January 20, 2009 By 12 Comments

Money Transfer Control Number (MTCN) Not Found!

I was having problem when I want to cashout my Google Adsense earning from Western Union. I went to the counter, gave my Money Transfer Control Number (MTCN) to the bank accountant, after awhile he said, “Sorry sir. Your MTCN is not found in our system. Please re-check your MTCN.”

Maybe I wrote it wrong. So I opened up my Notes from my Nokia N73ME (I saved the number in my phone) and gave him my Google Adsense MTCN to the accountant. But still, the system showed no MTCN found. I back home with frustrated emotion.

I thought I have lost my earnings but actually, it is not. The money is still there but maybe there are some bugs with the Western Union system so it cannot find my MTCN.

Luckily, I am not the only person who facing the problem. There are some publishers who also having the same problem like me.

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September 17, 2008 By 21 Comments

Advertlets Still Hasn’t Paid Me Yet

On 8th January 2008, I requested to cashout my earnings from Advertlets. The amount that I want to cashout is RM160. Although it is not much but at that time I was a student. With RM160, I can buy lots of things and I can eat at McDonalds. Well…you know, students. Like to eat fastfood when they have extra cash in their hands.

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But untill now, I still did not get any cheques from Advertlets. The status still showing processing. I have sent support request but they never replied. I don’t know why they still keep my cashout in processing although 8 months have past.

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May 13, 2008 By 8 Comments

Email from AdSense Team to accept Terms and Conditions

cypher-headacheThis morning I got an email from Google AdSense asking me to accept the latest changes in their Terms and Conditions. In the email, it stated that I haven’t accepted the changes and asked me to login into my account and follow the instructions to accept the changes.

I did login into my account but there is no instruction or popup or link asking me to accept their latest Terms and Conditions. I saw Terms and Conditions link at the end of the page and I clicked it. But then, it only displays the Terms and Conditions that last updated was 25th February 2008.

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December 12, 2007 By 7 Comments

Not enough ads? Google gives more ads

Today I found something that is weird on my Google Adsense.

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Can you see what the white arrow pointing to? Yes, that is the weird images or characters or arrows or anything that you want to call it. I was too curious and I hover my cursor on one of the arrows and the colour changed. I assumed it might be another new feature that Google put onto my adsense. Then I clicked it.

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December 10, 2007 By 12 Comments

GrabMyAds – Helping bloggers earn better and easier

Today I got an invitation email from GrabMyAds. But hey, what is GrabMyAds? Then I clicked on the link and it sent me to GrabMyAds website.

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GrabMyAds – Helping bloggers earn better and easier is another advertising company based in Malaysia. They just launched their service on 21st November 2007. It is still new but not sure how new it really is (read my post below). So we have three advertising companies in Malaysia — GrabMyAds, Nuffnang and Advertlets. So what makes GrabMyAds is different than the others?

Hurm…I don’t see any clear differences between three of them but what I can say is, GrabMyAds target blogs as their main customer. There is no traffic qualification needed. Even you have zero visit per day you still can participate in this advertising programme. They also will give you real time statistics and detailed reports about your blogs after you put their script into your blog.

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October 27, 2007 By 14 Comments

5 tips to increase Adsense earnings

I’m not the expert in Adsense but I would like to share my experience and knowledge about how you can increase your Adsense earnings. I’m sure many of you already know what is Adsense. Adsense is a way for you as the publishers to earn money from your site. As for the advertisers, you can get more traffics to your website by using the advertising programme from Adsense. It is a win-win situation. Ok, let’s go to the main point of this article, 5 tips to increase Adsense earnings .

The first time I got accepted into Google Adsense programme, I was so excited because I know that I can start making big money from it. But I was wrong. By get accepted into Adsense does not mean you can earn the money easily. The money that I got for the first five months were very low. It was about $2 or $3 per month. But after I read articles, do some experiments, asked opinions from Adsense experts other Adsense users, I end with these tips. And these tips have increase my Adsense earnings.

1. Use large ad size – First what I did to my site was, I use large ad size. The theory is simple. The bigger the size, the higher chances the visitors will click the ads. Large ad size serves more ads (3 or 4 ads per ad unit) and it gives more choices for visitors to click.

2. Place above the article – Next, put the ad unit above the article. As you can see on my website, the ad is placed above the article, below the title. So far, this is the best place if you want to place your Adsense ad. My CTR has increased since I put the large rectangle ad on that place.

3. Choose same colour – Third, make sure that your ad scheme colour is same with your website scheme. The ad background colour should be the same with your website background colour. This implies to the link and the text. Some readers might thought that they are links from your site and not ads. So your chance to earn more money will increase.

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October 4, 2007 By 2 Comments

Text Link Ads coupon for October 2007

Get your chance to save 15% for all orders that you made in October. Just enter “holidays” into the coupon code at the checkout and you will save 15% of the price.

What is Text Link Ads? Text Link Ads or TLA in short is a service that gives good benefits to publishers and advertisers. For the publishers, they can earn money from their website by selling text link ads. The price is depends on the PR, Alexa rank, the link placement and some other criteria. Beside than that, you also can earn more money by asking other peoples or your friends to join TLA.

For advertisers, they can buy links directly from TLA. TLA listed down websites that sell links and advertisers can choose which websites that they want to advertise. By buying links, the advertisers can increase their PR and even can increase the visitors. That is why they don’t mind to cash out some money to buy links. But don’t forget if you want to buy links in this month, enter “holidays” into the coupon code to get 15% discount.

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August 24, 2007 By 8 Comments

Text Link Ads uses TinyURL

I got an email today from Text Link Ads regarding their new affiliate URLs. In that email they stated that TLA has begun using TinyURL service to shorten and secure their affiliate links.

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I’m not sure what kind of mechanism TinyURL uses to secure the affiliate links. As far as I know, TinyURL is use to hide and shorten the URLs only but not to secure them. But I need to replace all of my TLA affiliate links that I use on my website to the new URL. I have to do this because after one week from now, the old TLA affiliate link will not work anymore.

Extra reading: Hide your Affiliate Links using PHP file

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July 1, 2007 By 4 Comments

My first earning from FeedBurner Network

After joining FeedBurner Network months ago, I have make some money from the Ad Revenue Share. At first, my website was only has low feed subscribers. But after I did some advertising at some popular websites (some of you may noticed it :p ) the feed subscriber number has increased.

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And today, I got a notification email from Paypal says that I have earned some USD from FeedBurner Ad Revenue Share Payment for Apr-07.

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June 1, 2007 By 3 Comments

New Advertiser Campaigns by Nuffnang

Like Hong Kiat, I also very excited to see this new advertiser campaigns by Nuffnang (more about Nuffnang). Starting from this Sunday, Nuffnang will launching Cost Per Click (CPC) and Cost Per Action (CPA) campaigns.

The payout range for a click is between RM0.50 – RM5.00. And I think, bloggers will love to hear this great news because at least they will get a RM0.50 from Nuffnang. :)

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