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If you’re Text Link Ads affiliate, by now you should have received email reminding you to change you affiliate URL. The current URL will not working in 1 week. If you have a lots of website displaying their affiliate banner or text, go and change it now before its too late.

If you haven’t open account with them, register it now. For your info, John Chow earn more than USD2k per month from Text Link ads affiliate program alone!!!

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Shopping for domain name

Are you looking for a good domain name but have difficult times identify it? You should try busatname which integrate ajax style programming on their interface and back end process. I have spent some time this week looking for good domain name and end up buying few of them.

When will I buy domain name?
I’ll normally looking for another domain when my latest website is break even. This blog is my latest website, so I consider it break even after I won prize from Christine contest last month icon smile Shopping for domain name . So I’m on another mission to be rich (hopefully) by buying and selling correct domain

What is the most expensive domain

I found this post from zacjohnson which listing the most expensive domain to date. You will be surprised by the price, the most expensive is sex.com which was sold for USD12 million. With domain price (if you by domain only) around USD7 – USD9 (RM30-33) , this is very wise investment.

But nowadays, getting new and interesting domain name is not easy. Most of them has been grabbed by those persons who know internet earlier than us. As comparison, I’m starting using computer when I’m on secondary school (1992) and using internet few years later.

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If you’re domain name collector, let share it here how much you have. I have only 5 on my hand including this blog.

Monetize your blog with contest?

I’m thinking of writing about this after I win podcast set from createbusinessgrowth on earlier post. I feel too excited like a kid getting transformers robot as a present from their parents during birthday (I wish I have transformers robots too).

I’m not yet monetizing this blog, so another ways of getting something back from your blog is by joining contest. Since I join my first contest from John Chow, it grows to quite a numbers after that. Contestblog is one of the earliest blog on this topic, and it still one of the blog that I frequently visit if I’m looking for contest. I strongly recommend it to you

I enjoy participating in any contest since it build up my writing skill as well as adding more friends, but does contest good for your blog? Yeah I admit that for something that exist, there are always pros and cons about it. Here is what I think

Pros

  • Additional income – Of course but only if you win
  • Publicity – Same as above, if you win the contest.
  • Additional link to your blog via comment submitted, or the sponsor is kindly enough to list down all participant
  • Enhance your review skill – Review require great observation on the whole blog including design, post, category and etc

Cons

  • You looks desperately looking for something as a return to you blog; maybe
  • You looks greedy – If you join too much contest without posting anything else (unless your blog is specifically for contest); Who cares
  • Possibility of losing your readers – Your readers getting bored with your blog since there are too much contest posts; This is not good
  • You will spent more time on contest rather than your topics; absolutely

Contest as one of you post
The greatest challenge to make a review for any contest is to make it not looks like a review. The way you include the anchor text required must be well blended with your sentence. Except for paid review which requires you to give a great length of full review, review for any contest is not that length and details. Make it interested but simple with what you have observed on the blog that you reviewed. I admit I’m not very good at that yet, but I have read a lot from great reviewer such as Kumiko, John Chow and Contest Blog

Sample of bad and good anchor ext placement

eg: Bad : You can get the more info about blogjer contest here
Good: Blogjer contest is offering fabulous prize for those who review his blog

Look at the different. Second sentence is more lovely than the first one!


Contest Blog

Btw, this is some of the contest blog that I found when I do searching on the net. If you have better contest blog, why not post it here!

contestblogger – Simply the best
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emenang.com – Fellow Malaysian blog
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earn income with adbux

adbux earn income with adbux

I can’t recall from where I get this program, but I have joined it few weeks ago. But only recently I have been able to comeback and go through it. Basically this is pay per visit program, where you will be paid 1 cent every time you visit website available in your program, stay there for 30 seconds before moving on to another website . After your payment accumulated $ 10, you will be paid via Paypal. There is also referral program that you can join which can increase your income whenever you referrals click the ads.

This is how it works basically. So far, I have earned 8 cents icon wink earn income with adbux . You can get more detail from their FAQ. This program is not as lucrative as Adsense or other PPC ads program, but if you’re free enough, why don’t give it a try?

  • You click 10 ads per day = $0.10!
  • 10 referrals click 10 ads per day = $1.00!
  • Your weekly earnings = $7.70!
  • Your monthly earnings = $30.80!

Life without Google Adsense

google adsense Life without Google Adsense

You might have read e-book called TheDeathofAdsense by Scott Boulch before and subsequently LifeAfterAdsense later on. I’m one of them as well but how many of you(including me) who were reading the book is practicing what was highlighted by Scott and become successful? The report is still available here if you’re interested. Frankly speaking, I have read the e-book, practice it a little bit but with no success. I think, I should work harder to achieve greater results as additional income for me in future

To avoid confusion here, the report does not tell you that Adsense is totally dead, but the changes made by Google on August 2006 about some changes made by Google has dramatically cut the revenue for almost Adsense publisher. I haven’t started publishing Adsense on that time, so I can’t really see, how this changes really affecting their revenue.

Google has a great history and Google Adsense which started back to 2003 is part of it. I relied heavily to Google Adsense as a part time income for me, so have you ever think what will happen if Adsense really dead? Sound creepy right. Lets look what are the possible outcome.

1. No Google Adwork – This where Google Adsense ads came from. Advertisers will create the advertisement here, how much their ads worth and what keyword they are targeting at. However not all ads from Google Adwork published using Adsense program, it does appear on search engine result, and other Google services

2. No Google arbritage – Google Arbritage is where advertiser create low price ads with which will bring visitors to their highly monetized pages which in return, earn you more than what they have spent.

3. No Google Adsense ebook, guidance, tips (and no Joel Comm??) – Google Adsense is very profitable, not only the program itself, but also how the successful adsense advertiser manipulate their success in Adsense. Most of them are racing to create e-book and tips telling their tips and success and selling it on internet. One of the most popular Adsense e-book seller is Joel Comm, who earn thousands from Adsense and maybe more from his Adsense e-book.

4. Internet industry booming is over. After dot com era end around 1999, Google Adsense has fuel up the emergence of thousands website since than. The end of Adsense could mean the end of this websites as well, which resulting the end of dot com era once again

5. No made-for-adsense-website or Adsense-ready-template. As the name said, this is where the website is made solely for Adsense. Normally this type of website is ready-made, which means it has been optimized for Adsense which included the ads location, ads type and etc by the seller and the buyer has only to key in their publisher id

6. When Adsense dead, that means, it is no longer profitable to Google, thus closed by them. This also means Google was in trouble as well since Adsense and Adworks is one of the largest profit contributor to them other than their main product, search engine itself.

7. Existence of larger and profitable ads program. This is the consequence of above possible. But at the moment this seems not exist. The nearest competitor, YPN and MSN ContentAds has a long way to catch up with Google’s program

8. I lost extra income – As at now, Google Adsense representing almost 90% or my internet income. I have tried several type of advertisement with no success like Adsense.

Well, this is only some of things that appear on my head recently. Personally I hope this program will last forever with continuous enhancement from Google that will make this program better.