In my previous post, “My Writing Style and Success in Blogging“, I didn’t mention about my success in making money online through this blog, which was noticed by Angel who dropped the comments as shown below:

 But i noticed “na hindi kasama sa goal mo ang blog monetization” (that your goal in blog monetization is not included in the list). “Wala po kayong goals kung magkano ang dapat mong kikitain sa blog mo?” (Do you have any goals on how much should you earn through your blog) I think, you should also have goals “sa ganyan dahil” (on that because) you are also teaching us how to make money online. “Pano ka makapagturo ng” (How could you teach us the) ways on making money online if you don’t have goals on it too “diba?” (isn’t it?)

Actually, I am quite successful in monetizing this blog. I am already contented on how it earns based on its current daily visitors.

Blog’s July 1-29, 2007 Earning

So, to imagine how succesful I am in monetizing this blog, here’s my blog’s July 1-29, 2007 earning:

Adbrite: $ 4.50
Adsense: $203.05
Amazon: $0.0
Bidvertiser: $1.20
ReviewMe: $15.00
TextLinkAds: $78.00
YesAsia: $180.00

Summed them all, this blog earns $481.75. It’s higher by $44.92 compared to this blog’s earning last May 2007.

The figure is quite good.

Why my goals in monetizing this blog was not mentioned in my previous post?

I already told you on my old posts that popularity and wealth will just follow on your success in getting traffic for your blog.  As your blog gains its popularity, money will also come into your pocket.

What I mean is that, my main goal for now is to increase the popularity of this blog. I already listed few of these goals on my previous post, as:

1. Increase the blog’s traffic
2. Increase the blog’s number of regular visitors
3. Increase the blog’s number of feed subscribers
4. Increase the number of quality back-links
5. Increase the number of visitors who interact, share ideas and dropped comments

Once I succeed on these goals, I’m also sure that the monthly earning of this blog will also increase.

This blog has only more or less 1,000 daily visitors for this month which is equal to 29,000 visitors from July 1 to July 29 and earns $481.75. Now, what if the blog’s daily visitors will become 10,000 which is equal to 290,000 visitors for 29 days. If the number of daily visitors is directly proportional to its earning, then the earning must be $4817.50.

See! $4817.5o montly earning of just 1 blog is already more than enough.   But just like what I said before, our success has no peak, thus, we’ll again aim for the higher steps than where we are now.

What Should I do?

So, to hit my goals and my goals after hitting these goals, I need to consistently write relevant and interesting posts, and promote my blog by any legitimate ways and expanding its reach.

Angel dropped a question at my post, “Even Poor Ones Can Blog Better Than Rich Bloggers” asking me if I am already successful in blogging:

i noticed that you wrote article as if “magaling ka na” (you’re an expert). “Maiconsider mo ba sarili mo na successful ka na?” (Can you consider yourself a successful one?)

Am I successful?

Since the start of using a writing style that I am using now, lots of users, friends and blogging-recruits ask me this question…”Are you successful already in blogging?” And when I answer that question, I always tell them first how I define the term “Success” which means, “the state when goals are achieved.”

I know that you already knew how I started blogging. Lots of times that I talked about it on my old posts. And again, I will tell you that my very aim in blogging since my start on it is to enhance my English writing skills.

Did I successfully enhanced my English writing skills? Definitely yes! But I can’t still say that I am already on my peak of this success, because enhancing or improving my writing skills… it seems… has no peak.

To let you know, in just one month since my start of blogging, I already noticed changes on my writing styles and writing skills. At first, I could hardly compose a paragraph without writing it first in Filipino (Philippine Language) and then translating it into English. That’s was a very time-consuming way of writing. But I wasn’t staying on that state. Every day, as I write articles or blogposts, I always notice improvements. And if you’ll compare my way of writing on the year 2003 to this date, you’ll notice a big difference.

Every time I read those 2003 posts, I always feel something strange as if I am ashamed of my self. But, that’s the truth, and I really wrote badly at that time. No wonder, my blog’s visitors called me idiot, dumb or moron.

So, in my goal to improve my English writing skills, I can say that I am quiet successful.

Other goals in blogging

However, I have tons of goals for my blogs. And I should examine if I am already successful in attaining those goals, because that’s one of the ways to keep your blogging business or career up.

The following are few of my goals in blogging:

1. Increase the blog’s traffic
2. Increase the blog’s number of regular visitors
3. Increase the blog’s number of feed subscribers
4. Increase the number of quality back-links
5. Increase the number of visitors who interact, share ideas and dropped comments

And just like what I achieved on my goal to enhance my writing skills, I am also successful on these goals but I still need to work more hard to maintain the success that I’ve got. Remember that for me, these goals seems no peak so I will just do my best to increase the rate of my success on these monthly, if not daily.

Set your Blogging Goals too

If you really want to know if you are successful in your blogging business or career, then you must set your goals too. Everyday before you go to sleep, examine first your self if you already achieved the blogging success.

Ask your self, “Am I successful in blogging?“

I was with an old friend from Surigao Del Sur the whole day today, talking about her life as she stay here in Cebu City when I received a text message from one of my blogging-recruits that asked me if blogging is for rich people only.  My answer to him will be the one that I want to share to you tonight.

Is Blogging For Rich People Only?

To let you know, I believe that blogging can really make you rich. But I don’t think that only those who are rich can blog.

It might be true that a blogger needs to spend money for internet access. But even poor ones can afford now to access the internet, because tons of internet cafes here in the Philippines offer affordable price per hour.

If we will back to the year 1995 wherein internet access was still at PhP80.00 per hour, then I think, you’re right, blogging is just for rich ones only. But now, you can access the internet for just PhP10.00 per hour in which even beggar can afford to pay for that.

Maybe you can consider me as an example. Do you think I am rich? No, I am not. Remember that I don’t have my own computer and internet access when I started blogging. I was just renting the computer from the internet cafe and sometimes I was just making use of the internet connection of the cafe where I was working before to update my blogs.

Good To Be Rich

However, I agree that it’s really good if you’re rich because you can do whatever you want to do to your blog. You can buy your own domain, pay for hosting services, pay for designer, or even pay for ghost blogger. And it is even true that most of the blogs that are owned by rich bloggers are very much pretty compared to the blogs of the poor ones like me.

However, it doesn’t mean that poor ones can’t blog and can’t even make their blog better than the blogs of those rich bloggers. You can really do everything even if you’re not rich like them, that is, if you have the faith.

Poor bloggers can blog better than the rich ones

Actually, everything depends on you… on your belief… on your interest… on your faith. If you believe that you can do whatever they can, then do it. Don’t just say you can… try to do it.

If you want to find some examples of those poor bloggers who blog better than those rich ones, then just open your eyes wide and point them to me and you’ll see that poor bloggers like you can be better than those rich ones.

What to do?

If you still don’t have your own computer and internet connection then rent computers from the internet cafe. I’m sure you can find a cafe that offers fast internet connection and better desktop computers.

But in order for you to save money from the computer rental, write first you draft into a scratch paper, reread it and check for errors and write the final copy. Type it if you’re already in the cafe using the MS Word or any document processor before copying it into your blog. The faster you type, the more time and money you save.

For now, blog on this way. Who knows you will earn much from blogging and can buy your own computer and acquire an internet connection. If blogging made me acquire PC, cellphones, Digital Camera and XRM Motorcycle, then blogging will do the same to you or better than what it did to me.