Articles of September 2009

The advent of Internet has opened a whole new world of opportunities for everyone. Exponentially growing blogsphere and mushrooming paid to blog and affiliate services bringing marketers, advertisers and publishers together has made it possible for bloggers to become ad publisher. Result: walk across the blogsphere and you find so many people making reasonable money via blogs and many of them telling 'us' how to make money.

Let us start with certain empirical facts: Not everyone can make money as easily as it is generally perceived (it comes with hard work). Personal scouting reveals that most local bloggers don't want to display ads on their sites. What to talk of knowing difference between difference between </head> and </body>, most frequently asked question still is, what is a blog? Outside the high end Internet users' base, many people don't know about blogs, ads, online busying and other activities. PayPal account is not available here and this closes so many money making avenues.

That said, getting paid for blogging is not a new idea in Pakistan. Like anywhere else, blogs are already being used as economical, effective and interactive marketing tool. Pakistani bloggers are exceptionally good (yes, we have anti-establishment, noncommercial write-ups and rants at