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Is optimised or managed hosting better than shared hosting in 2015

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First i will start off with what is optimised hosting?

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[updated 17 October 2015]

In simple terms it means that your hosting provider has provided exclusive hardware or servers for hosting your blog and enhanced the software and plugins to make your blog runs more smoothly and faster than normal blogs and websites. You can also say it is better than shared hosting but more affordable than many dedicated hosting plans

THE hosting offer 42% off at 3.49 a month websitehosting price from bluehost.COMIf you are just beginning with your first WordPress blog, you have come to the right place by visiting start a website.info, because my mini optimised or managed WordPress hosting guide is sure to be very helpful to you. Even if you are already into blogging and have some knowledge of all this pricing comparison will help you.

One of the most voiced problems by website owners and bloggers is the problem of slowness in their websites and themes or website continuously breaking, or their websites getting hacked and different optimized or managed hosting takes care of all of this.

Are you a WordPress beginner who is wondering what is managed WordPress hosting or optimised wordpress hosting?

Well they both mean are the same, it’s just two different terms for the same product. Some hosting companies call it optimized hosting and some call it managed hosting

During your website-hosting research, you probably searched Google/Bing for numerous providers and found that prices of managed WordPress hosting is quite higher than the average shared hosting which you can get for as low as $3.95 per month.

You might ask –Why is there such a big price difference?

  • · Is it really that much better?
  • · Do I need managed/optimized WordPress hosting for my site?
  • · Which is the best managed WordPress hosting company?

If you have all these questions, then you have come to the right place.

To sum it up in short for ya, Google search engine which pretty much runs 70 % of all searches online loves a fast, speedy Mobile optimised and secure website and managed hosting enables you to get all of these factors into your website or blog

In the following post, I will help you to select the best managed/optimized WordPress hosting for your WordPress blog and also provide some options for shared hosting just in case the price difference is not really appealing to you. In the past ten years of my own blogging journey, I have used more than 5 WordPress shared hosting services, two managed hosting services and one unmanaged dedicated VPS server.

There are other types of Word Press hosting options as well like (VPS, dedicated, etc.) apart from shared and optimised hosting.

Optimised /Managed Hosting Vs. Shared hosting

I have provide the prices for each host and also provided prices for shared hosting, but if your are starting a new blog and want to get a head start I would recommend optimized hosting. If you are a blogger already or small business website , then if you don’t have optimized hosting , you are just putting yourself behind in this competitive market.

I recommend bluehost hosting because I use their shared as well as optimised hosting and their nginx powered software-servers for this are doing a great job.

Techy webmasters have been powering their websites with nginx to make it run faster long before bluehost came up with this offer , so its definitely worth the difference in price. The other thing is they are cheaper than wp engine

Price comparison for Optimized hosting and managed hosting vs Shared

Hosting company Optimized Hosting Shared hosting
Bluehost $12.49* Buy now $3.49 (42%off) Buy now
Dreamhost $19.95 Buy now $5.95 (40% off) Buy now
Hostgator Optimized- $7.46 * Click Here $3.96 month (3 yr plan)Click here
Wpengine $29 Buy now Premuim Managed hosting
Godaddy $5.99 Buy now $3.99 Buy now
Hostmonster $74.99 First month Dedicated Buy now $3.95 Buy now

*Most providers the first month is cheaper (due to promotion) for managed hosting and then a slightly higher rate after that. Some hosting providers will provide a cheaper rate for the hosting if you lock in a longer term plan (these could be better for your pocket). All prices are monthly.

I would suggest that for a new WordPress blog (traffic less than 2,000/Day), Shared hosting is the best hosting option to start with. If it’s any higher than that you should probably think of upgrading to managed wordpress hosting

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How did Bluehost come out with their optimized hosting product ?

fully zipped and optimised 2015

Many users were not happy with the loading times and slowness of normal shared servers. So a lot of people requested that Bluehost add a new service optimized, especially for WordPress users. These people wanted the power of a fast loading time, and the advanced security protection for wordpress, from the Bluehost servers.

