Social Workers Licensure Examination – June 2007 Results Index:
Members of my community enjoy the opportunity of receiving love-links from me from time to time because I am always checking their blogs for interesting posts and then feature them here.
So, below is the list of the 10 interesting posts I found in my community’s blogs:
.That’s the lucky 10 interesting post I found on my community’s blogs. So if you want to be featured here, just make sure that you’re member of our community and your blog has interesting posts.
One of the problems of the new blogs is the visitors. Your blog maybe has contents but if it has no visitors then I consider it as dead. If it continues to be like that, sooner it will banish.
There is actually a remedy to this. Don’t waste your time by just waiting for the visitors to come. Do find visitors for your blog. Why not invite them?
Here’s the 9 ways of inviting users to visit your blog:
Visit the blogs, read their post and drop your comments about the post. I am sure, like you, the blogger of that blog is frequently checking the comment dropped into their blog. Soon as he noticed your comment, he will immediately check your blog.
And not only will the owner of the blog you commented become your visitor. The visitors of that blog might visit your blog too.
Check the meme tracker like Technorati, Google Blogsearch, or the Techmeme. Join the discussions in the blogosphere by writing your own thoughts about the issue. Then publish links to the source of the issue and to other blogs talking about it. So, once the blogs you linked received the pings you sent, automatically your blog will be listed on their trackbacks section.
The owner of the blogs that received your pings might check the source of the ping, thus became your visitor. If the visitors of those blogs notice the trackback, I’m sure they’ll check your blog too.
Tons of blogs has the MyBlogLog visitor’s widget. Once you visited a blog with this kind of widget, your image or your MyBlogLog username will appear on that widget.
The blogger of that blog you visited will be happy to see new face on the MyBlogLog widget because it means somebody has visited his blog. And of course he’s interested to know you. So he will visit your blog.
This is also a good way of redirecting visitors to your blog. But it will be effective if you guest-blogging to a high traffic blog.
So, what you need to do is to find other blogs that accept guest blogger. Write quality articles that should be published on those blogs. But don’t forget to establish a link even just once to your article published in your own blog.
To let you know, there are tons of bloggers who are lazy enough to write articles for their blogs. What they did is make use of the reprint articles posted at the reprint articles site such as Article City, Ezine Articles, etc.
So, take advantage of this. Write articles intended for reprint. On the resource box, don’t forget to include the URL of your blog. Don’t just establish a link to your blog, but include the URL itself.
For example, I will write it on the resource section:
SELaplana is the first Filipino blogger in Southern Leyte, blogging on Money, Internet and Technology at http://www.selaplana.com. He is also popular as the Motoristang Pinoy who takes adventures by traveling interesting places in the Philippines and publishes his adventures at http://www.motoristangpinoy.com.
So, those users who read your articles might check the URLs posted, thus became the visitors of your blog.
Print a business card of yours, like what I did as shown below. Distribute this to your friends, relatives or to everyone you meet somewhere. If they’ll have time, they’ll check your blog.
If you have enough money, you can advertise your blog to earn more exposure. You can use Google Adword, TextLinkAds, ReviewMe, or any form of online advertisements. You can even take advantage of my Free Banner Advertisement program where in your banner ad will be published on this blog and on my Songs Lyrics blog. Users who notice your advertisement will surely visit your blog.
You can also give gifts to other bloggers especially if you’re celebrating anything. On the gift of course don’t forget to write the URL of your blog. Or you can think of better ways that will make the recipient visit your blog as he receive the gift you sent.
Be an active forumer. Participate in any forums that exist which you think are related to your passion. I’m sure other forumers are checking the URLs posted on the signatures.
These ways are effective. I tried them. So try them also for you to gain visitors for your blog.
I wrote this article in order to answer the request of those who need advice on what online money-making scheme should they engage that can support their daily needs.
Okay, this is the situation:
You lost your job and you are now confused what to do because your family depends on you. You learned how I survived without job or business. You learned that I am just sitting here in front of my computer, blogging, but then I managed to earn money which is enough to support my daily needs. So, you asked me now what you should do to earn much for your family.
I think, your situation and mine are too different. When I was still managing my own café, I was already earning a little from blogs. When I lost my business last December 2005, I was already earning $300 from my blogs and it’s already enough to finance my needs. So, when I became fulltime in blogging, my earning increased, and even up to the day I wrote this article, my online income continuously increases.
