Exhange Lelong Points for Cash $$$

I had the strangest email two days ago! A dude emailed me and asked me if i wanted to Convert my Lelong Points (or Lelong money) into REAL Cash!!

Ah but why not?

I checked out his lelong site and he's a hard core seller on lelong with dozens of pages selling almost anything u want.

I was curious why he wanted my Lelong Points?

And then he graciously replied that he needed the lelong points to help him pay off things that he auctions off on lelong.com.my


Hmmmmm...... anyone done this before? Should i?





[tags : delephant lelong exchange ]

Advertlets New Leaderboard Ad

I was always wondering when would Advertlets come up with a Bigger Ad Design that would fit on top of my blogs.

Was really happy when I received a mail from Josh today informing that a couple of us got selected to test out Advertlets New Leaderboard Ad Design.



The Leaderboard AD (i am sure u can see it on top) is 728 x 90 in size, and if i didn't read his message wrongly, the potential of cpm earnings would be much greater thru this ad size!!!



We're testing it out for now ... and i hope to see the earnings go up!! :)









[tags : delephant fun new leaderboard advertlets ]

Advertlets auto forwards to AdBaaz

It was funny when i logged into advertlets.com this morning and to find that they seem to have a new layout.

Then when i looked closer i realized that at the top of the webpage, that the Advertlets Domain has expired!!



I was like NOooooooooooooo!!! How come advertlets website is down? I hope its only temporal.



When i googled "Advertlets expired" i found Danny Foo's website explaining that two things that was happening, one was that the domain for Advertlets was expired and secondly if u had the Advertlets code on your blog, it was forwarding it to some funny adbaaz site!!

And the first comment on Danny's Blog was from Josh Lim who said that Advertlets was not closed!! I am glad to hear it.. but i sure do hope that Advertlets fixes its domain problem fast!!!



So what to do?

I didn't want all my web traffic to go do adbaaz.com so the next best thing to do was to go to all my blogs ... sigh one by one .. and remove all the Advertlets code from it!

No choice lor ... it was a painful process .... rather it was long and tedious cos the codes were in some of the Widgets in the Page Element and then there were some codes that was in the HTML section!!!

So aiyoh lah ... step by step have to remove them until it was all gone!!

Otherwise .... if you tried to come to this blog, it would have auto directed you to some funny website on adbaaz!

I do hope that Advertlets fixes the problem fast and that the domain / site will be stable!!

Let's see what happens next!!

Curiously .... RedesignMalaysia.com .. which is one of Josh Lim's blog is also down!!


There's a FAQ site that has been set up on Advertlets.blogspot.com Click on it to get some answers to what's been happening today!!







[tags : delephant advertlets adbaaz advertlets expired advertlets down blog auto forward]

How to Convert Planet Pulse Points to $$$$$ Money?

Have you joined Planet Pulse yet? They are an online Survey company that sends you periodic surveys to complete in your email inbox. I always get excited when a Planet Pulse survey comes in. The best part is because we earn US Dollars for each survey completed.

The highest paying survey i've every received was USD40 (or 400 pulses). Not bad eh? It normally takes about 15-20 mins of your time. Just answer truthfully and flow with the questionaire.

Planet Pulse has a rule that you can only withdraw your pulses (USD) when you have earned over 2,500 pulses (or USD 250). I actually have not checked for a few months and when i checked this week i have over 3,000 pulses!! WOO HOO!!! :) - happiness!

Then i went to the PAYMENT screen, to see how can i bring my USD300+ out?

The only sad thing about Planet Pulse is that it pays out via two sources.

1. Pay Pal - if you have an active account they can pay direct to your PayPal account. But i was told we (Malaysians) can't withdraw money out of PayPal. So i don't want USD300 to be stucked in Pay Pal


2. MOL Freedom Card. I was like...... HUH???!!!! What in the world is that.

So the next thing was I googled MOL Freedom and found out that its a EON Bank Prepaid MasterCard co-brand with MOL.

The easiest way to get a MOL Freedom card was to buy one at 7-Eleven. It cost RM25, and that's the charge you will ever pay. There's no more annual fee thingy or any other payment.

Then the MOST important question .. ..... Can i withdraw money from the card? After reading thru the terms of the card online, i found out that you CAN WITHDRAW from the card at any EON ATM machine .. like any regular bank card (link - point 8)

So ... off i went to 7-Eleven. The first 7-Eleven i entered said they were out of MOL Freedom Card. So i had to drive to another one. Finally at the second one, I bought the MOL Freedom Card for RM25.

