My first blog : Make money online

I was thinking about creating a website to help students with university selection, documents, student visa details, and much more after they arrive in U.S. So, I launched top120.com and I started collecting information about different universities from current students. But, then I started looking to for job and I had to spend lot of time preparing for new job interview. Then finally I decided to create a blog instead of website.

I used to read lots of Personal Finance Blogs and that lead me to learn about potential benefits of having a blog instead of a website. Then I was deciding, if I have to host it on self domain or use free blog hosting services like Blogger from Google.

Why Blogger?

I was new to blogging and not sure about the process involved in creating and maintaining the blog. but, I was sure, Blogger will make my life easy and hosted Happy Schools in Blogger ( happyschools.blogspot.com) and since I have from Computer Science background, things started to get real interesting, when I started to question how everything was done.

From Square One to Two:

I started writing articles and it was end of July and I want some information available before actually I can start marketing. So, I wrote some 10 articles in 2 days and passed the words about my new blog to my friends and posted few messages in Orkut. I was using one of the default theme that came with Blogger, then I started to think, how to customize the layout, how will the blog look to someone viewing from 800×600 screen resolution and slowly, I started learning few things about the Blogging world. Trust me guys, its interesting, lots of money to be made.

Make Money Online with blog:

I was spending lot of time writing articles, so I thought why not try to make some money. It will be mutually beneficial by displaying some ads to to generate some income. I started reading about different options that were available to make money online from blog. I was quick to learn about Google Adsense.

They serve ads that are relevant to the page contents. If I write about universities, then installing Adsense script in blog will display ads related to universities. So, making money online from the blog is made easy with the help of Google Adsense. There are other ways to make money online. I will talk about that in future posts. So, when readers click on the ad’s, then publisher gets paid. So, I signed up for Google Adsense and now I’m happy with that. I cannot reveal Google Adsense income as per TOS. But, I’m sure its rewarding to the effort I put in.

Improvements to the Blog:

After adding Google Adsense to blog template, I started reading lots of books related to blog marketing, making money online with blogs and how to effectively write contents. Then, I decided to use fluid 3 column layout and updated the layout. It was pretty bland for first week after new theme was updated. Had to tweak lots of small thing to make it look appealing.

I’m going to write about my blogging experience along with the information for students job search, university selection,… I’m thinking of writing 3 articles per week. One article for Current Students about job and internship search, one about my blogging experience and one for future students. and again, if I come across any interesting article I will pass it along.