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Make money online Malaysia - Heh, eat this!

This is another ‘rub it in’ to the sour puss who tried so hard to prove how easy it is for him to get on the first page of Google Search Results in Malaysia. Yeah, so what….just for everyone’s information, make money keyword does not make money. So stop trying already. And did your ball grows bigger when you hit the first page? You better check ‘cos it could be hernia. Go try viagra, it makes more money and useful too.

If you are from the local blogosphere, I bet you know who I am referring to. Wanna follow my Make Money ‘ho-liao-ness’ ah? Go ahead lah, not that I make any money from this blog. Somemore kopikat the same blog title Make Money Online wor…Show income first lah.

I blog over here simply because I sincerely think that whatever I learned, if I share with another person, they will benefit too. Not like sour puss who only know how to boast and bluff but never seen a single screenshot of the sourpuss’s PayPal also. Ptui…

Anyway, another screenshot to rub it in. This blog is one position higher than LiewCF on make money online malaysia keyword. LiewCF was my make money mentor so it is very exhilarating to get one step ahead of my mentor. Yes, I started learning on how to make money from LiewCF when we started in 2003.

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This blog will continue it’s mission of helping people to make money online without being scammed or getting their money cheated. So, wanna pwnd the top position? Go ahead and use your software lah, see if Google sniffs the suddenly surge in backlinks and smack you to karma 99-level hell.

Gee…I must have eaten too much curry, extra spicy today.

Actually, with the hundreds of make money online blogs out there, one needs some individuality and personality injected into our blogs or else it is too ‘dry’.

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. 12 Jul 08 | Obnoxious | Comments (6)

How do I contact Google Adsense if I think something is wrong?

A few Google Adsense publishers have asked me how to contact Google Adsense if they suspect there is something not right with the ads they see on their sites.

I have contacted them before when I notice one of these issues :

1) Permanent PSA (public service ads) on main and single pages without any reasons. However, note that your single page or even main page may display PSA if you violate their policies like using certain forbidden word and repeating the same word. Otherwise, it could be your post is too short with no keywords.

2) A sudden increase in the CTR. Since I have several sites, I have to constantly monitor the click throughs. Sometimes, there are windfalls and I get a huge spike in my Adsense. I will check my other analytics and if the page impression is not really high but the CTR is, then, I will tell Google Adsense that my site has a huge increase of clicks (and income, of course). This is just a safety measure to protect me.

3) A sudden drop in CTR. I have certain days when I have 400 page impressions with no clicks at all. I will alert Google Adsense too because it is not normal.

So, how do I contact Google Adsense?

First, go to Google Adsense Policy to see if I have done something wrong. The link Program Policy link is found at the bottom of our Adsense dashboard where the report is.

Next, on the sidebar, there is a link for Adsense Troubleshooting. Pick one selection that best describe your problems and fill in the form. Here are some of the choices :

AdSense Troubleshooter
I can’t see my ads
My ads are in the wrong language
My ads are irrelevant
I’m seeing Public Service Ads

My advice is do not write unnecessary but check your end till you are absolutely sure that there is really something wrong. Adsense is very efficient and they normally respond within the next day or even within a few hours. They have real people there scrutinizing our sites. So, be sure that you are not committing any breach of program policy before you call them to take a look.

ADSENSE AND WEBMASTER CENTRAL

Note that these two are different. You write to Adsense if your ads have problems. You submit an appeal form to Webmaster Central if you think something is wrong with your site. To write to Webmaster Central, you need a Google account, submitted your site (by adding the tracking code) to them and you can access the form to write to Google Webmaster Central. I have never written to them except to appeal for pagerank review and normally, Webmaster Central do NOT respond to us in writing.

Now, you know the amount of work I have to go through each day. I have to track my ads, my traffic, respond to comments, write new posts, learn new things, explore new monetization opportunity and track if they are working yadda yadda yadda. So, making money online is never easy. People may offer you all kind of fancy stats monitor and etc but the best is to rely on our instincts.

. 11 Jul 08 | Google Adsense | Comments (8)

Which ad format works best for Nuffnang ads?

A few people have asked me which type of ad format works best for Nuffnang ads.

Before I proceed, please note that I only use the CPM ad slots, i.e. I put the little Nuffnang blue logo on my blog and if advertisers wish to place their banners, they will buy the slot for a whole week. Then, depending on which band that blog belongs to, I get the payment calculated at the end of the week.

The band numbers that I get on my blogs range from a mere 2 (which pays like RM1+ per week) to band 41 (only during some crazy periods like the 12 GE). Therefore, I do not really care about which format works best because it is based on the amount of traffic I get.

I am not aware or bother to find out if different format pays better or the three different ads format pays the same amount of money. If you wish to know, please ask Nuffnang yourself.

