Coffin Conversations
After writing that post about not making money from blogging, I googled for ways to actually make money from blogging. That’s how I found out about Orble. It’s a blogging community with LOTS of ads. An Orble member can have several blogs but I only needed one. Everytime a member makes a post to his blog, other members can vote to show that they liked the post. I guess that makes the blog popular or something. I don’t really know. The Orble management keeps track of the traffic all blogs receive. If a particular blog has good potential and the content is good, they offer the member his own domain name for the blog. This ordinarily takes 2 to 3 weeks after the first post.
I started with Coffin Talk where I just posted about things which I find interesting (guro, Japanese wackiness, etc.). My first post was December 4 and I tried to post everyday. I just kept on posting and I even reposted my article on how not to make money from blogging and that drew a lot of attention from the community. I received a lot of votes and some comments. I guess that’s the turning point of my orble blog. Since then, I received regular readers. They don’t comment but it doesn’t matter. They still voted. And the blog’s traffic attracted the attention of the Orble team. One week after I started posting, I was notified by the management that they want to buy a domain for my blog. Yay me! I’m a rising star. LOL. Since coffintalk.com is already taken, she suggested that I use coffinconversations.com instead. I agreed and there’s nothing to lose anyway. If my readers click on the ads in my blog, I get half of the profit and the other half goes to Orble. I guess that’s fine. So if you want to check out my other blog, please try to click on an ad. Hehehe. Money is nice. I’m still transferring the coffin talk posts to the new blog. Hopefully I will finish soon so I can make fresh entries.
December 23rd, 2006 at 6:58 pm
You path to billionaire-dom is now open….
December 24th, 2006 at 10:54 am
You should had registered “coffinated.com” :P.
What kind of ads they put on your blog? Adsense? Yahoo Ads? That Orble company is pretty clever for making people write them contents for free and earn $$$ too.
December 25th, 2006 at 5:10 am
Grace,
Awww. I never thought of that. Oh well. Pwede na yung coffin conversations
Hmmm di ko naisip yun about Orble ha. I was too blinded by my own money-making potential. They have adsense ads.
December 26th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
Well I guess it’s a win-win situation really. Chances are that most people who write blogs with Orble would have had blogs elsewhere anyway, and just want to either save the expense of registering their own domain of their own back (if they want their own site) or a few dollars to buy the odd DVD/vid game/smoke/weed/crack/chocolate/prostitute/insert addiction here. I think i’s a good idea for those who do want a few extra dollars. For me though I prefer my site without ads hence my “Free” rather than “Plus” A/C with LJ. Id ont thinka nyoen is rally being “taken for a ride” as such.
Me no like clutter on my sites
December 27th, 2006 at 12:56 am
I used to say the same. I hated ads that’s why I got my own domain. but i have to support my vices :P
December 27th, 2006 at 3:55 am
merry xmas! :)