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How’s your money-making blogging experience? A year in adsense and still making cents? Or you have a Google Adsense success story to share? Maybe you have already bought a PC or even a new car from your adsense earnings. Or perhaps you are one of the many who’ve already taken down the codes and eventually gave up on earning online thru Google Adsense?

If you are still making cents, don’t worry. You are not alone. You have me and plenty of bloggers out there. Don’t be desperate by violating rules, clicking on your own ads or even asking friends and readers to click on yours. You’d be banned for life and even the scanty amount you have in your account will be taken away from you.

Here’s some hope for you (and for me). It is true that there are bloggers who are making a lot of money from Google Adsense. Not only bloggers but organizations are earning as well. Are there any secrets that we don’t know of? Here are some of the techniques I gathered: Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 12% [?]

Do you ever wonder why some blogs are popular and the others are not? Or just consider your own choices of the blogs you follow. Is it because they have marketed theirselves to you, or you just stumbled upon them and got hooked?

If you desire to be noticed and read by other bloggers, consider these 6 things bloggers want from the blogs they read and follow. It could be just one, any combination or all of the six. Some want this and the others want that. You may develop your blogging strategies around these and replicate the success of others who have led the way.

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Popularity: 17% [?]

The past few weeks we’ve seen a barrage of changes in the entrecard community. As I posted here when I was still new in the community, Entrecard is fun.

Entrecard is Fun

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Popularity: 35% [?]

There are plenty of Pinoy SEO experts and enthusiasts these days, unlike a year ago when most of the bloggers I know were simply personal bloggers, and the method used to increase readership is thru building relationships with other like-minded bloggers. I say I miss those days. But blogging has evolved and the number of bloggers had increased exponentially in which expression and content are not the only things that matter for the blogger.

Then enter blog monetization, rankings, social networking and SEO. The objectives are to increase blog visibility, web traffic, and the monetary opportunities. Here are some web traffic news I gathered from the blogs I read the last 30 days:

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Popularity: 38% [?]

How do you consider one as an influential blog? I read Ms. Janette Toral’s attempt to answer this question. I do agree that it is a tough question and I don’t think there is a single description that fits all.

I was already blogging during the first edition but really did not mind the project (and all other happenings around the blogosphere at that time). It was just me, my blog, and the few people in my blogroll.

But I happened to read the results because a few of the winners were in my blogroll. Like the others, I was surprised. Some people were very vocal about their disagreement, and I may have even agreed then with the points they raised. Is it popularity or influence? 2007 is behind us now and everyone has moved on.

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Popularity: 28% [?]

I don’t know how you value links. But for some, getting a link from another site is of much value. Much more if that link comes from sites with high page ranks. You know the page rank, monetization, SERP and all those blah blah blahs about it.

But there are others who don’t link for the page rank. They give and take links but just for the sake of having links, and nothing more. Yeah, more of the socializing thing. However, we also have to take note that Google penalizes blogs giving out too much links and those who sell links that passes page ranks. As to how much is too much really depends on Google.

Why should I link to you? I know that a lot of bloggers are not very generous with their links, but I will just answer that question with my very own experience. And they are really very simple reasons.

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Popularity: 22% [?]

Oh! They do rhyme. But I don’t like it when my emails and my comment moderation queue are filled with scams, spams and shams.

Email

How many times have I won the lottery? If I believe my emails, I won everyday. What a wonderful world that would be! Oh common, let me wake up to reality. But how do we stop those spams? I list down some ways here, but there really is no way to totally stop spam:

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Popularity: 21% [?]

This question floated in my mind for sometime now along with the question as to why do I blog. Am I just blogging for myself or for someone? Are the bloggers in my circle blogging for their selves, for search engines or for the readers like me? Or are we just rambling words, typing and conversing with ourselves and the PCs?

Maybe you who happen to read this may have a ready answer in mind. Or maybe you don’t, and is facing a dilemma as to what you should write because a particular group wants this, and another wants that, and you want to blog about your love life. Maybe your blogging idol wrote something that seems like telling you not to blog about your personal life because it is uninteresting. Or it could also be that someone barges in to your site and tells you not to blog about SEO and money making because you are not an expert on it or that you have no real blogging earnings to boast of.

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Popularity: 21% [?]

As bloggers, we have some expectations as to the frequency of our own posts. We certainly don’t want our readers to keep on waiting, and eventually leave us. Here now, gone later. Unless maybe we have some prior announcements like saying, the next release of this series is on Christmas of 2008. But if we’re only expecting a 700-words post, you must be kidding with your announcement, my friend.

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Popularity: 18% [?]

A few months ago, in a forum somewhere, a thread caught my attention. The title kept on coming back to me, hence, this post.

What is serious blogging? In the simplest definition, blogging is writing and posting entries for your blog. And being serious is being earnest, sincere and dedicated in your blogging. There are millions of blogs out there, and as a blogger you might also have read or bumped into hundreds, if not thousands of blogs from all over the world. Based on our own experience, do we know who these serious bloggers are?

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Popularity: 15% [?]