If you have recently graduated and is looking for a job, having a well maintained and professional looking blog definitely put you at a distinct advantage especially if you are looking to careers related to content management, PR, social media, sales and marketing. The same goes if you wish to move towards a career to …
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There are freelance writers who make quite a comfortable living writing for publications, online sites and ghost writing. I have heard about a freelance writer in Malaysia who live on a happy-go-lucky lifestyle where she writes and then use the money she earned to travel. When it is my personal choice to prefer writing for …
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At times when you are doing freelance writing for others, you may be tempted to ask yourself: why not I just write for my blog instead of writing for others? This is something I am sharing from personal experience because of my blogs, I have been approached by individuals/companies to write content for them. I …
Why write for other sites when you can write for your own blog? Read More »
Nowadays, it takes time to get your blog indexed and ranked in Google. When you start a new blog or a new subdomain, you would have done all the recommended actions such as submitting to Webmaster Tools, sharing in social media and telling your friends, family, colleagues or basically anyone who listens. It may take …
New blog takes time to rank- don’t give up too soon! Read More »
I have operate almost 10 blogs including this blog. 2 of my blogs made more than 90% of my income. The rest do not make enough to cover my hosting. If I had only those site, I would have to either give up, or fight on (but pay hosting out of my own pocket). Why …
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Does your blog design affects the number of page views and time spent on the site? Well, it would depends on the objective of the blog and the purpose your blog serves to your visitors. If the main objective of you blog is to showcase your portfolio, or as an extension of your persona or …
Nowadays you may notice that a number of blogs does not carry any indication of year, month and date on the blog post’s permalink (link url) as well as on the blog content. This makes it very difficult to tell precisely when the blog post was published and to know if the information is still …
Should you remove the date (timestamp) from your blog posts? Read More »
The answer to this question is it is quite unlikely if you only rely on blogging to make a living, ie writing articles. If you wish to be able to earn a full time income, then your primary source of income would likely be blogging related but not from blogging and placing advertisements. My story …
Can a blogger from Malaysia make a full time living from blogging? Read More »