On the other hand, you are just beginner on blogging. You even don’t have a website that caters thousands of visitors. You don’t even have a blog that currently ranked high. In other words, you still need more time to work for your online money-making tasks.
I think, launching your own blogs can’t give you assurance that you’ll immediately earn money that will be enough for your family’s needs. And the worst thing is, you need to spend your money for your blog first before you’ll earn money from it.
Having blogs is like starting your own company. You need to have capital to spend for things like: Internet connection, your blog’s domain and hosting services, blog marketing, your daily allowance while you’re working for your blog, and other necessary expenses.
In short, there is no easy money for new online money maker.
So here’s my advice. You can choose either of them.
(1) Go Start Your Own Company
If you have enough money to finance your daily blogging activities for 6 months, then go and start your own blog. Do not use Blogspot hosting services. Buy your own domain and hosting services, and start configuring your blog. After that, start blogging.
Every day post 1 to 3 or more articles into your blog. Not just articles but articles with quality, relevant and interesting contents. And then before you end up your daily blogging activities, don’t forget also to take some blog marketing activities, including the SEO.
If you consistently do the necessary things for your blog, then I’m sure after 6 months of working, you’ll now start earning satisfactory amount from your blog.
(2) Look for a Problogging Job
If you think, you don’t have enough money to start your own blogging company, then you need to find a job for you.
If you really have knowledge on blogging or writing, why not try to contact the owners of any blogs and ask them if they are looking for problogger who will blog for their blogs. I’m sure there are blogs or network of blogs that are looking for probloggers.
(3) Affiliates?
Actually, I tried several affiliates and I really make money with them. But I am worried they can’t help you now. Remember that you still don’t have a high traffic site. And most of this affiliates that I tried require the members to have a site like that.
(4) Networking Scheme?
I know that you already had encountered pyramiding scheme of making money (offline). They also call it, “Networking”. In the online world, tons of companies offered similar making money scheme. You join, pay the membership and recruit. That’s how the business works. But, I do not recommend it to those who want to earn money online. I hate this kind of business because you’re just earning from the membership fee that your network earns. And most of all, the ones really making money are only those on the higher rank.
Now, if ever you choose the number 2 or none of the 4, I want to advice you to still do the number 1. Even if you find a better offline job, having your own blog that makes money is really better.
You know, blogs really helped me during the fall of my business. If I don’t have blogs at the time, I don’t know where I am now… I don’t know what happens to me now.
You are interested to blog. You want to call your self a blogger. You even want to join the talks in the blogosphere. But then your problem is you don’t know how to write articles for your blog. So, you don’t try it.
Now, you’re asking me what you can do to improve your writing skills.
Well. I want to tell you that those who do not take the risk will never succeed. Do you think McArthur would win against the Japanese forces if he and his comrades didn’t take the risk on fighting them?
Now, if you would try writing articles for your blog, actually there’s no risk in there. You’re just afraid that people who could read your articles will persecute you and tease you every time you post new articles. Do you think, you’ll be killed if your visitors will laugh at you?
Okay. I want you to look at me and think how I started blogging.
I know most of you didn’t know how hard I tried just to enhance my English writing skills. I am now in the blogosphere because of my desire to improve my knowledge in English and my style in writing.
That was in the year 2003 when started blogging in English language. I know I was idiot in English. My writings were awkward to read. There were times that the readers misinterpreted what I wrote. And often times my blog’s visitors dropped their comments telling me to stop publishing those idiotic articles. All of the visitors who criticized me were my Kababayan (Fellow Filipino). They even told me that I was just giving shame to my fellow Filipinos all over the world.
Well, at first I was hurt and embarrassed. I almost stopped. Yes! … almost… But that didn’t really stop me to blog. If I stopped blogging, could I enhance my writing skills? If it happened that I stopped blogging, maybe I am not here now sharing with you what I experienced, what I learned and what I realized as I blog.
So, if you really want to improve you writing skills, then start blogging now. I know there are visitors of your blog who will criticize you, but don’t immediately think negative things. Consider all the criticism your guide to make your way of writing become well. Consider your visitors as your mirror. You can’t see yourself without the mirror. In other words, what ever your visitors say, then that’s what you are. You’re thankful enough that someone told you what you are. So, once you know your mistakes, your problems or anything that makes you look bad, then try to learn from them and correct them, so that next time you can present your self as better one.
If someone will call you idiot, dumb or whatever, don’t be insulted… don’t ever be embarrassed… don’t ever be discouraged. Accept that and consider it as your power to learn more.
