Blogging as a Job

Its our Graduation yesterday and its another great moment for students. Its another stage of their lives and another posts to make on their Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 blogs. I am trying to open the pictures on my cellphone to embed it here but I can't. The USB cable seems to malfunction and its not recognize my system. Maybe I will just embed it later on my next post. Well regarding Blogging as a Job, this might be applicable to someone or might not to others. I have known several people who is earning a lot for just merely blogging the whole day. They are earning a lot from it. As I have mentioned on my previous post about Earning from Blogging, one of the method that they are earning is through Ads, specifically the Google Adsense. They are actually earning enough with this just method. Some are earning at about $4K or more every month with this.

Well, I said that this might not work for you it is simply because it comprises more tasks to do. One thing aside from regular blog posting that you should do is your blog (not only your Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 blogs but several blogs, others are maintaining more than ten blogs at a time) should be promoted in a way that it can generate a lot of traffic. Traffic is the key of earning a lot from this scheme and how can you do this? It is through another method that is more than bloggers should do. It is called as search engine optimization or SEO. That will be my next topic after this post. I will discuss terminologies and basic strategies that you can use to apply this kind of 'tasks' to your blogs on my next post so stay tune guys!

Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009: Don't Stop from Trying!

A lot of Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 people today quit from blogging because they were not able to immediately achieve the things that they hope for. They thought that by simply blogging, you can easily be successful and get what you want. It is not that actually. With the different reasons that came up for people to divert their attention to online activities such as economic recessions, lost of jobs, unemployment and other reasons, competitions online are becoming tough. Suppossedly when you started your Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 blogs, you should already set your purpose to target an alternative route beside from what your initial target is. Its like you have a plan B when plan A fails. If you can't handle the challenge brought by this current local event in Capiz then try to gather information from this event. Learn from it, remember each mistakes you made so that next time you will not commit them again.

Make a move, don't stop from doing just anything. Experiment, explore and experience! Make blogging both fun, exciting, interesting, educational and very lucrative later. You will only realize this when you have done your role as a part of the Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009. Last word, "Don't quit!"

Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 Summer Escapade

Well, you've been blogging about Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 for several months already. You have been in your PC for quite sometime (not only because of the HCB 2009), you deserve to have a vacation this coming summer of 2009. You need to have a break from the hectic schedule of your life. You should treat yourself from time to time and give yourself a nice and comfortable place where you can relax and refresh your mind. A summer vacation for several days will do it for you. Don't hesitate to do that, blogging will not vanish in thin air if you just leave it for several days. Life is so short that you need to have a life that is happy, useful and great. It is not all work, sometimes you need to play and whine around. If you are not still convince to take a vacation or a summer escapade, try looking on the following pictures. It might change your mind and decide to lift your self out of your chair and take your vacation bag.


See those beautiful beach where you can visit? The advantage of taking a break on blogging aside from having a great relaxing feeling is it will give you at least a new topic to put on your blogs. You will experience different things that will give you idea on what to write next time. Your blogs will be filled with different new things, all based on your experiences get from the rest you have. That's why my advice, don't forget your cybershot and high pixel digital camera and collect all the different nice scenery that you visited. Post and share it to us members of Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009.

Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 Commenting Guidelines

One way of promoting your blogs and increasing the chance of your Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 blogs to be visible on search engines is through blog commenting. It is through blog commenting that you both gain back links to your blogs at the same time you learn something from other blogs. However, this is the reason why some are using this mechanisms to spam the web. Now, some blogs instantly approve comments but other blogs are turning their comment moderation on. This mean that before your comments get out of their blogs, it will be read thoroughly and its the discretion of the bloggers if they will approve or not your statements or remarks. This is because they don't like their sites to be spammed by these people. Even search engines indicates on their guidelines that site owners should not allow spammers get insider their system. That's when captcha and comment moderation came to being.

Now I will list here some practical guidelines to increase the chance of approval on your comments.

1. Read the posts first and try to write comments really relevant to the article that you've read. If you can't find time to do that try to read the first or last paragraph of the post and base your comment there.
2. Avoid the comments "great post", "nice post" and the like. It triggers them that your a spam.
3. Write at least two to three sentences of comments. This looks like you are really sincere with your comments.

Remember this before you start your commenting spree, try to be sincere with all of your remarks. If not, even closest to that. I know some of the Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 participants already mastered this commenting craft and so can you share your ideas here?

Official Capiz.Gov.ph is Back with a New Design

After a month or so that the official website of Capiz was inaccessible, it is now back with a stunning new appearance and green theme. The provincial government have already put an effort to make the website updated and appear to be more competitive in terms of design compared to other provinces of the country. I salute the guys behind this effort to improve the image of the province by having a website that we can visit and read for updates about the happening of the province in Capiz. Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 participants will surely swarm the site after they read this post of mine and they will definitely blog about this.

I hope that they've already deal with the security issues of the said site. I mentioned this because the site started to become inaccessible when it was hacked by a certain Turkish hacker due to the vulnerability of the CMS (content management system) used by Capiz.gov.ph, which is the not updated version of Joomla. I think today, they've already used a different CMS and honestly, I don't know what it is yet. The site is still under development (as according to its admin stated on the footer of the site) and might have several features to be added later. I hope they consider to include a moderated forum where Capiznons can discuss and exchange ideas. A lot of Capiznon from different part of the world would love to leave their messages to the site. I know this because I've been maintaining a forum for quite sometime now.

