Below are some blog post that I read while web hopping which I think will also get your attention perhaps I shall do this every week, in addition this blogs mentioned below are my top referral this week
Karlo : Evolution of the Philippine Internet: From MIRC to Blogging
Robinsongo.com : Advice on Cheesy Background Music
Daily Cup of Tech : Database Tables Recovered
I think this is my way of saying thanks to the above mentioned websites.
Below is a blog post of my first ever guest blogger.Enjoy reading..
Introduction
If you haven’t heard about blogging, then you must be living under the rocks. Blogging or web log is a website where entries are written in chronological order and visitors may leave a comment for a particular post. Blogs vary from different niche. There are photo blogs, online diaries, adult blogs, entertainment, sports and so on. Sky is the limit of what you may think of to blog. The fun of blogging is that you can make anything bloggable and be unique. People blog for therapeutic reasons, some for rants, some just for fun and others for money.
So let’s have a typical idea of how much, really does a blog income produce.
This guy is a little disappointed receiving his pay check from google.
dcpanganiban’s check
I have posted a link on my blog about these people who earned money through blogging. From tech blogs, odd news, to cats talking crap. Have a quick view to all of them.
Read Full Article About Top Bloggers and Their Income
So I guess that warmed you up. To give you a quick overview of what you’ll get in this guide is all listed below.
Guide Overview:
• Creating accounts for money making network ads.
• Get all necessary files to start your blog.
• Tips in writing and managing you blog.
• Monetizing Your Blog
• Blog Promotion
My Personal Story
Meet the Master
As may you all know, I don’t have talent to write nor did I know how to earn money online. I learned about email during my second year in college and my classmates thought I was joking. I got my computer on my 4th year of college. And afford to buy my own laptop through online money making while still struggling to pass that software engineering subject. Arrrrrgh!!!.
As I got into the company I’m working now, I met people that are uber in this field of money making. They come across as arrogant because they’re always talking about money. But for me, they are good hearted people that wanted to share their knowledge and talk about their experience.
I made friends with retzwerx, if you don’t know him, ask a fellow blogger, he won the Philippine Blog Awards for an entertainment blog focusing on Pinoy Big Brother. Well, he got excited and showed me a peek of his income.
Sounds good? It is. It’s dated June 14, 2007. Yep it’s not even end of the month yet and he earned that much.
As we got closer, the more I know how to make money online. He is just soooo good on the subject that it comes natural. His enthusiasm is very contagious and I’m always excited to hear what he’s going to say next because what he says are gold nuggets ready to be picked up by all who noticed them.
My Own Style
One day, I came up with an idea to share what I learned with this guy and probably help others to earn money online. Anyone can do this, all you have to do is follow and understand everything stated here. Ok, understand? Now sit, then rollover… lol. Just kidding.
After following his advices and picking up those gold nuggets, I was able to make money on my own, at home.
I know its crap compared to what he’s earning but I hope you get my point. By the way, that interface isn’t google. It’s xoom, I wanted to get away with what he teach and try my own way of earning money. But the principle is still the same as to what I will write here in the guide. I do hope I’m making myself clear here.
What’s the catch?
What’s the catch? There is no catch, totally nothing. All I ask is a link of my site (http://supernoobice.com) from your site and that would help. You may also distribute this article to everyone you know. I don’t care. But please give proper credits.
Creating accounts for money making network ads
Recommended Money Makers
The following are the best ad networks and affiliate systems for start up sites in my opinion. They provide support and information and most of all, on time payments.
Google Adsense
Google Adsense is probably the most popular ad network on the internet. It pays you for every click on the ads. You have the chance to customize ad links to match your site theme. You definitely want to signup for adsense. Minimum payout is $100 and payments are made every month.
Bidvertiser
Bidvertiser is a CPC ad that competes with Google Adsense. The only advantage so far is that it has a low pay out. Meaning, at a minimum of $10, you may receive your earnings. For cash check payments, a minimum of $50.
Auction Ads
Action ads allow you to post relative items from eBay on your site. User clicks and money comes rolling in. You may want to check it out. If you’re planning to have a site with selling items, you may want to try Audtion Ads and get paid by every transaction and user clicks.
AGLOCO
AGLOCO is a toolbar for advertising. If you use the toolbar, you will be given share of your ad money. They will also pay you if you refer other people to use the toolbar. The more people you refer the more you can potentially make. AGLOCO is still in startup and unproven. But since the cost of investment is ZERO, it’s worth a try. It is also the only ad network here that doesn’t require a website.