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In the above screenshot, you may notice that some of my blogs have three ads format on one page.

They are :

1) The banner which I place above everything else, right at the top.

2) The sidebar 160 x 600.

3) The large rectangle which I inserted after my first post.

I actually do not like to place all three formats together but on one or two blogs, I have to because each week, different advertisers asked for different ad formats. In the end, to save my time, I just stuff all three there. I do not get an ad every week.

In general, these are the most favoured ads :

1) The 728 x 90 because it is so visible
2) The large rectangle if you place it above your fold, i.e. right after your banner before your post
3) Sidebar

However, if you are not only monetizing solely with Nuffnang, you may want to evaluate properly. Here are some points to consider :

a) Is it worth it to place the ads and distract your Adsense’s clicks? I have one blog targetting US only traffic and I do not place Nuffnang ads there.

b) Do you have other banner ads that prohibit Nuffnang ads? I have one overseas company that prohibit me from placing any other banners ads next to theirs.

c) Would placing too many ads make your blog looks like the back of the bus? I have seen some really gaudy set up because they not only place Nuffnang ads, they have other banners. Staring too long makes me breathless!

Nuffnang is coming up with more and more attractive ads format like this Happy-O-Meter, the rotating ads called buffered earnings and recently, another one call metered campaign. Then, there is the cost per click (CPC) ads.

I cannot advice which works best for you because it depends on the kind of traffic you get. However, you may want to go with Nuffnang Glitterati because a blog can only take so many ads so do not overload with too many local ads. Blogs with too much Malaysian flavours do not make money. My personal blog has the most traffic but it is ranked position #5 in terms of making money (total income from all sources).

Do read these two related posts : How to make money from Nuffnang and I explained how the Nuffnang analytics work.

Note : This post is written based on my own individual and personal evaluation on how Nuffnang ads works and I do not guarantee that my points are 100% correct or reliable. And no, Nuffnang does not pay me to promote but I personally believe that Malaysia has a bright future in internet marketing and so far, Nuffnang is the only company that performs, pays and rewards bloggers.

. 09 Jul 08 | Make Money | Comments (4)

My biggest Nuffnang cheque so far

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If I get this every month, I will gladly pay my taxes. Anyway, I guess yearly, Nuffnang will need to give us a statement or something on our total income through Nuffnang so that we can submit our tax. Bah! I don’t care about such thing because I am married to an accountant to deal with my tax.

Nope, the above is not for a single month income. It includes some advertorials too.

Talking about advertorials, there is nothing that pissed me more than tactless bloggers, commentors, regular readers who will ask openly in the same post if my post is a sponsored post. Hey, wake up lah, we are not required by the law to disclose yet. Why go make your own life difficult because you are also a blogger. And so what if it is a paid post? Are you paying me to blog? No, mah, rite? So, why do you need to know? Does it make my post any less interesting? Do you pick only non-paid posts to read? You either take my integrity that whatever I wrote is reliable information that I believed to be true or you don’t read my blog lah, ok?

And that’s not the end of the tactless people who makes life difficult for us bloggers. Some will come by and promote competitor brands or purported using someone’s name and recommend some other brands. Hey, folks, note this. Our blogs are paid for with our own money and you are reading for free. Do you think you can go into Dumex shop and try to sell Nespray? Cannot mah? Use common sense a bit lah.

Anyway, local bloggers, good luck with making money with Nuffnang! Subscribe to my blog now because I am one of the few bloggers in Malaysia who shares secrets of making money with blogs truthfully, no scam, no bullshit.

. 08 Jul 08 | Income report | Comments (33)

Payment from LinkXL - selling text link the no-follow way

I blogged about LinkXL which I described as the safe way to sell links in our old posts. You have a choice of selling the links using no-follow or follow. On some of my blogs, I put no-follow tags and I managed to sell many links too. Of course, I cannot reveal which blogs are monetized with LinkXL but trust me, if you are previously a paid post blogger, you do get offers.

However, note that you may have some agreement with those paid post companies that the posts remain forever and you cannot add any links into those paid posts. So, watch what you have committed before putting in LinkXL.

If you are a blogger using your own Wordpress.org blog, then, you merely need to install the plugin and sit back and wait for advertisers to buy them. The links go into the keywords in your posts. This means, you will have hundreds of potential links to be sold.

And if your blog has internal pagerank in those single posts, you can sell them for very good price. For example, if I have a PR3/10 internal pagerank, I can offer to sell a link for say, USD30 per month. If that page commands a good position in the search results, then, you can sell them for even more.

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Here’s the first payment I received from LinkXL, USD140. Not bad, eh? To find out more about LinkXL, here’s my aff link to help you make money with LinkXL.

