Blogger Head To Head Round 4; It’s The Kids, This Time

Not really I am a big fan of long titles but well the part 4 of the blogger head to head has already come. This time the kids teenagers will take the centerstage. Not only they are young kids, but they are young and competitive boys out there who are not afraid with jumping into [...]

Not really I am a big fan of long titles but well the part 4 of the blogger head to head has already come. This time the kids teenagers will take the centerstage. Not only they are young kids, but they are young and competitive boys out there who are not afraid with jumping into the online world. Rajaie is a guy from Rajaietalks which I believe has taken his blog into the next level w/his killer posts as well as hardcore tactics to increase his backlinks and gain readers as well. Ganesh on the flipside, from Blogsmartly is as impressive. He’s been busy w/school now but his presence is always felt with his comments and useful insights.

Anyway enough with the praises from me and let’s jump to their interesting tack on things.

	Rajaie	Ganesh
Describe yourself in less than 5 words?	Humble, Friendly, Adventurous, and Outgoing	studious kid with a taste for books and computers.
What is your favorite breakfast?	Some eggs, bacon, sausages, and waffles. On normal days I like to have some	Idly and Sambar (its the common breakfast in South India)
Why did you choose a saturated niche?	At the time I started blogging, I didn’t have the slightest clue of what a niche was! Hehe, but I could say that I chose this niche because I enjoy blogging about it	There were so many blogs giving blogging tips. But most of them wrote and re-wrote the same old content. I wanted to start a blog that gave *smart* tips on how to blog. I wanted to write content which would really be useful to the readers.
Any story behind choosing that domain name?	To be honest, I actually forgot why I chose www.rajaietalks.com for my blog. I guess it had something to do with me just talking about anything I had in mind.	I wanted a domain that instantly made it clear to the visitor that this wasn’t just any ordinary blog.
How many uniques are you getting monthly?	It varies between every month. In September, I got over 60,000 uniques, but last month I got about 6,000+.	Around 500.
How many hours do you spend with it?	I actually spend hours and hours a day online, but less than 2 hours blogging. I’ve been trying to focus on my blog mostly these past few weeks, but I always seem to be distracted by other things online.	When I first started blogging, I used to spend long hours. Now, I usually spend 2-3 hours everyday blogging.
Do you read other blogs feeds? How many do you track?	Of course! About fifteen or so, I try to keep it to a minimum so I don’t spend too much time reading other blogs instead of doing actual work.	I don’t use the feed reader. I prefer receiving updates via email. I subscribe to around 10-15 blogs.
How do you split your time with school and blogging and being a son?	Ahhh, this is a hard one. I try my best to finish my studies and homework before surfing the Internet. But no matter how hard I try to finish early, it just seems as though there is never enough time on my hands!	Ah! That’s a bit difficult. Since school and studies take up almost 12 hours daily, I usually spend 3 hours in the evenings and 1 hour in the morning for my blogs. As for my other activities like playing sports, games, reading, etc. I do them on weekends.
Any other ventures aside from blogging?	No, not the moment. But once I can figure out a schedule that will help me maintain my blog and keep up with life, I am planning on jumping into affiliate marketing, site flipping, and whatever else I seem to find interesting	I’m currently exploring microblogging sites like twitter and plurk. I’m planning on building sites that aren’t as time-consuming as blogging.
What makes your blog unique from others?	It’s written by me	I really put a lot of work and planning into my posts, so I guess I write unique (and perhaps enjoyable) posts. And there’s also the fact that I’m 14 which creates some buzz around the blogosphere.
What’s the biggest goal for this blog?	To become one of the top “make money online” blogs that actually teaches its readers how to make money online	I want to build up a large subscriber base and provide useful and top-notch content for all of my readers. That’s my biggest goal.
Give me a blog you admire and why?	Copyblogger. I simply love it because of the awesome style of writing Brian and the other authors have	ProBlogger. Because Darren gives some of the best tips on blogging and his blog shows that it is possible to make a living out of blogging. His blog was a big inspiration for me to start Blog Smartly.

(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

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Internet Babel vs The Germz, Head To Head 3

So this one came a little very late because of the season. The June part onwards seems to be the busiest part of the year as some people focus on their work, young ones like me go back to school and so. This round of head to head is a pretty interesting one. I really [...]

