by nakitakona » 26 Nov 2016, 07:51 I have been in blogging activities for more than 5 years now for I started in February 2011. I created two blogs to accommodate my reader-followers of my "Vibrations", my weekly column in our local newspaper.
The first is RandomThoughts, a lifestyle, mixed blog and the second is Tumandok, a blog on local dialect which deals on the cultural and arts of our country. I wanted to have an online version of a Hiligaynon Magazine which is written in the said dialect, "Hiligaynon".
I kept on writing and writing. I didn't know how to promote them. Those blogs received a limited readers. Still, I never gave up. I did continue writing, updating the posts to both blogs. In my 8-month of existing, I noticed the organic traffic showed an improvement. The page views seemed to go viral. I wondered why.
Accidentally, I stumbled to an online blog contest on various categories like travel, foods, lifestyle, sports, culture and arts, among others. The deadline was a matter of days. I read the requirements, the rules, and everything and I found out that my two blogs were qualified. I submitted them a day before the deadline.
I was too excited to know the result upon receiving a logo from the said Awarding Body that my blog sites were among those that were nominated. I posted the said logo to my blog sites. The awarding was set and for the local nominees had to attend the local venue. Since I was one of those, I attended the awarding rites.
The Awards
RandomThoughts and Tumandok were awarded in a row, the Best Lifestyle Blog and the Best Culture and Arts Blog in our region. I received the awards and was asked to say something on how I made it.
I simply said at the rostrum that my secret is there is "earning in learning". I never said that my new blogs do earn money for they were still in their infant stage. What I mean for "earning" is the knowledge I gained from being consistent in writing quality blogs, from following what my fellow bloggers are doing especially in promoting the blogs in social media, from maintaining a clean site (this is what I learned later for a clean site means a virus-free, or non-dangerous blog).
Those who were among the nominees on the said category I participated in were already professionals and expert to their fields. I was just a newcomer, a newbie as they call it but I have made it.
I conclude therefore that a site or blog may "earn" a good traffic with a quality posts, with a grammar-free error, with working link, with appropriate images, among others.
I know anybody could make it if they want to. And because of that recognition, my blogs do earn a penny from a sponsored review, from a text-ads, and from writing a topic or trending news and topics.
I may add it takes patience, not a hard work. It takes consistency not as "time goes on". It takes diligence not intelligence to go research and it takes credit to the owner of the images or works being cited not assuming as your own. In short, it is plagiarism-free.