NEXT (which i now find a pain), i have to get the card activated. You'll have to fill up the form (that's included in the starter pack) and mail it in the provided envelope (postage paid). I spoke to an EON bank staff and they said it will take about a week for the activation process to go thru and once its Activated, i can then withdraw my Pulses (USD) into the Card!!!

I can't wait for that to happen and to withdraw the money out!!! So check out this blog in about 10 days time... hopefully all KAU TIM by then!

So you have not signed up for Planet Pulse yet?

What are u waiting for?

Click on the Planet Pulse banner below NOW!!!!

[tags : delephant make money online survey planet pulse mol freedom card eon bank]

Why wait ONE month for your Google AdSense Checks? ONE DAY Cukup!

When i first received an email from Inside Adsense about the new payment method via Western Union from Google Adsense, I was rather in doubt!! So far all the adsense checks that I received have just been dumped into the closest Maybank Check Deposit Machine.

And yes... for those of you who have been doing a similiar thing, the flow of events happened like this

• 25 Sep : Google Adsense issues check
• 8 Oct : We receive the Adsense Check in Malaysia via mail
• 9 Oct : Drop the Check in Maybank Check Deposit Machine
• 6 Nov : The USD is converted into Ringgit and deposited into my account

Yeah it normally takes more than one and half months to get our money processed and converted from USD to Ringgit!! That is way tooooo long!!

So when i read that we now have a chance to speed up the entire exchange and conversion process, wah liau... i changed the payment type immediately from check to western union!!

Today, was the first time that we used the Western Union payment from Google Adsense. It was so simple. Unbelivable!!

• 25 Oct : Google Adsense Payment is paid
• The next day ... just drop to one of our local Malaysian bank that has Western Union and just fill up the Bank's Western Union form and you will get your money immediately.

I actually forgot that the payment came in on the 25th, so I only went to the Bank today. Since i was at the KLCC area, i popped over to the RHB Bank at Suria KLCC.

Before going out to the bank, i clicked on the Google Adsense Payment History and printed out the current month's payment details.

Then at RHB, i just filled up the Western Union "To Receive Money" Form and handed it to the bank teller together with my IC. And in 10 mins he called me to collect my cash in Ringgit!!! Yes that was it!! So so so simple and guess what?? You don't need to pay the "check transaction fee" that Maybank always charges!! AND AND .... RHB can collect Bonuslink points too for Western Union cash transfers!! :) hehe

SO now you must be wondering how do i switch the Google Adsense payment from Check to Western Union??

Simple :

1. Sign in to your account at www.google.com/adsense.
2. Visit the My Account tab.
3. Click the 'edit' link adjacent to the 'Payment Details' header.
4. Select the Western Union Quick Cash radio button.
5. Click 'Continue'.
6. Click 'Save Changes' to save your payment type.

So once you have set up your Google Adsense Account as above, then all you need to do when you next receive your Adsense payment is to :

1. Go to a Malaysian Bank that has Western Union (Locate one near u)
2. Bring the following info with you

• Your IC (or valid government-issued photo ID (Passport, Driver's license, National ID etc)
• Sender's information: Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA. Phone Number: 650-253-4000
• Amount of your payment, which you can find on your Payment History page
• Your unique MTCN (Money Transfer Control Number) which you can find by clicking on the 'details' link next to the Payment Issued line on your Payment History page
• (Actually all you need is your IC and Print the "Payment Issued Line", and that will have the MTCN number and Google's address and that's done!)

My suggestion to you guys who receive Google Adsense checks ... Do switch from Check to Western Union, cos it realy speeds up the whole process!! Hope u find the above experince useful!

[tags : delephant make money adsense western union adsense payments]

Some Interesting VENTURES for Malaysia

Here are some interesting shops that I saw at the Shopping Malls in Manila which I've not noticed in Malaysia yet. Perhaps some entrepreneur would like to bring this back to Malaysia.
It may just work!!

Good IDEAS for Malaysia

Now this is rather interesting. Its a Fast Food Joint

with a Chicken dressed as a Cowboy.

