A BLOGGER SHOULD NOT BE MOTIVATED WITH GOOGLE ADSENSE ALONE

Blogging could be a boring activity to a blogger if he or she is not into it. Every blogger needs motivation to write because if not he or she may eventually quit. Many bloggers today are highly motivated with the monetary benefits of blogging like Google adsense earning. In fact new bloggers began to blog because of the monetary benefits. Blogging should not be like that because the blogger will get disappointed if he or she ends up earning nothing. Frustration and disappointment are the key ingredients for a blogging failure. The key ingredient of successful blogging is to write things that you enjoy about. Because you enjoy those things, you are motivated to write and write and write. I’ve noticed that the most successful bloggers in the internet (financially) are those that enjoy what they are writing.

DEPPRESSED WITH MY ZERO EARNINGS WITH GOOGLE ADSENSE AND INFOLINKS

I’ve been blogging actively for less than 2 weeks now and my Google adsense & Infolinks ads are also less than 2 weeks old. I have checked my earnings with the 2 advertisement sites and I’ve saw a whooping zero earning. You may be laughing at me now because I am expecting earnings already despite the fact that I’ve already started blogging for less than 2 weeks. Hahaha…this demonstrates my lack of patience. I’ve already posted more than 20 articles that are getting 1-2 digit page views a day without ad clicks. I am now realizing that successful blogging is about hard work – writing hundreds or even thousands of articles to generate traffic and possibly to earn money through Google adsense and other blog monetization programs. I should not lose hope because I know I can do it.

CARL OCAB's KIDBLOGGER'S MASTER PLAN ON MAKING MONEY ONLINE

I've just viewed the image of Carl Ocab's master plan on how to make money online. As you can see in the image, it is quite complicated and contains a series of steps. I am quite intimidated because I don't know if I myself could carry out the steps. But I am determined to follow the steps and hope for the best. Although the steps in the image were not yet thoroughly elucidated by Carl Ocab, he promised that he would further explain the meaning of the image through his newsletters. I promise to share with you whatever learning I would ever gain from Carl Ocab's blogging ideas.

If you want to receive Carl Ocab's newsletters on making money online, visit his site and submit your email address.

CARL OCAB INSPIRED ME TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE BLOGGING

While surfing the net looking for great articles on how to make money online, I stumbled upon this site of Carl Ocab, a very successful teenage blogger in the Philippines. It is very amazing that a 15 year-old Filipino kid created a name in the internet arena by just blogging and making money from it. His sites are in the top 100,000 of Alexa.com and his earnings can be higher than the usual earnings of business managers in the Philippines. This kid was also featured twice in the national newspaper and interviewed by top Philippine websites. It's a big WOW. My nose totally bled (figuratively speaking). I am very proud of CARL OCAB's success because he is one of the few Filipino youths who really explore their potentials in earning money. I wish that more teenagers will learn the success of CARL OCAB and follow his foot steps. There are many Filipino teenagers out there who spend a lot of money in online gaming and social networking but very few of them are earning money.

I envy Carl Ocab for his achievement as a blogger. He proved himself well. He is a PRIME MOVER in the blogosphere. He is a total IDOL! At an early age (14), he managed to build and maintain a very profitable website. Bloggers abroad are totally amazed. The Filipinos are very proud of him. He inspired me to explore my potentials as a blogger and to continue my quest towards financial freedom. I am very excited!!!

You may be interested in reading fantastic blog posts and interviews of top bloggers to Mr. Carl Ocab. Deant Hunt's Interview of Carl Ocab. Post of Rosalind Gardner. Jack Humphrey's Post..

I signed up on Carl Ocab's newsletters and waiting for bright blogging ideas from him.

WHY I RECOMMEND BLOGGING TO FILIPINO TEENAGERS ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO REGULARLY USE FRIENDSTER.COM?

I can say that friendster.com is the most visited website in the Philippines. You can hardly find an internet cafe in the Philippines without any surfer checking his/her friendster profile. Teenagers and even some Pinoy adults have friendster accounts that they check or open regularly. If I am going to make a friendster statistics based on my personal observation, I can say that 7 out of 10 Filipino teenagers have friendster accounts. Friendster.com generate millions of traffic from Philippine users. I think Friendster.com earns millions from the advertisements that they put in their website

I like friendster.com because it updates me about my friends- their activities, their latest pictures, their current locations, their birth dates etc. I can also meet new friends especially the friends of my friends. I agree that friendster.com and other social network sites like facebook.com and
myspace.com provides a way for people to connect with each other. But I am not happy with the obsessions of Filipino teenagers to friendster.com. Friendster users learned how to customize their Friendster profiles, edit the CSS codes of their friendster template, add new media to their profiles like youtube videos, beautiful graphics, background music, animations, and many more. What if they use these skills on blogging and earn some money through Google adsense (http://www.google.com/adsense) and other advertisements? Their friendster profiles generate thousands of pageviews without earning anything; it is the friendster website that earns from the advertisements. It seems that friendster.com don't have plans to share some of their income to the users. I am not that impressed with the changes or what they call as "improvements" in their website. I expect more because they earn more. Social network sites like yuwie.com share some of their earnings to the users.

