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StNonsky:
Good morning. I've been trying to upgrade my hosted YouTube adsense account to show ads on my blog www.healthflava.com but they ve rejected me like 5 times saying I don't comply to their policies. Please can u tell me what I'm doing wrong or help me check my blog www.healthflava.com and tell me what the problem is. Thanks for your help!

I tried checking your site on my tablet, it opened but it didn't load any content (it is not my network though). i waited for about 2 minutes. This alone has disqualified you of getting approval.

@Maximus200, you don't have a standard template (as i may say). Now, you need things like previous post, next post when a user clicks on any post. You also need to show a navigation menu for a TERMS & CONDITION PAGE, SITE MAP PAGE, ADVERTISE WITH US PAGE(optional). Google needs your site to be user friendly, so as to increase their adverts chance. The way google crawl sites is very different from what you think. Kudos to you, You have a very good design but not standard. Google needs a standard site, not a beautiful designed site. I am not saying you should change your template, just add those things i listed earlier. And if possible, change the navigation menu from a drop down menu to an onclick menu. This would make it more easy to navigate better. See how awlful sahara reporters design looks(...just saying), but they still got approved because of the standard they maintained. USE A STANDARD and well designed template. Notice the standard in an uppercase please.

I won't talk too much. Nairaland is one of the most visited site in Africa. But there are some lackings on the part of Niraland as a forum. We want to get the merits and demerits of this forum, Nairaland. When i say demerits, i don't mean how it is affecting or has affected us in a negative way. What i meant is the lackings nairaland has. I.e some of the features nairaland don't have. Precisely, what are the LIMITATIONS of nairaland as a forum. Your response (replies) is very important to us. Thanks.

In my previous guide, I talked about
best niches to start making money in
2015 for good living. Now if you are
one of those who already have made
your own website on specific niche or
topic and now you are looking for some best methods through which you
will be able to monetize it? If yes, then
you are at right place because today in
this article we will be going to share
the best methods that can help you in
making money with your blog in 2015 easily. There are thousands of people who
are looking for the solutions through
which they can earn good income from
their websites. So if you are one of
those it is recommended for you to
must read and try out the methods that are shared below. Let’s have a look at
all of them and I am pretty sure that
you will find them useful for you. Google AdSense is considered as one of the best advertising network or
monetization program for bloggers to
monetize their blog to make good
revenue. In order to get approved from
AdSense, you should be having good
quality blog with some traffic. If you are fulfilling these conditions, then you
should need to apply for account on
adsense.com Another good idea to monetize your
website is through displaying
advertisements. If you are having good
authority website or blog with decent
traffic and good rankings then
advertisers or companies will contact you and ask for banner
advertisements on your blog. You can
charge them good amount of your
desire that you will receive from them
for displaying banner advertisement
for specific time period. The best example is BuySellAds.com which is known as best marketplace in online
world for buying and selling ads
network. So you can expect some
good earnings from such networks but
for approval it is highly recommended
for you to have a blog on specific niche/topic for easily approval. Another good idea to make money
from your blog is to find out products
relevant to your niche and contact
their companies for paid reviews. If
you have some blog with good
rankings and authority and you are good in pitching advertisers, it should
be recommended for you to try out this
method for good income. Affiliate marketing is one of the most popular methods that is used by most
of the online websites these days for
making passive income from their
blogs. Most of the micro niches and
niches site owners loves to monetize
their sites through either Google AdSense or affiliate products to get
good income. If you are good at something that you
are writing on your website or blog,
then it is recommended for you to start
selling your own services from your
website or blog for good revenue. Videos are considered as best method
to spread your voice or information in
short period of time. If you are good in
making video reviews, then contact big
companies and charge them good
amount for product video reviews and I am sure that you can make
handsome income from this method. So these are the best methods that
you can use in 2015 for making money
with your blog easily. Now it’s up to try
out these methods and start making
handsome income for good living.

Well, guys! You might know
already that Search Engine
Optimization is the back-bone of
your blog. Your all over success
and popularity depends upon it. If
you done a perfect SEO of your blog, you will probably see great
results out coming within in few
time. But, if you don’t have than
the results will be negative. So, I
have prepared a list of all the
necessary steps you must implement in your blog to make
its SEO perfect. Sometimes people new to the
blogging world also waste their
huge amount on hiring SEO
experts for their blogs but I am
not in this favor because Search
Engine Optimization of your blog is not such a difficult job and you
can do it easily by.... Continue reading at femiyoung..nl/2015/05/collection-of-best-seo-blogger-tricks.html

@onasa28 It took me about 30 seconds to view your blog. This could scare away visitors from ur site when using a mobile phone. My advice to you is to make your site a mobile view too. Secondly, your template is not a professional type. I'll advice you to get a premium template for site. Also the header, title, favicon, layout looks odd.

