2008′s online money making programs, which one works for you?

rm 2008s online money making programs, which one works for you?

Talking about the reason behind why you start blogging, one can’t denied the money factor in persuading you to do so. Well, there are many ways doing it. The same thing that works for someone doesn’t mean works for you too.

I’ve tried number of programs (although not as much as Titan), and awarded quite decent income from it initially. But as usual, the good day never lasted long. There you have to start from scratch and start experimenting the new program from the beginning

And keep in mind that some of this programs does not endorsed by search engines (you know which one).

It is better if you know what works and not for you, so you’re not dupe your effort on wasteful stuff.  So this is mine. What’s yours??

Works for me – Consistently earning from it.

  • Adsense
  • Kontera
  • Text-link-ads
  • Private ads

So-so – Earning not too encouraging, but still continue using it

  • Chitika
  • Nuffnang

Low – Earns something, but stopped before reach min amount eligible for payment.

  • Project Wonderful
  • Pay Per Play, NetAudioAds Group

Failed – Fails to earn even single cents (for few more that I missed)

  • WidgetBuck

KIV – plan to using it somewhere 2009 or later(maybe)

  • Advertlets
  • Bidvertisers
  • Shared Review
  • Izea

Looks, not all program suit with everyone including me. If you ask me now what is best ads program for you or your niche, I’ll tell you to experiment it by yourself. No one know it for real.

It is common perception that, after installing ads script on your blog, money will start flowing in according to the number of the visitors who will click the ads. You’re wrong my friend. There are more than the visitors factor that can influence your earning.

Beside, it is imperative for you to move along with the changes on the ads program policies. I for once lost hundreds of dollars a month when my highest earning sites lost its pagerank and was de-indexed from Google.

Until now, I never know what is going on although I pretty sure I have comply to all Adsense policies. That is old story, but serve as a reminder to me until now.

Why you need to review the money making programs that you join last year?? It is none other than to assess if it is worth your effort.

And by reviewing what is not working for you last year, you can have rough ideas what you should do and what you’re looking at this year. And what’s works best for you last year, keep doing it and make it better.  The improvement process shouldn’t be stopped once you start feeling comfortable.

Seriously, earning money online is not an easy task. But the doors are open wide to everyone who has will to strive for success. Happy make money online on 2009!!

Western Union update for Adsense- Expiry data extention & splits payment

western union Western Union update for Adsense  Expiry data extention & splits payment

Good news for Adsense ads publisher who receive payment via Western Union.

First, expiration data has been extended. Not really a case for publisher like me who immediately cash it out once available..

The second one must be a cheers for huge earner Adsense publishers. It stating

For instance, if the payout limit in your country is $3,000 USD and your payment for the month is $5,000 USD, we’ll send you two payments: one for the limit of $3,000 USD and another for the remainder of $2,000 USD. If you’re sent multiple Western Union payments, you’ll see multiple ‘Payment issued’ lines on your Payment history page, each with the corresponding MTCN associated with it. Depending on your local Western Union agent, you may need to pick up multiple payments on subsequent days. We recommend consulting your local Western Union agent for further details.

So Google Adsense publisher like LiewCF who ‘used to exceed’ the maximum limit, this is a great relief. No more DHL couried cheque cost $24.

Chitika Premium as backup ads for Nuffnang/Advertlets

chitika Chitika Premium as backup ads for Nuffnang/Advertlets

The blank space left by Nuffnang or  Advertlets ads shown to the visitors coming from the country outside of the ads originated (e.g: Malaysia Singapore) is really a waste especially if the number is huge. You’re loosing a revenue which you suppose to be able to tap it into.

So when I stumbled Chitika Premium, I think that what I’m looking at, something to fill in that gap. But why Chitika Premium?

sample chitika 300x73 Chitika Premium as backup ads for Nuffnang/Advertlets

sample Chitika Premium ads

Chitika Premium ads only appears on the web page for visitors coming from US & Canada whom referred to your blog/sites via search engine. That means, if the visitors are coming from countries such as Malaysia or Singapore, Nuffnang/Advertlets ads will appear, while visitors from US & Canada referred by search engine will be shown with Chitika Premium Ads such as above.