I just signed up for the ‘WordPress Optimized Hosting’ at BlueHost and wanted to share… (What I am happy about). It does seem like they have an nginx / varnish / apache setup going, which seems like over kill, though it works speedily enough. They are priced at $12.49 special price for the first month (check above buy link for more details)

From experience i can say this:
Bluehost Shared vs Bluehost Shared PRO , the PRO wins.

· BlueHost PRO you get:
3.000 mysql tables (sum of all mysql , 1.000 in normal version)
Dedicated IP + SSL
BackupPRO
And better speed, from 5% to 20% speed increase
For WP version of Bluehost you get more optimised things,
more dedicated ram.

In 50% of cases, the things are easy with website speed:

· More RAM = More speed
More Cores = More speed
W3 Cache (or any) = More speed

Hosting anywhere from 5 to 30 WordPress sites

Why just host 1 website on an optimized server, instead of hosting a single website like many other managed WordPress hosting providers, Bluehost lets you host up to 5 sites for their cheapest plan, and the maximum WordPress sites you can host is 30 on the enterprise plan. It also offers Positive WildcardSSL, and with SiteLock enterprise, and premium services that no one else offers

History with optimised wordpress blogs

Optimizing blogs with nginx is not that well known , but a lot of bloggers with technical knowledge of Servers and IT were already optimizing their word press blogs themselves to get the best speed and bug free running of their blogs. These webmasters/bloggers using word press customised with nginx and apache and also running blogs on home servers with good speed while some more nerdy folks were using varnish script or then Nginx customised with W3 total cache.

You might ask “what is nginx”

Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a web server with a strong focus on high concurrency, performance and low memory usage. It can also act as a reverse proxy server for HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols, as well as a load balancer and an HTTP cache.

To put it in simple non techy language they were already optimizing their wordpressblogs to get eh best speed and usability to gain a superior advantage over other blogs. Now with bluehost , Dreampress, Go daddy and WP engine coming out with managed-optmised wordpress from out of the box , that advantage is pretty much gone

What are alternatives to optimised or managed hosting ?

Blog VPS hosting

Vps hosting involves a virtual machine sold as a service by an internet hosting service. It’s like having your own computer but in the cloud ,so you can install and run anything from it . The technology behind VPS hosting is similar to that of VMware or Virtual Box. These programs allow you to run several virtualized operating systems on one machine

Dedicated Hosting

Dedicated Hosting plans can be compared to owning a house. You are allowed and have access to all resources available on the machine. In the Web hosting business, a dedicated server refers to the rental and exclusive use of a computer that includes a Web server, related software, and connection to the Internet, housed in the Web hosting company’s premises.

The Best Managed WordPress Web Hosting Services for 2015

I’ve already mentioned bluehost optimised hosting too many times , so I will just continue with the rest and just provide a little bit more details of feature so what they provide

Dreamhost ( Dreampress 2 – Optimized wordpress hosting )

Dreamhost is also offering managed (optimized) word press hosting. Their price is $19.95/mo when you sign up for an annual plan, take nay shorter plan and you will have to shell out $24.95 a month.

DreamPress 2 Features

Now with SSDs

PHP 5.5 with OPcache & optional HHVM

Dreampress highly reliable managed WordPress hosting service from DreamHost is hosted on virtual private servers and they have added speed enhancing features such as Solid State Drives (SSDs) and optional HHVM (Hip Hop Virtual Machine). You may ask what these fancy terms do, in simple english it will help prevent site slowness, website errors, or frustrated visitors.

 

WP engine – Some info about wp engine

Wp Engine is mainly an premuim optimized web-hosting provider and has many plans starting from $29 a month – up to $249 + a month including personal / professional / business / premium /enterprise plans.

For E.g.