Akinsnaira:
Please if my question is not too much, how does the code look like, how many digits? So as to have a clue. Last time I checked the dashboard I couldn't remember seeing any code

The code is a html code.

Akinsnaira:
But what about the AdSense code, coz I have not placed any code on blog yet

you can get that in your dashboard field.

Akinsnaira:
Another thing is that, if I enable AdSense on my blog it will show but I won't see the content of the Ads

That should be from google. Wait for about a week and check the content again. If the problem still persit, i'm sorry if have to register a new account. Maybe your registration wasn't placed well.

Akinsnaira:
Ok, how many digits is the AdSense code coz I got another code too?. But why would google send me welcome message without the AdSense code, they have even given me access to my AdSense Account Earning History, almost everything seems to be concluded after accepting their operating terms and conditions agreement. What could possibly be delaying my AdSense code?

Were you given a login link?

Ojdanavigator:
Thanks very much for your urgent reply, i really appreciate. I have over 50 posts in my blog and i have a reasonable amount of traffic coming to my blog so what do you suggest i do right now? let me go to work immediately.

I'm awaiting your reply. Thanks alot man.

For now, try a new method to make your blog users keep longer on your site. Instead of them reading articles alone and go back. You can put up something new on the site which is related to your site objective that will delay your site visitors. Also buying a new domain name and hosting your site will make your site visitors see seriousness in you. Also make sure you reply to coments on your site if need be. There are lots of rules, but let me stop here. Thanks.

eesy:
Very informative.
Please do you know how I can customise a blog to look like lindaikeji's blog?

Linda ikeji is using one of themes called "Awesome" which is available for all blogger users. You can find it when you click on template. But i'll advice you to use a custom template instead of google template. Thier templates doesn't look professional.

Akinsnaira:
You sound like a pro blogger user, please I need to customize my blogger's blog, do you know where I can find any customizable themes I can use.

Secondly, I applied for AdSense some weeks ago and got accepted almost immediately, but since then I have not checked my welcome message. I just checked it now and found two different codes in it, one is 10-digit AdSense ID and the other is 12-digit Billing ID, please which one of the two is the AdSense code that I must place in my blog HTLM code?

None of them is the code. As for blogger template, i can design a template for you. contact me on 08182365675

1. Ownership Blogger is a blogging service provided by the
tech giant Google. It is free, reliable most of
the time, and quite enough to publish your stuff
on the web. However, it is not owned by you.
Google runs this service and has the right to
shut it down, or shutdown your access to it at any time. With WordPress, you use a WordPress hosting provider to host your own site. You are free to decide how long you want to run it and
when you want to shut it down. You own all
your data, and you control what information
you share with any third party. 2. Control Blogger is a fine tuned service with very limited
tools allowing you to perform only specific
tasks on your website. The things you can do
on your blog are limited, and there is
no way you can extend them to meet a need. WordPress is an open source software, so you can easily extend it to add new features.
There are thousands of WordPress plugins allowing you to modify and extend the default
feature set such as adding a store to your
website, creating portfolio, etc. When comparing WordPress vs Blogger for
business websites, then WordPress is hands
down the best long-term solution for any
serious business owner. 3. Appearance Blogger by default only provides a limited set
of templates to use. You can modify the colors
and layout of these templates using the built-in
tools, but you cannot create your own layouts
or make modifications. There are some non-
official Blogger templates available, but those templates are usually very low quality. There are thousands of free and premium WordPress themes which allow you to create professional looking websites. There is a
WordPress theme for just about every kind of
website. No matter what your site is about, you
will find plenty of high quality themes which are
easy to modify and customize. 4. Portability Moving your site from Blogger to a different platform is a complicated task. There is a
significant risk that you will loose your SEO
(search engine rankings(, subscribers, and
followers during the move. Even though
blogger allows you to export your content, your
data will stay on Google’s servers for a very long time. Using WordPress, you can move your site
anywhere you want. You can move your WordPress site to a new host, change domain name, or even move your site to other content management systems. Also if you compare WordPress vs Blogger
SEO, then WordPress offers way more SEO
advantages. 5. Security Using Blogger you have the added advantage
of Google’s robust secure platform. You don’t
need to worry about managing your server’s
resources, securing your blog, or creating
backups. WordPress is quite secure, but since it is a
self hosted solution you are responsible for
security and backups. There are plenty of WordPress plugins that make it easier for you. 6. Support There is limited support available for Blogger.
They have a very basic documentation and a
user’s forum. In terms of support, your
choices are very limited. WordPress has a very active community
support system. There is online
documentation, community forums, and IRC
chatrooms where you can get help from
experienced WordPress users and
developers. Apart from community support, there are many companies offering premium
support for WordPress. Check out our guide
on how to properly ask for WordPress support and get it. 7. Future Blogger has not seen any major update since
a very long time. We have seen Google kill
their popular services such as Google Reader,
Adsense for feeds, and the possible demise of FeedBurner. Future of Blogger depends on Google, and they have the right to shut it down
whenever they want. WordPress is an Open Source software which
means its future is not dependent on one
company or individual (Check out the history of WordPress). It is developed by a community of developers and users. Being
world’s most popular content management
system, thousands of businesses around the
globe depend on it. The future of WordPress is
bright and reassuring. We hope this WordPress vs Blogger
comparison helped you understand the pros
and cons of each to help you make the right
decision for your business.

mohammad11:
@OP, I awaits ur analysis concerning the topic you‘ve raised.