Most interestingly its called CHURCH Chicken. Mebbe because

Philippines is a Christian nation, mebbe that's why CHURCH Chicken works! :)

Mebbe Malaysia should be Surau Chicken or Masjid Chicken! :)

Daniel if you're reading this blog. .. mebbe u should do this!! :)

A Picture Retail Outlet to take pics of Kids and Family! So CooooL! :)

Blogged about this on the first day. A Hair Salon for Kids! I think it will

really work in Malaysia! And it should be set up in a MALL, and not a stand alone Salone

by the road or in the SS2 square area! Shopping Mall would reap better benefits !!

OOOOOOOhhhhhh I think I Should Start This!!

Its called BAG TAGs and all they do is just produced Tags for your Bags

using Disney Characters. They are quite updated, cos there was a logo of Ratatouille too.

And it was pretty decent to create one, and whilst we were there, the queue of people

creating tags never did stop! :)

In Malaysia's Malls .... we have lots of Waffle this, Waffle that.

But we don't have real Crepes (pronounced "Crap").

Check out the yummylicious Crepes with Ice Cream and sumptious toppings.

Ha ha Ha!! For those with a good & lame humour

This retail outlet may just work. Its just plain tee shirts

with SPOOF names. Like instead of FEDEX, its FEDUP

and of course some vulgarities were thrown into the Tees..

which i have so cleverly censored from this blog! :)

And MY MOST MOST Fav Idea ......

which i doubt will ever work in Malaysia.

MAJESTIC HAM!!

Doesn't it already sound yummy?

Lots of HAM variations! :) oooooh!! :) YEAH!

Psst so if u do start a business because u caught some great ideas from this Blog. Let me know ya! :) Not that i wanna take any credit... but its interesting to share what other countries have and what Malaysia does not have yet, and to see it come to fruition! :)

[tags : delephant manila travel]

Copy Cats!! Advertorial also must copy me?

Aiyoh .. its not that my "england" is very good and that my "vocab" is excellent. But to make money by writing an Advertorial for Advertlets ... write lah in your own words. . . ..

Why lah must copy me?

This dude copied every word and also the pictures (word for word, picture for picture) and posted it on his blog. How can? Plagarism to the MAX!! Cheating!!

This is our Original Advertorial : Earn RM20 or RM100 on the Fly with Adverlets

This is what was Plagarized! (he changed the Post Name only)
This is his link - http://fuiyoh.blogspot.com/2007/07/free-money-for-you.html

[tags : delephant fun stuff]

Earn RM20 or RM100 on the Fly with Adverlets

Advertlets is giving away RM20 and RM100 for a Write up on the Star Celeb event happening at 1Utama.

What's irritating, is that there's an age Criteria of 18 to 30 years. Don't they know i am 17 and that my reviews and hits can help promote this event too!!

Anyway .. since i don't qualify for the Blogvertorial Opportunity, will still be nice and share the INFO with u.

Here's what u need to do. This coming Sat & Sun (28 & 29) make sure u go early to 1U, go park your car there and line up from 11am onwards and you can witness the 1 Utama StarCeleb Roadshow.

Want more info?Surf here - http://www.starceleb.tv/






Want more pics? - Go here

[tags : delephant fun stuff]

I DISLIKE Collecting Mails from Pos Laju

I find this really really irritating!! I dunno why Pos Laju works this way, .... but each time when they try and send things to our home, and if we're not in, they would redirect the Pos Laju item to ..... SHAH ALAM!!

AIYOH!! How can it be so so far? So three days ago we received this Pos Laju slip. Called the Pos Laju Shah Alam on Friday and they said the would move it to the Brickfields Pos Laju by Sunday.

Meanwhile .. i was like .. who is mailing me Pos Laju stuff? Its so irritating, cos have to go and collect it from their office. I was like.... it better be a nice thing ..... and not some junk mail by a bank or credit card.

So on Sunday evening, i thot, hmmm i've got some time to spare, why don't i go pick it up. Drove all the way to Brickfields, .... brave the traffic jam in Bangsar (yes .. jam at 7ish on a Sunday nite!) and when I reached Pos Laju at Brickfields ..... guess what? TUTUP!!!! SIGH!!

Really one. .. SIGH!!

I was thinking, this Pos Laju thingy better be goooood!

Then today whilst at the office, i received a call .. .guess who? Josh called to see if we have received the Advertlets check and the pressies. I was like .. No .. not yet. U mean Advertlets have sent something?

Then the Light Bulb lit, Josh ... did u by any chance send the Advertlets check via Pos Laju this time?

