You just started blogging, and you want to have as many people reading your blog as possible, maybe even hoping that they would subscribe to your blog. But how do you do that? Do you think that telling people to go read your blog will just work? It might, actually. It could get you a couple of readers, but if you don't actually update your blog every now and then, your readers could unsubscribe and just forget about your blog.
What you need to do is know about the top keywords that people usually search for. Everybody around the world is always looking for some information on something. That's the next thing that you need to put on your blog. Relevant information. Sure, you can just blog about anything you want, but if you're going to blog about it, might as well be informative and useful, right?
Next, research about Search Engine Optimization or SEO. SEO as Google defines it is
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a process applied to a website to increase the number of visitors by gaining high rankings on the search engines.
You might as well index your site or blog at Google and Yahoo. There are more indexing sites out there. Like AOL, et cetera. When you start a blog, you have to think about what the readers would like you to blog about. Target your audience. When you start putting up categories of your blog, make sure that they make sense, and that they are related to the keywords that you put up for your site or blog.
When you have acquired some readers, some nice traffic to your site, then you can start writing reviews related to your blog and then you can post them on your blog. Best part of this is, you are getting paid to say constructive or destructive stuff about the product that you are reviewing about.
The most important thing when you start to blog though, is that you have to at least enjoy it. A writer's dream is have readers, even if they aren't getting paid. It all starts there. But it sure wouldn't hurt if you got paid to write.
There will be more blogging stuff on this blog later on, this blogger needs to do more research. :)
Ever got the feeling that you're supposed to be doing something really important, but you're not? Like you want to go out and make money, but you can't because you're so intent on finishing school first, then you can start making money?
Ok, so what in the world am I talking about here? Why can't I just go find a part-time job then? Hah, I wish! In the Philippines, you never have time, unless you quit school for a little while and work. The disadvantage to this is you might enjoy working so much, you wouldn't wanna go back to school anymore. Sad to say, the only part-time job I can do is a work at home kind of job.
And, guess what? I have a part-time job that does exactly that! Haha! I write short articles at $? per 500 words. They're pretty much about everything, from cruises, to clocks, to diets. I'm pretty sure the guy that pays me is making a lot more than I am, but eh, at least I'm getting paid. The actual rate is at $10 per 500 words. Some might say that I'm getting ripped-off, but whatever.
Anyway, so since I started writing, the guy hasn't had any problems with me, and have been paying me when he's supposed to pay. I know I might have to quit sometime and start my own stuff, and there's no harm in doing freelance writing, right? I would so love to offer my services here, but I can't just yet. Well, not to foreign nationals at least. It would be too much of a hassle to pay me. I don't even have Paypal. Tch. I do, but I can't verify it without a credit card. I need to know how to use it first. If any of you can tell me how, feel free to comment. :)
Now unless you're in the Philippines, you can email me at wsarawi[at]yahoo.com, and let's talk business.
I feel so poor. I checked out my wallet and couldn't find any money in there. Arghhh! What to do, what to do... I go to my little cabinet to see if i hid some money there and found my coin bank. I love coin banks, the money that I put in there serves as emergency money just in case I do run out of some. I jiggle it.
*Clink clink*
Ahhh, that made me feel so much better. Then I check out my G-cash balance to see if I still have anything on there too, then maybe I can go to the Wireless Center to withdraw the money.
"You have 3**** in your account, blah, blah, blah..."
Feeling secured now, I rest back on my chair and stare at my computer. As I read through a local forum that I frequent, I noticed that a number of people are interested in posting blogs to make money. Money. Who doesn't want any anymore? In my current situation, I could really use some. This entry's title says, Money Making Schemes.
How do you make money nowadays? Working tops the list, of course. I don't think anything else can ever top it. The question is, what kind of work can you do? In my opinion, one should do what he is best suited for. If you love computers, then be involved with computers. If you love the Internet, then work by being a Webmaster and such. If you're a Blogger, then blog and blog and blog. All you gotta do is put some ads on your blog, hope that someone comes across your site and if you're that lucky, click on the ad.
Who am I kidding? I don't know anything about money-making. But at least I try. I try to learn more about it. And honestly, it seems like I'm about to get lucky.
I love The Richness. Because of that small group of people, I got some exposure and became a webmaster. Well, I try to be a good one at least. So what do I do with those people and who are The Richness people?
The Richness is a fan club for American Idol Season 6's Chris Richardson. He's a hottie. Period. Haha. Anyways, I'm an administrator at their message boards and I'm seriously there everyday for at least a few hours. I like being there. I call that place a happy place, because it is. I made a lot of friends on that site and amazingly enough, we've been friends for almost a year now.
Check this place out if you're looking for the latest info on Chris Richardson and if you're interested in making more friends.