So this one came a little very late because of the season. The June part onwards seems to be the busiest part of the year as some people focus on their work, young ones like me go back to school and so. This round of head to head is a pretty interesting one. I really haven’t had much time picking a nice matchup. It’s pretty a little contrasting. Dave of the Internet Babel looks like a old older person than most of us while Germz cannot even watch rated x movies at cinemas! But well oh well, like other previous head to head this is a pretty interesting one. Check it out:

	Dave	Germz
Describe yourself in less than 5 words?	A handsome balding hunk.	Easily Bored Person.
What is your favorite breakfast?	Hmm - Crispy Bacon, scrambled egg and Toast.	Coffee, it’s the only thing I drink for breakfast. If there is no coffee I won’t eat breakfast.
How long have you been blogging?	Currently - 1 hour a day cos I have a lot of other work on. Hope to ramp it up a bit soon.	Usually an hour, I spent way more time researching new business ventures and freelancing.
Any story behind choosing that domain name?	I bought Internet Babel as a developed blog (but I liked the name).	My friends call me germz, and Germz.com was already taken.
How many uniques are you getting monthly?	July (my first month of owning the Blog) was about 2,000 UVs and 15,000 Page Views..	About 6000.
What is your average blog income?	hah Only 1 month in so very little to show at the moment. Ask me again in 12 months ;-).	About forty bucks per month, great thing that’s not my main source of income!
Do you read other blogs feeds? How many do you track?	- not a big consumer of feeds - prefer to visit the blogs i like and just Google around the web	I’m not a big fan of blog feeds, I don’t like having my email spammed with hundreds of emails per day with new articles. I hardly subscribe to any feeds unless I really like the content or I’m doing a favor for a friend. I currently only track about 3 or 4.
What are the other thing/projects that you are doing aside from blogging?	- Website development (got about 20 clients at the moment) - Helping develop some mining/data logging software - domain flipping/speculation - got a few websites of my own that bring in some Ad$en$e - Writing articles - drinking beer	Studying, and freelancing.
What keeps a blogger from making money from his blog?	a few things off the top of my head (in no particular order) - lack of time - lack of commitment - not enough belief in their own skills/ability - treating readers like idiots - no interaction with community - aiming for a saturated market/not finding a niche	I don’t use my blog to make money, I don’t think it’s easy to earn money from a blog unless your blog has a niche that’s easy to exploit. My only source of income for the blog comes from the advertisers. I only use the money to pay for hosting and aweber.
When does a blogger have to consider monetizing	Well, unless you’re doing it purely for the love of your subject and income is not a factor, then ideally you should be thinking about monetization before you start - it should be a part of the planning process. Money isn’t the key factor for a lot of Bloggers though so they shouldn’t get hung up about it.	As soon as possible, it’s best when you have some content otherwise no one will want to advertise from you.
What makes your blog unique from others?	Me. Hehe. Well, that’s the main reason – the blog is about my personal entrepreneur experiences and projects, which differ from other entrepreneurs, good and bad.	It’s written by me!
What’s the biggest goal for this blog?	Apart from the things I mentioned above: - get the stats back up to where they used to be and then make them even better - increase the earnings (although that’s not my primary driver) - spread some useful knowledge - have some fun “	At the current moment I’m doing a very special project which I’m sure everyone will like.
Give me a blog you admire and why?	At the moment, I like reading the Net Fool - a lot of good info in there usually, and a nice ‘tone’ to it.	Thenetfool.com I visit his blog every time I get a chance, it’s very informative and I really like Jim’s point of view on most of his articles.

(4 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5)

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Can Blogs Help You Make Money?

Well this is a great question by one of my childhood friend. He was very curious about how blogs can help people make money. In all honesty, blogs CAN’T make you money, and although they can help, it’s just not as easy as people think. Why? Well blogs first and foremost is a place bloggers [...]

Well this is a great question by one of my childhood friend. He was very curious about how blogs can help people make money. In all honesty, blogs CAN’T make you money, and although they can help, it’s just not as easy as people think. Why? Well blogs first and foremost is a place bloggers where stuck their own notes and what they are putting their is all based on their OWN experience and opinion. You see guys put “Making money with PPC” or maybe with Website Flipping or so but the truth is it’s based on their own experience (most of the time). They have done it well so they can recommend it and in this way they can help you learn and gain some knowledge about it. But their’s no way they’re helping you make money, or maybe they do but it’s still up to you.