Exoclick
Here comes an alternative to Adsense that are more “mature” in nature. One of the distinct feature of Exoclick is that it allows mature ads for adult related websites. But that’s not the only thing that makes Exoclick an Adsense alternative….
Get All Necessary Files
Get a Domain and Hosting
Nothing beats a personal domain and web space, but if you’re broke you don’t want to spend money, stay with free hosing if you like. But please make it a must to get out of free hosting and brand your own website if you have the chance. The money and effort are worth it on personal website because once the blog is popular, it is YOUR site that is popular and not the free blog hosting. Besides, it would make you look professional.
The money you invest on a domain and hosting will greatly outnumbered by the money coming in once you got your blog rolling.
There are lots of cheap hosting packages floating around. But I use www.bigskymedia.net simply because its cheap for only P50 a month. =)
Disclaimer: I don’t have any connection with bigskymedia.
Tips in selecting a domain name:
• Pick a domain name that reflects you.
• Pick a domain name that will reflect the most important subject of your blog. For example, if you are blogging about pictures of nude monkeys, you may want to buy a domain like www.nudemonkeys.com. So that it would be search engine optimized. (More on that later).
WordPress – The Blogging Machine
There are lots of blogging scripts out there but for this guide we will use wordpress. You may want to download the latest file at WordPress.org or if you have a cpanel try looking for the “Fantastico” icon and click it.
You will be directed to a page with list of all possible applications you may install on your hosting. Look for wordpress. It should be there. If not, download wordpress on the above link.
Pick a Theme
You may want to have a stylish look on your blog. Free resources such as this are elegant. Just download and install.
Tips in writing and managing you blog
Blog things that your passionate about
If you are not passionate about your topic then you might have a big problem in growing your blog. People know and can smell through you and through your post if you’re just in for the money.
Whatever happens, don’t do it for the money. Blog things that you enjoy story telling to others and the money will come later.
Blog in a consistent basis
A blog with no blog is a dead blog. Always remember, that an outdated blog is a dead blog. Decide on what frequency will make a post. Once a week, once a day, whatever, and stick with it!
Remember that you may want to keep readers from coming back. Think what will happen when they return and see post made a month ago? Of course, they won’t visit your site ever again and you lost a potential reader and maybe a customer.
Interact with readers
Blogging is building a community, kindly reply to comments in a positive manner. Meet and know other bloggers as they are also potential readers. It’s all about being active in the blogosphere.
Link out hearts
If you have friends who blog exchange link with them. If you don’t then find a friend online that blogs and exchange links.
“Blog Hopping” is a good way. Where you visit one blog to another then leave comments with your site url.
Brand Yourself
What makes your blog different from millions of blog around the world? Brand yourself, give your own opinions on topic you selected. Every point of view, rants and raves are unique for each person and also the way you communicate it.
Be a Good Writer
You don’t really have to be a good writer. What I meant by this is that you should have a good way of expressing your points across.
Monetizing Your Blog
Ok here it is!!! It is time to earn some money. You may need to sign up to at least one ad network to go on with this guide. I suggest you go with google adsense first or go with all. Its your choice. But for the meantime, I’ll be using google adsense as an example. Same logic applies to all ad networks.
1. First of all download and the wordpress login called “Adsense Deluxe” .
2. Login to you adsense account and click on the Adsense setup tab.
You may pick 3 types of adsense product. For now, click on the “Adsense for Content”.
3. Select Ad unit and then select text ads only. Then hit continue.
4. You will be directed to a page where you may customize the look of your ad. For the Format of our ad, select the 728×90 Leaderboard option on the drop down menu for now.
5. Now select the colors for border, title, text, url and background.
6. At this point you hit continue or ad more appealing effects to you ad by the added options, like having a rounded corner for the ad blocks.
7. Hit continue.
8. You are then directed to the Choose Channel page. Add a new channel and then hit continue.
Let me explain to you what channel does. Channel allows you to monitor which ads is generating money. For example, I added snoobLeaderboard for our ad. If that ad generated money, I would have the chance to know and basically analyze which ad to improve, change or discharge.
9. This is the final page. This page gives you the code that you will insert on your page. If you still want to customize and go back to the previous steps, just hit the back button.
10. Copy the code and fire up your WordPress Admin Page. I am now on the Presentation Tab of my Admin area.
11. I am using Fluid Solution Theme for this example.
On the Presentation Tab, there are lists of more tabs under it, namely, Themes, Widgets, Theme Editor. If you don’t have a Widgets tab, do not worry, you will still be able to follow along, it’s not necessary to have one. It’s a sort of added feature installed on my WordPress.
