Money From Blogging

Internet has many resources, appealing websites, games sites, and finally many interesting social networks. In a single sentence, internet can be a great place to “kill” your time! And one may kill himself by killing his “lifetime”, but internet may not get exhausted of contents, resources.

But then, a blogger has finite time, specific tasks to complete within a time frame. A blogger has to write “pillar” posts at least once a week, research what competitor or related bloggers doing. And finally, they have actual office to attend daily, not to mention time for family and friends ( even though, all may be online in a social network site like facebook).

So, it is a good idea to list how not to “waste” precious online time in unproductive activities. I have listed few which I try to avoid doing while online:-

1. Check AdSense Earning hourly

I avoid checking adSense earning hourly and has decided to check only once in two days. I believe that I must keep watching AdSense earning regularly so as to plan my SEO related activities. But, I have started avoiding checking AdSense earning frequently as I have realised that checking it hourly does not increase the earning!

2. Do not check Alexa Ranking

I have decided that, I will not check Alexa ranking. Instead of Alexa Ranking, I would check Google Analytics for new keywords using which some visitors have landed on my blog! Checking Alexa Ranking again and again is surely waste of online time!

3. No more hitting on MORE button in Twitter

Ok, I follow many people in Twitter and my home page is always flooded with updates! But, I will not hit the button MORE to check if I have missed any important updates from important people! I am sure, I will those important “tweets” “retweeted” to be able to read them when I am online! If they are not retweeted enough, well I will pass them as not so important!

4. Will not read all status messages in Facebook

I will not read all status messages in facebook home page! Friends may put out impressive and interesting messages, but I will not be tempted to “like” them or comment them! I would rather search for articles in facebook related to my keywords. I would rather search FAN pages then reading status messages.

5. Never check SPAM folder

I will not check my Gmail Spam folder. I will trust Google to be accurate in detecting SPAMs. Will only check when I am subscribing to some news letter, blog feed and at that time only. Else I will never check SPAM folder.

With these 5 resolutions, I have saved lot of time from wasting in un-productive online time! How do you avoid un-productive online time ?