Don’t you know that an idiot like you can be better than those who are smart? If you believe that you can be better than those who are smart, then join me in showing them that idiot can blog very well.
You know, last week there was a friend of mine who went to me and told me how she knew that I am a blogger. After a short story of how she found my blog, she then requested me to teach her how to blog. She’s really eager to learn how to blog. I really wondered why.
So, I asked her, “What’s in blogging that interest you?” You know what’s her answer? She said, “My chatmate told me that lot of people became rich quickly by just blogging.”
Okay. Let’s forget her first and let’s talk about your intention why you’re blogging now. I know that you are beginners in blogging. I’m sure of that because those who are veterans in blogging don’t read my blog. If you’re reading this article now, then I’m sure you are still looking for information on how to blog.
Let me ask you “do you blog because you want to become rich quickly?” I am asking you this because you might be one those bloggers whose intention is just to become rich quickly.
If that is your intention too, then you’re in the wrong path. You know what? If you’ll only blog you’ll never became rich easily. You’ll only end up losing you money and time just like what happen to other bloggers who have that kind of intention.
If you really want to become rich quickly then do the illegal ways of job because those are the quickest way to become rich. You can hack, spam, and steal credit cards information, and the likes. Just like in the offline world. Look at them. Look at the people around you. Who became rich easily? Aren’t they who steal other properties? Aren’t they who sell illegal drugs? Aren’t they who engage underground jobs? Those are the quickest way to become rich.
I am not really encouraging you to do the illegal ways. I am just correcting things in your mind. I just want to make it clear that if you are here blogging because you want to become rich quickly then you’ll never reach your goal.
Okay. Let’s consider John Chow as an example of bloggers who became rich in just a half of a year of working for his Make Money with John Chow dot Com blog.
For your information, John Chow started creating websites on the year 1999. On his websites, he’s the one who wrote articles, reviews and features. He’s even the one who served as editor of his websites.
When he started the blog mentioned above, he has already websites that gained popularity on the internet. He already has the knowledge regarding the websites and marketing the websites. Remember that blogs are websites too. So, since John Chow started dealing websites since 1999, so he also has collected huge information. And since then John Chow has already his huge followers and fans.
In other words, when he launched his Make Money Online blog on September 2006, things were smoothly done like, writing blogposts or articles, blog marketing and promotions and other blog-related job. So, in just several months, for sure, he already gained much money from it.
If you’ll only consider how John Chow makes huge money from his Make Money Online blog, you’ll really make to think that it’s really easy to become rich in blogging.
But that’s not what really happened. You must consider how John Chow started the blog. You must also think when did John Chow start dealing with websites. And you must also configure how many internet users are following John Chow’s work prior to his launching of the Make Money Online blog.
If he started blogging just in September 2006 without knowledge on how to deal and market a website, without his popularity on the internet, do you think he will gain much money from his blog in just half a year? You must think of it.
Again, there’s no quick and easy money from blogging. If you want to become rich then you must:
May be I can suggest, you should continue reading this blog. And I’m sure in the end, you’ll be rich. Not just rich, but richer than me, even than John Chow.
When people heard some testimonies of bloggers who became rich by just blogging, they immediately put their own blogs up and started blogging because they want also to become rich like those who told them. But then, after several months, these bloggers are lost on the Blogosphere. If you’ll ask them what the reason is why they stopped blogging, they will tell you that it’s because they don’t think they will become rich in blogging.
Now, I want to correct the way you’re thinking. I want to tell you that it’s not the blogging job that will make you rich.
It’s true that there are people who became rich by just blogging. Just look at me. I am not really rich just like what other bloggers are, but I find my living by just sitting in front of my computer and write anything and publish them on my blogs. Yes! Blogging helps me live with ease in this world full of troubles. But I will tell you again this: It’s not blogging that makes me what I am now.
Have you heard men say that if you want to become rich, just put up business and you’ll become one, because according to them it’s your own business that will make you rich.
But, this perception is wrong. If it’s true that it’s the business that makes someone become rich, then why other businessmen didn’t get rich? If it’s the business that really makes us rich, then all men who engage in business must be rich now. But that never happens. Why? Why is it that not all men who engaged in business became rich? Well. It’s because it’s not the business that makes them rich. It’s their attitude towards businesses.
You can become rich even if you’re not a businessman. You’re a teacher, policeman, writer, whatever, or even a student, you can become rich. How?
