If Only I Had It

Many people have asked me how much do you make from blogging or do you make money blogging at all. The only thing I can tell them is go have a look at my blogs. Most of my blogs are only updated once a week. When I first started I blogged about 3 times a day. Now it is merely once a week and sometimes even once in two weeks.

The first time I started blogging I thought of it not only as a past time but also a way of making money. I thought that if I could make USD 20 a day per blog and I had 10 blogs it would make me USD 200 a day. Well I started of with 10 blogs being the greedy person I am.

Now 1 year don the road and I am only maintaining 6 blogs. I did not even start on the other 4. I made back my money on my first month blogging. Mind you I purchased 10 domains and I purchased 2 different hosting services. I made about USD 400 on my first month.

I was quite happy with this results. On my second month my page rank increased to PR 3 and above. And I made USD 600 from my second month onwards. I lost my pageranks on my fourth month. No idea why this happened although my viewership increased and I had more backlinks than ever.

I still made about USD 250 a month thereafter . Calculating on a yearly basis I made about USD 5,000 a year doing something I like whenever I feel like doing it. This is not bad for a starter I think. Most people tell m they make much more compared to what I make. But I tell them that I only spend one tenth of the time on all my blogs compared to them on one.

The easiest way of making money blogging is by Buy Reviews . Which is a website that I found out from my cousin Leslie. You can atually find his daughter’s blog on Charmaine Ho . I just noticed that even he did not update the blog since last year December. 

Well I would say the best way of making money blogging could be done in so many ways.  I personally only use 3 of them. If you would like to know more write me some replies.

Well life has been difficult for the past 2 months as I have recently got a new job that is taking about 80% of my time during and after working hours. So I guess you can understand when and why I have not written on this blog for quite a while now.

Although the fundings are still coming in but it is not an amount to be proud of. During the last three days it has been a holiday in Malaysia. Two days were the weekend and the last day was a public holiday. I had nothing much to do but to prepare a tender which took all three days of this holiday. What a holiday huh.

The only thing I can do right now is imagine going on a holiday or even taking a rest. Tomorrow work starts and in the morning the first thing I have got to do is to go for an annual IT gathering which will be held in the Mines Resort. The Mines is a so called six stars Hotel and Resort in KL. I had my wedding reception there. Although it is beautiful I would say it is not a place to go to have a real relaxation.

The last time I had a holiday was to Turkey and that was a real holiday. Europe has always been a dream come true. Switzerland was also fun but nothing can be compared to Bangkok or Phuket. The night life in those towns are amazing. The food and the people are such wonder it brings you to ponder upon the fact that why am I still in Malaysia.

I would be going to Melbourne in August for a holiday. But so far the planning has not been well as I did not expect that the cost of accommodation would break my budget. The flights were purchased cheap through Air Asia and the Hotel stay through Interval International but the extra’s that they have charged me really broke the bank. So much so I am thinking of canceling this entire trip.

The next time I want to have a holiday I would surely make sure it is totally done by a tour agency as I believe they are not only cheaper but they are more enjoyable.