Posts under ‘Blogging in general’

I read other blogs. I have a dozen or so in my Bookmarks toolbar that I read daily. I get inspiration from them when it eludes me. I maintain a number of blogs and I want one to be unique from each other. I don’t want to be accused of posting the same entries across [...]

When I started monetizing my blogs four years ago, there were so many programs offering blogging opportunities. Blog to earn opportunities that gave so many stay at home moms and freelance writers and consultants who are also bloggers the chance to earn dollars on the side. I was working at the time, employed in an [...]

I used to sell links in one of my blogs. Unfortunately, that blog was no longer mine. I didn’t know that an account of mine where I sell links is still active. I got a notification that I was able to sell a link and I need to put up the code for it. Sometimes, [...]

When I discovered monetizing, my blogging life changed. I concentrated more on building up my blogs and in getting ranks for each. I became less active in bloghopping and making friends and became more focused on monetizing. Because there were very few of us doing that back then, I slowly lost some of my readers [...]

People assume that when you start blogging, you can already start earning right away. What they don’t know is that monetizing ones blog is not that easy. You have to work hard to get a rank and to make sure that you are dishing out quality posts before you can actually see a dollar come [...]

I thought I would be able to update my blogs regularly if I transfer some of it to Blogger. My idea was whenever I open Blogger in Draft to update my two blogs active there, I’d see the inactive ones and would be inspired to update those. But that didn’t happen. In fact, I think [...]

Some people assume that blogging is easy. Yes, it is. But only if you put your heart in it. I know why others got interested in blogging. It’s because they think once they open a blog, they can easily earn from it. Let me tell you this. I’ve started blogging in 2004. It took me [...]

I think I have ‘lured’ another sister into joining the blogging bandwagon! Yey! My sister is already blogging in Tumblr. I told her that she could put to good use her blogging skills if she blogs at Blogger or WordPress. Actually I have set up a blog for her with her own domain. A little [...]

Most bloggers know the importance of a Page Rank (PR). It determines how much a post in your blog is worth. Or at the very least, the price of a link. This blog was blessed with a 2 out of 10 the first time it was ranked. It stayed that way for sometime until an [...]

I have been noticing that my web host is experiencing downtime more than twice or thrice in a month. It started last August. It was worse last month because, if I am not mistaken, there were at least five occurrences of downtime that were all more than 15 minutes each. I talked to a tech [...]