Their personal plans has the following features

· 1Wordpress install

· 25k month visitors (pay more for more)

· 10 Gb local storage (more than enough)

· Unlimited data transfer

Create a Website Today

 

Expertise

wp engineWP Engine takes care of your business platform even when you are not present. You can expect round the clock support from their expert services. The professional engineers provide managed WordPress hosting by delivering support 800 hours daily round the clock.

Get –> Latest WP ENGINE Premuim Deal

 

Hostgator –Dedicated Hosting(VPS Hosting)

Hostgator has dedicated hosting which is managed through virtual private servers. They run a Semi-Managed VPS for their $11.97 plan(Snappy 500 -now 40% off). They have other plans like Snappy 1000/2000/4000/8000 which you can take according to your requirements.

Their Dedicated plans use Virtual Private Servers with no control panel and are considered semi-managed. Support for these is limited, but they provide full root access allows you total control, as well as the ability to install advanced software and completely customize your hosting environment.

Features of their dedicated hosting

· HostGator VPS servers utilize 32-Core AMD Opteron 6376 processors

· 128GB of RAM

· 3.6TB of RAID 10 storage.

They are available 24/7/365 via Telephone, Live chat, and Email for assistance and support.

Godaddy Optimised

Godaddy calls its optimized wordpress hosting product as managed wordpress hosting.

A$5.99/mo
ON SALE – SAVE 40%
A$9.99 /mo when you renew

Features of Godaddy Managed Hosting

  • 1 website
  • 10GB SSD storage
  • 25,000 visitors/month
  • SFTP Access

Hostmonster

Hostmonster and hostagator both suggest free plugins like W3total cachce and WP super cache to speed up your shared hosting blog. However hostmonster also offers dedicated hosting in the cloud.

Standard Plan features

$149.99 PER MONTH $74.99*FIRST MONTH

  • Dual core, 2.3 GHz Intel® Xeon Processor
  • 3 MB cache
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 500 GB (RAID 1)
  • 5 TB/month
  • Free Domain Name
  • 3 IPs
  • CentOS 6.5 (64-bit)

Hosting is really an essential part of any online business or blog. Making sure that you use a plan that’s ideally suited to your needs as a blogger or a business is crucial to serving a fast, secure website for your visitors.

Special Promotion Offer for APRIL 2016  from Digital GROG + BLUEHOST

From April 25th until May 2nd at 11:59 PM MT, we’re offering$3.49/mo for 36 months (link here)on the Basic Plan. 

And, as a special bonus, My readers can enjoy the ultimate steal of $2.95/mo for 12 months on the Basic Plan and $4.95 for 12 months on the Plus Plan.(this promo starts promo Wednesday, April 27th! – Get it here )

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You hopefully now have a good overall understanding of the differences between shared and managed(optimised) WordPress hosting. In short: If you’re running a WordPress website and have $12 to $19 a month to spare, you should almost certainly make the switch to a managed WordPress host.

A good hosting plan you choose can often directly influence your website’s earnings! So make the right choice and get on with starting your website today, without wasting any more time. Goodluck!

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How to get a Cheap domain from godaddy ?

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my discount offer claimed from godaddy.com australia

Go daddy is one of the  biggest discount domain providers in the world  and now its come to Australia. Go daddy  has been my regular domain provider even  before  they started to offer Australian domains and now you can avail of cheap  Australian domain from  godaddy.

I had to buy a domain for one of my clients  and so decided to  write about and show you guys how to get a domain for cheap from godaddy.com. I managed to get my domain for $2.95  with the after tax + icann fees  price of $3.64 AUD total.

I personally  buy from godaddy as i  like to  have a person that i can speak to if i run into problems  and go daddy has that customer service (24/7) even if it is based in America. I normally use skype to chat with them, which is on rare occasions

 

How i  got a $2.95 domain from godaddy.com

How to claim your Discount  go daddy offer while valid

  • Got to godaddy.com website ( my discount aff link)
  • Enter the domain that you want to buy ( find the one you want)  and click buy .. go to the check out page
  • Go to the check out page, there will be a  column down on the page ..where you can enter the coupon code ( provide below).Enter this coupon code and click claim  before you confirm the order
  • If the coupon is no more valid you can continue to buy at normal rates.