1. Ownership Blogger is a blogging service provided by the
tech giant Google. It is free, reliable most of
the time, and quite enough to publish your stuff
on the web. However, it is not owned by you.
Google runs this service and has the right to
shut it down, or shutdown your access to it at any time. With WordPress, you use a WordPress hosting provider to host your own site. You are free to decide how long you want to run it and
when you want to shut it down. You own all
your data, and you control what information
you share with any third party. 2. Control Blogger is a fine tuned service with very limited
tools allowing you to perform only specific
tasks on your website. The things you can do
on your blog are limited, and there is
no way you can extend them to meet a need. WordPress is an open source software, so you can easily extend it to add new features.
There are thousands o

@Ojdanavigator You are using one of google default templates which wont make your site very professional. You can buy a premium template which is more adviceable. Or you can get a free template too. Also the content of your site should be very too long, this may scare away visitors from reading your articles. You must also have lots of page. Yes, i couldn't find any well modified page on your blog. Kudos anyway.

1. Ownership Blogger is a blogging service provided by the
tech giant Google. It is free, reliable most of
the time, and quite enough to publish your stuff
on the web. However, it is not owned by you.
Google runs this service and has the right to
shut it down, or shutdown your access to it at any time. With WordPress, you use a WordPress hosting provider to host your own site. You are free to decide how long you want to run it and
when you want to shut it down. You own all
your data, and you control what information
you share with any third party. 2. Control Blogger is a fine tuned service with very limited
tools allowing you to perform only specific
tasks on your website. The things you can do
on your blog are limited, and there is
no way you can extend them to meet a need. WordPress is an open source software, so you can easily extend it to add new features.
There are thousands of WordPress plugins allowing you to modify and extend the default
feature set such as adding a store to your
website, creating portfolio, etc. When comparing WordPress vs Blogger for
business websites, then WordPress is hands
down the best long-term solution for any
serious business owner. 3. Appearance Blogger by default only provides a limited set
of templates to use. You can modify the colors
and layout of these templates using the built-in
tools, but you cannot create your own layouts
or make modifications. There are some non-
official Blogger templates available, but those templates are usually very low quality. There are thousands of free and premium WordPress themes which allow you to create professional looking websites. There is a
WordPress theme for just about every kind of
website. No matter what your site is about, you
will find plenty of high quality themes which are
easy to modify and customize. 4. Portability Moving your site from Blogger to a different platform is a complicated task. There is a
significant risk that you will loose your SEO
(search engine rankings(, subscribers, and
followers during the move. Even though
blogger allows you to export your content, your
data will stay on Google’s servers for a very long time. Using WordPress, you can move your site
anywhere you want. You can move your WordPress site to a new host, change domain name, or even move your site to other content management systems. Also if you compare WordPress vs Blogger
SEO, then WordPress offers way more SEO
advantages. 5. Security Using Blogger you have the added advantage
of Google’s robust secure platform. You don’t
need to worry about managing your server’s
resources, securing your blog, or creating
backups. WordPress is quite secure, but since it is a
self hosted solution you are responsible for
security and backups. There are plenty of WordPress plugins that make it easier for you. 6. Support There is limited support available for Blogger.
They have a very basic documentation and a
user’s forum. In terms of support, your
choices are very limited. WordPress has a very active community
support system. There is online
documentation, community forums, and IRC
chatrooms where you can get help from
experienced WordPress users and
developers. Apart from community support, there are many companies offering premium
support for WordPress. Check out our guide
on how to properly ask for WordPress support and get it. 7. Future Blogger has not seen any major update since
a very long time. We have seen Google kill
their popular services such as Google Reader,
Adsense for feeds, and the possible demise of FeedBurner. Future of Blogger depends on Google, and they have the right to shut it down
whenever they want. WordPress is an Open Source software which
means its future is not dependent on one
company or individual (Check out the history of WordPress). It is developed by a community of developers and users. Being
world’s most popular content management
system, thousands of businesses around the
globe depend on it. The future of WordPress is
bright and reassuring. We hope this WordPress vs Blogger
comparison helped you understand the pros
and cons of each to help you make the right
decision for your business.

