Path of The Problogger – Adsense

Observing the current wave of emerging professional bloggers (probloggers) has left me nothing but envious and inspired me to write a series that isn’t at all new. However, I hope to use this series as my little notes put aside on things that I’ve learnt through my own learnings and observations of these probloggers.

To kick start the series, I’d like to make the first note about revenue gaining through Google Adsense. I’m aware that everyone already knows about this Pay-Per-Click (PPC) program that I don’t have to explain. However, if you’re new and very interested to learn more about Google’s program, please take the Google Adsense Tour.

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PPS DESIGN LEAKED

OH MY GOD! THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE! *wails*

Just when I was starting to design the new homepage template for Project Petaling Street (PPS), I found out on Google that someone already has released a new template for PPS. ARGH! This is not happening to me.

*breathes heavily* Okie, I’ll not lose my cool and fight for what should have been mine!

I will continue to design my template and outshine that other person. You’re gonna pay, you damn criminal!

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PPS Blogger Bash

There’s something about to happen tonight on Project Petaling Street at around 10PM.

What? You never heard of it? It was going all around since this afternoon. Oh well, better late than never as I’d tell some people. Anyway, there’s going to be a big party over here later at 10PM. Yup. I’m going to throw a huge blogger bash right here on my blog. There’ll also be a big prize waiting for everyone.

Of course I ain’t telling you what’s the big prize or the occasion of the bash but I didn’t say I wouldn’t show you. Here’s a teaser though..

Charging the Right Price

Back when I was in college, Drew introduced me to his uncle who needed someone to help prepare template designs. These template designs were to help propose a project to the Danga Bay developers. And believe me, when I think about it (I don’t have a copy anymore) I’m laughing at myself thinking how terrible a website designer I was at the time.

During that time, there wasn’t such an existence as web standards or it was just being introduced by Jeffrey Zeldman. That was also when his book was released, Designing with Web Standards. At that time in college, being nothing but a student who just wanted to graduate and enjoy life, website designing was nothing but a hobby with an occasional side income.

Being a fresh designer who hasn’t turned his passion into a career yet, I was confused and lost on how much should I charge Drew’s uncle. Hence, the uncle instead offered me RM100 per template and I needed to prepare 3 different ones. If he offered me that now, I’d say, “That’s LUDICROUS!”

So how do you find the right price for your design work?

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Malaysian Blogger Repents

This is the follow up to the article, MALAYSIAN PIRATED BLOGGER which saw a new Malaysian blogger who launched the blog BloggerTips gaining early popularity for the wrong reasons. The wrong reason was looked at very severely when you’re taking an exam, in college, in university and now, on the Internet.

This new blogger in the local blogosphere recently announced that his mistake came from his ignorance of using live blog posts from other sources just to test his new blog. As much as I’d like to believe its truth and not hammer my own countryman, I find it very weird that a blogger or a person could just go ahead and utilize the tons of online content and not have a clue that credit should be given to the original authors.

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