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“I am playing the odds here. But, barring readers like Brian Clark, Andy Beard, Michel Fortin, or Dean Hunt, I am reasonably sure that this 14 year old kid from the Philippines blogs better than you do. Probably makes more money than you do too…”
- Jack Humphrey
Hi, my name is Carl Ocab the guy behind the .com, or as many call me the “Kidblogger”. I’m a 14-year old kid from the beautiful archipelago Philippines.
Ok, wow. I’m a 14-year old talking and teaching people how to make money online - there has been a humongous controversy around that so I figured out to write a, let’s say… brief look at my past.
Here’s my story…
I got my first computer at the age of four and got involved in the internet when I was 10. Playing online games, chatting with friends, networking, etc. I got so addicted that I had to use my own allowance to buy an internet prepaid card. Dial up was the best because broadband or cable internet wasn’t on my dictionary yet.
There was a time where I was on five hours straight! My dad then noticed me and asked “What will you get from those online games? You’ve been playing that all the time.”. Thinking of a hole to get through I replied “Well uh, I’ll beat my friends!”. He then got back with a joke “That’s fine, all of us needs to enjoy life. But all day? Those games are eating your TIME and MONEY, what will you get in the longrun?”. Of course we both laughed, but that day while I was playing our conversation was running on my head again and again.
After a week, I got so curious that I asked my dad “What’s a better thing to do, I know you stay on the computer longer than me.” Then he introduced me to blogging - blogging to make money. For a kid, making money on the net sounds to be virtually impossible. Heck, even for grown-ups! So I kept on listening, then came AdSense, link building and some minor SEO techniques.
A month after that, I was on myself making some blogs at blogspot with aggregated content and big AdSense ads on it. Made some quick cash but it wasn’t enough to keep me from what I was doing so I stopped.
Then comes a new hobby - music. I joined a band in our school, played a couple of times but then again, all didn’t work out. So there I am back again with online gaming…
Yes you guessed it, few months after that I was back on internet marketing again. I tried it for the second time and started to take it seriously.
I asked a domain from my dad, and got my first blog/forum website (It was about the online game I was playing). He guided me a bit but the work was up to me. I created original content, did a little promotion and a dash of SEO.
Since then I started seeing real bucks on my part. I made a system and duplicated what I have done and started seeing more and more each day.
Why YOU should listen to me
First things first, let’s start with the achievements of this blog. Although let’s make it unique this time, I’ll break the long paragraphs and bullet point it all. Cool?
- I’m number one in Google for the keyword “Make Money Online” after only seven months of optimization - and I’m holding that position since then
- I’ve been featured on our national newspaper twice
- I’ve talked and got featured by some of the top notch internet marketers in the block like Joel Christopher, Jack Humphrey, Rosalind Gardner, Nick Marks and many more
- Almost all of my advertisements are sold out. Leaving me $x,xxx monthly
Talking about experience, I’ve entered the internet marketing world a year and a half ago and I must say, my mind is bursting with rock solid information.
You see, when you’re online things are going so fast. Really fast. With a quick search, you can learn how your grandma made that special brownies that she gives you every Christmas. Or do your school report in less than five minutes - that could take someone in the library for hours! With that said, I guess you agree with me that a year offline is equivalent to seven or MORE years online.
But as my favorite speaker/master of strategic change/negotiation expert/all around nice guy Anthony Robbins puts it:
“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”
Make money online with a 13-year old
Carl Ocab dot com wasn’t the ol’ “Make money online with a 13-year old” blog before. My first try was a tech blog (I generated 30 posts then, it’s funny why I deleted them all, heh) although I love tech so much, I wasn’t too inspired to blog about it.
My quest on niche hunting started once more. I started blogging about gossip news, health and so much more that again, didn’t work :-P
I surfed, searched and thought. While I was on my daily routine, I stumbled upon a “Make money online” blog. He has these big banners on his site that says “Advertise here for $xx a month”. Man, I was saying on my head “Wow, that banner single banner makes more than me ol’ forum” and that gave me the idea to relaunch Carl Ocab dot com with the main goal to share my experiences and results on my journey to making money online.
The name was a tricky one, “Make money online with a 13-year old” didn’t just came from nowhere. Me and my dad had to think about it for weeks. As a marketer himself, my dad tried to look for a unique side of my blog that would draw curiosity and would make my blog stand out from others because the “Make money online” niche was so saturated.
Why it’s still 13
Many have asked me “Carl you’re already 14 why don’t you change that tag line of yours.” My dad and I have debated this for a long time.
I haven’t changed it because the blog’s title became my title. When you say “Make Money Online with a 13-year old” People would say that that is Carl Ocab, changing it to 14 would mess up my brand and the whole thing so to play safe, we have agreed and kept the 13-year old title.
Am I really a kid?
No more talkies, check these out:
The Kidblogger Meets The MasterListBuilder
Personal encounter with the Kidblogger (Newspaper article)
Straight from a Kidblogger “Make Money Online with a 14-Year old” (No online version)
What people have been saying
Carl Ocab is one of the most successful teenage bloggers on the net. But remarkably, Carl was just 13 years old when he rose to fame with his hugely popular “make money online” website: www.carlocab.com
When I first heard that there was a 13 year old making blogging waves, I had to check it out, and I am glad I did. I contacted Carl and helped get one of his interviews on the Digg.com homepage with the headline: “Mommy, can I cash my Google Cheque yet?”
We really hit it off since, and I have been keen to interview him here at DeanHunt.
Despite being 13 years old and not a native English speaker, Carl has proved that if you are passionate enough, then no obstacles are too high…
It’s hard to believe that a 14 year old kid who started his blog just this past summer, would rank #1 on Google for a highly competitive keyword phrase like “make money online”, isn’t it?
Well, it’s true.
After attempts to make money online with a tech blog and then a gossip blog failed, Carl Ocab says he was “Heavily Inspired by my Dad, I tried my best to find a broad topic that I can blog about for ages”, so he started blogging about how to “Make Money Online with a 13-year old”.
What a great hook…
I am playing the odds here. But, barring readers like Brian Clark, Andy Beard, Michel Fortin, or Dean Hunt, I am reasonably sure that this 14 year old kid from the Philippines blogs better than you do. Probably makes more money than you do too. Sad yet?
In fact, if you didn’t know his age before you checked out his site, you’d never in a million years guess Carl Ocab was so young. He has better delivery than many people trying to make money blogging who are 3 times his age. He has a grasp of blog marketing that people doing this twice as long as him still haven’t mastered…