I don’t really have problems with this but it’s just that what worked for others doesn’t mean will work with you (or doesn’t mean it won’t work for you). Yeah, they are plenty of blogs there that provide useful and superb resources.  You can always read a good article about Pay Per Click and still suck at doing it. You can print a ebook about making money with articles but still fail. Bottom line is people do things differently and have different expertise. Or Maybe making money online is just not for you

(2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)

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CPM Ads: Underrated MoneyMaker

I often hear questions in forums that say “I have the traffic but little income from my blog”. Well as what I have observed people saying it, are people who are putting their earnings largely on Adsense. Though Adsense has had been a great money maker for some, almost 85% of people in this world [...]

I often hear questions in forums that say “I have the traffic but little income from my blog”. Well as what I have observed people saying it, are people who are putting their earnings largely on Adsense. Though Adsense has had been a great money maker for some, almost 85% of people in this world are still not successful from using it… So getting back from the statement, I always answer “try CPM ads”. CPM stands for Cost per Millie, meaning you are gonna paid per 1000 impression. Take note, impression is not unique visitors, its pageviews!

So why do I think it’s an underrated moneymaker? Well just look. If you’re blog is getting about the normal 5000 uniques a month and say 12000 pageviews, then you’re on your way to $30 per month. People oftentimes think of selling direct ad sales but sometimes you cannot find anyone who will buy it. Especially if you’re blog is something very unrelated to internet marketing, then chances are people will notcare about your ad space. With CPM ads you can make money easily. And the sky is the limit. On my basketball blog, I had a large leaderboard CPM banner at the top that really pays me well. What I have done is I have ordered a cheap 100,000 US traffic. And with some advertisers paying up to $4 per cpm (US based), thats a really great deal for me. And that’s just the prelude. You can do more, “read more buttons” hot or not, voting scripts, and etc) Just do note that some CPM networks are very strict with some shady techniques and you’re account can be terminated, do it at your own risk!

Well one thing famous bloggers don’t like CPM is that it gives user a bad experience. Oftentimes ads are not good to user experience because they are unrelated. ANother is that sometimes they show flash ads that slows down your site! They also take a huge chunk of your income, 30-40%. Sites like Chow and Problogger could have had tripled their earnings that easy. But well it’s really bad to branding so I guess theirs no way they would try putting CPM ads on their sites…

How about you how do you find CPM ads? Have you considered trying and using them?

(4 votes, average: 4 out of 5)

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What Makes You Rich The Most?

So obviously you didn’t came here saying blogging is your primary source of income right? Also you’re not planning to do it by blogging. I was looking at different blogs and different people and seeing they were making a lot of money doing things very far from blogging. We all know it’s impossible to make [...]

So obviously you didn’t came here saying blogging is your primary source of income right? Also you’re not planning to do it by blogging. I was looking at different blogs and different people and seeing they were making a lot of money doing things very far from blogging. We all know it’s impossible to make a living out of blogging. Yes, some people do it, name them, Darren Rowse, John Chow and more. But the thing is its very hard to duplicate the feat they have achieved. When they started, they were not so many people doing it so they were getting a lot of attention and exposure. Today, you can always write a great post and no one can still read it. That’s how www is very competitive right now.

Back to the question, what’s the thing that had made you tons of money? or maybe the most money? Some do well in joint ventures, freelancing, offering professional services and so. As many of you know, I had made some success with Affiliate Marketing. Isn’t really big, but a three figure income a month is always better than nothing. And besides that is doing it part-time. You can see, people get what they want based on how focused and determined they are. Most people fail because they tend to do tons of things at once and the result is they never accomplished any of them. My word of advice is, do what you think you’re strength is! You code superbly, then why linger with affiliate marketing? You write like a god, then why not go with freelancing? For me it’s just how those things work. Many people see always the value of having multiple streams of income but what they never see is if they can sustain positive results from them or just waste their time and effort.

How bout you? What makes you rich the most? I know you have blogs (and you won’t be reading these if you don’t have one) and that’s what you share with your readers (and that’s what pay your bills and hosting). Maybe you can share it.

(4 votes, average: 3 out of 5)

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