OOooooh, and found out that was the "THING-lah" that's been causing so much grieve to collect the past days!

Josh ... thank you for the check. I mean ... GOOD THING it was a check that i was collecting and not some other flyers or brochures!! :)
[Josh if u ever get to read this ..... can u send the next check via normal mail pleeeeeze!!]

Advertlets gave two cute Button Badges together with the Cheque

Now have to think of how to use these two Button Badges ... cos Advertlets is giving away RM50 for the best & most creative idea using the two badges! :) hehe ... got any suggestions?

So far clicking on the other links on Advertlets blog, i think there's still a chance to grab the RM50!! But must think of something really out of the box! :) ..... an idea is brewing... :)

While clicking on the other BLOGS that Josh featured on Adverlets, just wanted to share with u this rather cute picture of PoP & Josh doing the infamous Smashin' pOp JUMP at a blog gathering. (Smashin' pOp hope u don't mind me borrowing the pic .. but i can only SMILE each time i visit your blog .. love your jumps!!)

See how pOp & Josh do the "Jump" - Hillarious!!!

[tags : delephant fun advertlets check makemoney]

Creative STICKERS from Advertlets

We were initially wondering ... WHY-LAH got stickers in the Mail?
Did they like accidently packed it in when mailing the check out to us?

THEN when we read Josh Lim's cover letter, .......... O I C!!! Advertlets is running another CONTEST.

The Top five creative Photos using Advertlets Stickers will win RM50!!

What do you think of our entries to Advertlets Team?

Photo Title: Advertlets My Cash Cow (version1)

Photo Title: Advertlets My Cash Cow (version2)

Photo Title : A for Advertlets

Advertlets (sticker) bridges our Money together! (Version1)

Photo Title : A for Advertlets
Advertlets (sticker) bridges our Money together! (Version2)

Photo Title : The Advertlets Cap

Advertlets puts a Covering over your Head!

[tags : delephant advertlets stickers makemoney]

Our First Check from Advertlets

Now this is HAPPINESS !! :)

Advertlets slogan is rather suitable for this situation : Advertlets = Money + Happy

Thank GOD for Advertlets, they have provided a 3 Digit Check for us. I sure do hope that we can grow it soon to a 4 Digit Check. :)

In the MAIL from Advertlets

We find it rather cute, that Advertlets mailed us some Stickers together with the Check. What shall we do with the Stickers? Stick it all over the Monitor? hehehe

Well we sure do know what to do with the check. We'll cash it in tomorrow! YAY!!!!

Thanks to Josh & the Advertlets Team. Thanks for making the payment out to us bloggers.

What? U have not joined Advertlets yet? ... Join Advertlets NOW and montize your Blog!

pssst. We cashed out from Advertlets on 23 May, and we received it today ... which is about 3 weeks time!! Much better than AdSense, cos AdSense have to wait another MONTH to clear the Check when u bank it in. At least I know this should be cleared in three days !!! :)

psssst again .. POS Malaysia takes about a week to deliver a local mail. Cos Advertlets sent the check out on 7 June.

[tags : delephant fun stuff]

Make Money on the Internet

If you have not checked out www.johnchow.com yet, you gotta, Gotta, GOTTA!!

He's an amazing guy who earns more than USD10K a month, and the best part of it, he shares it FREELY with everyone. He even compiled a 59 paged PDF file to help teach us. Download it here!

John Chow's blog really helps you make money.

AND now, he's offering a special LINKBACK for any blogger that's willing to review his blog. So quickly go and Review it and get a LINKBACK from John Chow. That would definitely help in setting up the PAGE RANKING for your blog. :)

Thanks John!


[tags : delephant fun stuff]

War of Nuffnang and Adverlets .. and the Winner is ... Nuffverlets!

Nuffnang started in Feb 2007, and Advertlets started just a month after that.

Since then, there's been so much debate on which Blog Advertiser is better, which Blog Advertiser can provide more ads, which Blog Advertiser is more giving to the community and supportive to the Bloggers. In addition, new rules were suggested that Bloggers must remain exclusive loyal to only one Blog Advertiser, in order to get advertising on your blog!!