@eggcelent But only adroid phones which os is up to 4.0

Just comment between Andriod and Blackberry, the one you like most. By making a hashtag ( #android or #blackberry).You can also state your reasons.

Please no foul or abusive languages.
#JUSTFUN

After much questions from new and young users of google adsense, i get tired of explaining again and again. Here, i'll tell the reasons why you shouldn't run an autoblogger of WP-robot on your blog.
I would have given the url of a note a U.S.A internet marketer wrote on how google deleted his adsense account due to usage of autoblogger after several warning from google. Many internet experts will say google won't ban them. That's true but this will reduce the rate of the traffic to your site as a result of duplicate content. Sometimes when google continue seeing the same content, on different sites, this makes google discouraged to put your site at the top of searches. In conclusion, i'm saying a big NO to the usage of autoblogger. Why will you call your self a blogger and you can't write. That's your job. By-the-way, for high traffic rate, Stop copy-and-paste jobs and write your own article. Thanks. I hope this helps.

We are often asked by new users why they should use WordPress instead of free blogging services like or Blogger? WPBeginner is the largest resource
site for WordPress beginners, so it is obvious
that we favor WordPress over other blogging
platforms. In this article, we will do a
WordPress vs Blogger comparison to help you
decide which one is better for your needs. We will cover all WordPress vs Blogger pros and
cons, so you can make the best decision when
it comes Blogger vs. WordPress as a platform
for your site. But before the article is posted, we want your comment on which is better (not the one you like).

Important: Please note that this comparison is between self-hosted WordPress.org and
Blogger, not vs Blogger.

Actually, i'm currently teaching nairaland members a tweak on how to get approval from google which i'm not through with the tutorial.

You can join the class here - www.nairaland.com/2277226/how-get-approval-google-adsense.

Now on the ride, many people have always longed to browse in a free internet world. I had problems with my PC sometime ago went to cafe since i can use mine. As you know that most cafe uses LAN. I'll just pay for few time with my friends and browse for long without them noticing.
1. First of all create a new Text Document.
Then write CMD in it, and then save it as anything.bat. (Make sure you're file is .bat)
2. Now find your batch (.bat) file and run it. If
you've done it correctly, you'll see that CMD
(Command Prompt) will open.
3. Now, write in the CMD: cd\windows (This will change the directory to WINDOWS). Then
type regedit and regedit editor should open. Are you following? ANY QUESTION BEFORE I CONTINUE?

Yes! The adsense code must be a valid one. You can get it from anyone has been approved. Note- do not post the code in html box, instead it will become an advert banner. After posting it as an article on the page. You are on the track. Then get the url of the post e.g (www.nairaland..com/2015/04/20/google-approved-me.html). Then back to the webmaster tool, go to crawl site url and put the link of the post in field given to you with the url of the site. (you must have added the site to the dashboard) e.g "/2015/04/20/google-approved-me". After that the site will be crawled. Then log into a youtube account with the gmail account you use in creating your blogger blog... TIME for question before i move on. Note- This is not a scam! Let's see the end if it wont work! ANY QUESTION BEFORE I MOVE ON?

