Blogging for Bucks from the House
I neglected to mention another common way of earning money online, possibly the most attempted way, which is blogging. The way it works is you get people to come to your blog and you pepper them with advertising. The most common advertising solution is Google Adsense which is the King Cong of contextual advertising. It is contextual because the ads you see, theoretically, are related to the things you are reading about. That does backfire from time to time, but mostly it is somewhat related. Essentially, people pay Google to advertise on their behalf. Google then displays ads that the person designs. Those ads are displayed wherever the web designer decides to stick them. The people buying the ads pay per click and whenever someone clicks on one of the ads on the person’s blog, they get paid and Google gets an undisclosed amount as well.
My 10 Commandments for Life
Being inspired by JD’s post on Get Rich Slowly, I have taken it upon myself to craft 10 commandments that I would like to use to frame my life’s work and such. I will be doing some analysis on each one, rife with personal stories of dubious inspirational value. They are in no particular order whatsoever and that is intentional. Should you find value in what I have to say, put your right foot over your left foot, close your left eye , say “Chaka Waka” three times, and I shall be your guru. Without further fanfare, here they are:
- Drive Around to Get Lost
- Learn the Truth
- Spend Meaningless Time with Friends and Family
- Become Obscenely Wealthy to Fulfill the other Commandments
- Give
- Take Pictures
- Become Impossibly Healthy
- Make Strangers Cackle
- Travel the Unknown World
- Jump into the Void