Year 2009 was such a fine year for me. I started the year doing several posts per week, then slowed down posting during the stormy months.
Nevertheless, I’ve listed down the most interesting and informative posts during the year – in case you’ve missed them.
January 2009
The year started with oDesk recognizing my efforts in creating a buzz for their freelance oDesk jobs to many Filipinos. One of my oDesk posts: Get paid by the hour in oDesk, was included as an article in their site.
I got two T-shirts from oDesk FREE and shipped to me via USPS: oDesk Recognized My Efforts
February 2009
In case you’ve missed these two useful tutorials on payment methods, then these should be helpful.
March 2009
Making money on Twitter was the hottest thing on my blog on this summer month.
Are you Twitterpated on Twitter’s Money Makers?
April 2009
I guest blogged on JaypeeOnline’s blog for a tutorial on how to move from Blogger to WordPress. Since I ended up doing a comprehensive tutorial, this became a two-post series:
May 2009
This was the time when I started doing hot keyword posts that attracted search engine visitors and got me a significant rise in Google Adsense earnings and other ad network. I’m quite surprised some people still ask what ethical hacking is. Connie Culp, the woman who got a face transplant, was interesting too.
June 2009
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanocon still gives me traffic and comments up to this day.
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I have not been updating my blogs for a while. That was not laziness: like many bloggers my excuse is just I was so busy. I had been hopping into one freelance work after another. In between that I try to manage a few hours finding new jobs for my team members who are doing freelance jobs part time while learning all I can about WordPress blogs.
That freelance experience those past few weeks was a race against time. That had really put my time management skills to test. I had to make the best use of my time. I had finally reached the point where I have a constant stream of clients both old and new ones. When my long term projects runs dry, new opportunities keep coming up. It’s a fact that full time freelancers don’t just work with one client – they have to very good masters of their time to be able to work and earn from different projects coming from different clients.
During that time I was semi-active in social networks, Plurk and Twitter. Since both networks allow only 140 characters, it was easy for me to get interactive without the need to write a full well-researched or well-thought out blog post.
For those very hectic days I just get down to do my freelance work. At the end of the day, I find myself mentally tired to compose a well-researched blog post on any of my blogs.
This next week is yet another busy week for me.
I will not say anymore that I am back to blogging, as other do. I am always here. If you don’t find me on blogs, you could always contact me through other social networks, or through my email. Some of you are even in my chat. If you don’t find my updates here, you can always interact with me in Plurk or Twitter.
If you had been an avid follower of this blog, I had been writing some sponsored reviews in this blog every now and then. I am not limited to a single paid review site though, but one of the places where I get my technology-related sponsored reviews is at SocialSpark – and they got plenty of them in different flavors: blog posts, sponsorship, affiliates and CPCs.
One of the new changes that I like in SocialSpark is their CPC campaigns. I noticed that each click pays more than what I normally earn in Google Adsense. In addition to that, I am not limited to displaying CPCs only in my blogs – I got both Facebook and Twitter, and SocialSpark provides the necessary links for me to display those ads in two Social Networks.
I’ve tried posting out technology-related CPC links right here in this blog, and in Twitter and Facebook too. So far, I’ve earned more from both this blog and Twitter, but not much on Facebook. I guess it is because I’m not too actively involved in Facebook (but I am not simply posting out sponsored links either). However the earnings I got from promoting tech-related products or services are not really that much – I still need to learn and figure out how to get the most out from CPC clicks.
If you are a blogger who loves to write about technology as well as earn money from blogs, then be sure to head out to SocialSpark – they already got plenty of technology-related opportunities up for grabs.
Since I had decided to embark on full-time freelance ventures, there is only one application that I use most often than any other installed in my computer – Firefox. I just realized that without this beloved browser, I would find it difficult to do freelance work. It is actually the tons of add-ons that are already written for the browser which made my work a lot easier to do.
I have around 25 plugins which I find indispensable in doing web design work and blogging. I don’t plan to discuss all these twenty-five plugins here but I would like to mention those that relate to my blogging work.
useful Firefox plugins for blogging
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Some of you may have noticed an unusual Entrecard widget displayed here in this tech and freelance blog and that of the single parent blog. That widget is called the Entrecard chicklet which looks a lot like those popular chicklets provided by Feedburner and TwitterCounter. Entrecard recently announced this new cool chicklet to Entrecard members. Some members have noticed Entrecard’s announcement, blogged and tried it.
This chicklet was developed by Maddy, the talented guy behind Great Registry Hacks. He was the one who helped me fix the task manager problem I had experienced a few posts ago.
Maddy asked me to try out this widget. I decided to install the chicklets on my two blogs. I am probably the first member to have these widgets even before Entrecard announced this one.
sample EC chicklet
The Entrecard chicklet can either show the popularity rating or the ad price. Once that the chicklet is installed, the chicklet is a clickable link that goes straight to the blog’s original or customized Entrecard profile.
Why Should You Install the Entrecard Chicklet
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