My two cents :

• I believe Malaysia is big enough to sustain two Blog Advertisers
• I believe to have competition is extremely healthy for the Blog Advertisers, which will be beneficial for the Bloggers and the Advertisers
• And why must either Nuffnang or Advertlets win? Why can't Nuffnang, Advertlets and the Malaysian Blogger scene win? I believe in the end we will all WIN! :)
• Finally ... i love both Nuffnang and Advertelts. They are both unique on their own style and techniques. And we should all live together in a "healthy competitive" environment.

Enough said. Wanna hear what some others think about this?
Read more on Nuffverlets War at STAR, CNET

[tags : delephant fun stuff]

5 Reasons why Adverlets Rule!

Have been using a couple of Blog Advertisements for now. And the two that really rocks for us is Google AdSense (needless to say) and Advertlets.

Not being biased or anything, but simply just based on their Pay Out on our Blogs, we are very happy with these two.

We started off with Adverlets only in March, and we saw monetary results in April. Here is why we are suggesting you to choose Advertlets!

1. The Money is good. We just cashed out today ... Thank You Advertlet$!!!
2. Advertlets will have ads featured on ALL Malaysian Advertlets regardless of size of traffic to their Blog! Woo Hoo!
3. Advertlets help tracks the demographic breakdown of your visitors (those that take the poll of course). This really helps u to understand who your readers are. Cos not all readers leaves a comment ... Demographic breakdowns includes: Gender, Age, Profession, Own a Blog? - interesting!!
4. Advertlets is implementing a Referral System ... still on beta now.
5. Josh is pretty funny and innovative. Sign up and keep abreast with the evolvement of Advertlets, they have done some good stuff since the start. So you can expect more great stuff from Advertlets. Here's a funnie one.

The above Reasons are valid and experienced by us.

Nope.. Josh is not holding a gun to our head as we type this!

We just wanted to share this with all new bloggers.

If u have a Blog (s), and still deciding on a good Malaysian Blog Advertiser

Look no further, click here to sign up with Advertlets!

And oh yes, if you've not added Google Ad Sense on your blog ... check them out here.

[tags : delephant fun stuff]

MY LIST - A List of Malaysian Bloggers Can Make Money?

Hmmmm .... how does this work?

No clue whatsoever. Promises better Page Ranking, because everyone's Blog who is participating will be able to have a link to each other's Blog. I guess the only thing it will serve is that it will create a lot of direct linkage of Malaysian Blogs.

Well since it promises to increase Page Ranking and thus help in generating additional visits from curious people clicking the List below. Here goes!!

You need to go the orginator of My List.

Download the My List and paste it at the bottom of the Post. (refer below)

At the end of the Closing date (31 May) you'll need to download the list and paste it one more time. (Like this everyone would benefit whether you joined when MY LIST launches or if you created a blog in June and join the list!)

** (thinking aloud now) Wow!! Trying to imagine that by the end of May, if this little project started by Daryl works out, you may have thousands of Blog LINKS ... linking each other like a little Spider Web! :)

Oh yeah, you can submit as many blogs as you want too! Still have no clue to what i am talking about, visit the My List site-lah.

My List Participants

MONTESSORIMUM.COM

Funky Cookies

Earn Money Blogging

PabloPabla's Whatever

Make Money with Blogging

Paris Beaverbanks

Free Links Giveaway

Free Blogger Templates

Blogsreview.Net

Making a Living

5xmom

How to be a Better Blogger

My Women Stuff

Hochiak! Delicious Asian Food

Best Recipes

Champagne Tastes on a Beer Budget

Daryl's Discovery Journey

The fluff must go somewhere

[tags : delephant fun stuff]

Our First RM50 from Advertlets!! Woo Hoo!!

Amazing!!! Logged on to Advertlets.com today and guess what we discovered when we clicked on the Dashboard?

Woo hoo!! RM50 was credited into my balance. And this RM50 was given because we did a review on Advertlets on my blog! :) Wonderful isn't it!!! More info? Click here

In case you have not heard, Advertlets is a Malaysian owned and runned Advertising Company for Malaysian Bloggers and Malaysian Websites. Its pretty much like the Google Adsense for Malaysia. They have some pretty nifty setup for their ads, cos of their in-built Survey thingy on Advertlets. If u want more info .. go check them out lah... Advertlets.com



And to show that its for REAL!! .. Check out our Dashboard Screenshot here.

And errr yes... We're still figuring out where did that ONE cent came from? Anyone out there have a clue? :) hehe



[tags : delephant fun stuff]

New Way to Make Money - Google Apps Referrals

Following google's recent series of referrals announcements, we're happy to announce that you can now earn $5 per referral for Google Apps.