As usual, I wish to say again, there is endless way to make money blogging if your blog is filled with good contents and good keywords.

. 08 Jul 08 | Income report, Make Money | Comments (9)

Polishing Matt Cutts of Google shoes

I mentioned that I submitted a form to Google when I notice that one of my blog is showing PSA or public service ads on my Adsense. I got a fast reply as below :

We’d recommend that you contact your webmaster to fix any site
vulnerabilities which may have allowed the links to be placed on your
site. For more information about security for webmasters, see
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/quick-security-checklist-for-webmasters.html.
You may also with to perform a search for results related to “wordpress
spam injection” for more information about the issue.

Once the links have been successfully removed, paid ads or more relevant
ads should start appearing again within a week.

Cheers,

Matt
The Google AdSense Team

And I guess I had cleared up the mess the MTF-ker spammers secretly injected into my blog with the Wordpress spam injection technique. I explained how I clear the Wordpress Spam Injection on my post.

For once, I am glad that Matt seems kind to regular site owners like me. I suddenly feel full of love for Google for taking time to write to me to tell me that :

Thanks for your email. I understand you are concerned about the fact that
public service ads are appearing on your site. Our specialists
investigated and found that pornographic links and links related to
prescription drug offers have been injected into the bottom of your pages.
These links are only visible to web crawlers so you may not see them if
you view the source of your pages. Because our system does not return ads
to pages detected to have adult content, relevant paid ads will not appear
until the links are removed. These links may have been placed on your site
without your knowledge in an attempt to boost other sites’ search engine
rank.

I am what you call a semi-expert where web publishing is because I am such a smart girl. *grins* I read up a lot of SEO and webmaster stuffs so more or less I am in the know.

However, I believe there are millions of clueless blog owners out there who do not know what happened. So, I hope Google will continue to work on this cancerous epidemic of invisible spam injections so that those MTF-kers black hats SEOs do not prey on innocent publishers. They are akin to robbing traffic, pagerank and income from poor and innocent folks.

Matt has a blog post about ‘Helping hacked sites‘ and I highly recommend everyone to read it.

I am not always in Google’s list of obedient bloggers but I certainly appreciate their efforts in contacting the sites that have been hacked without the knowledge of the owners. Can I say that Google watches out for the little people too? But don’t forget, they smack us too. Well, if there is a balance, then I shouldn’t gripe.

. 07 Jul 08 | Google Adsense, Wordpress | Comments (2)

Best advice on Wordpress spam injection evarrr

Thanks to Genkisan, I finally found one blog tutorial that makes sense to me. When I discovered that my site has been hacked silently, I searched and searched for some tutorials that aren’t written in Latin or Greek. Techies alway write in languages I cannot understand so they are like Latin to me.

I only knew my site was hacked because Matt of Google Development Team told me so when I lodged a form asking Google Adsense why I am seeing PSA (public service ads) on my Google Adsense. You see, we wouldn’t know our site has been filled with so many links as they don’t show on regular source codes. Only Google Bot sees these links.

The hacker apparently added a lot of jpgs files into my root server. When I login, I notice a lot of photos in my main root. My webmaster too wondered why I added them. Then, he notice a sinister looking plugin file as well. Thanks to my webhost who is also my webmaster, Bryan. Normally, I am pretty independent and do most of the Wordpress upgrades and such myself. However, this hacking is serious business so I sought his help.

From the link given by Genkisan, I found this useful tutorial on ‘Did your Wordpress site get hacked?‘

They’re also uploading PHP code disguised as jpeg files to your upload directory and adding those files to the activated plugins list. This makes it harder to find them, but not impossible:

1. Open PHPMyAdmin and go to your blog’s options table and find the active_plugins record.

Now, I think I have cleared the problem because my site is showing ads again.

Note that the blog that was hacked was already running on WP 2.5.1. That blog has good keywords for sex related stuffs so it was like a magnet for p0rn sites.

I had a few sites bookmarked when I was searching for solutions to this hacking. I am afraid that these lead to more confusions because I am not very familiar with tech terms. However, some of you may find them useful. Here they are :

View a website as Google Bot

Wordpress exploit scanner 0.1

Worpress Spam Injection = Google Penalty

One more site hit by Wordpress Spam Injection

Wordpress support, question on hacking

Keep these links handy. You may be the next victim. Oh wait, maybe your Wordpress blog is already infested with the MTF-ker spam injection. Good luck! The spam will kill your blog like cancer does, silently, painfully and by the time you find out, it is too late because you probably lost ads income, traffic and pageranks. OMG! Bwahaha.

Meanwhile, I have come out of this much wiser and smarter. I can almost talk Greek now!

. 06 Jul 08 | Wordpress | Comments (6)
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