So my "kababayan" (folks), I do recommend blogging if you want to earn some money to cover up your internet cafe expenses. If your blog becomes successfull, you may even pay your tuition fees, your mom and dad would be greatly impressed. (I've know some people online that finance their education through blogging). You can use your earnings from blogging to cover up your expenses to your "luhos" (leisure/pleasurable stuff). It would be nice for a person to have a friendster account as well as a blog.

Blogging would not only help yourself but would also help our country. For example, if Google Adsense pays you, it would be a dollar remittance to our country. Remittances increase our dollar reserve which helps our economy grow.

So what are you waiting for, create your own blog now and begin earning. If you are a beginner, I recommend creating you're first blog in Blogger.com.
With Blogger.com, it is easy to create and customize your blog. After publishing sufficient number of blog posts, you can now apply to the google adsense program in this link. Don't apply to the Google adsense program if your blog don't contain sufficient amount of textual contents or simply blog posts because you're application would surely be rejected.

I advise you to write about topics that interest you most. If you are interested with online gaming, you can write reviews about the games you've played already. If you're interested with movies, you can write a movie review for the latest movie you've watched. To enjoy blogging (while earning), write about things that you really enjoy because if not you would easily get bored and everything you've started will result to nothing.

Happy blogging. MABUHAY ANG KABATAANG PINOY!

Which Blog Platform Is The Best? Blogger or WordPress?

My Personal Answer

There has been so many debates in the blogosphere of which blog platform is the best. Is it Blogger or WordPress? As a new (and emerging) blogger, I found blogger as user friendly and with a touch of elegance. Creating a blog with blogger is not that hard, it is just like creating an account in a social network site like friendster, myspace, and facebook. The tools are easily to use. You can put a short but comprehensive profile about yourself; you can choose from a variety of templates that suits your blog's style; and you can choose from beautiful widgets that you can easilly put in your in your webpage. The instructions are clear and in a step by step manner. I highly recommend blogger for those who are new in the blogosphere.

What I really like with blogger is that there is a google adsense widget there (in the layout tab) that I can easily put to my webpage and customize its location in my blog. Google adsense (I believe) can be a potential income generating program for me as a blogger and for you also if you already have a blog. If you still don't have a blog but you have the guts to write then make a blog now and earn some money. I did not meet any problem "installing" adsense to my blogger blog after it was accepted to the google adsense program.

I tried Wordpress for a medical science blog that I planned to build; unfortunately it has not been successful because I learned that the site does not allow its members to put the google adsense code in their blogs and they require the bloggers to pay before they could edit the css codes of their blogs. For a newbie blogger like me, I am resistant to this program that requires me to pay knowing that there is a free service offered by blogger. Blogger allows it bloggers to edit the html codes and also allows them to add java scripts and css codes. Therefore blogger is truly a user friendly blog platform for bloggers who have little or no knowledge about html, css, and java - copy and paste would be a good start.

Below are additional comments that I've learned from other bloggers.

Blogger versus WordPress. What bloggers can say?

I've searched the internet and read articles comparing blogger and wordpress in terms of their advantages and disadvantages. I summarized them for you.

The Advantages of Blogger.Com Include The Following:

* It is simply easy to create a blog. It is just like creating an account in facebook.com or friendster.com. The instructions are easy to follow. There are also helpful articles made by the Blogger team to help you with your problems. Some blogging terms that are new to you have links that would lead you to a webpage that defines or explains that word.

* Because Google owns blogger, there is the tendency that the most powerful search engine (Google) crawls your blog regularly and "index" your articles. Some bloggers say that Google may even favor .blogspot.com sites in search results because of the main reason that Blogger.com is Google's property.

* It is very easy for anyone to manage the controls in Blogger.com such as the layout settings. There are cool widgets that could be easily added to your blog (e.g. youtube videos, news, clock, quote of the day, bible passage of the day, and many many more).

* I think the most popular advantage of Blogger.com is that it allows its bloggers to display adversisement in their blogs through the google adsense program. In this program, bloggers are able to monetize their blog - an alternative way of earnng money. It is very nice to think that you are earning money by just sharing what you know to the world.


The Disadvanatges of Blogger.Com Include The Following:

* It is hard for readers to leave comments on blog posts. Hopefully the Blogger team is doing something to improve their commenting system.