12. On the right side of the Theme Editor page, you will see a list of pages that you may edit that makes all of your blog. You may edit it and give a personal look on the page. For now, we are focused mainly on putting our Google Ad on the homepage.
13. Click on the Main Index Template. And the code should show up on the left side pane of the page.
14. Don’t be intimidated by the code. All we have to know is where to paste our google ad code. Browsing from our Homepage Template code, look for this code:
15. All you have to do is paste the code in place of the <PASTE GOOGLE CODE HERE> so it would look like this.
16. Now that you’re done, click Update File and preview your ad.
17. Now that you made your first Google ads and placed it on your homepage all that is left is to explore and experiment. Same goes for other ad networks.
Try new combinations and placements, try other Google Ad sizes. For more tips about Google Ad Placement visit Google’s Optimization tips.
Blog Promotion
Let’s summarize the things we have from this point. And make sure that everything’s laid out.
• We have our blog.
• We have a posting schedule.
• We have ads.
All that is left now is to promote our blog. Remember that traffic is important in the world of blogging and traffic means readers, visitors and money.
Write Good Content
Make it a habit to write quality content. If you write good articles, many would like to link to your site. When that happens, you increase your site’s visibility and more and more blogs will want to visit you for more quality contents.
The most important of all, if many sites link to you because of your content, you also increase the chance of being indexed on page 1 of google when users search for certain keywords relevant to your articles.
Once you have a striking content, you may want to submit them on digg You get popularity when readers “DIG” your content. Which in return generates more traffic.
Submit to Web Directories
By submitting to web directories, you help search engines to categorize your blog and makes it easier to be found. Here are some of the lists of directories you may submit your site. Remember that there are free and paid web directories, if you’re not willing to pay until your blog is earning, free web directories is the way to go. Just search, there are tons of it.
• http://dir.blogflux.com/country/philippines.html
• www.pinoysites.org/pinoyblogs
• http://www.blogcatalog.com/post-tag/filipino
Be The First One to Comment
Always try to be the first one to comment on blog post of other sites. It will give you the chance to be noticed since readers do not care anymore past the first 10 comments.
Big Blogs
Look for popular blogs that have top commentator list. Try to be the top commentators on these blog. Technorati has 100 lists of top blogs. You may want to join in and be one of the top commentators.
Customize Your Permalinks for Search Engine
WordPress has this option wherein you may change the link name of every post on your blog. Instead of seeing http://supernoobice.com/?p=123,you may want change it to something like http://supernoobice.com/money/make-money/ so that google, and other search engine spiders may crawl on your links for easy indexing.
To change the permalinks, go to your Options Tab then click on Permalinks on the sub tab.
Click on the Custom, Specify Below radio tab and type in /%postname%/ on the text field.
After that Update your permalinks.
Note: Search Engine Optimization is such a broad subject, and there are tons of ways to do SEO. You may want to look for resources related to SEO, Search Engine Optimization, to further know the subject.
Last Few Words
There’s no quick and easy way to earn cash, whether online or offline. Why people walk away from this business unsuccessful is that they often quit too early. Try to do things differently if things don’t go according to plan, and eventually, you’ll be making your site successful.
If you think this guide is helpful, drop me a message at supernoobice@gmail.com or drop me a comment on my website at supernoobice.com.
Thanks. 
About the Author
Supernoobice is a word describe someone aiming for the best that life has to offer. A super and a noob in life struggling to achieve success! His blog aims to note his adventure, defeats, rise and fall, rants and raves, stupidity and more wrong grammar
Yesterday I received an email from Yahoogroups regarding helpful Tools from a Filipino Blogger.
I love helpful tools and I’ve done a weekend project to skin Xinu. I had fun!
What is Xinu (unix spelled backward)? It’s a tool to help you check your blog’s (or even someone’s) PageRank, Alexa rank, backlinks, feed subscribers, technorati rank, domain validation/diagnostics and much more. You can also use it for your website.
Xinu has also a reporting tool to save it as PDF if you need to print (still scratchy).
Visit:
http://xinu.techhive.net
It currently works with IE7, FF2, Opera 9.x and Netscape 9. Please let me know if it’s useful to you.
From : AJ ( pictures also captured from AJ Site )
I may say that I am impress on that project. The only thing I cannot understand at the report is the Validation part, I got the following result
XHTML : 582 errors, Not valid
CSS : 12 errors, Not valid
RSS : 9 errors, Not valid
I am not a programmer, But will somebody help me understand this. Will it affect my page? or what.
In my overall opinion the site is very helpful it is a 1 stop page to get the desired stats. Great job for the programmer.
