888: Comment Rewards, Blog Hops and Linky Love
Sep 8
September 8, 2008 marks the 8th month that Bloggista.com went live online and thanks goodness, still alive and blogging till today. Started on a very challenging niche on “Making Money Online“, this blog has evolved a bit to include posts on my favorite sports, techs and gadgets and some SEO experiments. However, this blog will still focus on Making Money Online and Offline opportunities, guides and resources.
To date, even though it’s not at par with the other big-earning bloggers, I am already contented with the average monthly income of USD400 to USD600, plus close to 30 domains all in all. This newbie has certainly proven to himself that there’s indeed money in blogging - but it takes lots of hardwork and patience, and socializing with other bloggers. It’s not as easy as others claim - like earning money from blog for 3000USD overnight. It’s a total lie.
And it is even more difficult to succeed online without the help of fellow bloggers and online friends who religiously visit your site, lurking or leaving comments, and giving you those much needed backlinks. Thus, starting end of September, inspired by my Idol Blogger Bro. Ambo of Pinoytek, I will be rewarding the Top 10 Commenters with some ‘little” goodies - 50 EC’s each plus a chance to win a Domain name of your choice (sorry, hosting is not included, but you can get one here for almost free* - hehe). The Top Commenter will receive USD15.00 via PayPal, and is also included in the Domain raffle using Random.org.
Bloggista.com is now also among the Top 50 Blogs in the Philippines, based on Alexa Rank in August. It was a breakout in August but I’m expecting a roller-coaster ride at the tail-end until probably this blog improves its Alexa to another 10K. Also, Bloggista is one of the Top 200 Websites in the Philippines - and I am hoping I would be able to maintain that, if not, improve further. These are not big accomplishments, as other blogs rank better - but are enough to motivate this Newbie Blogger who started from nothing 8 months ago.
Again, all these will not be possible without the help of my fellow bloggers and online friends. Without their backlinks and link love, it would be hard to achieve a Google Page Rank of 3 from nothing and a good Alexa Rank (currently close to 180,000: Quick Info: Alexa is ranking more than 22 Million websites regularly and it is growing). So its time to return the favo and link lovin’. This edition of Linky Love Round-up goes to:
Empty Streets: It’s a way of Life
Metz of Empty Streets provided me some backlinks over the last 4 weeks. Those were Chores You Absolutely Hate To Do - especially on a saturday … and A Perfect Blend of Friendship Award and recently, the Crystal Rose Award (check the Banner Story Image) which won me 2,000 Entrecard Credits!!! and a display of my big B 125×125 banner on his lovely Blog. Truly amazing isn’t it?
Blog Building Link from Cuzoogle.com
Cuzoogle.com is relatively new Sports Blog, but their success is mindboggling. Their posts can bring in hundreds of thousands of pageviews, and they land in Digg’s front page from time to time. I don’t know the guys who are collectively called “Cuzzy” but they sure like Bloggista.com and featured this blog several times already. If you check out their blog at Cuzoogle.com, one would envy seeing those hundreds if not thousands of people reading the blog all at the same time. Their latest Blog Building Links included Bloggista.com along with the much bigger Blog and Websites, the likes of Tech Crunch, The Blogging Experiment, PC Magazine, Dean Hunt and many more.
TechJaws.com | Taking a Byte Out of Technology
Techjaws.com, as described on their blog, is a technology news site aimed at the general public, particularly at the technology-enthusiast. They love to munch at the latest technology news - softwares, security, gadgets, hardware, computers, etc. and deliver them fresh on their blog. It’s a group blog however Frank is a good blogging friend and Stumbleupon buddy.
Rashieka | The Little Girl Blogger
Blog Award Rashieka.com is the blog of Joanjoyce’s little girl. What a nice way for a nice and loving Mom to expose her child to the wonders of technology. Its tagline is - “where playing goes hi tech.” This also served as my inspiration to get RawSketches.com - it will be online very soon.
Other Blogs on the Honor Roll:
- Blogging Meets: Drawing Inspiration from Fellow Bloggers by Ceblogger whom I had coffee several times in Makati and Cebu.
- Extending My Congratulations And Gratitude To These Excellent Bloggers by Fitz whom I met at the Influential Blogger Awards Night.
- I’m Still Alive and Kicking.. by Joliber, a very good friend and founder of the new Filipino Social Networking site, Filconnect.com.
Thanks again, and more link lovin next time.
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this is great idea…congrats for the successess during the 8month life of bloggista.!
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Wow galing! Dameng achievements within 8 months. Congratz po!
Dyimzs last blog post..Book misspells its author
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What an achievement! I’m proud of you brother! You’re such an inspiration. Pautang nga haha. Congratulations brother and thanks for the link.
Ambos last blog post..Google Chrome Download and Review
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Salamat sa link love and congratulations on your achievements. Hope to meet you again soon.
Fitzs last blog post..My WordCamp 2008 Experience
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I was just browsing Google for the keyword “make money online” since we’re starting to get hits for it although we are targeting a sub-niche of that keyword.
What did we found in the front page? Bloggista! Congratulations Roel. It’s not an easy task and it shows you’re a master of SEO already.
Happy 8th month anniversary too.
Bong (JB)s last blog post..Inspiring Sunday: Reputation by Warren Buffet.
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Haha. Thanks guys. Gerson/Dyimz, sali kayo sa contest ko ha.
@Ambo, ikaw idol ko bro, nagbabasa palang ako ng blog kumikita kana hehe.
@Fitz, I wasn’t able to attend the WordCamp. Naabutan ako mag close yung Registration.
But let’s have a chat one of these days…
@Bong, well its an on and off thing with Google, unless you have really established a solid position just like Carlo Ocab. My site for the keywords “make money online” sometimes appear on page 1, sometimes its not even in page 4.
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I love what you’ve done with the rose
hehehe and the article is just as powerful. I have to say you truly have exceeded a lot of expectations and how you’ve evolved over the past few months is just amazing 
Keep it up. 
Metz - Empty Streetss last blog post..Weddings:The Seven Essentials that you shall ever need
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congrats for being a top blogger now, bloggista! your rise to stardom is the fastest so far i’ve seen.
cebloggers last blog post..EC Love and Easy Link – Part 3
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Congratulations to Bloggista:)More power to this site.
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