With Google Apps, we've taken Google's most powerful communication and collaboration tools, and packaged them together so businesses, schools and other organizations can work more effectively while spending less time and money on IT systems.

Google Apps provides customized email addresses (powered by Gmail),
Google Calendar, Google Talk, Docs & Spreadsheets and Page Creator, all for free.

Best of all, everything is hosted by Google, so there's no hardware or software to download, install or maintain.


So how do these referrals work?
1. Just visit the AdSense Setup tab in your AdSense account and click the link for Referrals. 2. Select the Google Apps option and then choose how you want the referral ad to look on your site.
3. Copy the code provided into the design of your web pages, and voila!


You will be credited $5 when someone clicks the referral ad from your site and signs up for Google Apps with a domain that has not already been signed up for the service. That person's domain must then have one or more Google Apps email accounts in use for four consecutive weeks. It's that simple.

If you're new to AdSense referrals, you might want to check out our referrals optimization tips.


[tags : delephant fun stuff]

Google Adsense Made Simple

Its all about Ad Sense! Google Adsense. Smashing Magazine compiled a wonderful list of resources and tips for new comers. Read on.

Google AdSense is probably one of the most popular revenue generators in the Web. We hear the stories about bloggers-genies, who manage to turn their blogs into cash machines overnight. However, it’s not that simple to find the actual tips, which stick to Google policies, might increase your revenues and don’t try to trick out the readers of your weblog.

We’ve spent several hours, trying to find out, what might increase your Google AdSense income and which tools you can use to observe and track your revenues. We’ve selected the key-points of successful stories and useful tips as well as Google AdSense sites and services you can use on a daily basis. Let’s take a look.

Things You Most Probably Didn't Know About Google AdSense

“AdSense Earning = Impression-count x Click-though-rate x Cost-per-click x smart-pricing-factor. Viewing your on website will not get you banned. Just make sure you don’t click on the ads.

However, repeatedly reload your page to jack up page impressions can get you banned. Click-through-rate (CTR) is ratio of clicks per impressions. It can range from 0.1% to 30%, but most commonly around 1% to 10%.”
[100 Google Adsense Tips]

“First impressions count: make sure the ad unit with the highest CTR is the first ad unit in the HTML code of your page. Keep in mind that the first ad unit in the source code is not always the first ad unit that your users will see when the page finishes loading in their browser.”
[Inside AdSense: First impressions count]

“Ads placed near rich content and navigational aids usually do well because users are focused on those areas of a page. on pages where users are typically focused on reading an article, ads placed directly below the end of the editorial content tend to perform very well.”
[Where should I place Google ads on my pages?]

“Format is important for multiple ad units, display your ad units where repeat users will notice them, place a leaderboard immediately after the last post.”
[Six AdSense optimization tips for forums]

“The middle, above the fold location performs the best. Best performing ad format is the large rectangle, 336×280. So the wider ad formats are doing better than the other ones and the reason is that they actually take up fewer lines. And so with every additional line, you have a chance of losing that interested user.

So the wider formats do best so specifically, the top three formats are the 336×280 that you see on the page; the 300×250 medium rectangle; and then the 160×600 wide skyscraper.

We have a feature in the AdSense account where you are able to multi-select different color palettes that blend with your site to add some variety and freshness to the ads. And that also will help decrease ad blindness.”
[Google AdSense Optimization Webinar]

“The second most active placement in terms of click-throughs tends to be the right-hand rail or margin”. “Skyscrapers” and vertical banners do well when placed next to the content in the main body. Square and rectangle ads placed within the center column also do well, provided they are placed in context to the content. Ads placed below the fold tend to perform least well, although that isn’t a hard-and-fast rule.”
[Yahoo! Publisher Network: Location, location, location…]

“I found the most success in placing the Google Adsense medium rectangle either right in the middle of the page or in a middle right column as long as it has content above and below the ad unit. Its is fine to use Adsense Ads on a forum however expect a very low CTR.”
[Google Adsense Tips for Webmasters]

“Post Adsense ads on text rich pages, avoid titles like the approved ‘Sponsored Links’ and ‘Advertisements’, place Ads above the fold, Match the colors of your ads with the colour scheme of your site, Blend ads with your page - remove the borders by having a similar color as your background.”
[How to Increase Google Adsense CTR]

