Pinoy Six-Figure Blogger

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief October 13, 2005 · 1 min read

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Everytime I chat with some bloggers either online or during eyeballs/meet-up, one of the most frequently asked questions thrown at me was “how much are you earning from Adsense?” or “who else is earning significantly from AdSense?”. I don’t usually give out exact figures cause I don’t know if it’s really okay for my fellow bloggers that I reveal their earnings to others.

Anyway, I’m just breaking the news here that Markku of RebelPixel is already a six-figure blogger, at least in Philippine peso terms. His biggest earner would be his Lyrics blog at lyrics.rebelpixel.com.

Well, who else? Everybody knows Connie is already a six-figure blogger and I guess close to getting the 7-figure anytime soon. :D I got into the six figures about 2 or 3 months ago but I never realized it until now.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and is considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines.

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36 Comments

Zubben Garg · 6 years ago

I got a lot of help after reading this post

digital experts · 13 years ago

Wow, incredible blog layout! How long have you been blogging for?

you make blogging look easy. The overall look of your
web site is excellent, let alone the content!

jose · 19 years ago

My adsense boosted from 1 USD last month to 2 USD today. toink!

Andre · 21 years ago

Scraping, taking content from other pages, usually for use to put op other websites, if done through automated processes (scripts etc) can make a lot of spam websites which generate income through some kind of advertising. Might earn little and the sites are crap but in the end a lot of a little makes a lot. So lets all hope Google gets smarter and smarter so spammers won’t win.

Andre · 21 years ago

whos that scraper! :) heh hmm $10,000 US a month, name people, need a name

AnP · 21 years ago

what is scraping?

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 21 years ago

@ andre

No Pinoy ($) 6-figure bloggers yet. But I heard from the bushes that some Pinoy is earning almost Php 0.5M a month from scraping. But that’s not legit. hehehe

Mike · 21 years ago

The industry is promising. US blogger salaries can run into six figures.

markku · 21 years ago

Andre, your math’s good, but your computation is bad. It should be 22x250x12 (or 13).
That’s less than 70,000 pesos a year.

Andre · 21 years ago

So are there any pinoy 6 figure USD$ bloggers?

markku · 21 years ago

Uy special mention ako ah! :) 100k a year for blogging isn’t really big in peso terms, but that’s enough to sustain my “miscellaneous” spendings.

What’s really important is that blogging can take you places, it can be fun and profitable too. Just keep the day job. ;)

Andre · 21 years ago

100k a year?
whats min dialy wage? P250x365 = P91,250, thats almost 6 figures :)

ManuelV · 21 years ago

Not a lot? Saan mo naman pupulutin ang P120K? :-)

Your post got me so excited, I got confused and called you Yuga instead of Abe.

Basta. Even if it’s in Pesos, and even if it’s an annual figure, who would’ve thought that publishing online would bring income to Pinoys, right?

Imagine, Pinoys can put up a blog for free at Blogspot, for example. For a low internet cafe fee, they can write and publish online, earn and bring dollars into the country.

Not a lot? Guess again. =)

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 21 years ago

Hi Manuel,

As Markku and I hinted, it’s in Philippine Peso and yearly. That means, if you get around Php10K a month from AdSense alone, that makes you a six-figure blogger for the whole year (~Php120k/annually).

Not a lot really much though but it’s a start. My figures are based on my blog here alone though and does not include other blog and non-blog sites which I have AdSense running.

ManuelV · 21 years ago

Whoa… You’re hitting at least US$1,785/month two or three months ago? Congratulations, Yuga! It’s inspiring to learn of your success, and this will help motivate other Pinoy bloggers to continue working hard. :-)