Recently I read Darren Rowse’s enlightening post about bloggers-for-hire being paid on a per-post basis. Darren says the going rate
being offered is around $2 to $20 per post…
sometimes as high as $100 per post. That’s a
flat one-time fee with no residuals. If such
bloggers stop writing, they stop earning. And
apparently there’s no shortage of bloggers willing to work for such rates. So what is a blog post really worth in terms of
the revenue it can generate for the blog
owner? You’d be right to assume it must be
higher than what people pay bloggers to write
them, but just how much higher is it? The answer will depend tremendously on a
number of factors, especially on the type of
the posts being written, the nature of the blog,
and the method(s) of monetization. These
factors have very little to do with what the
blogger is being paid though. I’ve seen some brilliant, insightful articles from work-for-hire
bloggers who are paid $10 per post. On the
other hand, I’ve also seen post monkeys
deliver daily doses of disposable drivel. I don’t have access to other bloggers’ financial
data, so I can’t estimate the average value of a
blog post across the entire blogosphere, but I
can at least make a reasonable effort to
calculate this figure for my own blog. I know
my blog isn’t typical though — I tend to write much longer posts than most bloggers — so I’m
not claiming my figures are anywhere near the
average, but I see no reason another blogger
using a strategy similar to mine couldn’t derive
similar values. In any event I think you’ll find
these results interesting. Revenue per blog post The metric we’ll try to calculate is revenue per
blog post. I suggest we take the web site’s
current monthly revenue and divide it by the
total number of blog posts on the site to get a
ballpark figure. So we have: Monthly revenue per post = ( current
monthly revenue ) / ( total number of
posts ) This isn’t a perfect metric by any means. It
doesn’t account for the contribution of non-
blog content such as the audio section, nor
does it account for site popularity as a factor in
revenue generation. But the vast majority of
this site’s traffic goes to the blog entries, and most non-blog items including the audio files
and feature articles have their own blog posts
too, so it should be a reasonable simplification. So here’s the basic data. In August 2006 this
site generated a little over $10,000 in revenue,
and there are a little over 500 total blog posts,
so we have: Monthly revenue per post = $10,000 /
500 = $20 per month So on average each new blog post I write
increases this site’s revenue by about $20/
month ($240/year). If I want to bump my
annual income by $5000, I need to crank out
about 21 new blog posts. Is it reasonable to say that an average blog
post on this site generates about $20 of
additional revenue every month it’s online,
even years after its original posting date? For
this blog I’d have to say yes. Older posts
continue to receive substantial traffic every day, and even though they don’t get the same
featured position as my latest writing,
thousands of visitors browse the archives each day or arrive from search engines, links,
or referrals. I write mostly timeless content, so
my articles normally have a very long shelf life.
Some of the most popular articles on this site
were originally written in 2000 and are still
going strong. I don’t imagine topics like personal development, time management,
spirituality, or self-discipline going out of style
anytime soon. Plus I can always go back and
update the most popular articles if they ever
become dated. Lifetime value of a blog post Now how do we calculate the estimated lifetime
value of a blog post? Here’s how: Lifetime post value = ( monthly revenue
per post ) x ( estimated post lifespan ) I’d say a conservative estimate of the lifespan
of one of my average blog posts would be 10
years, assuming I keep them online that long.
I’ve been maintaining web sites since 1995, so
I’ve already seen some online content endure
longer than 10 years. Beyond 10 years it’s hard to fathom what will happen technology
wise. Based on a 10-year (120-month) lifespan then,
our calculation works out like this: Lifetime post value = $20 / month x 120
months = $2400 So my average blog post can be reasonably
expected to generate about $2400 in revenue
over a 10-year period. These aren’t inflation-
adjusted dollars, so the money received in
year 10 won’t be worth as much that received
today, but for practical purposes I don’t need that level of precision. How resilient is this blogging income? What if
my current method of monetizing my blog
(mostly online advertising) goes bust? That’s
of little concern because I’ll just switch to
another revenue model. I’ve already planned
for the contingency of another online advertising bust that might demolish my
current revenue stream. I also maintain an
emergency fund to give me sufficient
breathing room to make such a switch even if
my current model suffered an immediate
overnight collapse. In fact, I’ve gradually been diversifying this blog’s income streams, and
you’ll see a lot more of that happening next
year. But assuming a roughly compatible
blogosphere endures for the next 10 years, it
should be reasonable to estimate that each
article I’ve written will generate about $2400 in
revenue during that time, perhaps more as I
continue adding new revenue streams. Lifetime value of the blog’s complete
archives Interestingly, if we know the lifetime value of a
blog post, we can also estimate the collective
lifetime value of the blog’s entire archive. This
would tell us how much revenue had been pre-
earned from creating the existing collection of
blog posts and setting up the system to monetize them. To simplify the calculation a bit, let’s make the
(slightly generous) assumption that all of the
existing blog posts still have their full lifespan
ahead of them. So posts that are a year old still
have their full 10 year lifespan left. Since this
blog is less than two years old, this simplification shouldn’t throw us off too much.
So we have the simple formula: Lifetime value of blog’s archives =
lifetime value of blog post x total
number of posts Plugging in our specific figures, we get: Lifetime value of blog’s archives = $
2400 per post x 500 posts = $1,200,000 In other words you could say I’ve already done
the writing work and the systems building to
pre-earn an estimated $1.2 million of revenue
over the next 10 years ($120,000 per year).
This figure may surprise you, but it seems
about right to me. Of course this assumes I’ll at least maintain current traffic levels and not
do something stupid like allow the site to go
dormant for a couple years. And as I continue
to write new articles and make further site
optimizations, the site’s actual performance
should be much better, since this figure is based purely on the content that’s already
been created. Now here’s the great irony: Even though I
enjoy a decent income for the time I invest in
writing new blog posts (presently about 15
hours/week), I don’t write for money. In fact, I
find the idea of writing for money totally
demotivating. I write because I love sharing ideas that help people grow. I started writing
articles in 1999 and gave them away free for
many years. I didn’t seriously start monetizing
my articles until 2005, after I decided to retire
from computer game publishing. It’s nice that
I’ve been able to create a vehicle that allows me to easily monetize what I write, but I’d find a
way to keep writing even if it wasn’t an income
generator. The income just serves as
feedback that I’m writing something people
value. Value providers vs. post monkeys I’m sure the metrics for other blogs will vary
tremendously, but I have to wonder about
those work-for-hire bloggers who write for a
few bucks per post. Do they realize how
incredibly risky it is to accept such a position?
As I’ve emphasized many times before, our greatest risks in life aren’t that we’ll make
critical mistakes — our greatest risks are that
we’ll miss critical opportunities. How many bloggers ever consider the potential
lifetime value of the content they’re creating?
Do they write for readers 10 years hence, or
do they churn out disposable posts that will be
obsolete next month? Are they capable of
sharing ideas that could be worth $1 each to 2000 people… or $0.01 each to 200,000
people… given 10 years for their ideas to
disseminate? I’ll be the first to admit that it takes
considerably more time and effort to write
articles that are timeless, original, thought-
provoking, and helpful than it does to rehash
the news, compile link lists, or upload cat
photos, but for $2400 per post vs. $10 per post, perhaps going the extra mile is
worthwhile after all. Even if you don’t care about the business side
of blogging, what’s your attitude towards your
current career? Are you more closely aligned
with the mindset of a long-term value provider
or a short-term post monkey? Do you eagerly
accept short-term pay for short-term results, or do you commit to creating long-term value
for long-term results? Will the fruits of today’s
labor still be useful to people a decade from
now? Are you selling out the future or
intelligently investing in it? Long-term investing
isn’t just about your own gains — it’s about investing in helping others, so much so that
you’re helping them even when you aren’t
working. If serving the greater good is your
primary focus, then I say you deserve every
penny the universe sends you in return. Ultimately I believe the #1 factor in determining
what a blog post is truly worth is the intention
of the person who wrote it.

