1. Like it on Facebook. What started to be just a small fun for college guys has now turned out to be the biggest thing in social media. Facebook offers a low-cost marketing strategy that any business owner and organization can fully-optimize. Fan pages and groups can be created for free. Now you can create a higher level of marketing strategies by reaching out to your market in a more personalized way.
2. Tweet it. Twitter, which was used to be popular only for celebrities, has also been a famous platform when it comes to effective marketing strategies. It offers an advanced feature where you can search for a specific word and see which users are mentioning it. This has become a helpful tip for business owners to see which people around the world are in search of a particular brand or service.
3. Blogging makes it exciting. Aside from being able to share your products and services online, readers can also get a feel of your company’s developments by updating your content. By blogging, you can also create an online visibility and at the same time use other tools such as back linking and blog exchanging links with other blog owners.

Obviously, social media can improve marketing strategies in more ways than one. There are still a lot more tips to learn and experiment on. What’s important is that you have now an idea as to how starting out should be. These basic social media optimization tips will somehow be the key for you to see if one of these platforms can be effective for you and your business.

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Tech At Hand has been in existence for more than 5 years and ever since, all blog post in this blog was written either by me or by my wife. I also consider blogging as a business and I am making money out of it. This is not my sole source of income but I could say that it also give a fair share of my monthly income. In fact, my blog earning is what I am using for paying the Lot that I bought at Antel Grand Village (site in progress) in Cavite, as I mentioned in my earlier post. I also love to do experiments and do something out of the box to try new idea and make it into action.

I am also busy doing offline job, which is the reason why updates on this blog is usually every other day or sometimes two times a week. But I can say that earning nowadays is better compared before. So to make a steady flow of traffic and engage more visitors, a constant fresh content is needed for a blog to survive in any updates of Google Algorithm. Content is still the King and Marketing is the queen.

I have come to an idea of investing to hire staff for this blog and for my other blogs. If I have staff to do the research for me, I can focus on handling the on site and offsite optimization. I also believe that a business person should try to know their strength and weaknesses. Those weaknesses shall be outsourced and the strength should be further enhanced.

I also believed that there is no successful business person that runs his business alone without any support from anyone. I will let you know how further updates and I hope it will be a successful experiment.

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So What Happen After AdSense Ban ?

I actually went to Hiatus (blogging jargon for not blogging at all) and loose my eagerness to blog. Imagine loosing thousand of dollars because of the ban. I think it last for about 2 to 3 months.

Time comes that my friends are asking why I am not blogging at all and no more tips can be seen in my blog.

I tried to blog again and gain the top 3 level of Technology Section of Pinoy Top Blogs. Lots of opportunity came in, I am receiving lots of email asking me if they can put their ads to my site, Ads that look like AdSense ( in other words it is called PPC – Pay Per Click), I have tried some, but those were not as successful as Marimedia and Smowtion in this blog.

I also tried to update my blog post and do grammar check in my blog post. I am not saying this blog is grammar error free, but it is less now. Thanks to proofreading plug-ins it really help a lot. Btw I have 1500+ post.

Chitika and Infolinks have also shown improvements when AdSense disappear from this blog. Both of them is giving a steady monthly income. Just a tip for infolinks, it is not necessary to maximize the links shown in your post. Less link is better. Make sure that links only shows at the post.

It was also a blessing that this blog was not affected by Google Panda Algorithm update, I think this is due to the on-page optimization that I am applying before Panda update. I am not only focused in link building in making my blog rank. I make sure that there are no errors in this blog by checking the Google Webmaster Tools.

I tried to do affiliate marketing but I think I need to learn more. It is not as easy as it seems to be.

Did I Manage to get a New AdSense Account ?

I also have manage to get a new AdSense account and applied it to new blogs that I made. The AdSense earnings is not as high as before when AdSense is present in Tech At Hand, But enough to get a monthly payment through Western Union.

So How is my Blogging Income Nowadays ?

