I managed to pick up through Net Monetization’s site that my personal blog 5xmom was picked up by Paula Mooney.
Firstly, Net Monitization made a survey and found that of all the 120 bloggers mentioned by Paula who made money blogging, 88 of them uses WordPress own hosting blog. This is a ratio of 3:1 between bloggers who use WordPress self-hosting and Blogger’s Blogspot. He found that none uses Typepad or WordPress.com. So, my question to you – Have you got your own domain and hosting yet?
Now, on to Paula Mooney. She picked up that I am estimated to earn USD16,200 per annum. Actually, this is a very conservative figure because it is sourced only from PayPerPost based on my June’s income. Well, I make good income from TextLinkAds, other paid posts and Adsense as well. :P So, yeah, USD16K is the minimum I earn. Hehehe, don’t believe me? Google ‘how to make money’ or some keywords like ‘make money’ and tell me who is on the first page?
I have come to the realization that the most rewarding thing about being mentioned like this is the confidence it gives me to encourage other bloggers to start looking at blogging as an income earner. I met many young people today in the Penang Bloggers gathering and a couple of them asked, “I heard you are Penang top blogger?”
Without second thought, I told them, “Not only that, I am Malaysia’s top fifty and maybe top twenty bloggers.” Many may see this as being arrogant but when I told them in a serious manner as a way of encouraging them to hone their blogging skills, I think I have done my part in encouraging others to improve. I know what I shared in this blog has helped a lot of people to finally rake in US dollars (which is 3.4 times more than our local currency, i.e. USD1 = RM3.4). Whether they learnt it directly from me or through their friends who heard it from me, I can stand tall and believe I have done some good.
For that, I thank God He has blessed me with skills that I hope to share with others.
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30 thoughts on “Paula Mooney says 5xmom earns USD16,200”
KennyP's Technology Blog
(June 24, 2007 - 1:28 am)So I learn to make money from one of the top blogger in Malaysia and Google’s first page of ‘make money’ blogger. :D
I think most of the income on the list are underestimated.
menj
(June 24, 2007 - 2:18 am)Eh, how come I am on the list too??
– MENJ
lilian
(June 24, 2007 - 2:54 am)menj – LOL, you mean you don’t know? You were there in the first list.
kenny – I am higher than John Chow, so does that means I can charge you USD10 per month to comment. LOL.
terence
(June 24, 2007 - 3:38 am)Gaji leh????
Adam
(June 24, 2007 - 6:12 am)You are my Guru too. I can see that your are going to break the $10k barrier in ppp too.
Andrew Ooi
(June 24, 2007 - 8:03 am)Your blog has given me confidence to seriouslyconsider giving up my day job and going solo in making money online for myself
Ah Pek
(June 24, 2007 - 8:56 am)ya… you was and still is my biggest inspiration.
Zeo
(June 24, 2007 - 11:00 am)Fuyoo, can buy jet.
KennyP's Technology Blog
(June 24, 2007 - 12:21 pm)If you are selling nofollow link in the comments and I am willing to buy, of course you can charge :D
Vedis Teh
(June 24, 2007 - 4:17 pm)Wow.. I have started thinking of blogging full time…;D
Lilian, I have actually been hovered by this thought recently ,that is,the future of writing paid posts. Is it stable ? Maybe…I am a bit worried..hehe..
Congratulations…being one of the top earners in Malaysia. Maybe you are the top female earner ?? Has anyone done research out there ?
Cifra
(June 24, 2007 - 4:22 pm)I’m seriously considering buying a domain for my blog. Your post persuaded me :D
ParisB
(June 24, 2007 - 4:53 pm)I couldn’t comment on your other site. I’m not sure why. Just wanted to let you know you are tagged but your WP dashboard might have told you that already :) Congrats on being one of the top blog earners. Truly an inspiration.
mott
(June 24, 2007 - 5:15 pm)*waves fan by hand, swooning*
..and to think I met this top Female Blogger before…
hee hee..congrats! TABIK!
The Old Vic
(June 24, 2007 - 6:09 pm)Hi 5xMom,
Thanks for dropping by. I have updated the figures slightly, out of the 88 bloggers I looked at there are 68 using WordPress and 20 using Blogger so actually the ratio is almost 3.5:1. Also most of the bloggers using WordPress are in the top half of the table, Blogger becomes more popular in the lower half of the table, probably because the people blogging are newer.
Congratulations on the excellent site, I shall be back to see what useful tips I can find.
Vic
Jacelyn
(June 24, 2007 - 7:03 pm)I do have a domain and blogspot as well. I really hope that I can be half skillful like you in earning by blogging. I really hope to work it as full time but I’m in a struggle to push up my page rank, so that I get more opportunities to write. That makes me stop thinking of giving up my teaching career.
