How did it all get started for me ?

I started blogging way back in June-07 when one of my friend told me that he earns like $100 every month through his blogspot hosted personal blog. I was wondering how someone could earn out of writing in his blog as i thought blog all about personal stuff or sharing what happened in somebody’s day to day life. I took some time to learn what it was all about and how he is making money. I was really impressed the way he made earning $100 per month ( Rs. 4800 ) so simple. It is not a big money but still doesnt hurt to earn $100 when I was still in college where no pocket money was enough.

Coming back home, i signed up for blogger and wrote some crappy 5 posts. After 30 minutes, i signed up for payperpost and socialspark. I thought i would make some $5 before i go to bed. But i was aware of these techy words – PageRank, in-bound links, Alexa ranking, out-bound links, link building… I was declined saying my site is not indexed by Google. Now what is that ? Well, just like finding something that you don’t know, i put those terms inside quotes and googled it to understand what it was all about. Two weeks later, I got accepted to socialspark and soon got offers for paid blog posting. I made $20 and later made around $200 with payperpost within a month. How ? I got PR-3 in Google’s update.

I was able to hand on there for quite sometime ( more than 6 months ) while several updates passed by. Though i was aware that Google will slap you for paid posting, I was least bothered about PR drop. I escalated from $250 per month to over $400 until i came back to PR-0. I was bored of writing 200 word reviews of websites and products that I don’t even know. After paid posting, I looked at a lot of other streams for online income like Ciao, Clickbank etc but did not see success as much as I did with PPP. Later, I came across two wonderful places called Digital point forums and 99designs. I started working on logos and graphics for those $30 contests in DP. I even won some of them which pulled some more interest towards designing. Later tried 99designs where world class designers compete for big money that is anywhere from $300 to $2000 for just designing a logo or website layout.

I still continue to enjoy discovering several ways of making money online and been successful so far. While i will continue to be a freelance designer, I’ve been working towards affiliate marketing and content writing of late.

Rest of it later !