Just for fun I recently asked Erin, “Now that
the kids are in summer school, don’t you think
it’s about time you went out and got yourself a
job? I hate seeing you wallow in unemployment
for so long.” She smiled and said, “Wow. I have been
unemployed a really long time. That’s weird… I
like it!” Neither of us have had jobs since the ’90s (my
only job was in 1992), so we’ve been self-
employed for quite a while. In our household
it’s a running joke for one of us to say to the
other, “Maybe you should get a job, derelict!” It’s like the scene in The Three Stooges where Moe tells Curly to get a job, and Curly
backs away, saying, “No, please… not that!
Anything but that!” It’s funny that when people reach a certain
age, such as after graduating college, they
assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But
like many things the masses do, just because
everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.
In fact, if you’re reasonably intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to
support yourself. There are far better ways to
make a living than selling yourself into
indentured servitude. Here are some reasons you should do
everything in your power to avoid getting a job: 1. Income for dummies. Getting a job and trading your time for money
may seem like a good idea. There’s only one
problem with it. It’s stupid! It’s the stupidest
way you can possibly generate income! This is
truly income for dummies. Why is getting a job so dumb? Because you
only get paid when you’re working. Don’t you
see a problem with that, or have you been so
thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s
reasonable and intelligent to only earn income
when you’re working? Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid
even when you’re not working? Who taught
you that you could only earn income while
working? Some other brainwashed employee
perhaps? Don’t you think your life would be much easier
if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping,
and playing with the kids too? Why not get paid
24/7? Get paid whether you work or not. Don’t
your plants grow even when you aren’t tending
to them? Why not your bank account? Who cares how many hours you work? Only a
handful of people on this entire planet care
how much time you spend at the office. Most
of us won’t even notice whether you work 6
hours a week or 60. But if you have something
of value to provide that matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our
wallets and pay you for it. We don’t care about
your time — we only care enough to pay for the
value we receive. Do you really care how long
it took me to write this article? Would you pay
me twice as much if it took me 6 hours vs. only 3? Non-dummies often start out on the traditional income for dummies path. So don’t feel bad if you’re just now realizing you’ve been
suckered. Non-dummies eventually realize that
trading time for money is indeed extremely
dumb and that there must be a better way. And
of course there is a better way. The key is to
de-couple your value from your time. Smart people build systems that generate
income 24/7, especially passive income. This
can include starting a business, building a web
site, becoming an investor, or generating
royalty income from creative work. The
system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in
motion, it runs continuously whether you tend
to it or not. From that moment on, the bulk of
your time can be invested in increasing your
income (by refining your system or spawning
new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income. This web site is an example of such a system.
At the time of this writing, it generates about $
9000 a month in income for me (update: $ 40,000 a month as of 10/31/06 ), and it isn’t my only income stream either. I write each
article just once (fixed time investment), and
people can extract value from them year after
year. The web server delivers the value, and
other systems (most of which I didn’t even
build and don’t even understand) collect income and deposit it automatically into my
bank account. It’s not perfectly passive, but I
love writing and would do it for free anyway.
But of course it cost me a lot of money to
launch this business, right? Um, yeah, $9 is an
awful lot these days (to register the domain name). Everything after that was profit. Sure it takes some upfront time and effort to
design and implement your own income-
generating systems. But you don’t have to
reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing
systems like ad networks and affiliate
programs. Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself.
Wouldn’t it be nice to be out having dinner with
your spouse, knowing that while you’re eating,
you’re earning money? If you want to keep
working long hours because you enjoy it, go
right ahead. If you want to sit around doing nothing, feel free. As long as your system
continues delivering value to others, you’ll keep
getting paid whether you’re working or not. Your local bookstore is filled with books
containing workable systems others have
already designed, tested, and debugged.
Nobody is born knowing how to start a
business or generate investment income, but
you can easily learn it. How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is
going to pass anyway. You might as well
emerge at some future point as the owner of
income-generating systems as opposed to a
lifelong wage slave. This isn’t all or nothing. If
your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the