To those who are asking the figures, I could say that I am still earning 4 figures in dollars per month and sometimes a bit less than 4 figure , AdSense contributing a small part of the income. My earning is enough also to pay my monthly amortization for the Premium Lot land that I am paying in Cavite. Soon I could say that this land is given by God through earnings made by blogging. I am referring to Antel Grand Village (Blog in Progress).

Lesson Learn

Banner ads is not dead, It can still give you a decent earnings. But of course with a god amount of traffic into a particular place. Google Analytics can really give an understanding on how to track website visitors. Ofw can earn extra money from blogging.

I hope this blog post gives you an idea that make money online after AdSense Ban is possible.

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Questions,When Making Blog Post.

1. Will this blog post interest my 4500+ feeds subscribers ?
2. Does my title is includes keyword that could be found by the Search Engine Searchers ?
3. Is it the usual terms that the people is typing in search engines ?
4. Did I mentioned my targeted keywords in my blogs ?
5. Will I not be ashamed in promoting this blog post over my social media friends ?

And here are the things I am doing if my answer is “NO” to the above mentioned questions,

1. if my answers is no, and I still want to post about it, I will usually make the post to appear on my sidebar and not sending it across my subscribers. So in short, I am making the post for bots and search engine for keywords hijacking. Check my blog post when I say that there is now no hidden post in this blog
2. If my answer is no , and I still want to post the topic, I will just change the title using ALL in One WordPress Plugin
3. Same method for number is being implemented.
4. I just make sure that I have enough keywords in my blog post that will not bother my readers.
5. I normally do not post about it, as an example if there are some news in the net in which it does not go with my belief, then I will just pass the opportunity on writing about it.

More Tips When Making Blog Post :

1. If I I had a hard time getting information in the net. I will blog about the result of my research, chances are there are no bloggers post about it and there are no competition on this particular keywords.Normally those kind of keywords are being searched by internet users who clicks the ads.
2. Long post is not always best for readers. Most of the time they just look at the post title, then scan the post,  and then go to the comments section without reading the full article. So why aim for a long post? I believe having 200 to 300 words is enough for a normal post.
3. Don’t forget to add pictures/images in your post, it does not only good for your readers but also good for search engine optimization, provided that a proper picture tag is made.
4. Check our post about Basic Information about Search Engine Optimization

Remember an optimize post might lead to more visitors and eventually more income to your blogs.

So How do you make your blog post ? Care to share for the benefit of new bloggers.

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Bloggers Common Query/Question.

Would be Blogger 1 : Wow I have heard that you earn from blogging, Could help me make money online ?

Would be Blogger 2 : Wow, I have been informed that Blogging could give me more income, Can you help me understand blogging and make money online ?

Would be Blogger 3 : I like to write, I like to share ideas with others, I like to network and start building my online presence, could you help me how to do SEO and be seen in Google searches ?

From the three would be blogger questions above, whom do you think will succeed and make money online in the future?

On my opinion the would be blogger # 3, will succeed and be a good Pro Blogger and Internet Marketer in the future. Having “make money online” concept for new bloggers will definitely lead to frustration specially if new blogger would always check their online earning, only to find out that it is not increasing. Would be blogger # 1 , and # 2, became interested in blogging because of the amount that a blogger could earn. Please be informed that those bloggers that earns 4 digits of US$ monthly started from nothing. They just open network with other bloggers and online  marketers. They start building reputation until they meet that success, but of course those Guru also know how to make SEO (Search Engine Optimization) in a proper way.

Would you believe that when I start blogging I don’t know that I could really earn from it. Check my AdSense Story, I first earn online through Google AdSense, but now I am earning from other sources also. I always treat my blog post as an investment because I know that someday, those blog  post could become my source of income. A TV interview at GMA 7 ( August 2007 )  open the ideas that bloggers have the potential of  earning. I may not reach $6,000 per month, but I love what I am doing. I earn friends and citations from different bloggers, which I believe is one of a great achievement of a blogger. Seeing new bloggers start earning and loving what they are doing is an achievement for me.

Your online network will definitely be the one who could teach some tips and techniques to earn more from online.