 

Above is a screen shot of how i got a domain for  $2.95 by  using promo offer.

Here are some coupon codes you can use [updated 2019 codes]

website builder discounts

Save 30% Off All New GoDaddy Products!

Use the promo code above to save 30% off new products and renewals. While this is the best promo code, it’s also a bit finicky: it works for some products but not others. If it doesn’t work, try one of the many coupons below.

Coupon Code: cjc2off30

 

99 Cents For a .WEBSITE Domain Name:

Buy a .WEBSITE domain name for just 99 cents for the first year.

Coupon Code: cjcwebsite

 

New GoDaddy Coupon Code: Save 35% Off Site-Wide:

This promo code works for nearly every kind of purchase for new GoDaddy products. But you will still save on nearly everything that GoDaddy offers: domains (including top-level domains like .NET and .ORG), as well as all types of web hosting: shared, VPS and more.

Coupon Code: CJCRMN35MB

 

Get WordPress Web Hosting For Just $1/Month:

Interested in starting a WordPress site? This coupon code will save you over 80% off the regular cost of GoDaddy’s WordPress hosting plans!

Coupon Code: cjcwph1

 

Save $15 When You Spend Over $75:

Thanks to GoDaddy’s cancelling of renewal promo codes, this bulk discount promo code is the best deal out there: save $15 when you order $75. Obviously this means that renewing multiple products at one time will save you the most money. So if you renew your domain and hosting at the same time, you will easily top $100 and then you can qualify for the full $15 discount.

Coupon Code: cjc30c

 

 

RENEWAL CODES

GoDaddy Hosting Renewal Promo Code: Save 20% On Hosting

This code is still working for hosting renewals. If you have GoDaddy hosting coming up then you may want to renew now, before these promo codes start to disappear forever

Coupon Code: hostvip20

 

GoDaddy Domain Renewal Coupon: Save $10 On Orders Over $50

This promo code is one of the only codes still working for renewals, and is probably the best promo code for domain renewals: save $10 on orders over $50. If you renew your .COM domain for 2 years, you will qualify for the discounted pricing.

Coupon Code: ACOSKS65

 

Save 20% Off a Your Domain Name Renewal:

This coupon will give you 20% off Domain Renewals. This promo code will work for .COM’s, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ and more.

Coupon Code: cjc1off30

 

SSL Certificates From $59.99/Year:

Make your website secure and get a ranking boost with a $59.99/year with this discount code.

Coupon Code for $59.99: cjcssl17

$5.99 Deal SSL Certificate

 

Here are some domains  with ridiculous PRICES that i decided to give the miss below

babytraining.com A4,784.64

4784.64 dollars

TrainingBaby.com A$1,047.52

trainingbaby.com

Childtraining A$2,165.26

childtraining.com

The domain i ended up buying (not provide for obvious privacy reasons)came to $3.64 after tax  and i am not complaining   as i was able to snare a good domain for a cheap price ..look at the snapshot of the RIDICULOUS domain prices that i did not buy above .

 

Here is one of my other posts where i grabbed a cheap domain ( no more available)

Freelancer Not so good after all

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They are mulling a release on  the stock market (freelancer.com) , and i was also thinking of participating  and buying some of their IPO  stock , but after I checked my email this week and saw that  i got charged $5.89 for nothing from freelancer.com, i  changed my mind. I’m no more buying any Shares in freelancer.com if it lists on  the stock market and just  started looking for alternatives for freelancer to get my freelancing  jobs done . Any company that has a sneaky tactic to charge you more and more fees, even while not providing a service can be termed bit off a rip off IMHO.

the rip off from my paypal account by freelancer

Not PayPal’s fault … just freelancer taking money outta my paypal

I had to  do a bit of further investigation to see why i was charged when i didn’t even use their service in the last month or so. I found out  after their last upgrade they  actually upgraded my account to the  Basic membership rather than the $0 fee account, which is wrong in my opinion , you just cant upgrade an existing  no fee account to basic account which automatically starts to charge your account regularly  for money when  you don’t even use that account. .

basic account versus free account at freelancer

If they were fair dinkum they would  automatically  change all the accounts to the $0  no fees account (rather than basic where users started getting charged suddenly)  and then whoever wanted to upgrade  could do so themselves.