“To remove Public Service Ads (PSA) in Google Adsense develop sufficient good content with keywords, Ensure that META tags like ‘title’ & ‘description’ and the headings tags like h1, h2 etc. have content which matches the rest of your site.”
[How to Remove Public Service Ads (PSA) in Google Adsense]

“You can now run AdSense on the same page as other contextual ad programs.” (January 2007)
[It’s official! You can now run AdSense on the same page as other contextual ad programs]

“Google AdSense Policy: We ask that publishers not line up images and ads in a way that suggests a relationship between the images and the ads.”
[Inside AdSense: Ad and image placement: a policy clarification]

“Section targeting uses certain html tweaks to force the google adsense bot to focus on specific content. Section targeting is the latest and most effective addition to AdSense”.
[Display Relevant Adsense Ads Using Section Targeting]

“Over the weekend, I decided to change the number of ads units on my blog based upon where the traffic is coming from. I have a small PHP function that checks to see if the referrer is a search engine, and if it is, I display and additional 2 ad units. My Adsense revenue increasing by 284% on Saturday, Sunday and Monday!”
[Positive Adsense Experiment]

“Never click your own adsense ads or get them clicked for whatever reason. Never change the Adsense code. Do not run competitive contextual text ad (2006) or search services on the same site. Do not mask ad elements. Avoid excessive advertising and keyword stuffing.”
[ 15 Common Mistakes that Violate Google Adsense TOS ]

“Putting ads on your site won’t hurt your traffic. There are 6 sorts of bloggers’ income: Google Adsense, Donations (e.g. PayPal), Text Link Ads (sold for a fixed amount per month), Chitika eMiniMalls ads (pay per click), affiliate programs like Amazon, Advertising sold to individual advertisers (three-month campaigns or longer)
[How to Make Money From Your Blog - a VERY extensive article]

“A number of factors come into play when AdSense tries to determine what the page is about: The URL of the page, the page title, the anchor text of links, the keywords that appear most frequently within the page, search engine queries that lead to the page or to another page that links to the page”.
[How to Get Relevant AdSense Ads (Especially For Bloggers)]

“Ask yourself if you are willing to compromise your blog’s layout and over-all feel by adding ads in them. Look at your traffic and see if it’s enough to draw the crowd. Make good use of the Ad Channels. Give it time.”
[Tips on Blog Adsensification]

“You can put upto 3 AdSense units on a page. For short articles, CTR is best when ads are placed just above the content. For long articles, CTR improves if ads are placed somewhere in middle of the content. Go Wide - the large rectangle 336×280 is the best paying adsense format.”
[Adsense Tips, Layout Optimization Tricks for HigherCTR]

“Google AdSense folks have unveiled another useful feature for Adsense publishers - Section Targeting. The concept is simple but the advantages and possibilities are endless.”
[Display relevant Ads in Blogs: Just suggest Google]

Google AdSense Tools & Services

Getting The Most Out Of Adsense: Top 10 Adsense Tools
Contextual Ads Preview/Comparison Tool (for Google Adsense, Yahoo YPN, Chitika eMiniMalls), AdSense Calculator, AdSense SandBox, AdWords Bidding Tool/Traffic Estimator.

List of AdSense Trackers
15 AdSense trackers.

AdWords and AdSense tools directory
1200 tools and services for Google AdWords and Google AdSense.

Google Adsense Tips and Tools Collection
a compilation of common Google tips and tools to make more money from Google Adsense. Among them dozens of AdSense Tools.

AdLogger » Open-Source Click Fraud Prevention and Click Monitoring
intends to prevent click-fraud on your websites by tracking visitors clicks and limiting the number of clicks one may make. AdLogger tracks AdSense clicks in real time and compiles the data for you to review.

AdsBlackList.com - Filter them and increase your revenue !
increase your adsense revenue up to 50%, increase the reputation of your website by NOT linking to Made for Adsense sites, save the quality of contextual advertising in global.

Adsense Notifier
displays your Adsense earnings on the Firefox statusbar.

AdSense Tracking Software The Cutting-Edge Ad Tracking Solution
reveals the precise AdSense Ads that are being clicked most frequently on your site, the exact pages that your AdSense Ads are being clicked on, the actual Ad Formats that are bringing you the most clicks and more.

