I could still remember how I started my journey in blogging. I was sitting in front of our office computer just browsing the internet. I was thinking how I could be more productive and earn online when done with my office tasks.

I typed in Google “How to earn money online” I remember being redirected to a personal blog then. I am quite amused how the author have documented her daily life and I landed on a specific blogpost of her explaining how she earned income out of doing her passion for writing. I never really had a thought then of what is blogging all about. I just read her daily updates and it led me to create my very own ‘blog’, I registered to a free domain platform.

See how I hit my first blogpost back then. With all the wrong grammar and improper use of punctuation and not wary on when to use capital letters.

See how it seems like I’m just sending an sms to myself. Haha! I did not edit it to correct as I wanted to see how I fair through the years.

I have gained online friends which I have most met personally and been in touch with them up to this date! Looking back, blogging has been my comfort zone, it also serves as my ‘tracker’ for each of my kids milestones through their growing years. From their toddler years until now that they have fully grown up and in their teenager years.

Back in the day, there are many ways on how you get to find your niche in the so called of blogging and how to increase readership and community to build in order to support each other.

Blog hop, tagging, commenting and exchanging links are just some of the few activities bloggers do in order to increase your blog’s authority, leaving blog links in order for each other to visit and read each others blog as the usual activity that keep blogger’s busy then. Has anyone still remember Entrecard?

I remember paying about $5 to have my entrecard made in order to jibe with my blog’s template then, it’s some sort of your blog’s business card as widget on your blog. Seems like a networking where you get to visit each other and drop your card to them and earn some points and credits which you can use if you want to advertise your blog on other site.

Then comes along the so called blog meme! You get to answer questions and post on your blog and tag along a blogger friend to answer and pass along to others.

One you have ‘established’ your website/blog, you can try to apply to different paid blogging sites where you can earn on the side while blogging. There are a lot of numerous paid blogging sites then. I can name a few and this has been for sometime as source of blogger’s excitement. Then the rise of the black hat and white hat of SEO.

In order for you to get a lot of opportunities, your blog needs to get a good ranking in Google PR (Page rank) Every blogger’s nightmare is getting the 0 for every update. Haha! I think the highest I got then was Google PR 3. Everyone gets excited and proudly post a badge of it in the sidebar ads! Google pagerank 10 would represent only the most authoritative sites on the web. I couldn’t remember who had it then.

It also came to a point where I have lost the ‘ blogging momentum ‘ and would be in a ‘blogging hiatus’ But I would still come back ever once in a while and as I kept to myself that I won;t give up ‘My Life in this Wonderful World’ online.

After more than a decade, blogging has evolved in so many better ways, hence the birth of the Influencers era in the past 3 years (not quite sure exactly when). Then everyone and even bloggers has created their very own ‘Vlog’.

From ‘blogging’ to ‘vlogging’ and everyone has now been raving and creating their own spaces in this new season of online existence. From way back then as known bloggers to becoming now as known influencer such as vlogger and youtuber. The now growth of FB pages, Instagrammers, Tiktokers and the likes!

The engagement of the followers is what really make these influencers paves way to their success. Their dedication to keep up and engage in a way they give their followers benefits of knowledge, products and services. Making them feel not just a typical fan but of the same level of closeness you give to your family and friends.

The more reason I want to keep going and hoping to more years of my existence in this online world we live in now.

Finally, I found a theme that’s easy to tinker with 🙂 Layout is easy to customize with lots of options to choose from. Very friendly to those who are not so into html’s and CSS codes like me. 😀 For now, this works for me well and got no plans on changing it anytime soon. Not unless I have the budget to buy for a minimalist style design template with all the ideas I I want to incorporate in the blog theme. I love it that I was able to use my old header and was able to pull my blog title into it. 🙂 Hope you liked it too! 🙂

I have previously posted my experience on how I came up to start a blog. Starting a blog is very easy as you get to find inspirations from fellow bloggers and many things like experiences that you want to share, things that catches up your attention, bits and tidbits of information that your readers might get something informational or educational. After all things have been set-up and you have already gotten up a series of posts and then you suddenly ask a question, “what’s next?”

Now you got to know how to build a website and strengthen its position. After getting the services of dome free blogging platform, you may want to get up to the next level by finding a reliable host provider for your blog. This would open other great opportunity for your blog to become more stable and venture into a more wider range of other activities like monetization and online marketing in the future.

You may also look into beautifying you blog by getting a nice layout or design. Don’t be afraid to do some trial and error until you find a satisfying result that would give your blog the design that would really actually fit the overall theme of your blog. The design is important because this will be the very first thing that readers get to noticed.

Unique and quality content comes next, readers will come back if they find your blog enjoyable, educational and informative to read. Blog away and enjoy the experience, just never to forget to find other things that you think can be of help to strengthen you blog and gain its own space into the worldwide web.

Blogging has indeed open many gateways of opportunity, be it for personal and business reasons. Being able to express and share some personal side of yourself and gain friends from different parts of the world through blogging is one perks that you get out of it while getting paid out of the things that you love is just another cherry on top of the cake!

I am actually excited when I first learned that one can actually earn through it. A little bit of research and getting views and opinions from fellow blogger, I was able to find Ways on How To Make Money Online.

• Get paid to write articles/ Post Sponsorship. with some link inclusion pointing to an advertiser’s website. I actually applied to numerous paid to blog sites before and still writing for some of them until now.
• Google Adsense. You got to have some traffic on your website to generate a good flow of income here.
• Text Link Ads. This is one of my favorite way of earning easy money as you only have to put it on your side bar and you’ll be getting paid depending on the contract/ agreement  on the amount and how long it will stay live over a period of time on your site.
• Banner Ads. putting up an ads with image, rate depends on the size and other factors depending upon the agreement w/ the advert.
• Joining in some blog contest and giveaways. Have some fun to earn an extra $$$ or any material things like gadgets, bags, cosmetics, etc.

These are just some of the most known and effective way to earn from your blogs. You just got to work a little harder on gaining followers and increase readership, Page rank, and other blogging criteria’s and you’re good to go and sure enough to make money flow into your blog.

For the nth time, I changed this blog theme again. lol! I am not yet done tweaking some codes of the font colors, etc. But I am more comfortable with this one for now. I’ll save enough budget soon so I can buy this theme without the footer links ;D I slept early last night to do some tasks but the bed weather didn’t wake me up in time. So I am now off to finish them all today alongside with some household chores. Tomorrow will be the start of another work week and I want to be task free by then so I wont rush things out on my day work.

here’s my previous theme paper art by Ghillie Suit