 

i got ripped of by freelancer

 

Result:

I immediately  downgraded my freelancer account to $0 fees

 

why is freelancer charging me fees

and  cancelled freelancer authorisation to my paypal account  so that they cant force bill me anymore. I can see many people going forward  looking for alternatives  other than freelancer who are using these kinds of tactics that  lets down that trust of users and secondly also  increasing and  charging quite a hefty fee rapidly  for doing transactions with them. They are services out there that charge less than 40 % of what they charge and  I will be using them from now on.

I’m not telling that freelancer is not a good service , i have used them for my projects  but when they do this kind of stuff it lets down your trust  and you are forced to look elsewhere . Let me know if you have been a victim of the same predicament.

 

UPDATE : EVEN MORE disturbing

I got this email after downgrading … Even more P*** off now

You have successfully downgraded to a free membership. Your membership will remain active until Oct 21, 2013.

Online blogs that are making money – Australia

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People think it’s easy to blog and make money, but things have changed in the blogging scene. This six figure blogpost has needed an update for a while, and so I am updating it for 2018.

The best  way to make money online is to follow  the people who actually  are doing it, unfortunately in the online world  Google slaps a Google penalty if you literally do that by copying successful bloggers . The sad reality is that some are just floggin it , while some are really blogging.

You could  follow the successful money makers and learn some stuff, but they will never really reveal the real money making secrets.

I have been blogging for the last 10 years. Writing a blog is no more about just writing a 400 word article and getting a lot of eyeballs to your article. It involves a lot more.

Yet even today they are many $5000 a month $10,000 a month bloggers and some top bloggers earning $20k plus a month.

Today the fashion and food bloggers niche has become popular and there has been an exponential rise in women bloggers too. The gadget and technology niche has always been a favourite niche for people to blog about and so is a very competitive niche too.

Follow the Top bloggers to become a money making blogger

But  there are some that up to a certain extent reveal the blogging secrets, and the smart people with the keen eye can get the clues from their posts and blog to apply them techniques on their own blogs. Making money online is a hard game  and I got some of my favourite bookmarked blogs that give me regular useful information about this methodology, that you might find useful too.

Some of the blogs that I follow, surely are some of the biggest money earners on the internet,  but in relation to handing out any useful tips to making money,  only a few of these blogs occasionally post anything useful when they are not flogging stuff to their viewers or subscribers.

So I have ranked and listed these blog’s below in order of importance to me – and for you.

Some of these  unfortunately as John Chow states, have pretty much become “internet marketing whores”  and they sometimes are blogs  that “who flog, more than they blog”  ( Yeh Yeh !! sure  John Chow – look who’s talking)

Check out these blogs for making money online

 

New websites ( 2018 Update)

MakingSenseOfCents.com ( Michelle)

michells blog

Michelle is said to earn $110,284.31 a month. However you can check her recent earnings on her blog  as well.

The income sources of Michelle’s blog is from Affiliate Products, Online Courses, Sponsorship and Direct Ads

 

 

pinch of yumm

 

https://pinchofyum.com  – Pinch of yum

This blog is a recipe and food blog that has made it big. its been around for a while and  started making money with adsense and then affiliate products, advertising, recipe books. The blog is run by Lindsay and Bjork and they used to publish their income reports, but have stopped doing them now.

