BLOGGITYBOOP!

Based on Alexa.com , Blogger.com ranks 6th, Multiply ranks 10th, and Wordpress ranks 11th among the top sites that Filipinos visit. This must only mean one thing - that the number of bloggers and those interested in blogs already make up a significant part of the Philippine population who surf the internet. With the persistent financial and economical crisis in the Philippines, I guess a great percentage of those bloggers are like me... like me who wants to make my hobby a bit profitable. That is why I find this project interesting. Okay, well maybe my last MMM post was really a bit boring because it was all technical money-making stuff, but I wish you can bear with me because those things had to be discussed so I can show you what I had to do and let other bloggers learn from my blog. Anyway, I've decided that before I start with the techie blahs today, I would share some pics first... These are my Ysha and Yza and yes, they are my twins.  They will be three months old thi...

The last time I blogged about PROJECT MMM , I told you that I was going to do a research on it and I did. It's actually amazing how you can find lots of information on the web about blog monetization. The thing is, when you're reading through the tips of the experts, it seems like everything is so easy to do. Below are snippets of what I found out... 1st Blog Monetization Tip: The use of Google Adsense and PPC PPC (pay per click) ads are very common. They can be in the form of in-text ads, banners, sidebars, headers, and more. This is how bloggers usually earn from their blogs. If you're in blogspot like me, then you ought to try Google Adsense . Why? Because most experts think that it is the KING of PPC ads. It will only take you a few clicks to set it up. From your Blogger Dashboard, click the Lay-out Tab, and then from the page elements click "Add a gadget" and choose the Google Adsense widget. If ads don't show up on your blog, that just means that it ...

Money troubles?" says Dad, coming into the kitchen. "You know there are two solutions to money troubles." "Cut Back," says my dad, "or Make More Money. One or the other. Which is it to be Becky?" That's an excerpt from Kinsella's Confessions of a Shopaholic. I haven't finished reading the book yet but I have been thinking about the same problem that Rebecca Bloomwood (Becky) had - Money Troubles. I have been jobless for more than three months now - well, not totally but to a great extent. I used to work as a full time, home-based web content writer for a BPO company but I stopped last week of January because of early signs of premature labor when I was still pregnant with my twins. Since then, our bills have began to pile up. After I've given birth to my twins, I occasionally do transcriptions and I've also recently started writing TOEFL exams. However, those aren't regular jobs. They come once in a blue moon and what I...