stuffing too many paid posts. I have also found a new mentor. Not in the make money field, though.
So…….will I continue this trend for much longer? I don’t know. I do earn enough and I do get to cash out PayPal still.
What about you? Can you take a step back from making money? Or are you consumed by it that you missed living life, finding God and searching for the meaning of life?
Popularity: 16% [?]
Answering Josh Lim’s comment
(from my previous post on Adverlets not paying)
Josh Lim said:
Hi Chong, Cypherhackz: Firstly, thanks for your concern. While I will not comment here on the status of your cashout, payouts up to Feb 2008 have already gone out to bloggers. Please understand that in disputed cases, we also need some time to determine the extent of invalid activity, and to make an honest and fair decision on your account.
As you may be aware, and we are too: There are truly honest publishers that have fell victim to people attempting to sabotage them or weird traffic/click patterns not due to their own doing, and there are those that are really trying to manipulate the system.
To make the distinction though, takes time, and investigation. Banning or invalidating cashouts completely is always a last resort based on solid data. We will endeavor to resolve your situation within the next 2 weeks, please be patient.
To Josh : Although your comment is directed to Chong and Cypherhackz, I am thankful that I am not a publisher of Adverlets. Otherwise, I will get very pissed if you go to another blogger’s blog to talk about my suspected click frauds, which may give people impression that I am really the guilty party. This is not the first time I see Adverlets deal with its publishers in this third party medium. Personally, I think it is not very pleasant to the publishers to be told about click frauds, whether they are guilty or not because it is embarassing, nevertheless.
And Lilian - I’m quite sure you’re aware that click fraud is a very real problem.
I do not care about click fraud. Hate me or detest me, I don’t use local CPC ads. In fact, I didn’t even use Nuffnang on every blogs of mine because frankly, payments for CPC for local ads sucks. I tried for a month and I took off every single one of them. So, no, I do not know about click fraud problems and I do not care. But I do know that those goons who did it, deserve to get ban because such unethical action will kill every single blogger in the long run. If you see any ads on any of my blogs, these are CPM ads. I get paid a lump sum in the range of RM70-RM200+ per week, per square of ad depending on the volume of my Malaysian traffic.
And although you’re very much a Nuffnang supporter, it’ll be nice if we cleared up some of the past issues on a personal level, as I don’t feel I was represented quite fairly in one of your blog posts.
The above comment makes me decide to dedicate a post for you. Yes, I am seen as a Nuffnang supporter. But the reason has NOTHING to do with Advertlets. Nuffnang doesn’t need my support. I am not some 18-22 years old hawt SYT who qualifies to be either Tim or Ming’s future girlfriend. Neither am I loaded enough to be their sugar-mommy. So…. If I jump into any posts that is seen as ‘anti-Nuffnang’ it is because of my own selfish interest. Yes, I am supporting myself. I like to put facts right because that’s my cash cow. I have revealed in my interview with Malay Mail that I am currently getting RM2K-RM3K per month from Nuffnang. I may know a lot about Nuffnang but that’s because I have blogs with band 2 right up to band 36.
And I think it is rather petty of you to talk about past posts. I have so many blogs and so many thousands posts so I cannot remember whom I had dissed or when or why. But if any of the posts still remain high on the SERPs, I cannot help it because I am that good with SEO.
I’m quite sure you misunderstood my intentions and the genuineness of what I was offering, which you did hint at somewhat later but unfortunately, in another obscure post.
I know you didn’t mean to bring any personal, emotional matters into the discussion.
Still, business is business. Where this blog is concerned, I highlight to my blog readers everything. Smorty Sucks, Advertlets Sucks or any companies that sucks. It is just a factual statement, with no malice intended. But I doubt I have ever uttered any Adverlets Sucks in any post. In fact, I have never take on Adverlets in any confrontational manner because I do not believe in bull-dozing companies trying to survive.
Therefore, if there is any negative perception from Advertlets publishers and the public towards you and the company Adverlets, leave me out of it.
Remember to separate my blogs. This is a Make Money Blog, Truth, No Scam. I only write about how to make money online without being scammed. This is not my personal blog.
Popularity: 28% [?]
Really Adverlets.com does not pay since August 2007?
I subscribed to Friedbeef’s blog comments because I was too lazy to un-do the unsubscribe. I picked up the comment which comes into my email and wish to alert publishers to this post. Note that I cannot verify if the claim is true or not but it is always good to be on alert.
The original post is Adverlets vs. Nuffnang written by FriedBeef in March 16, 2007. The comment is left today, 9th May 2008 by blogger Offshoreman.net.
