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How Much Do You Earn Blogging??

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I get asked this question all the time by my friends but I believe only one person knows my approximate total at the end of every month. This person supports me a lot. Even my family does not know.

Anyway, although I have been blogging for pay for a long time, I do not think it is good to publish our earnings. We must be humble, and I find that publishing earnings is rather distasteful. Do you think that you would scan your check from your real life job and publish it on your blog so that you can show every one how much your salary is? I don’t believe so and I give my blogging earnings the same privacy and confidentiality.

Having said that, I do read other people’s earning reports to motivate myself and congratulate them if I know them personally. I am happy for them.

I believe if I write until I am three quarters dead, I would be able to do that as well but why should I torture myself? I only reserve as much opportunities as I can handle and leave the rest for other bloggers.

There is always another day and another and another, right?

Computing & Internet

The Many Plastic Surgery Procedures

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I came across many plastic surgery terms when I as browsing through a plastic surgery website just now. My, are there so many for us to memorize! I would like to get one IF there is no pain because I would like to get some little “defects” off my face and body and I know that I could look a whole lot better with some help, help that could not be rectified with cosmetics! But I am uncertainly though! One thing is the pain, another is the cost and I will never go to a quack doctor in his makeshift clinic to get a tummy tuck, for example, just because it is cheap and that is what I could afford. No way! I would rather suffer from ugliness than put myself at risk!

The popular trend now is to check into a clinic that looks like a five star hotel, be treated like a VVIP and then come out as a new person! This is what I dream to be able to afford one day when I could pay a million dollars to look like a million dollar girl!

There was once that I read a patient went in for liposuction and the clinic staff forgot to shut the machine off because she was busy chatting away on the phone while the patient on the coach fell asleep, with the machine on. I don’t know what the consequences were but she came out in a pretty bad shape, I read.

After reading all those bad experiences of others, when my friend told me that she may have to get a rhinoplasty, I told her to only go for the best. There is only all to gain to check in with a reputable plastic surgery clinic, right?

She agrees with me, of course, but would still need the final approval from her husband. He is the paymaster, after all!

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Are Contextual Posts Sponsored?

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We are all still unclear, I guess, and although it has been announced that we do not have to sandwich all our sponsored posts with organic posts, preferably linkless ones, except for those taken from triple P, defining sponsored posts with respect to contextual links in normal ordinary posts is critical in defining a blog from a 50:50 ratio of sponsored versus non-sponsored content.

This is rather tough to determine. To me, a post with a contextual link is not sponsored if we successfully managed to integrate the link into our posts but it is sponsored if it is awkwardly thrown into a post.

It’s well and good to say, “You know it when you see it”, but that is so subjective. I don’t really want to violate any company’s terms of service but at the same time I do not want to feel as if I am pressured to write posts that I do not feel the passion for.

That being said, I need clear guidelines to work freely and if the guidelines say that contextual posts are sponsored, then by all means let us know in advance so that we could work within the guidelines.

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Pity The Sponsors

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You know, with the new Terms of Service of a certain marketplace where we nearly have to publish an organic post between all sponsored posts across the blog, I feel that the one losing party is the Sponsors.

As far as I know, active blog for pay bloggers would write multiple sponsored posts every day and if they have to have an organic post between every single sponsored post, then before half the day is over, those sponsored posts would have dropped off the front page. The post would not even benefit from the Page Rank of the blog.

This morning, I wrote a total of ten posts on my other blog, a mixture of sponsored and unsponsored content and I am only a mid-range blogger. Plus, I set my Blogspot blog to show seven days’ worth of posts on the front page, but still not all the posts managed to benefit from the landing spot.

I know of some other bloggers who literally crank out tens of posts every day and the earlier posts would have gone to the second or even third page, depending on the layout of the blog.

Luckily, even though I have set to show seven posts on the front page for this blog, this is a blog that does not overdose on sponsored posts.

Computing & Internet

Adult Chat?

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I was pointed to a forum that apparently had a section for adult chat. I could not see it, though. Perhaps it is only available for premium members since there is a section that locks out the rest of us. Now that I am here though, I am wondering if their meaning of “adult chat” is the same as mine! That is why I am rather confused because I cannot see any sexy male-female chat at all. Well, that is my definition hah!

Now, you would probably think lowly of me for seeking out adult chats! I assure you, there is absolutely nothing wrong with engaging in adult chats, that is, if you ARE an adult and yes, I am one the last time I checked.

Anyway, as someone who practically spends the whole day at the computer working, I would like to be kept on the ball on what’s hot and what’s not on the internet. I read, I surf, I browse and bookmark plenty of sites that I check as often as I could, I blog hop, participate in forums and chat, in adult rooms or otherwise, and friends will email me sites that they have discovered that may be of interest to me.

And I blog about almost anything and everything that I come across online. My friends will sometimes put a note, “Hey, this makes great blog fodder!” and we would all write about it. And yes, I have to admit that I engage in adult chats due to my curious mind and my love for analyzing things and then blog about them and these people who may have chatted with me will never know that I am writing about my experience with them! hahaha!

Well, since I was told that this particular site has a section for adult chat, I think I may upgrade my membership to Premium membership, if only just to quell my curiosity!

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CrispAds & BlogWorld

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I received an email from CrispAds this morning about giving away 300 coupon codes worth $25 each for BlogWorld and a contest where two lucky AMERICAN bloggers will get to win free trips to Las Vegas.

I was registered with CrispAds ages ago. I must have, or they would not have my email address on their mailing list. Off hand, without checking my little black book, I could not log into my CrispAds account. See, that must have been so long ago.

Anyway, I don’t even know how to use CrispAds on my blog and I have not heard of any local blogger who has found success with it but still I signed up when I was searching for more ways to monetize my blog months ago. I can’t be writing sponsored posts forever, right?

I think I need to put more effort to learn how CrispAds works and how that I could somehow implement them on my blogs. HHmm I don’t even remember if my blogs are in the system already and approved! Confirmed there goes my memory!

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Solar The Alternative Energy Source

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My friend is building his house and I asked him if he is going to power it with Solar energy. He said no because solar energy system is not that advanced in the country and that it will cost more in the long run to replace the solar panels after every five years or so. Well, I did not know that but he is an engineer and he should know about these things.

However, I have been thinking that should I have my own house, I would implement solar energy at least in some parts of the house. Sometime back, I read an article that there is a residential area somewhere in the United States where the all the houses are powered by Solar energy. I know that they will have immediate savings on their electricity bill. As we all know, power has been getting more and more expensive and over here, we have two tiers of rates to contend with!

I would definitely love to get Solar water heating and lighting in some parts of the house and also the garden. I find that these are the places that we could save some electricity on. I trust that by the time I am able to afford my own house, solar energy would be more advanced and widely used in the country that it will not be too costly to implement.