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.

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For quite sometime now, I have distanced myself from this contest from the Influential Blogger blog of Ms. Janette Toral. I just started blogging for real last January 2008 (my first blog, blogRebel was actually started in November 2007, but there’s not much content in there - I must admit, I am a poor writer, and shun socializing with bloggers online).

Last January when I registered this domain Bloggista.com, I didn’t have any idea what to do with it. I just loved the way it sound - bloggista. And I thought the word Bloggista exactly describes a blogger, a passionate blogger at that. If Fashion is to a Fashionista, then Blog is to a Bloggista. So I decided to make Bloggista.com a newbie blogger’s blog - about his journey towards making money online. In a span of 6 months, I have grown my website network to more than a dozen of websites - each slowly giving nice returns on investment.

Then several people nominated the Bloggista to the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2008. Exactly why I avoided this contest - Bloggista doesn’t want to put himself in the limelight - even for a few seconds. I was already having fun browsing through blogs, finding bloggers to idolize, spending so many hours a day thinking what to blog and how to blog. Bloggista just don’t want complications. Bloggista just want to exist in his own share of the blogosphere.

But then some nice people “wasted” a vote for a blogger who doesn’t want himself included - I am already happy with what I am doing… But should those votes be wasted? After some deep thinking - I decided to reconsider and instead recognize those people that made me buy my own domain, and made me prefer blogging over hours of online games, billiards and bar-hopping. And of course I should be giving justice to those kind enough to give me a vote.

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From time to time, Bloggista.com features interesting blog posts and links of blogging friends and newly discovered sites that I find worth to read.

Well, today, the world will see another Miss Universe winner. So check out my post on the Miss Universe 2008 Winners, Results and Updates.

Joliber over at Mapiles.com has been quite busy (and dead serious) of new his newly launched Social Networking site, Filconnect.com. This guy and his site has the makings of the next Facebook.

SoNn at GeekandMoney is delighted on his 3G experience with uMobile - and it’s free. He also gave me an Invite Code so I can try uMobile myself.

Strip2Clothe - what’s that? Check out Bloggista.org | Intense Passion for Blogging.

Deimos is giving his “Silent Thoughts” on Life’s Misery. Take this from him, “Many bloggers are blogging for money, after realizing that it is not as easy as it appears to be, many quit.”

Want to know the Top 10 Most Stolen Cars in the Philippines? Check out Jan Alvin’s article over at BlogTambayan. Good thing my Cadillac-kad and VTEC-leta are spared from the list.

Cuzzy posted a very interesting article on Recycling - blog posts and articles that is. Check him out.

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Blogging close to six months now, I had the privilege of meeting bloggers from different walks of life, and I surely treasure these folks who are not just good online friends, but best offline buddies too. And this first-time Linky Lovin post is dedicated to these bloggers who are testaments that one of the greatest joys of blogging come from great friends you built online.

My partner-friend, Joliber, who taught me lots of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques is a rare gem. He is diligent, and has a heart of an eagle - soaring high with energy, passion and determination - a true Bloggista himself! His associates, Sonn, Gusher and Jan Alvin are great, nice and reliable buddies too! These guys are now working with me on several projects that we hope to launch very soon.

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Bloggista sightings…

Lately Bloggista was sighted in Las Vegas and learned something about HPV while temporarily boarding an abode with Hanapbahay for a day. These are the sites where Bloggista entrecard is displayed today.

As compliments, Bloggista will provide a link back to all sites where the Bloggista entrecard is shown.

Thanks!

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