Okay. Take a glance to those bloggers who became rich. Examine what are their attitudes towards blogging. Do you think, they succeed in blogging by just putting up their own blogs and do nothing? Do you think, they became rich by just dreaming to become rich?
Remember this. It’s the man’s attitude towards his work that makes him rich. It’s not the job that he has makes him rich but it’s his attitude towards that job that makes him rich.
Anyway, it’s true that if you go into blogging, you’ll become rich, if … There’s a big IF… again if youll work hard.
Imagine how many articles are posted on my blog. Let me tell you that there are more than a thousand of articles posted here. Am I just sitting in front of my computer and just staring the monitor in order for me to post those thousands of articles here on my blog? Of course not.
I spent thousands of minutes in composing them. I spent hundreds if not thousands of days working with my blog. I spent tons of night sleepless thinking what to do with my blog to earn its popularity. I spent tons of liters of gasoline rolling off the highways just to find the place that has internet connection. I spent lot of efforts just to make my blog what it is now.
If you can do more than what I did, then Im sure youll become rich by just blogging.
One of our co-Pinoy Blogger told me that he stopped blogging because he never enjoyed blogging. For him, blogging is the most boring job.
Okay. I think you’re right when you said that blogging is the most boring job, if… Yes! There’s a big IF.
Now, let me ask you this: What activity you think is not boring? Going in night clubs? Joining with friends in a party? Are those the things you think enjoyable?
Well. I want to tell you that those things are the most boring things for me. Why? Why is it that the most enjoyable things for you are the most boring things for me? Did you ever wonder why?
Now, tell us; are you happy with your wife? I know what your answer is with this question. Every time someone asks you this, you’ll answer this immediately with the big YES. Am I right?
You know, everyone of us has negative attitudes, characteristics and behavior. So, I’m sure that you’re wife has these things too. But, why are you happy with her? Why don’t you feel bored with her? What’s with her that makes you happy?
Well. You might know what the answer on those questions is but I will still tell you that it’s not because your wife has the things you want her to have that makes you happy with her. It’s because you love her.
Remember the saying “Love Is Blind.” Yes! Love is really blind. Your love doesn’t choose whom to be with. It will not choose what kind of woman for you. But then, even if your wife is really bad, but still you’re happy with her.
Now, the same is true in blogging. It’s your love in blogging that will make you happy as you blog. You feel bored while blogging, because you don’t have love in this kind of job.
Maybe, you tried blogging because your friends are joining the Blogosphere. Maybe you tried to blog because somebody told you that there’s money in blogging. Now, I will tell you this, that you’ll always feel bored as you blog if you will not learn how to love blogging. In everything you do, your love should be there always in order for you to enjoy, to get excited and most of all to be happy.
So, if you want to enjoy blogging. Learn first to love blogging and blogging will give you the happiness you want.
Good luck and God bless us all.
Pinoy Bloggero? It’s a Filipino term for Filipino Blogger.
Carlo Licudine, launched early this month, June 2007, the new Filipino blog, Pinoy Blogero, which contains things that describes who Carlo Licudine is. I don’t mean that the contents of this blog is all the descriptive words that describe him. What I mean is that when you read the content of this you can immediately imagine what kind of blogger is he and what are his characteristics.
Creative
Carlo is very much creative. He manage to write interesting story that suits the event that we celebrate.
For example. Last June 12, we celebrated the Philippine Independence. And for this event, he wrote a story about the making of our Flag, the proclaimation of Philippine Independence and the heroism of Emilio, not the Aguinaldo but the forgotten hero who shed his blood for the Philippine Independence.
Artistic
Scan the Pinoy Blogero blog and you’ll find the posted artworks. Carlo claimed that he’s the one who drawn those artworks using Photoshop. He’s the one who created his feed button which looks like this:
He’s also the one who draw the header of his blog which looks like this:
Not only that, he also has these drawings:
Humorous
Telling funny stories is something that I want to do at my blog. But it just happens that humor is not in my blood. I am still digging the internet on how be humorous. I think I will learn something from Carlo, because he has this ability.
What else can I say? Well, if you want to know him, then visit Pinoy Blogero dot Com.
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Nokia Asia inform me lately that we will soon witness another interesting phone that Nokia will release for Pinoys. And it is the Nokia E90 Communicator Phone.
Features at a glance:
According to Nokia, the Nokia E90 Communicator phone will be available on the Philippine Market this 2nd quarter of 2007.