Blogging

Blogging has become a hype and not only can yo make a hobby out of it, it can also be your source of livelihood. Just last year, GMA have shown in the Mel and Joey program featuring those bloggers who were earning 5 to 6 figure income (in pesos) but the show have given people presumption that its easy to blog and Joey de Leon have mention that it is a good “Racket” or a sideline. But its far from the truth. Its easy if you already became famous after many years of hard work plus the money and time you spent. ( I have a post about it earlier, you can see it here )

So You Wanna Start Blogging?

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Thinking of making your website or blog WAP compliant? It looks like it is easier said than done. Imagine, how will you fit the PC monitor screen to a cell phone screen? Those tiny LCD cellphone screen can’t possibly fit in it, that is, if you will put everything in it. If you are using your cell phone to browse non WAP blogs and websites, you can still view the whole page but you have to zoom-in and zoom-out in order for you to read the contents. It’s not possible to load the whole page in a cell phone’s browser because the letters are too tiny and will not show properly. A WAP compliant or mobile website have slim lined(eliminated the non necessary contents) the webpage and just put the important contents in a small mobile website.

If you own a website (a non blog site) with thousands of pages, for example: static html pages, it will take a long time for you to convert all those pages. But if you own a hosted blog, then lucky for you because it will only take you a few minutes just installing a plug-in. This will only work in a hosted WordPress blog. I don’t know if the free wordpress blog can use plugins because I haven’t tried it. If you like to make your blog WAP compliant, you can download the plugin here. The plugin is created by Alex King and if you are willing to donate, it’s better so we can help our fellow entrepreneur create more wonderful plugins.

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There is one important ingredient of a successful blogger and that is a trait of being “Yourself”. In my observation, famous bloggers like Darren Rowse (Problogger), Shoemoney, John Chow and Steve Pavlina all have this trait in common which makes them very successful. Their writing styles have a personal touch on the audience and it’s like they are casually conversing with an individual that is why visitors are quickly attracted to them. So what does it really mean? Those two words look very simple but for me it’s hard to comprehend and to do.

Like for example, when I was still employed, I remember the day when I was having a conversation with my co-worker/friend in our department, he is telling me out loud to “Be Yourself!” No, he is not angry with me or anyone. He was just joking and teasing our jerk boss. I know the message is not for me but to our idiot boss because he is a great pretender, so to speak. He always acts that he is the smartest person in this office and always showing off to the management that he can do everything even though all of us know how incompetent he is. But little that I know that I’m also not being myself and pointing the finger to the other person. Why? Because the mere fact that I’m employed and working for somebody else means I’m not myself anymore. I’m doing a job that someone is telling me to do and acting on a position that was given to me.

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I’ve just upgraded my WordPress software just to be safe. Just recently one of the famous blogs, Shoemaker posted a blog about upgrading WordPress and he also mentioned that he have been hacked 1 time (I don’t know when). He have learned his lesson and I don’t want to experience that too. I’m lazy in upgrading my WordPress too but come to think of it, it’s worth the downtime. It’s better than not knowing you’re blog isn’t working anymore without your knowledge and sometime you cannot login in the admin control panel.

I’m still lucky because I’m not famous as those bloggers and very few hackers will have interest on my blog. So to those who haven’t upgraded to WordPress 2.3.2, you better do it soon. It will only take 30 minutes or less than an hour depending on your internet connection speed.

One of the most popular blogger in the Philippines was Abe (abraham) Olandres. After years of blogging he is now a professional blogger and earns through affiliate programs, having his own webhosting, a blog consultant and a resource speaker as stated in his Yugatech blog. I can say that he was one of the most successful online entrepreneur here in our country.

Last Sunday he was featured in Mel&Joey but made a sensationalized income made by Abe through blogging. But he clears this out through his blog titled Welcome Notes to Visitors from Mel & Joey. During an interview in Mel&Joey he said that a lot people have been emailing him asking that they wanted to put up a blog because they want to earn. He said that it’s not that simple. He started his blog in 2002 and just started to realized that he can place advertisers in his blog in 2005. So the bottom line is this is not an overnight gig. Like other businesses or enterprise you should put a lot of effort, passion, skill and patience.

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Blogging has become a big influence in the internet nowadays and many website owners are now learning how to blog. Count me in on those people who wants harness the power of blogging. It became an influential tool now because of the importance given by the biggest search giant we know now as Google. But do you know that blogging has been around since 1983? it is not new, in fact this technology is pretty old.

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