In this information age, blogging became one powerful tool to a netizens. Aside from all authenticated news websites, we often gathered the latest news from a blogger that writes everything under the sun. We could easily express our expressions about these things nowadays.
You, even you who just surfing in the world wide web, you who just go to this page without thinking it, you who had no formal education in communication, can a blogger.
I remember when I and my classmates came to Paragon building at Mandaluyong City last March 2, 2012, to greet and meet the man behind WhenInManila.com, a successful blog page of Vince Golangco.
(Thanks to Stephanie Bas for her solemn effort to make this interview possible!)
Vince graduated in San Diego State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and currently holding a morning show as radio DJ at Mellow 94.7. He also the one who organized the Blogapalooza which is a business to blogger networking event.
He started his blogging career with his desire to tell story of the things he experienced. As he came home here in the Philippines, he wanted to show his friends in San Diego what Philippines looks like and what should be done in here. He came up with many blogs; however, he took WhenInManila as his priority. And, as we all know, WhenInManila became a huge hit to both netizens and businessmen.
How thing BLOG thing works.
As a successful blogger, he came up with some cool privileges; He gladly told us some of those events he recently experienced because of this career. Just a couple of days before our set interview, he was invited in Malacanang Palace for an exclusive screening of “Inside Malacanang”, a National Geographic documentaty. Because of this, he managed to shake the hand of the President and took some photos with him!
He also added his holiday experienced, he was assigned to make a article about how it is to have a party with the sexy and beautiful Solenn Heusaff. Of course, with pay! “Magpa-party ka na nga with Solenn, babayaran ka pa.”
He also shared with us how blogging can be a source of income.
You will be paid one peso per follower when you just tweet whatever the advertisers made you endorse on twitter. (It depends on the terms you and the advertisers talked about.)
For his income, 10,000-25,000 for A BLOG post alone since many people view his blog. Vince charges $50 a week for a 125x125 ad space spot.
Vince also shared a lot of things to earn money such as Google Adsence, InfoLinks, Nuffnang, etc. Nuffnang, as his favorite, has the pay-per-view function whenever someone goes to his blog site, compared to Google Ads which has a pay-per-click function by clicking ads. You just have to be creative.
A search engine optimization (SEO) can be a help to improve the visibility of your site. When you had good SEO, he added, you can be became at the first page of the Google Search among other bloggers that has the same blog content, so you might have get more hits of viewers.
Links and keywords are very important when a blog have a lot of links; Google will see it as important page and will rank it higher. You should repeat your keyword 3 percent of the time and it also had to be your title too.
The content. It is also the key in your blogging career. You should have a lot of content to read because no one will ever read your blog when you only have few articles. “You have to write every day. It’s really a commitment.”
Of course, Vince also advised us that when it comes to reviewing something that advertiser promotes to us and don’t feel good about it, we should better not to review it anymore or better, try it once again and review it. We should focus our writings on positive things.
Vince believed that it is not just about the money that he was fulfilled when doing the blog. It was the satisfaction of meeting people and sharing your stories to them is the best!
Also Vince encouraged the bloggers to write every day. It don’t necessary be along article, you just have to write whatever you have compassion.
For the next Blogapalooza!
Vince and his friends decided to create an event called Blogapalooza. Blogapalooza is designed for good bloggers and businesses meet in one place since he know wide circle of good bloggers. The benefits of joining to this event are for the businessmen to find good bloggers to promote their products and for the bloggers to discover and try cool things.
“Blogapalooza was about to inviting good bloggers who can make a business out.”
Regarding to the next event, Vince had a busy schedule and still don’t know when to organize it, however, he encourage us to check to the Blogapalooza page for updates!