They started off with earning as low as $20 a month and now are earning well over $20k a month.  Huffingtonpost reports, 

This was their 12-month profit: $483,883.51

 

 

1. Chris  Guthrie – http://www.makemoneyontheinternet.com/

makemoney online chris guthrie amazon

Making his money selling on amazon  , from his blog and now makes money buying and selling websites and also now bombards me with emails selling software  and plugins daily which is just about starting to annoy me with  its increased frequency . But he still dishes out good stuff , so ill hang on for a while receiving those emails 

2. Glen – – http://www.viperchill.com/

glen viper chill blog adsense marketing online

Makes money from his blog, amazon  and other projects . Has a wealth of seo optimization information

I recently  tried his  opt in membership plugin without much success and some precious real estate  taken up on mu blog  but then  found out  that i can get  members more by just making my request more visible on blog  on popular posts and  making the request more actionable and  so now  don’t need his plugin. But his Blog posts are AWESOME  so yeh  ” look it up “

3. Michael Gray – http://www.wolf-howl.com/

wolf howl blog Michael gray affiliate marketing

Michael blogs about a good mix of everything like SEO, driving traffic , Blog optimization and more. I like his blogs name “wolf –Howl” and he always has excellent images to go with his post which makes his blog look so good. ( hmm… hes climbed up to no 4 ranking on google.com.au for SEO Blog ..good luck buddy to the top )

4. Darren Rowse – http://www.problogger.net/

aussie blogger darren rowse affiliate adsense amazon

Had to put in fellow aussie blogger “Darren Rowse” on this list, he not only has quite detailed posts on how he started earning his money online  from his forums , but also detailed posts on how he earns money from his blogs , amazon  and how he drives traffic , build memberships  and makes money from affiliates.Dig deep into his blog to get  a wealth of information.

4. John Chow – http://www.johnchow.com/

internet marketing whores and john chow affiliates

He used to publish interesting stuff   that really helped  making money online, blogging and does  that now only once in a while ,in the meantime  he is just flogging stuff , software  etc  from his website.

5. Shoemoney – http://www.shoemoney.com

shoemoney and internet whores affiliate adsense adwords

I used to follow shoemoney quite fervently 4 to 5 years ago when he used to blog quite useful  and details posts on makingmoneyonline , making money from AdSense ,  Adwords strategy and blog optimization , but now he just  posts pic’s of himself with good looking chicks and  occasionally  writes some detailed informative posts on SEO and  other stuff as mentioned above.

 

My blog Digital grog is already the  “NO.1 on the google  Australian search” for the term “DigitalGrog”  and bookmark us  to see whats trending and how we improve our blog.

Check out my posts of how to help make your blog popular with google with  SEO and other E- Marketing and affiliate tricks,  specifically check out  our these posts that might help you speed up your blog popularity.

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Top picks for Blog Website Hosting for Australians in 2019

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Starting your own blog for Australia. Read our latest website building and hosts comparisons for 2018 before you get started building your successful business website or blog. Use our step by step guide to make your website blog quickly and within minutes.

Holiday Gifts and online spending surge benefits e-marketers

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Its that part of the year  when everybody is ready to splurge  and indulge in a little bit  a fancy gadgets  or  clothing. With the increase in online presence of  designer clothing lines, perfume shops and gadgets and  electronic and computer accessories  anyone or everyone can now compare and shop with a click of a mouse , also to benefit of many in the e-marketing  Industry. The ease of set up of a e shop  has the e-commerce advantages in the price factor over setting up a brick and mortar shop has further advanced this  sector.

online sales selling ipad iphone

Online spending habits for 2011- 2012

The boxing day sales  and then the Christmas rush will see the online sales booming over this holiday period , so what has been selling like hotcakes online.

According to many online news and  electronic websites, gadgets seem to be one of the favourite gifts this happy season wether if was bough online or then  through a brick and mortar shop.  Australian online news journal SMH says its Bricks versus clicks this holiday season , as online stores battle with retail shops. In fact  the brick and  mortar shops have joined the Online shopping revolution  with J B HI FI  and  Harvey Norman opening their very own cheap prices Direct import online shops.