Yahoo advertising is only available in the US, however a recent development revealed that Yahoo is also entering India via Tyroo Ads an Internet advertising company focused on Indian websites.
Now My question is , Is there any possibility that Yahoo will also enter Philippines and perhaps join a local advertising company in Philippines? like adAuction.ph well we do not know.
Yahoo YPN is a great alternative to those bloggers or web owners that has been banned by Adsense.
Are you Mapuan? Mapuan is a student from Mapua Intitute of Technology , A Philippine Based Engineering School with great Engineers. ( Ooopss I am one of them LOL ).
There is an unofficial forum named Mapuaownage.com that is dedicated to Students and Alumni of MIT. In fact I have started a thread in the forum asking if Mapuans do blog?. I got a good response and below are the list who participated in the discussion.
Additional
Update : 21 July 2007
Update : 26 August 2007
All I can say is Viva Mapua !!! and thanks to the moderator for making my thread post on top of the list. If you are a Mapua Blogger why don’t you go to the forum a be a member.
I would like to thank love all books for putting a permanent link of my post regarding Do Follow Tags on his blog ( Sitewide ).
At first I wonder how did he found out my post regarding this ” Do Follow Tag ” so what I did is to put Do Follow Tag Keyword at google. Then presto I am the at the 2nd spot of Google SERP.
How did I made it, Check my SEO Tips here.
If only all my post will be on the no 2 on google searches it will drive a very high traffic to my site. But actually based on my stats it is only last week that Google searches is giving traffic to my site. Let us say 50 to 80 a day but having a not so good conversion.
So what I have to do is to post good and informative blogs so that my visitor will not just hit the X mark at the right corner of the page and perhaps go make some blog post hopping at my site. To all my readers if you have some tips, question and others try to send me an email thru dexfamily [at] gmail [dot] com.
I would like to thank selaplana.com for reviewing my site in response to my review on his site. Below are some points that caught my attention as follows
I couldn’t tell when did this blog has started because RexTed decided not to display the monthly archive of this blog
Well actually I have the archive it is just folded down below the right sidebar, A tick would reveal that I started this blog last January 2007.
However, I want to tell him that the Most Visited Posts and excel Related Posts showed twice on the sidebar.
Now it has been modified.
In general, the blog is satisfactory. But what got my attention is its host and domain which are all hosted by blogspot.com.
Actually I have been thinking to moving on my own domain but the problem , I do not know how I can manages this things since I am at Saudi Arabia. Perhaps I can do this during my vacation.
But just a question how does Amit Agarwal of India managed to get thousand of dollars thru advertiser having a blogspot.com domain.? and also Euleh who is a sucessful blogger in Philippines? This is just a question.
In general It was a really great review and a Thousand thanks to selaplana for having this review.
Remember when I post about that I am joining Janette Toral Writing contest? Now Janette has provided the masterlist of bloggers that will be included in her final random selection on August 1,2007.
The following entries are still in the process of blogger identity confirmation:
Among this total 126 participants I have 7.94 Percent of having US$ 100 but a big percentage of having new visitors.
While reading my Windows Magazine I saw a letter from reader pointing to this post about ” The freelancers toolset 100 web apps for everything you will possibly need ”. I think this is worth sharing. The post tackle about the following :
This is a total of 100 links worth of visiting. Enjoy
When searching ” Pinoy Technology Blogger ” I have seen the following blogs I think worth of Linking Arrange as how it appears in the Search Results.
Technology at Hand This is my Personal / Technology Blog which deals with my personal Opinions and Reviews.
Pinoy Tech Blog a group blog which deals mainly in technology which is also own by Abe Olandares owner of yugatech.com I even Guest Blog here before. ( How do you blog? with 2286 visit as of this time )
YugaTech.com a prominent PRo Blogger in Philippines which deal with Philippine Technology News and Reviews
Pinoy techie deals with pinoy techie / technology and society news and reviews for the filipino masses
An Expression of Myself a personal blog of a Pinoy OFW
An Agricultural Blog ( This one I don’t know how it comes from the list )
Pinoy Seminars deals with trainings seminars negosyo philippines
Pinoy Top Blogs it ranks the Filipino Blogging Community
Alleba is a Worlwide Web Directory which is own by a Filipino.
A bugged life own by jayvee Fernandez and deals with different Technology and Photography
Selaplana Directory is a pinoy Directory which is own by selapana a blogger from Leyte
asia.cnet.com/reviews/blog/babelmachine the site is where a prominent writer Mr Joey Arilla is writing.
I think since the name of my blog have Technology it become easier for me to be on top for the keyword in addition my blog relates to Philippines also helps to put it on the top. I just don’t know until when this will last. I hope it will last long .