He pointed out the complaints he made in this forum webmastermalaysia.com.
Got another email from advertlets today…
Hi Sulaiman,
In order for us to continue this investigation, and prove your legitimacy, we request that you provide us a scanned copy of your Malaysian Identity Card. We believe this should not be an issue if you are certain your earnings are legitimate.
Regards,
Advertlets Support
Funny story… i just bank in their first check (the one and only).. to make things more complicated they ask for my ic scan copy…. i just gave them my ic no.. SCAN COPY NO WAY!… My previous experience with them & comments from other (under keywords “Advertlets Sucks”) does not give me confidence to give them my IC Scan copy…
i’m now nuffnang glitterati on my web Khidmat-Negara.net & might consider all websites nuffnang gliterrati if no positive response from advertlets…
I hope advertlets stop making excuses & start doing genuine business…
My Best of Luck to Nuffnang!
According to Sulaiman, he still have payments pending since August 2007. The claim is Adverlets held back payment because they suspect click fraud.
Please check out the details yourself. I am not promoting or negating any parties. Since this complaint comes to my inbox, I guess people may want to hear about it too.
Popularity: 27% [?]
Am on a sabbath of sort
Can you not, not make money? This is some faith thing that I struggled with. I was given a false alarm that one of my PR 4 blog lost its PR. So, I returned over USD100 to TextLinkAds at the beginning of the month. At the very same moment, I got a nice juicy offer from LinkWorth. I rejected that as well. Last night, I saw many USD25 paid posts but I decided to turn away.
Do you know that we can get sucked into this spiral, stressful, competitive tunnel of make money? I had been working real hard on making more and more money. It is fun to see the money rising every day. But a little voice prompted me to step back and think twice.
So, I have been lying low this week. I made a pact to take a sabbath from making money. Of course, it is good to keep making money. But at this moment, I hope to concentrate on my faith. I need that now because of the discovery of some disturbing matters.
Therefore, folks, posts will be slow for a few days. I have several interesting questions from readers in my comment board. I read them all and I will get back and reply to all of you, ok?
Popularity: 32% [?]
Is Adsense Taiko - OnlyInMalaysiaMah.com a scam?
I picked this up from HongKiat who quoted NoktahHitam’s post.
So, if you have been wondering if the site that claims to help you make a lot of money from Google Adsense, the Adsense Taiko is a scam, do read NoktahHitam’s post. He has revealed a lot of things about AdsenseTaiko.com and whether it is a scam or not, you can read all about it.
In fact, NoktahHitam is so furious with AdsenseTaiko, he said :
Since they are full of horse shit, you can download the crappy book below.
Download the Ebook For FREE! Adsense Taiko Free Download
Note to Adsense Taiko: Here’s, my counter attack. Enjoy it, you maggot!
Bwahaha…you can get your free copy of Adsense Taiko from NoktahHitam’s blog. Can AdsenseTaiko helps you to make money online? Is OnlyInMalaysiaMah.com a scam?
Well….I didn’t say anything. I am just giving linky love to Hongkiat and NoktahHitam. You read them all.
Popularity: 44% [?]
Dissatisfied with Google search results?
I have never scroll down to the bottom of the page and didn’t notice the link to Dissatisfied with Google search results? until a few days ago. I actually learnt about it from Matt Cutt’s blog.
It is another one of those things where Google try to engage surfers to help them weed out spammy sites. It is a good feature. Depending on which angle you are looking. Good because surfers can help Google nuke out those sites which offer nothing but empty pages with no content. You know, sites who are out to make money from earning Adsense clicks?
The other day, while I was searching for information to help my in-law who has end stage of liver cancer, I really felt the brunt of stumbling on spammy sites. For once, I realised how frustrating it is to not able to find those hospitals and good cancer sites but instead, stumble on spammy blogs.
Bad because we are vulnerable to sabotage. What if we get reported? That’s why I decided to change my way of blogging from now on. I am going to focus on more neat topics and not just one blog that covers everything.
For example, if I have a 3,000 posts blog like my personal blog but I have 10 pages which are hot on the SERPs, I will find out what are those things that attract the traffic. Is it a topic that I can come up with decent posts? Can I expand that few pages to 20-30 pages of useful information that may help those people who are searching for it?
Google loves these kind of blogs. I believe they have human eyes monitoring the contents.
So, bear in mind that we are subjected to the millions of surfers out there who may report our site to Google.
Popularity: 44% [?]
