After Completing my 7 months journey in blogging, i have learned many valuable lessons on how easy it is to make money online without a degree or even a certificate. Within the 7 months i have learned how to turn monetizing programs to cash for myself on my blogs and also many other ethical money making programs to earn me a comfortable 4 figure monthly.
Writing on my blog
Since i am using a personal name on my blog, my intention was to make sure every post i write comes from my thoughts and not others whose style might be very different from mine and the readers might not like it when there is a change. I am still pondering over whether i should accept guest blogging, there are a number of guys who were interested in posting on my blog but i had to reject them because i felt it was not my voice. I thought i can hear it from you guys on whether i should accept guest blogging, maybe twice a month?
Increasing traffic one at a time
Over the past 7 months, traffic is always on the raise since my posting frequency have always maintained on a daily basis. I am looking forward to see even higher heights of readers visiting my blog and ask for more. A large number of visitors is always the driving force for a blogger to write more responsible and better.
Money Making Experiment
It had been a fun journey to have made money online. I have used so many monetizing programs, some of them Adsense, Auctionads, PPP, Widgetbucks, Article writing, Shareapic, eBay and many more. My biggest money maker on my blog is Google Adsense and eBay who brought me to my 4 figures earnings.
I expect myself to open up to more opportunities over at the freelance writing column and make extra cash writing articles. On a daily basis, writing 10 article in less than 4 hours is always achievable and if everyone one is paid $5, i will be making $50 in 4 hours, that is surely better than what they pay me for doing a day job in Singapore.
Sticking to My Principals
I have never taken this blog as a personal blog, so there will not be me and my girlfriend enjoying in Hawaii resort and blogging about how nice that place is. It will not happen now and it will never happen in the future over at my blog.
Being Friendly in the neighborhood
I have made a number of cool friends in the blogging communities and social networks and i intend to carry on my 'online friendship' with those i could not reach over at the other side of the continent. You can always contact me on social networks that i have joined or MSN.
Mistakes that were made
My biggest mistakes i guess over my past 7 months was to be on blogger hosting though i got my own domain name. In my mind this was just going to stay as it is since i do not have the intention to blog flip my own domain name. I will be starting a few more other projects using wordpress and domain name which i intend to sell over the years.
My second mistake that i made was to review products like keyword elite and other marketing stuff on my blog in the first 2 months of blogging which was a wrong move, i have changed my steps ever since.
Make a mistake not more than 2 times in life, This was one of the valuable lessons that have been deeply running in my mind and you should learn from your mistakes and not run away from what had happen.
This post is part of Rishiraj's group writing project and i am looking forward to the number of entries made over the past weeks.
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November 10, 2007 2:20 AM
I have been making 4 figures with ghost writing for others and its really very easy. i am sure you will be able to make another count.
I think 1 or 2 guest blogging article should not be a problem. Not too many in one month.
Talking about being nice online, you were one of the few that greeted me on mybloglog, nice to see your contents, i subscribed your email feed.
November 11, 2007 10:42 PM
That was a good point, being friendly. I guess around the blogging sphere i have found many good friends and i am adding more on my list.
March 12, 2008 2:31 AM
Great .. thanks for share
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