Kudos and Mabuhay to the Capiz government!

Infrequent Blog Post

Guys as you can see, I am not posting regularly or daily with this blog. I can't manage to do that because I am really busy with several projects on hand plus its our finals this week and I need to prepare several grading reports for several subjects that I am handling in a private school in Capiz. That makes me not frequently making any posts in a regular basis. Well maybe this is the sign of "old age." The older I am the higher responsibilities are in hand. Today, I tried to make a post because I need to explain the importance of the frequency updates of blogs in relation with the traffic and presence on the web. I will start the said discussion, right after this line so read carefully Capiznon bloggers, YOU might learn something.

Most search engines uses a program called spiders that use to crawl websites. These programs contains some sort of algorithms that put favor to those websites that frequently changing or updating its contents. That why blogs are more prevalent on the web today because it is frequently changed by the owner and crawled by these spider programs. That's the reason that your site has the higher chance of having lot of traffics if it is frequently updated because it is more visible on search engine result pages (SERPs) which are the usual area where end users are utilizing when looking for information on cyberspace.

Me, I can not increase the update frequency of my blog. You, Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 can possibly find time to do that so update now!

How Bloggers Earn from Blogging?

Listen Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 members, participants and enthusiasts, today I will discuss about things that will change your life forever. I will discuss today the different methods how to earn from simply blogging. One reason why blogging became popular around cyberspace is because of its lucrative characteristics. That's right a lot of people, gramatically gifted or not were lured to create their blogs merely for the purpose of earning from it. Now, what are the different avenues or methods these bloggers are earning from their blogs. The following are the common methods bloggers are earning from their craft:

1. Blog reviews or posting. This is the first thing I've started making money online from merely blogging. The problem with this is Google really hates this type of method for the reason that according to them it hurts the "natural ecology" of the world wide web. That's why when SEs found out that you are doing such, they are penalizing your site. Later, I will discuss in detail how search engines are penalizing blogs or websites.
   
2. Ads. This is another method that is really attractive when in terms of payment and earning. Some have hundreds of blogs maintained and earning a thousands or more dollars a month. Some common advertising means are through Google Adsense, which is highly utilized by bloggers all over the world, Adbrite, Projectwonderful, Nuffnang and others. However, this earning method requires traffic to be generated to realize the result. So it means that you need to promote your blogs more than what you are doing normally. Actually a friend of mine who participated the Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 event, stop from joining because he started to earn bigger than what he can get from the event which is a practical decision.

These are just two methods and will try to continue more of it on my next post.

Bloggers Promote Your Blogs

Now you have done it already: you have customized your blogger blog sites, you've joined several online communities, you observed proper ethics and attitudes in blogging and you have already chosen a specific topic to discuss on your Blogger blogs. What now? What's the next step after this? Well, I think you are ready for the next level and that is how you will make your sites and articles be visible on a lot of readers. Nah, I will not discuss about how to spend wisely in television or radio advertisements just to get a traffic and exposure that you want. Think about this, if you are a reader and you want something to know about anything, what's the first thing you will do? Of course, you will open your browser, go to Google, Yahoo or Live then type a keyword relevant to what you like then search. Right? That's what other readers are doing. They are using search engines to find things that they want. It is the trend right now, if you want a maximum exposure and visibility for your blogs online, you should make sure that you can be found on major search engines whenever a reader search for a topic that you are discussing.

In this way, your "master piece" can be discovered easily by your readers that will eventually become an avid Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 reader. Now, how it will be done? Here's some basic and practical things that you can do for starter:

1. First try to create quality contents for your posts on your blogs. For example, tips or advices which one topic that people love to read should be written clearly but concise. Make sure it will really helps. In this way other people who first discovered your article will recommend the link of your blog to any places they've been like forums or their own blogs. Thus creating a very nice referral from other sites at the same time building enough links for your site. Remember the higher the number of site linking to your site the popular your blog will be.
   
2. Make a catchy title. In this way readers will be lured to read the whole content of your posts specially if the title tickles their mind or intrigued them. :)
3. Use multimedia in your articles. Add graphics or images in your posts or even audio/videos. This makes the site more interesting and increases the users experience which will make them return for more.

These are just practical steps that you can start applying to your blogs. If you are a serious Capiznon blogger of 2009, you should consider these tips.

Bloggers Join an Online Community

Capiznon bloggers, there are a lot of things that you can do to increase your visibility on the net. One thing is by joining different social networking websites and forums that allows you to build or join an online community. Some of you have already done this by joining to some popular social networking websites in the country. I am referring to your Friendster account. That's right, you are uploading your pictures, showcasing it, adding and seeking new friends, sending your private messages to them and many other social activities that you are doing offline. A real community where you could interact and exchange ideas. Forums on the other hand allows you to discuss something publicly allowing other people to read your thoughts. A good place to seek for ideas and new things about online activities which is vital in blogging and other stuff on the net.

There are more than things than blogging and you should try to join those. This will give you a loyal follower, a time to time visitor of your blog and even commenter of your posts. Blogging becomes more meaningful and exciting if you know someone reads it and really appreciate what you are doing. By joining online communities, you have given opportunities to learn from other people and to share what you know to others. Remember this Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 members, don't forget your netiquette lessons when you join a community. It is either you gain a lot of friends or you build a lot of foes whic is sometimes unavoidable and you just need to live with it. Make yourself exists in an online community.