If you’re new to Chitika, don’t worry to much. The installation is straight forward . After registration process, follow the steps by steps guide until the part where you’re asked what do you want to display for the non-US & Canada traffics. So grab your Nuffnang/Adverlets code, put it in a text file as instructed and follow the steps till completion. You’re safe now.

Is it worth?? My experiment is not really encouraging, but why bother when the blank space earn you nothing? Head to Chitika if you think it suit your site’s needs.

p/s: this is not an advertorial post and no affiliate link included, but merely my testing.

Blogger kontera widget and Drupal kontera plugin

Last month, Kontera has just released Kontera plugin for WordPress. I remember someone expressing their interest and asked how to implement Kontera in Blogger blogs.

Kontera seems to understand their needs and fulfill their interest. Now, it is time for Blogger and Drupaldrupal blogger Blogger kontera widget and Drupal kontera plugin users to cheer up since Kontera has just released new Kontera widget for Blogger and Kontera Plugin for Drupal.

Read their blogs, for the details on how to implement this ads. If you haven’t started making money using Kontera, wait no more. Sign up today!

business opportunities when everyone wants to blog

After the recent PRU , blogging seems to be the favourite activity for everyone including our politicians. Be it retired politicians, current MPs or ex-MPs, MPs on both government and oppositions, they are all starting their own blogs. I happen to read somewhere else before, that someone has suggested to put a mandatory prerequisite to have a blog before you can move forward in your politic career path.

Besides, as I grow older, I noticed that even secondary school students have started to blog. And the fact that they’re more knowledgeable and earn more than their older counterparts, is amazing. This is contrary when I was at their age almost 10 years ago. I hardly heard aboutinternet, and blog was such as ‘alien’ term to me back then (yeah blog does exist > 10 years ago). But the world has changed now.

The impact on local market?

More or less this trend will contribute to a higher demand of internet products and services on local internet market such as e-book, especially on how to kick start blogging, how to write , how to make money from blogging and even perhaps, ‘what is blog’. \

Service is another area that could have higher demand in future. There are couple of potential businesses due to the rise of this activity.
First one. As we know, only a handful of politicians know about IT or specifically on how to setup a blog. Most of them (and their staffs) are also ‘buta IT’, or too busy to do that. So to kick off their blog’s development and setup, most likely it will be out sourced to 3rd parties.

Other than web development, SEO does have its own importance too even though most of us missed that part. But I don’t think politic blogs need this, since the author usually is well known public figure, and usually it’ll get promoted from link back and mouth to mouth promotion.
Apart from that, do you think that they have time to properly write and proof read it or translate the article to English or Bahasa Malaysia perfectly? And do they know how to post it? I doubt so. Another pool of money here.

Social media such as Facebook and Youtube has never been as important as now. When free advertising (or campaign) using this media is reachable to mass audience, and as effective as traditional media, it has become such a lethal weapon to your career or business. See Colbie Caillat, and how successful she is. Similar concept can be leveraged to their career or business. They’ll need someone who has vast experience with tips and tricks on these areas to get this done with success. So why wait? Start mastering these skills and go to business.
You might say that there are a lot of Internet Marketers selling ebooks and providing such services. But it’s still not late to jump into the boat. It’s not necessarily true that the inventor will stay ahead of you forever, the late comer . IBM is the best example of computer inventor but end up selling the business to Lenovo due to stiff competition with creative rivals

With current politic and making money online trend nowadays, you can predict more blogs created everyday.

But I ‘m very aware that not everyone is interested to be affiliate marketer or internet marketer. I wish I can post my humble opinion about affiliate marketing, whether it is for everyone soon


Biz opportunities

e-book
content management
web development
SEO & optimisation
consultancy
**PRU – pilihan raya umum (General Election)