As I was browsing channels on our TV yesterday, my attention was caught when GMA 7’s Mel & Joey talk show featured a topic about how blogging would be an alternative way of earning income.
I was anxious to know who will they interview about the topic. First I thought it would be Marc Macalua of SEO Philippines coz he really should be famous about all this online revenue generation thing since he’s the founder. I also thought GMA 7 would have a word with Google Philippines representative, Aileen Apolo, to give insights about the matter. And to my suprise, it was Abe Olandres talking about the topic.
He enlightened people on how they actually could earn online thru blogging, I was pretty excited if he would spill the beans of how he actually earns online, but he was pretty safe on discussing the matter. He talked about how getting traffic would help a person earn online, about being a publisher of advertisements and they showed a couple of images showing affiliate programs like Text-Link-Ads and others, but I think they didn’t show any Google adsense footages there. I’m not sure. Abe blog about this here. He also have welcome notes from Mel & Joey here.
J. Angelo Racoma was interviewed too, he talked about how he learned about “problogging” as a corporate blogger and on how a blog could earn $1000-5000/month.
It’s really great knowing fellow filipinos do excel in the latest trend in I.T. today. It gives me that pride that Filipinos would always be competitive in any field. Mabuhay kayo mga pinoy bloggers! \m/^_^
And they say that kids site was not a good niche…Well, three fathers from British Columbia proved them wrong. These daddies got $350 million from Disney plus another $350 million if the site hits performace targets the next 2 years.
I found out about this from a post by martinibuster of webmasterworld when I was browsing the forum. Disney acquired a subscription Web site aimed at preteenagers, Club Penguin, in a deal that could total $700 million.
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From New York Times:
“More than 700,000 users now pay $5.95 a month to customize penguin characters and then chat and play games with other “penguins.
And Disney has agreed to pay the founders, three fathers based in Kelowna, British Columbia, up to $350 million more by the end of 2009 if the site meets growth targets. “They could earn all of it or none of it,” said Thomas O. Staggs, Disney’s chief financial officer. “The growth they have to achieve is attractive enough that we would be pleased to pay.”
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But another thing to be amazed of is what martinibuster mentioned on his post, that the site doesn’t seem to be promoted using keywords. I personally checked the code for the website and it doesn’t have any meta tags at all. No on-page optimization alright. Just a website. They seem to promote it by word of mouth and to their demographic. Good old marketing.
I wonder if that works if I actually try that here in my country…
I’m sure this has been all over the news.. A cat is reportedly able to sense when a patient is going to die at a home in Providence, Rhode Island.
When I was a child, I do believe that animals like dogs and cats has some supernatural power that is hard to understand. I do recall my mom telling me a story about her pet before. When my mom was still on her teens, she has this pet dog. She was so closed to it that there was never a day that she wouldn’t be cuddling and playing with her pet. Until one day, my mom got very sick and was confined to a hospital, her pet dog actually seem to be very uneasy that time regarding to my mom’s sister. My mom was confined to the hospital for almost a week, but the shocking part was when my mom got out of the hospital, she couldn’t believe that her pet dog died. Base on what my mom’s sister story, the dog was howling almost every night as if calling to her, the dog wouldn’t eat and was getting weak because of her abscence. My mom of course cried because of what happen, but she believed that her pet dog save her, that she actually took the place of death for her.
I know people and animals have this bond similar to human relationships that can eventually be worth dying for. But this cat here is different. You sure wouldn’t like to have a pet like this. Is this a cat of death or an angel? This sure is one feline who is not letting the cat out of the bag.