The Richness Forums
Let's see, what else do I do there? I serve as a Tech, I may not be as good as many Techs out there, but I'm pretty decent. And I love helping those peeps out. Whenever you get the urge to be less lonely, just check it out.
I've tried singing my lungs out, that always got me feeling better. I've tried working on the boards. the appreciation of everybody on there for all the work that I do for them make me feel very needed and happy. I've tried shopping, but I couldn't afford it. ARGH! I've tried watching TV to my heart's content. I've tried eating chocolates, cakes, everything that I've always loved eating. I've tried chatting with friends. I've tried getting my mind off of the "problem". But it feels as if nothing works.
I need a vacation. What do you all think? I wanna go back to that island where I ran away for 3 days and 2 nights. ARGH! I can't afford it right now! Why do I have to be so poor? ARGH!!!!
It's 3:02AM right now... I needed ultimate peace around me, before I could start writing all this. Thankfully, the excitement still hasn't gone away. Right now, I'm looking over the Richness boards, its MySpace, my MySpace, and my AutoCAD drawings. Hahaha, talk about multi-tasking!
Today's school trip was a blast. We got to learn a lot of stuff and the Project Manager of the project talked a lot so we felt really comfortable with him. The project was 7-storey building, 8-storey, if you count the roof deck. They were actually finishing up on the project, it was about 90% structurally and 38% architecturally, done. The columns designed for the building were huge, the columns were 1mx1m in size, and they had a separate building built just for the power generators. The whole site was messy, with a lot of gray mud around.
The owner of the project was Lexmark, a printer company. The Project Manager said the whole project costs about PhP800M (about US$17,391,304.30). We were all pretty excited when they let us get near the Tower Crane. It was being held down by a bunch of concrete blocks, weighing 20 tons. Directly below it, some 20 people worked on fabricating the bored piles. They're made out of steel bars, about 6 meters high but they can be taller, made to look like circular columns, and they have even more bars encircling them around. Here's a picture to help explain what I just said.
That's a pile driver putting the bored pile into the ground. Okay, so what's the bored pile for? Based on what I've learned from the trip, it stabilizes the foundation of the structure that you're gonna be building. Right next to the almost finished building, they have started drilling holes into the ground while pumping Bentomite-treated water, to keep the soil from collapsing where the piles are gonna be. The piles are gonna be supporting a new 23-storey building. I don't know how much it's gonna cost though. But I so wish I get to manage a project as big as that. The Project Manager is managing 600 people including subcontractors. He said that he's already fired a couple of Project Engineers for being too lazy.
This entry might seem very boring to anyone's reading, but if you were there, you would be just as excited as I am even though you don't understand any of what I'm saying right now. We got to take pictures of the huge machines that they used on the site and they gave us samples of the finishings that they were using. I stared at this heavy-looking steel box-like thing that was left on a corner, but it looked pretty new. Then I read whatever was written on it. That's when I found out that it was part of the elevator that they were installing into the building. The Safety Engineer then asked us if we would like to see the inside of the building. Then he told us to not take the hardhats off at any cost. On the way to the building entrance, we passed by the building with the power generators. They were HUGE! I can only imagine how much the Electrical Engineers were making just by installing those generators. When we got to the entrance of the building, he told us we're only gonna be touring the 2nd floor. So we go up a flight of stairs, which was probably going to be the fire exit, because it was that narrow and it was steep. Then up another, then another, and another. Then one of my classmates mumbled, "We're going to the 2nd floor right? Why is it so far up?". When we finally got there, the Safety Engineer showed us the vacant area, kinda like a balcony where you can see the other buildings surrounding the structure. The wind blowing was just fantastic. It wasn't hot nor chilly at all.
A couple of minutes after resting from the climb up, we proceeded to the floor area. They used concrete boards as partitions for the offices.There were a lot of electrical wires around, a lot of people around, laborers, carpenters, engineers, just a lot of them inside the building. Questions popped up everywhere, which showed that the kids were really excited. Then we saw concrete hollow blocks on one corner. We started asking more questions about what was there, and why was it the only part of the building that had concrete block partitions. The Safety Engineer guided us there and we met up with the Head Mechanical Engineer there. Behind the partition was another HUGE machine. It was the main AC unit. It was my first time to see an AC unit that big. After briefing us on how the things worked, we went on our way out of the building. The Safety Engineer then pulled out a cigarette outside the building perimeter and told us about how big the project was and that the company had equipment that costs PhP8M(US$173,913.04) and it was tiny.
After the trip, we were exhausted. My legs were heavy, and I got mud on my pants and shoes. And we still had to go back to school. I had a quiz coming in an hour and I wasn't prepared for it. Heheh, but I got 90%. Bwahahaha! Ok, that was too obnoxious. I'm sorry.
So hopefully, I get to handle projects as big as this one someday.