Now you may know the latest news about Gmail because Gmail has launched their official Official Gmail Blog a paragraph from their website.
And now there’s this blog, where we’ll keep you up to date on latest from the Gmail team. We’ll post feature updates, productivity tips, and some insights into the people and the technology behind Gmail. And since Gmail works even better with Google Calendar and Docs & Spreadsheets, you’ll find posts from folks on these teams as well.
Before I could only some tips and trick from Digital Inspiration. But do Gmail blog post some tips and Tricks for Gmail Or will it be purely like a News that will just deliver the Updates from Gmail.
The only thing I have seen on their blog is that the outside links has a no follow Tag. That means that all those links in their site will not get any incoming value links from them.
Hat Tip from Digital Inspiration
I have reported before that Technorati is blocked in Saudi Arabia but when I tried to to check the site today I just found out that they have lifted the ban here and good to see that I ranked Rank: 9,124 with Authority 400. It is a good indication for blogger in Saudi Arabia. It is also good that I see about the proxy server function of Sheetr.com and 99s.net . Because of this site I was able to track those site linking to me.
By the way proxy site is capable of viewing blocked site. I just don’t know if it will work in China. Where Internet filter is also very strict.
Below are the most viewed post of June, This came from Direct Referrals and Search Engine Searches.
Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word Hot Keys
This are post that shows different Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word Shortcuts which is very useful to the office works
Could Viral Tags increase our PR and Ranking
This will explain why I am now included in the top 10,000 of Technorati.
The Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2007
This post is my pick for the top 10 Emerging Influence blogs in the net. and serves as my entry to Jeanette’s writing project
This are tips that I am sharing to my readers in order to earn more in adsense and having a higher PR
I-mate to release 30 times more powerful than Apple’s new iPhone
Another Tools to Access Blocked Website
If you want to access blocked website not only by you host country but also your server. Checking this post is a must.
CTRL combination shortcut keys for Microsoft Excel
This are post that shows different Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word Shortcuts which is very useful to the office works
This involves my technical review with my newly acquired PDA
Excel Trick : What is the use of $ sign?
This post will teach how to use $ sign in Microsoft excel.
Site with “Do follow” Tag in Comments
This shows my support to the Do follow tag in all my comments. Since then my comments don’t have no follow tag.
This only shows that my post regarding Excel did the best job last month. This site is having a good SERP for topic like Microsoft Excel Tricks and Hot Keys.
I will be doing this kind of post every end of the month to see what blog post is doing great for stats purpose.
Last month was also a great month for me since I was included with Technorati Top 10,000 blogs. Not bad for a newbie like me. I have not yet received my adsense cheque until today. I still ave to wait till 5 before I can request or ask Google why my cheque did not arrived.
Did you notice, I have now my new logo. Something to celebrate. Thanks to Logo Creator I have made my Web 2.0 Logo in a very easy way. Just a small help from Adobe Photoshop I have completed the whole word.
Doing your own logo will not need an expertise in Photoshop. So what are you waiting for, Do your own logo.
Thanks to techscape.tv for directing his readers to this site.
I have been trying almost everyday searching my blogs keyword at google but always I can not see my blog at Page 1 or 2, Until today when searching some keywords it is surprising to see my site show up at First Page. an I think this is some reason for a blogger to be happy. Below are example of keywords as of today.
It is very important for blogs to be noticed by the Search Engine, It is because we all know that among millions of Internet User, Most of them rely on Search Engine Result in finding what they need. And if your site will be having a good relationship with those Search Engine It will surely drive more traffic for your site.
My next step will be to write good post which will really benefit my readers. I think I have succeed with my objective this month, To increase SERP and Page Rank ( We still have to wait for sometime for the next updates of PR ) . You may check my experiments at my archived labeled as Experiments.
I also want to be known with the following keywords :
” Technology Blogger “, ” Pinoy Technology Blogger “, ” Philippine Blogs ” , ” Technology at Hand ” , ” Philippine Tech Blogs “
Alexa – 468,758 ( It is still very, very far far )
Technorati – 10,963 ( A good Rank )
Ratified.org – 35 ( A good Rank )
Actually because of my membership with ratified.org, My blog was mention by Janette at her Philippine Internet Review Blog as one of the Philippine Blogs that was made this year.
And so I would like to thank my readers as well as my would be readers for visiting and roaming around this blog. It will be appreciated if you will review this blog for improvement. You may say whatever you want. It is your blog. In exchange I will also review your blog. and for your information this is a PR 3 Blog. and Please use one of the above mentioned keywords.