Anyway, congrat for being so successful! :)
kuanhoong
(June 24, 2007 - 9:01 pm)I wonder whether you declare your income to IRB since it is published in your blog
Chris Peterson
(June 25, 2007 - 12:40 am)You are an inspiritaion for us to make money too.
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(June 25, 2007 - 6:37 am)Thanks, Chan –
Please leave me a comment if you create a post that has all your income posted, so I won’t underestimate next time.
Take care…you’re an inspiration to many.
Paula
jamy
(June 25, 2007 - 10:18 am)Wow, it must be exciting for you guys in Malaysia to earn US$16k kind of $. At least we Americans are providing income for oversea people. Hope not all people think we are all bad :)-
Must be nice to earn more than RM$100k a year ! Not a lot of people in Malaysia can do it. Kudos !!!!
lilian
(June 25, 2007 - 1:15 pm)paula – Hi! Thanks for the mention!
chris – Hey, thanks for dropping by.
kuanhoong – We are not crooks, so if it is taxable, we won’t run right?
jacelyn – It takes a while so have patience lor. You will get to it after sometime.
old vic – You must have spent a lot of time compiling that. Thanks for the mention.
lilian
(June 25, 2007 - 1:26 pm)mott – Cheers to making money!
paris – I use WP Cache there and it is rather screwed. And problem is I don’t know how to undo it. LOL.
cifra – Good for you! It is cool to have our own domain. It is cheap to acquire one too.
vedis – You must ask LiewCF and now Hongkiat for advice lor. Hahaha, I am already fulltime mom when I turn to blogging. i don’t think I will dare to take the bold step too if I am working.
kenny – LOL, you are such good supporter, I am so glad already. No charge lah, not ever. Hahaha.
zeo – Yalor, untuk anak. Jet dari toys r us. LOL.
ahpek – You is and was my buddy. I think we got the courage to venture with our peer support hor?
andrew – We must call all the probloggers together one day and grill them for encouragement hor? But you can refer back to LiewCF and Kahsoon earlier posts when they were trying to make the decision. It was many years ago, I think about 2 years?
adam – Yeah, since October 2006. I was hoping to do it by end June, just for motivation sake. Hahaha, I like to set targets.
terence – CKT can ah?
sy
(June 25, 2007 - 4:47 pm)hi lilian aka 5xMom,
finally met you face to face last saturday. haven’t really blogged about the gathering but here is my link: http://kg-sy.blogspot.com/2007/06/nuffnang-orients-voice-gathering.html (purple)
sy
(June 25, 2007 - 6:14 pm)hehe…pls email the pic of me & you or the link :) either way is find :D
Leah
(June 26, 2007 - 1:16 am)Kudos to all the hard work.
I do think they underestimate your blogging income.:-)
Sus
(June 26, 2007 - 7:53 pm)I love your site and entries – what a work of art and you deserve so many kudos. As a new senior, European blogger I found it difficult to start – there’s so much information to take omboard. I was stupid to start and jumped in first instead of learning the ropes. So I’ve gone back to basics of organizing and planning first.
I’d certainly welcome some small level of success – but nothing comes from nothing. Thanks so much for your insights and for sharing.
N
(June 28, 2007 - 4:19 am)5xmom, you’re an inspiration!
Where the hell have I been all these years? I should have stick with blogging instead of taking a long vacation at some schools in jungles, full time! (just kidding).
N
(June 28, 2007 - 9:10 pm)jamy, we Malaysians provide products for Americans, and sometimes, income/profits for Americans too ;-)
no, not bashing Americans, but we Malaysians paid Americans quite handsomely too every year, for education, technology, service, tourism etc. And our entrepreneurs invest a lot in the US too.
who’s fault if Americans look bad all the time? (and particularly portrayed as such in local mainstream media).
better stop here — wrong forum!
Just wanna add one thing for 5xmom: it’s a good idea to DIVERSIFY. you can’t put all eggs in one basket, ie. over-reliance to US greenbacks.
N
(June 28, 2007 - 9:13 pm)jamy, we Malaysians provide products for Americans, and sometimes, income/profits for Americans too ;-)
no, not bashing Americans, but we Malaysians paid Americans quite handsomely too every year, for education, technology, service, tourism etc. And our entrepreneurs invest a lot in the US too.
who’s fault if Americans look bad all the time? (and particularly portrayed as such in local mainstream media).
better stop here — wrong forum!
Just wanna add one thing for 5xmom: it’s a good idea to DIVERSIFY. you can’t put all eggs in one basket, i.e. over-reliance to US greenbacks.
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Sherly
(October 4, 2007 - 2:43 pm)Can you share with us how do you declare income tax for a Malaysian who makes full time earning from adsense and affliates? I’ve been searching on the net for this information, but I couldn’t find any. I made a decent living from online money but I have no idea what are the procedures if I want to buy properties or apply for foreign visas.Do you declare it under self entrepreneur?
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