Free Charts Generated from your Google Adsense Reports
Charts include: total earnings, clickthru-rate, earnings per click, number of clicks, earnings per impression, number of page impressions, earnings by day of week and earnings by day of month. Most of charts include 7-day moving averages which allow you to spot trends within your results.

Using The Competitive Ad Filter To Increase AdSense Earnings
The purpose of the Competitive Ad Filter is to enable you to block specific ads, such as competitor’s ads, from appearing on your pages.

Google Ad Sense Tips & Resources

Adsense Tips for Bloggers
an extensive series of articles on how to make money from the Google Adsense Program. By Problogger Darren Rowse.

16 Adsense Optimized Wordpress Themes to Maximize your Contextual Ad Earnings
Ads Minded, Typo XP Reloaded, Seo AdSense and Problogger Clean.

10 Best Wordpress Plugins for Google Adsense
among them AdSense Deluxe, AdRotator Wordpress Plugin.

Monetizing WordPress Plugins
an overview of 8 AdSense-Plugins you can use with Wordpress blog engine. AdSense Widget Wordpress Sidebar, AdSense Paster, AdSense Injection and more.

What are alternatives to Google AdSense?
46 alternatives, among them Yahoo Publisher Network. Over 70 more services can be found on Other Advertising Networks Besides Google AdSense

AdSense Forum
is one of the most popular AdSense-related forums in the Web with thousands of questions and answers.

How To Market Your Blog in 2007
41 ways to kickstart your marketing efforts.

AdSense Niches
If you want to make money with Adsense, NicheGeek’s free AdSense niches will show you exactly what niche you need to be in if you want to make 20, 30, 50, 70 cents per click or even more.

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Another Google Lucrative Way of Making Money - AdSense Referrals

Adsense Referrals is still in its beta stage. Apart from referring users to the Ads, users must click on the ads and must perform at least a Sale or Sign Up.




In Three easy steps you can sign up for Google Adsense Refferal

	You select the ads you want to appear on your site
Leverage your knowledge of your users to choose ads that will interest them and perform well.

	Users click on ads and perform a specified action
Specified actions may be a purchase/sale, a lead, a signup or some other advertiser-defined action.

	You get paid once the user completes the action.
As soon as the user completes the action, your AdSense account will be credited. Easy as that.

You may already be using AdSense referrals to direct your users to Google products like Google Pack or Google AdWords. Now, you can expand the earning potential of your website even further by directing users to products and services from our base of AdWords advertisers.

In just a few minutes you can hand-pick and display ads that will appeal directly to your users' tastes and interests. After choosing relevant ads or keywords, you will be able to customize referrals units that complement the look and feel of your site. Then you can start directing visitors to the products or services you've selected.

With referrals, you'll be paid when your visitors click through to an advertiser's site and complete an action defined by your advertisers, such as a sale or sign up. Because these actions are often more involved than a simple click or impression, advertisers pay more for these referrals, which can translate into higher earnings for your site. Further, you'll see the expected earnings and advertiser performance ahead of time, so you can make the best decisions about what to refer. You can also choose to target the keywords that will ensure you get the highest-paying referrals for your ad space.

This feature is currently available on a limited basis as part of our beta test. Read below to find out more.

Google Adsense Refferal - FAQ

Wanna try Google's Adsense Refferal - Click here

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Try our local "Ad Sense" - Nuffnang

Have your heard of Nuffnang?

Well its like Google Adsense .. but Malaysian-ed! :)

Two guys got it started, Timothy and Ming.



Nuffnang is still on beta stage now, and i think they are trying to get Malaysian Bloggers to sign up. And they are also trying to get in advertisers too. If you don't have an Ad on your Blog and you wanna try one... go to Nuffnang.com.my and start one up! :)



Here's a short message from Tim today on Nuffnag's advertisers

When Nuffnang carried out its BETA launch a little more than 2 weeks ago, the
team at Nuffnang tried very hard to remind bloggers that it would take up to 1-2
months from launch before the paid ads start rolling out.

We said 1-2 months because we did not want to disappoint. We were afraid to promise too much too soon and end up delivering too little too late.But as I sit at my work station now after a long day of meetings, I can confidently say to all of you now that we have gotten advertisers on board and the first paid ads will roll out the
week after next on the 25th of March 2007.

So what are you waiting for? Sign up for Nuffnang.com.my lor.

Click Here to read more on Nuffnang from Ming & Timothy - Click Here

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