The 13-year old blogger, Carl Ocab, is now popular in the Philippine blogosphere. Antonista didn’t link back to Carl Ocab’s blog because he did’t want to contribute to the popularity of the controversial blog, without thinking that by just talking about Carl, mentioning his name and linking back to Yuga’s post about Carl are ways [...]

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Last month (October 2007) I received an email from my fellow Filipino blogger regarding the use of Bidvertiser as a way of monetizing a blog. I already replied her email but I want to share with you my thoughts about it. Here’s her email: Selboy, I noticed that your blog displays bidvertiser’s ads along with [...]

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Several days ago Carl Ocab’s “Make Money Online with a 13-yearl old” blog became the center of talks in the Philippine blogosphere. Everyone who visited the said blog ask these questions: Is it really true that the blogger behind this kind of blog is a 13-year old kid? If this is the blog of a [...]

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For about three days of displaying bidvertisers ads, my earnings with Bidvertiser is still zero. It seems that my blog’s visitors are not interested on the ads displayed by bidvertiser, I think, because bidvertiser displays the same ads in all the times. Google Adsense is far way better than this in the sense that Adsense [...]

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I am currently implementing the bidvertiser ads on the index page of this blog only to test how it works with this blog and how’s my earning with this. The ad is placed directly below the “Marrying a Millionaire” ad but above the fold just like what they advise to their publishers, like: Place your [...]

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My thoughts and answer to the question of a visitor of this blog regarding the length of posts and the frequency of posting posts.

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There are lots of good things happened in my life because of blogging and making money from it. I was able to provide the needs of my family and I was able to give them what they wanted which I think could make them happy and would help them grow better. And through the income [...]

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After reading Yuga’s post “The Blogging Times Is Looking For Problogger“, I immediately asked my self, “Am I already a ProBlogger?” Well. How can I answer that question when I don’t know what ProBlogger means. Yes of course I know that Problogger stands for Professional Bloggers. But what makes a blogger a Problogger really makes [...]

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I am Mr. Sustines Laplana, an unemployed Filipino but is earning money not from a business but from a hobby. My hobby is just playing my PC. I am actually blogging. I am blogging here in Maasin City-Southern Leyte – Philippines.

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This blog, “SELaplana” and I were featured in: News Paper, Magazine, etc Manila Bulletin The article was “Inspiring Story from selaplana.com” under the column of Annalyn S. Jusay called “Blog-O-Rama” on March 22, 2010. His story is one of the most inspiring we’ve heard. An electrical engineering graduate who lost his job in the city [...]

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