June 11, 2007 1 Comment

On the Front Page!

Today i made it to the front page of the “The New Indian Express” and thanks a lot to Ranjitha Gunasekaran for the amazing article. The story was on how Chennai college students make money out of blogging and how i made 500 USD from my blog in the past 30 days. Here is a snap shot of the front page from the e-paper and you can take a look at the online version in the New Indian Express Website

[Click to enlarge and select LARGE in the flickr page]

How do I make money???
Most of the money which i made from this blog is by writing sponsored content from PAYPERPOST(i.e) if an advertiser wants to create buzz about his product/software/website he requests for reviews from bloggers.What he gains is traffic and back links which gives him a good search engine optimization and in turn bloggers like me get paid for providing the content.

Can I also do it?
Yes, of course. If you have a blog and if it satisfies the conditions prescribed by the advertiser you can join the race. But beware if you write too much your blog will get spammed(Like mine;) and you may lose your regular readers.

What is the solution?
There are a lot of services from which you can get offers. Subscribe to all those and select the opportunity which will best suit the content on your blog. For instance you can very write a review about an Anti spyware software if you have a tech blog and it will definitely do some value addition. On the other hand it will be very lame to write about a credit card or a drug rehab service. Selecting the opportunity is the key.

Some of the Get Paid for blogging services
-PayPerPost
-Sponsored Reviews
-Blogitive
-Smorty
-Blogsvertise

Payments are generally made via paypal on a weekly or bi weekly or a monthly basis. It is also not viable to create a new blog for sponsored content. In my case i have shifted my personal blog to another platform which is the best i can do!

Any proof that you make money?
Here is one!!! Dont ask me put my paypal account screen shot!