Am'I really meant to making money online ?

Reading other bloggers earning reports, I have to admit it was jaws dropping. Regardless, their earning is verifiable or not, it does develop awe amongst newbies or six-figures earner wannabe, including me.

First thing came to my mind at the time was a question, "Do they really earn that much ?". Then goes to, "How they really make it happen ?". Then I started to search the Internet for further information on this 'making money online' scheme. The findings was awesome. These guys are full time blogger who are really dedicating their time for blogging. They are good writers where a bunch of keywords are in each of their posts for search engine finding. They are always found things to write, information to share and ideas to develop.

It then dragged me to SEO, Adsense, SERP, CPC, CPA, RPU, Affiliate Marketing and any others terms I have to deal with for making money online. I have this blog, I don't have my own domain and hosting yet, but I saw there are many blogspot.com bloggers out there are great online money-makers too. So based on 'enough bullshitting too much' guide, I decided to use this blog for passive income source as many others blogger do. I don't think it is too late to get into this game, better late than nothing.

Apart from my attempt to make money online through this blog, I have my own side goals. I want to improve my English and my writing skill. Why I put those side target ?, yup, because my English is poor, considering English is not my native language, neither second language. It is a foreign language for us in Bali. My writing skill haven't improve lately, then now is a chance. My main goal is to earn money so I can afford my own domain and hosting and to pay my dial-up home internet connection.

For achieving these goals, I have done some SEO efforts for traffic generation, more intensive blogwalking and information finding. Believe me, I put all things purely based on search engine, there are no black SEO at all. I haven't use Adwords for generating traffic to this blog. I don't have enough money for Adwords deposit, just yet. I'm still learning on how to attract more visitor to this blog, the fact is the content is the one which could attract. Content means writing, good content means good writing, and that's I'm trying to do, by trying hard to constantly post every day.

Many grammar pop outs might be easily found on my posts, and my fellow readers did mention it and I thank you if you could help me to improve my English. Any suggestions are welcome to improve this blog.

So do you think I'm really meant to making money online ?

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July 1, 2007

The spirit of Blogging : The oldest blogger I ever knew.

Blogging is for everyone isn't it ?. Regardless of age, gender, etnicity , region, blogger are connected each other, blogging is a phenomenon.

A blogger named Donald Crowdis, a 93 years old blogger with his blog named 'Don to Earth'. An inspiring blog, I admitted. There is a spirit of life and a spirit of blogging in there.

His last post was on March 8 2007, which was telling his fellow readers, that he is not dead, but there is a family concerns that preventing him from posting to his blog. There is numbers of his fans is currently waiting his next post. We are waiting for your next post Don.

Did you know ?, the pagerank of Don's blog is 6, and I believe he didn't do anything hard on SEO and a like. This a prove that content is everything, content will attract visitors. In this Don's case, his spirit brought many visitors to his blog.

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June 22, 2007

Bali, Paradise island for its people

I always dreaming about living in a well-maintained beautiful place.I always dreaming of a city who offers its inhabitants good public services, living in a city where a park with abundance of benches are available for people to sit and relax. Though I never travelled abroad, I have enough information to compare how good my place to live is.I lives in South Bali's sub-urban area renowned as an area of International hotels, luxury villas and beautiful white sandy beaches. I was living in Denpasar, Bali capital for many years. It is not a big city, but it's change rapidly, without a proper development plan, I'm afraid it will turned into 'metro-pollutant' instead of 'modern' metropolis city in the future.

As many cities in Indonesia, Denpasar and others cities in Bali are lack of 'public' amenities.Public transportation, parks, promenades, playgrounds, sidewalks are rarely found. There are places such as 'Puputan Badung' square and 'Renon' square which are choices for Denpasar's weekenders to spent on. They can go to Sanur, Kuta or Nusa Dua if they want beaches. Those places are free of charge for entrance, but if you want to bring your kids to see elephants, kind of birds and reptile or to a zoo park, you should pay, and it is not cheap for most of Bali inhabitants. As most of Indonesian, they are poor. Being a world class holiday destination, Bali government should thinking on giving more to its inhabitants. Bali's hotels, luxury villas and those taxes from tourism activities is a good source of fund, I believe we could pimp Bali like Singapore if we want it, and if do it well.

What Bali presently lack of are, green spaces, mass public transportation, and inexpensive public services for inhabitants. Bali boasts rapid hypermarket development, giant shopping malls, private luxury villas and converted lands to residential housing. As we could think of, it seems that Bali has no city or urban planners. Government policy still developed in 'pro-market' manners such as profit and private sector oriented, no respect to the majority of inhabitants and arbitrarily abandon its inhabitants needs. They are greedy and being ignorant. Traditional market and small retailers where mostly Balinese buy their daily needs couldn't compete with hypermarkets, they are big retailers with big venture capital. So where Bali goes to ?, become an island of thousands hypermarket ?. Within 500 meters I would find a hypermarket, what a life. In Bali shopping is a piece a cake, 24 hours hypermarts is everywhere.Do you think we need a law that limiting those big retailers opening hours ?. Just to let the small retailers a chance to survive.

Although the appalling numbers of private vehicles (cars and motorcycle), I couldn't find any good solutions offered was solving the problem caused. With limited lands , Bali is not expecting any wide roads or toll roads, Bali need mass public transportation. Inter-regency train would be great, monorail or metro-line will be a plus in supporting the tourism around Denpasar, Kuta, Sanur and Nusa Dua. The mass transportation system should be professionally managed, should be affordable by most Bali inhabitant, no more over-capacity passengers, no more Flinstone-aged buses, no more 'transportation terminal' owned by 'preman', no more 'ngetem / gantre', it should be base on schedule.

In my humble opinion, if transportation and telecommunication system are great, than many sectors will developing significantly. We Balinese just want our taxes goes to the right place, from us and back to us, for all of us, to create a paradise for its own people, a sustainable Bali. A heavenly place to live, a paradise island.

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May 30, 2007

Putra turned 2

My youngest son Putra turned 2 and a simple birthday cake was for him. He like it very much and eventually he was gagging and partially vomiting because of too much eating cake. Oh well It might because he is a chocolate lover too, it is hard to keep him away from chocolate, however he don't like candy. We were hardly keeping him away from those juice drinks with ice. For him,juice with cool warm water added is enough. Cold drinks not good for him.

Happy birthday Putra.

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May 21, 2007