right direction. 2. Limited experience. You might think it’s important to get a job to
gain experience. But that’s like saying you
should play golf to get experience playing golf.
You gain experience from living, regardless of
whether you have a job or not. A job only
gives you experience at that job, but you gain “experience” doing just about anything, so
that’s no real benefit at all. Sit around doing
nothing for a couple years, and you can call
yourself an experienced meditator,
philosopher, or politician. The problem with getting experience from a
job is that you usually just repeat the same
limited experience over and over. You learn a
lot in the beginning and then stagnate. This
forces you to miss other experiences that
would be much more valuable. And if your limited skill set ever becomes obsolete, then
your experience won’t be worth squat. In fact,
ask yourself what the experience you’re
gaining right now will be worth in 20-30 years.
Will your job even exist then? Consider this. Which experience would you
rather gain? The knowledge of how to do a
specific job really well — one that you can only
monetize by trading your time for money — or
the knowledge of how to enjoy financial
abundance for the rest of your life without ever needing a job again? Now I don’t know about
you, but I’d rather have the latter experience.
That seems a lot more useful in the real world,
wouldn’t you say? 3. Lifelong domestication. Getting a job is like enrolling in a human
domestication program. You learn how to be a
good pet. Look around you. Really look. What do you
see? Are these the surroundings of a free
human being? Or are you living in a cage for
unconscious animals? Have you fallen in love
with the color beige? How’s your obedience training coming along?
Does your master reward your good behavior?
Do you get disciplined if you fail to obey your
master’s commands? Is there any spark of free will left inside you?
Or has your conditioning made you a pet for
life? Humans are not meant to be raised in cages.
You poor thing… 4. Too many mouths to feed. Employee income is the most heavily taxed
there is. In the USA you can expect that about
half your salary will go to taxes. The tax
system is designed to disguise how much
you’re really giving up because some of those
taxes are paid by your employer, and some are deducted from your paycheck. But you
can bet that from your employer’s perspective, all of those taxes are considered part of your pay, as well as any other compensation you
receive such as benefits. Even the rent for the
office space you consume is considered, so
you must generate that much more value to
cover it. You might feel supported by your
corporate environment, but keep in mind that you’re the one paying for it. Another chunk of your income goes to owners
and investors. That’s a lot of mouths to feed. It isn’t hard to understand why employees pay
the most in taxes relative to their income. After
all, who has more control over the tax system?
Business owners and investors or employees? You only get paid a fraction of the real value
you generate. Your real salary may be more
than triple what you’re paid, but most of that
money you’ll never see. It goes straight into
other people’s pockets. What a generous person you are! 5. Way too risky. Many employees believe getting a job is the
safest and most secure way to support
themselves. Morons. Social conditioning is amazing. It’s so good it
can even make people believe the exact
opposite of the truth. Does putting yourself in a position where
someone else can turn off all your income just
by saying two words (“You’re fired”) sound like
a safe and secure situation to you? Does
having only one income stream honestly sound
more secure than having 10? The idea that a job is the most secure way to
generate income is just silly. You can’t have
security if you don’t have control, and
employees have the least control of anyone. If
you’re an employee, then your real job title
should be professional gambler. 6. Having an evil bovine master. When you run into an idiot in the
entrepreneurial world, you can turn around and
head the other way. When you run into an idiot
in the corporate world, you have to turn around
and say, “Sorry, boss.” Did you know that the word boss comes from
the Dutch word baas, which historically means master? Another meaning of the word boss is “a cow or bovine.” And in many video
games, the boss is the evil dude that you have
to kill at the end of a level. So if your boss is really your evil bovine master, then what does that make you? Nothing but a turd in the herd. Who’s your daddy? 7. Begging for money. When you want to increase your income, do
you have to sit up and beg your master for
more money? Does it feel good to be thrown
some extra Scooby Snacks now and then? Or are you free to decide how much you get
paid without needing anyone’s permission but
your own? If you have a business and one customer
says “no” to you, you simply say “next.” 8. An inbred social life. Many people treat their jobs as their primary
social outlet. They hang out with the same
people working in the same field. Such
incestuous relations are social dead ends. An
exciting day includes deep conversations
about the company’s switch from Sparkletts to Arrowhead, the delay of Microsoft’s latest
operating system, and the unexpected delivery
of more Bic pens. Consider what it would be
like to go outside and talk to strangers.
Ooooh… scary! Better stay inside where it’s
