A. There are many ways to earn from blogging. You can write reviews for specific products such as antivirus softwares, PC tools, laptops, cars, jewelries and many more. You can also do a review about specific services such as web hostings, online dating sites, flight charters, online flight bookings, hotel reservations, etc.. You can register to websites such as ReviewMe.com, Smorty.com, PayPerPost.com, and SponsoredReviews.com and get review assignments from them. Once you’ve made a review, you can submit it to them, and you’ll be paid by the end of each month. Payments range from .00 to 0 per review. Other websites pay every weekend, such as Smorty.com.

If you don’t want to write reviews you can also opt to accept advertisements in your blog. There are a lot of advertising mediums out there that is waiting for you. Provided that your blog has enough inbound links (links from other websites to your blog), traffic (your daily visitors), and popularity. Most of the advertisers always consider your blog’s Google PR (this is the most-used standard to measure your blog’s worth) before they decide to buy advertisement slot from you or ask you to review a certain product.

You can use PPC, PPI, PPA advertising systems in your blog. PPC stands for Pay Per Click. This system allows you to monetize your blog once a reader clicks on the advertisement that is displayed in your blog. A very good example of it was Google Adsense. PPI stands for Pay Per Impression. This system pays you whether the visitor click that ads that was displayed in your blog or not. Once the ad was displayed in your blog, you will be paid. A very good example of this advertising medium was blogbank.com.ph.. PPA stands for Pay Per Action. This system pays you whenever a product that was displayed in your blog was bought by a visitor. When there’s an item sold because of the advertisement from your blog, you will have a revenue from it. A very good example of this system was ShoppingAds.com

Blogging is not an easy job to pursue. It takes a lot of time and perseverance before you can start earning from it. Don’t expect an immediate income once you started blogging.

Q. What do you think are the requisites of a successful blogger/ blog site?

A. You need to be optimistic, creative, and active. Be positive because other bloggers tend to quit blogging because nobody reads their blog. Readers and Subscribers will come slowly if you’re not pessimistic that no one will read your blog. Creativity is another factor to become a successful blogger. Let your creative juices flow while writing your articles. If you think you don’t have enough juice, try to squeeze harder. Be active, by attending blog events, blogger meet-ups and the like. Through these activities, you can meet more online and offline friends based on my experience. You will also gain more readers and subscribers.

Q. What are the blogging rules and principles you live by?

A. Stay away from plagiarism. Don’t blog if you don’t feel to. Others write even if it’s unnecessary to, like posting useless articles everyday that will turn your blog into a spam haven. Be creative, think of something that is interesting and blog about it.

Q. What are your plans for yourself and for your blog?

A. Create more blogs with different niches. Improve my writing skills. Learn more and more things everyday through blogging. Inject more words in my brain and expand vocabulary. Make more friends both online and offline. Cover more topics and write more interesting articles, tips and tutorials that will help anyone who wants to learn about web development, graphic design, SEO, and other things that interests me.