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Topic: Smart blogging can make you a good living (Read 1490 times)
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Joined: Sep 2008
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 Oct 11, 2008, 10:26:21 PM | #1 |
Mini Joseph Tejaswi & Shivani Mody,TNN
BANGALORE: Blogging was just a casual fad for Ramesh Venkitesh, 29,
till a $110 cheque landed in his mail box one morning. His blog
primarily offers links to other interesting web sites and blogs
around the world. One day he received a call from an online
advertising agency asking for permission to put ads on his site, and
offered him payment for doing so. "I never imagined it will fetch me
money," says Venkitesh.
Once he realised that his internet-driven past-time could bring in
money, Venkitesh got smarter and regular with his blog. "I started
blogging daily and made the blog look attractive, informative,
entertaining." This attracted more advertisers, and more money came
in.
"I earned over $200 this month and I'm confident my total earnings
in a year will soon go up to Rs 1 lakh." Venkitesh is not the only
youngster making money by blogging.
"Many are original content blogs while many others are not so, but
they give credit to the source of the content. So it does not give
room for plagiarism," says Ashok Manohar, who earned Rs 5,000 this
month from three different advertisers on his blog, which is focused
on current affairs and India-related cultural news and trends that
has big readership amongst overseas Indians. Manohar too now spends
at least 30 minutes a day on his blog to increase his earning. His
tech savvy wife Shonima is helping him update the blog daily.
Kiruba Shankar, a professional blogger and CEO of Kiruba.com, says a
person blogging on specific and niche topics might make anywhere
from Rs 10,000 to 20,000 a month. But it all depends, he says, on
the topics you write on and your professional
background. "Statistics suggest that only 2% will add professional
value by blogging and generate interest," Shankar says.
Rajan Pawa is another Bangalore-based blogger who has been making
good money. A cookie (a tracking software) found that Pawa's blog
attracted 1,000 users on the third day of its opening. "I posted all
crazy and funny things, which people across the globe found
interesting, informative and entertaining. It took only a few more
weeks for advertisers like Google ads and Adbrite to take note and
start advertising on my blog," he says.
Pawa's sister Lalita, an MCA student, helps him update his blog. "My
brother gave me Rs 10,000 a few weeks ago on my birthday, as a
reward for helping him with content writing in the last two months,"
says Lalita.
A blogger who writes on niche topics such as Java development and
coding can even be asked for his consultancy services. Nowadays,
facing stiff competition from Yahoo and MSN advertising, Google has
started offering more money to regular and professional bloggers.
Another concept picking up is of developers looking to make money
with applications created on social networking sites.
Please visit: http://resourcesforbloggers.blogspot.com/ |
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Nov 19, 2008, 06:32:39 AM | #3 |
| It seems the people over in Bangalore are having a lot more luck than some of the bloggers here in America, ha ha. |
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Feb 02, 2009, 01:57:26 AM | #4 |
right friend but in the US a $200 cheque is not very much. my parents pay more than $200 per month for electricity. but to other people in different countries that money is a blessing.
think about if they can't have an industry for farming or for manufacturing they can make an industry out of internet work. |
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Joined: May 2007
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Feb 03, 2009, 12:29:42 AM | #6 |
| and why nobody ever earns from blogging? |
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Joined: Feb 2009
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Feb 26, 2009, 10:48:47 AM | #8 |
| it usually takes a lot of time and effort to make good money blogging. and $200/month can be a lot in another country but in the US it might not be that much, depending on how much time you spent working on it. |
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yeah me too been trying blogging for soo long 