Top selling / Sales  for Online Gadgets

PC magazine says “iOS Devices Dominate Mobile Online Shopping” which will certainly see the smart e-marketers make a move on this one. They say “Statistics released this week from the retail analysis firm Rich Relevance indicate that iPads and iPhones are the top mobile devices that consumers use to make retail purchases”  . According to IBM, the iPhone and iPad ranked first and second for consumer shopping on mobile devices on Black Friday on of the High traffic Sales day in the US.

“For the holiday season through Dec. 18, nearly $32 billion has been spent online, a 15 percent increase versus the corresponding days last year” says ecreditdaily.com.

The guardian.co.uk says that e-retailing group Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) forecasts in “UK consumers will spend £186m online on Christmas Day, a retail group forecasts, with the Boxing Day spend expected to be in excess of £365m” One of the popular UK online selling websites is “Argos” .

Popular online sales In UK

The most popular items were audio equipment, laptops , tablets  and gaming items, but customers also snapped up domestic appliances such as kettles, fryers, slow cookers, toasters and vacuum cleaners which were also popular in the stores.

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Top Bloggers Australia – Get a blog !! Chuck your day job

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Yes that’s right , you can actually earn a  living   surfing the net , buying new gadgets  and getting paid for it , Making vides using your smartphone. Pretty much  you can make a living using your internet connection at home.

Have blog –  Will make money

You type in “making money online” or “making money on the internet” and you will finds heaps and heaps off websites  selling you  a formula to get rich quick  or a story   of how  “jack started earning six sum figures just starting a blog” , but how do you know who is right  and who is just faking it.

Well here are some  bloggers ( Darren Rowse, Video journalists ( Natalie Tran) , and lifestyle commentators ( karen cheng ) and  gadget gurus ( neerav bhatt) that  have done just that , started earning six sum figures ($100,000 and even more ) just by starting a blog or a website  and gaining a huge loyal fan following.

What all of them seem to agree on in one way of the other is , that you gotta be loyal to your game ( i.e make up interesting an original content  to regularly bring in that eyeballs to your blog  and grow it bigger and bigger with more interesting and upto date stuff) and it all does not happen overnight.

Here is a list of some of the people who  earn enough money online to chuck their day time job. that is if they have not already done it

Australian Six figure bloggers

 

1. http://www.problogger.net/ – Darren Rowse

darren-rowse australia blogger

Darren rowse  is a  35 year old Australian living in Melbourne. He is a full time blogger making a living from the Internet since 2004/5. read his story  here  – becoming-a-problogger/

2. http://www.karencheng.com.au/ – Karen Cheng

karen cheng australian top blogger

Karen Cheng runs a Fashion Blog and blogs about – food, family, and special daily moments. Karen’s blog was created in 1999.

3. http://www.neeravbhatt.id.au/ – Neerav Bhatt

Neerav Bhatt

Neerav bhatt blogs about  Technology Reviews, Personal Finance, Movies and TV Shows, Politics, Environment, Book reviews and more in his rambling thoughts blog.

4. http://www.youtube.com/user/communitychannel – Natalie Tran ($101,000 per year – http://exploredia.com/10-highest-paid-youtube-partners/)

Natalie_Tran australian top earner youtube

Natalie Tran is a 23-year-old second generation Vietnamese Australian.Tran, who creates her videos at her parents’ home in western Sydney, has eschewed titillation in favour of clever skits about her life. Her three most popular clips, with millions of views each, are “How to fake a six pack“, “The ultrasound” and “Bending at the knees for love“.

This is a pretty old video now but showcases what they do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbmLPOi6bRw

 

If you like my this post  you might wanna check out my other post’ s on “Money making blogs” and “starting a blog to make money” and “how to create a successful online blog”

Some other bloggers  worth keeping an eye on to see what  are the hottest trends  and news on money making are benjamin Teo , Nikhil Parekh