safe. If one of your co-slaves gets sold to another
master, do you lose a friend? If you work in a
male-dominated field, does that mean you
never get to talk to women above the rank of
receptionist? Why not decide for yourself
whom to socialize with instead of letting your master decide for you? Believe it or not, there
are locations on this planet where free people
congregate. Just be wary of those jobless folk
— they’re a crazy bunch! 9. Loss of freedom. It takes a lot of effort to tame a human being
into an employee. The first thing you have to
do is break the human’s independent will. A
good way to do this is to give them a weighty
policy manual filled with nonsensical rules and
regulations. This leads the new employee to become more obedient, fearing that s/he could
be disciplined at any minute for something
incomprehensible. Thus, the employee will
likely conclude it’s safest to simply obey the
master’s commands without question. Stir in
some office politics for good measure, and we’ve got a freshly minted mind slave. As part of their obedience training, employees
must be taught how to dress, talk, move, and
so on. We can’t very well have employees
thinking for themselves, now can we? That
would ruin everything. God forbid you should put a plant on your desk
when it’s against the company policy. Oh no,
it’s the end of the world! Cindy has a plant on
her desk! Summon the enforcers! Send Cindy
back for another round of sterility training! Free human beings think such rules and
regulations are silly of course. The only policy
they need is: “Be smart. Be nice. Do what you
love. Have fun.” 10. Becoming a coward. Have you noticed that employed people have
an almost endless capacity to whine about
problems at their companies? But they don’t
really want solutions — they just want to vent
and make excuses why it’s all someone else’s
fault. It’s as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and turns them into
spineless cowards. If you can’t call your boss
a jerk now and then without fear of getting
fired, you’re no longer free. You’ve become
your master’s property. When you work around cowards all day long,
don’t you think it’s going to rub off on you? Of
course it will. It’s only a matter of time before
you sacrifice the noblest parts of your
humanity on the altar of fear: first courage…
then honesty… then honor and integrity… and finally your independent will. You sold your
humanity for nothing but an illusion. And now
your greatest fear is discovering the truth of
what you’ve become. I don’t care how badly you’ve been beaten
down. It is never too late to regain your
courage. Never! Still want a job? If you’re currently a well-conditioned, well-
behaved employee, your most likely reaction to
the above will be defensiveness. It’s all part of
the conditioning. But consider that if the above
didn’t have a grain of truth to it, you wouldn’t
have an emotional reaction at all. This is only a reminder of what you already know. You can
deny your cage all you want, but the cage is
still there. Perhaps this all happened so
gradually that you never noticed it until now…
like a lobster enjoying a nice warm bath. If any of this makes you mad, that’s a step in
the right direction. Anger is a higher level of
consciousness than apathy, so it’s a lot better
than being numb all the time. Any emotion —
even confusion — is better than apathy. If you
work through your feelings instead of repressing them, you’ll soon emerge on the
doorstep of courage. And when that happens,
you’ll have the will to actually do something
about your situation and start living like the
powerful human being you were meant to be
instead of the domesticated pet you’ve been trained to be. Happily jobless What’s the alternative to getting a job? The
alternative is to remain happily jobless for life
and to generate income through other means.
Realize that you earn income by providing
value — not time — so find a way to provide your
best value to others, and charge a fair price for it. One of the simplest and most accessible
ways is to start your own business. Whatever
work you’d otherwise do via employment, find
a way to provide that same value directly to
those who will benefit most from it. It takes a
bit more time to get going, but your freedom is easily worth the initial investment of time and
energy. Then you can buy your own Scooby
Snacks for a change. And of course everything you learn along the
way, you can share with others to generate
even more value. So even your mistakes can
be monetized.

It took me about 9 months for google to
approve my blog for adsense after reading
and buying different types of ebooks. I
eventually got a system my friend used in
getting approval from google adsense the
exact day he opened his gmail. I was astonished that something which took me 9
months, this guy has just used few minutes to
get verified, though i know he is a very popular
wizard in the internet (i won't mention his
name).
HOW TO CHANGE MY MATRIX to reality. 1. Create a gmail account visiting
www.gmail.com using the details of a website
name, it should be an english name without
numbers.
2. Go to google webmaster tools (note that you
must not be using "autoblogger". If google gets to know, you'll be removed). When you get to
the site for webmasters tool, click on add site
and crawl a page on the site. Note the page
titled should be "GOOGLE APPROVED ME" in
upper case. Make the content an adsense
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