Start Blogging in a right direction, sleep well, so that fresh ideas could pop up in your mind. So any ideas that you might want to share with new bloggers that could find this post .

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I know that there are bloggers that checks there online earning every hour. Believe me, I am one of them when I started blogging. But it does not help it ends up loosing the time to do a more profitable task in online marketing.

If a blogger uses AdSense as source of income, AdSense could be set up to send report everyday at your preferred time. But believe me, if an online marketer will stop looking and being obsessed on his stats or earnings every hour, more earnings could be received at the end of the day.

More time to comment to other blog as part of blog or site promotion or even more time to make a quality post.

This is just my experience, I don’t know you, you might want to share your experience when you start having an online earnings. But believe me on that time I am thrilled to see every cents that adds up on my earning every time I check my earnings, but it gives frustration when it is not adding up. So why have the frustration all day ? It is also one of the reason why some bloggers burned out and stop blogging. It is simply because they blog for money.

Blogging and Making Money Online needs to be fun and enjoyable and not frustrating. Any ideas ?

Well Thanks Allen for the reminder. However I have made other solutions that might help you regarding this matter, I have not followed Allen’s suggestion regarding submitting the page in Google Webmaster for removing the whole cached google translated page.

The solution I have implemented is a 301 redirect for all folders of the translated page into it’s original post, I have added the following codes in my .htaccess files

redirectMatch 301 ^/folder name/(.+)$ http://techathand.net/$1

Example :

redirectMatch 301 ^/ar/(.+)$ http://techathand.net/$1

“ar” is the arabic folder that the cached page is using, The code above shows that if somebody tried to arrived at my site thru the translated cached page by Google they will be redirected to the original post.

It is about more than 6 mos ago when I tried to block some translated page like Tagalog translation thru robots.txt and after checking it today I cannot see any tagalog translated page in SERP, that only means that if we stop Google from crawling the page thru robots.txt in due time google will remove the page in the SERP. But while it is not being removed I will try to redirect the visitors in the English Page ( original ) to avoid any possible problem with Google or Google AdSense for using their translated page more than 15 days.

On the other side of the story when I read Marhgil Post about the Loading Time of my Homepage thru the recent announcement of Google, I have been reminded to check my site thru Pingdom just to find out that it loads at 19.09 seconds.

Which might be a reason of having high bounce rate of my blog. Did you see how it drops by removing the Global Translation Plug-in because I have implemented it wrong.

So I hope this experience might help you in a way in Search Engine Optimization. But sorry to inform that this is only applicable for WordPress Users

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But did you know that interviewing some one in the net is one good strategy of SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) , by interviewing someone you open your site to other people. Because normally those bloggers that is being interviewed is making shout out about his interview in his social media site, or blog ( This is what I am doing now )

So if you are one of those bloggista’s reader who are in search of seo tips, you can just go to my Blogging Tips and SEO Tips which are located in the links provided. By the way I cannot consider myself as an expert but I do love to experiment and learn from it’s result.

There are lots of better SEO Master out there , my tip.. Contact them and be their Friend.

I would like to begin it with an inspiring blog post made by James at Pinoy Money Talk, James was able to purchase his new House from Blogging , I have not yet bought a house from Blogging but blogging bought Digital SLR ( Canon EOS 400d ) and Lens. If you are running out of ideas on how to make money online you better consult Fitz, since he just a made a speaking engagement regarding the different types of internet businesses. Bloggista also teaches us some Reliable backup plugin for wordpress blogs, since making back up in WordPress is really important, but for my part I do it manually via Mysql. Sylv3rblade teaches us on how to protect your pc from usb viruses with usb firewall, I have been using this program for a while but I forget to blog about it. It really works fine. Rhodilee just recognize that studying Google Analytics is an important part of our blogging activities.

You may want to check the latest tips from Google itself on how to light up your blog. It’s a great blogging tip and you better read it if you want your site to be found by Google.

Did you know who should brew the coffee, The wife or the husband ? You better check my wife post about Who makes the coffee , you will be surprised to know the answer

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So what about you any vote ?