I LOL at my post title. Obviously, I greeted myself. Hehehe. As I told you on my previous post about my blogging mistake, my Happy Anniversary article deserves to be discussed on a separate blog post. And here it is! I spent two consecutive days writing this one. Hehehe. (2 consecutive days but not 48 hours. Huh?!)
Honestly, I really don’t know how to start. I don’t know what I should say at this time. My mind is full of ideas that are certainly unreliable. I want to tell something but I cant tell it. Yay! Where should I begin? Will you still be interested to read this post if I am going to tell about my blogging experience during the past 12 months? Well, I hope so because that’s what I’m decided to do now.
Since I don’t have cash yet to sponsor a contest here on Rickspot, letting you know what happened to me on my first year in blogging is what I am going to do. (OK, stop beating around the bush!) And now, here is my blogging story.
Narrator: 1000 minus 999 years ago, in a very far away land of Batangas, there is a college student who is taking up BS Information Technology. He loves writing but unfortunately, writing hates him. (Eek!) Although he really doesn’t deserve to be, he became an editor-in-chief of their High School Filipino Newspaper.
As a part of being college, they need to work on their thesis. Their thesis is about mobile games. They need to create a game that can be played on cell phones, PSP, Nintendo DS, or any other mobile platform. On Jerick Mac’s case, they chose the cell phone. In short, they need to create a game for cell phone. The next part is to search for a tutorial site that will teach them how to start building it.
In their search, they stumbled on this site. It is owned by a programmer named Glen who is residing also here in Batangas. If you will notice, that is a blogspot blog. And that’s how it started.
So instead of putting his focus in their thesis, his 40% attention was directed to blogging. He registered his first ever blog on Blogger with the URL http://www.echovolution.blogspot.com. After several days, for an unknown reason, he deleted that blog. Several hours later, he tried to register that domain again but unfortunately, there is an error and it seems that using a different domain is the only solution. He registered a blog again but this time, he added the letter “z” on his previous domain name. Using the URL echovolutionz.blogspot.com, his first real blog is entitled “Echovolution’s Portfolio”.
During his first week, he was just posting anything until something entered his mind, he opened his Yahoo! Mail account, browsed the inbox and downloaded all forwarded messages. After compiling all interesting mails, he opened his blog, started posting and uploading all of them. He always talked about his blog to his classmates, inviting them to visit it. He even set his blog as the homepage of all browsers of all computers in his school! LOL! So cruel!
After several weeks again, with the purpose of writing about Batangas, he created “Batangas Online” at batangasonline.blogspot.com. Again, on the first month, he enjoyed writing news and opinions about the different sides of Batangas. He even takes pictures of innocently sleeping student.
Writing about Batangas lasted for only a month, I guess. You know, he doesn’t have ideas anymore! Hehehe. Yes, he stopped writing about it. Instead, he turned Batangas Online into a Google Trends blog.
Google Trends blog? What is that?
For him, it is a blog that is composed of topics that are commonly seen on the recent searches of Google Trends. Every recent topic that Americans searches for is a new article for him. Yay! Well, that is how he understands SEO. Ouch!
Later, he understood the importance of having a domain name. He wanted to buy his own domain name but the problem is that he doesn’t own a credit card. His mother stopped using her credit card anymore. He thought that having his own credit card would be the best actions so he went to a bank here in Batangas and apply for it. But due to several reasons, he didn’t make it. Haaaay.
There is another solution. It is to borrow someone’s credit card. Yup, he borrowed his auntie’s card, went to Godaddy.com and purchase his very first domain name – Rickspot.com. It is on his 9th month of blogging, he started to focus here as his new blogging home. Yahoo!
Rickspot is now doing those purposes that Jerick Mac has started. Echovolution’s portfolio + something about Batangas + “google trends blog :D” = Rickspot.com! And there’s more! Here on Rickspot, he started a serious Make Money Online campaign. (Ehem, serious???)
Although Jerick Mac doesn’t receive his first Google Adsense earning yet, he is confident that he will receive it soon. (At this time, it is already $96! Yey!) During those past 12 months, he really learned a lot. He realized a lot. He posted a lot. Hoped to earn a lot. To buy a house and lot. LOL!
And that was Jerick Mac’s blogging story. It’s me your narrator, signing off….
What?! Actually, words are not enough to explain and tell what happened to me during those times. I entered the blogosphere as a stranger. But now, check my blog roll and you will find some blogging friends I met in this world.
I really don’t know what to say so I will just send some thanks to those kind bloggers who:
1. shared some blogging tips to me.
2. taught me a lot of SEO.
3. added Rickspot on their list on Influential Blogger. (I’m not expecting but I received 2 votes, so far.)
4. subscribed on my blog.
5. always place their comments on my posts and;
6. criticized my blog! (for good, of course!)
You know who you are. :D
Once again, Happy Blogging Anniversary to the blogger behind Rickspot.com, Jerick Mac. Obviously, I greeted myself again.
Happy Blogging Anniversary Jerick Mac!
7/30/2009
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