*The blogger cannot filter spams. It is important to rid off spams so that you will be safe from the punishments of googles to spammers.

* You need a considerale knowldege in CSS in order for you to create many pages. I am not good with CSS right now but I will surely study on how to make more pages for this blog. I need more pages to organize my posts.

* There are only few good templates to choose from and again, you need to know CSS to make your own personalized template.


ADVANTAGES OF USING WORDPRESS.COM AS A FREE BLOG PLATFORM

*One of the best features of Wordpress.com
is that you can import pages from your blogger to your WordPress blog.

*In WordPress, you can have extra pages like About, Contact, Archives, and the like.

*There are more blog templates to choose from in WordPress.com than in Blogger.com. Although there are other blog templates available in the internet that you can use in your Blogger blog (as well as in WordPress). You can just copy the css code of these blog templates and insert it to your blogs.

*According to bloggers, WordPress has a good commenting system. You can easily enter your comments below the blog post; you can even put comments to other comments for that blog post.

*You can also add few bookmarking sites to your blog without doing any "coding".


DISADVANTAGES OF USING WORDPRESS.COM AS A FREE BLOG PLATFORM

*Unlike Blogger blogs you can not automatically display advertisements or even Google Adsense in WordPress.com.

*You cannot use the plugins available in
WordPress.org to WordPress.com.

*You need to pay them before you could edit the CSS codes. In Blogger, you can edit the codes without paying anything.

*You need hardwork to master using WordPress.com. This is the reason why most bloggers recommend WordPress for advance bloggers.


CONCLUSION

If I will use a free blog platform, I will prefer Blogger.com mainly because I can display advertisements (e.g. Google Adsense , InFoLinks , Kontera ). Ninety percent of my motivation to blog is to earn money. If you are the typeof person that wants to blog but not "interested" in earning some bucks, then I recommend WordPress.com.

Is Blogging Lucrative? Is blogging for me?

A pleasant day to anybody who's reading this article.

When I'm writing this blog post, I am terribly confused whether I would continue my quest to do active blogging because I really don't know if I am gonna succeed. I'll be honest to you, I want to have a blog and earn money from doing so. But I know that if my aim/goal is just to earn money, I would not succeed in blogging; for sure I will easily lose hope if I will not earn some bucks through ads considering that I am a newbie. My mind is telling me that I should not lose hope and I should try because I would not lose anything anyways except my time (though I am not quite busy right now.

I know I can make it considering that I already earned hundreds of dollars writing science articles in a popular freelance writing website. I was paid upfront payments from the articles I wrote and earned some bucks from the page views. The upfront payment is pretty good with a moderate touch of decency. But I am not that happy with the pageview payment. Its about 2 USD for a thousand page view. Maybe its not bad for others but for a newbie like me it is very hard to get a thousand pageview in this time that millions of websites are competing for the same article topic or the same SEO keyword. The upfront payment makes me very happy and my sadness on the pageview payment is relieved.

One moment, when I was surfing the internet, an idea entered my mine. What if I will make my own blog and maximize the pageviews that my articles obtain. I thought that if I own a blog, the payment would not just be based on pageviews but I will earn from the "clicks" on the ads. Correct me I am wrong and you're free to leave a comment below.

I am still writing for that freelance writing website but I want to experiment with blogging and I am very excited to see the results of this experiment. Whether the results are good or bad, I am very ready. ( I am quite OK for dissapointments, I accept them as challenges).

I have read a plethora of articles online that blogging can be lucrative if you just have the guts to write quality articles and have the patience to create posts regularly. Moreover, a knowledge of SEO would greatly help to drive traffic in your article. Perhaps I have these qualities (moderately) :). I can write quality articles on topics that I really know or on topics that I don't know much but I can do research and write about them afterwards. I am a science major but I can write philosophy articles at some point in time (during those philosophical moments).

I've read from blogs that bloggers quit blogging because they don't have time to create posts regularly. Well I understand them but it is not a very good excuse. They can find time to write, if they really like to. Maybe a 30 minute break to write an article with 100 words would do. It is not hard to find time to update your blog, if you really want to. But if you're just a lazy type of person, then I advise you to update yourseld first before updating your blog.

SEO or search engine optimization can be a very powerful factor in the success of your website in terms of driving traffic. There are free SEO tips online that you can learn with. The idea behind SEO is that by using "highly searched" short keywords in your article many times and in a natural way, our article has the higher chance of landing top in search engine ranking. You're article can be at the top 1 or at the top 10; it depends how the search engine calculate the worth of your article. As a new freelance writer, I really appreciate the importance of SEO to compete with millions of articles online that aim for a high search engine ranking.