Ed Earns

It’s a good thing I was able to finish some oDesk tasks right away. I couldn’t believe I was able to create 10 articles in 3 hours or so. While I was dropping entrecard credits of about 1500 sites, I was able to utilize the time of loading each page and then coming up with blog entries with some key words inserted as it’s the task that my employer assigned.

I’m trying to find another template for this site as it seems that there are a couple of bugs that I want to fix but got frustrated in doing because of how many attempts failed attempts that I wanted to give up. I don’t have that much CSS and code skills but I do my best on what I can handle. But for this, I guess I’m just stressed out that’s why I need to take a break.

Anyway, I got a couple of emails from fellow bloggers who are also interested in making money online. I’m happy that somehow, I got to share my insights with them with the experience I’ve had. Although I don’t earn as much as professional bloggers, it’s good enough for me to sustain travel allowances and buying some extra gadgets on top of paying the bills and old debts.

So I better get to sleep, it’s the weekend and I will need to regain some strength and energy I lost out of working my ass off.

Walking on bricks right now, trying to know where I’m headed to. I’m still doing my best to earn some extra income online but it’s a bit of a chore considering the many activities that I’m lined up to do that I’ve set for myself. I will be blogging more later on, I just have to sort things out properly so that I won’t be way out of focus.

Yes, those are mine.

It’s the start of the new year and I’m feeling all refreshed and motivated to earn some extra money online! So far I have 3 websites (with their own domain) and I’m just anticipating for the right time for me to be able to find that perfect opportunity to earn in bulk. Anyway, as I’ve evaluated the amount I earned last year, it makes me want to pursue this sideline even more, hoping I’d be just like some people I know (but they don’t know that I know them, hehe) that have earned really a lot out of blogging or creating websites. Unfortunately for me, I haven’t really found that niche or something that would make me more in tune that would really work for other people. So I still result to blogging and airing out my thoughts in order to update the sites.

I hope I can think of something like setting up a Youtube, or a networking site, or just site of codes that traffic would suddenly come in without having that much effort. But for now, I’m still in the process of looking that great gimmick since I still have issues with being anonymous as well.

It’s the start so let’s keep the money rolling in!

I just realized that it’s already been a year since I started blogging back again to earn money and now that I found this out, I have to give a recap on the past year on how much in total I’ve earned through the different programs I’ve signed my website and then some other sites out.

These are my earnings during the year using soloflighted.com

These are my earnings in dollars for my site and then some.

In totality for the year, here’re my earnings.

I’m actually in a total shock that I’ve earned that much in a span of a year. But I’m equally in shock in locating where this amount has gone off. hehe. Of course, there are bills and other expenses. But I’m happy cause I didn’t expect this much to come to me.

I have 4 blogs to maintain, two have their own domain and two are free blogger accounts. I don’t earn as much in those blogger accounts but the domains are really vital.

For now, I’m planning to get another domain. hehe.

I’m very glad that those unexpected emails turned out to be legit after all. We don’t know how many crazy people are online who’d transact business only to fool you. I followed the tasks that they wanted, like putting a text link on my other domain’s main web page and also did some opportunities that required me to publish and submit the URLs right then and there.

Afterwards, I got paid the amount that was agreed upon. Now, I’m 105 dollars richer! I couldn’t believe I was able to earn that much in less than a week!

Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t earn a lot still. But I like the way that I have some extra cash to spend *ehem* save. hehe. Knowing that my full time job can only do so much especially if you’re in a family of seven and there’s no stable income from your parents and your life started with full of debt. Anyway, before I get too personal, I’m going to cut this short.

I’m happy that again, I got some extra cash for my savings.

3rd payout! Yey! I got my 3rd payout which is comprised of paid reviews from last week of May to first two weeks of August 2008. Again, this isn’t much to professional bloggers but I do this as a sideline so it’s nice that almost every now and then, I get a bonus from earning online money.

These were earned under my personal/travel blog: Soloflighted.com plus some extra tasks from my admin for her site. I also have earned some money through another personal weblog I created but I’m not using the moolah any time soon.

I’ll be getting the money from my Admin later on tonight and I’m planning to just save this bunch so I can pay it off for school.

I’m on a high already.

Because of the new project (my other site) that I put up, I’m also starting to reap some rewards of setting it up. I’m getting paid for the entries that I put up. That’s why I’m glad that it’s starting to earn. Although my site still needs more traffic or a better page rank, I’m quite happy that after barely 2 months, it’s slowly gaining some alexa traffic aside from my soloflighted.com.

Anyway, this is also one of the tips that you can get. If you have a number of blogs with a high page rank, then you can simply enroll them in those paid post sites. That’s where the real deal comes in where you can potentially try to quit your regular job (of course, I don’t want to recommend; hehe). But I know of a former colleague who did just that and didn’t bother that she’s become a bum because she has around 10 sites to maintain and yet her salary is way better compared to mine.

Well, I don’t know yet if I plan to quit my job just to become a professional blogger because I still enjoy the environment at work. We’ll see; as for now, I hope I can keep on raking it.

Since my first pay out, I haven’t been earning as much. Nevertheless, I’m planning to save the money that I’ve earned until it would reach at least 10, 000 pesos. That’s what the admin and I agreed on so I could also put the extra cash to good use; since last pay out, I don’t know what I did with it anymore.

The reason why I started out earning money through blogging is that I wanted to pay off old debts and fulfill some ambitions that require moolah to do so. It turns out that I’m not earning as much with my day job, so I figured I’d find other means to earn extra cash. Hence, blogging came to place.

Anyway, like I said, I need to save up for schooling. I plan to go back so I can finally get a degree. I still have a lot of semesters to finish.

For the month of April, I just earned about half of my first pay out. It’s not much but I always think that this is extra income already which is good enough to pay for electricity and the internet connection itself.

So, I’m looking forward to the time I’ll be able to get the money in bulk. But for now, I try not to focus much on it so it’ll be a surprise by then.

Blogsvertise

Blogsvertise. This is where I’m getting most of my income nowadays.

They’ll email you if an advertiser wants to hire you to write about something. If you don’t like the task, you can simply accept or decline according to your preference. They would like you to provide some information on why you declined a task. This helps in filtering out the probable opportunities that will come your way in the future.

What’s great about Blogsvertise is they have a “Grab task” option wherein other bloggers who decline certain posts will be collected to a certain bin where you can grab the ones that you would like to create. You are limited for one task per day and I tell you, the range is quite good!

You can choose which one to add as added opportunity, which means added cash to your account.

Smorty, another paid post site I was introduced to. The layout has a greenish effect that is already okay since I like green, hehe. Anyway, so far opportunities aren’t that great, maybe because my page rank isn’t that high yet. I couldn’t get any more offers aside from the first post that I did for them. I guess I have to increase more traffic to my site.

What I like about Smorty is its payout. They pay approved tasks on a weekly basis so it’s really good cause other paid post sites would pay you after a month.