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Last month I applied to become a publisher on AzoogleAds because I wanted to test its performance in K-Director.com. However I received their reply last week and this is what they stated in the email:

Thank you for your interest in the AzoogleAds network!  Unfortunately, we are no longer accepting new candidates from this country. In the event we move forward with future international business a member of the Publisher Support Team will contact you directly. Please feel free to address any additional questions to: internationalpublisher@azoogleads.com

AzoogleAds network is no longer accepting Malaysian as their publisher. Why??

The Reasons Behind It

1. Publishers from Malaysia are abusing Internet to make money online.
2. Our (Malaysian) reputations are not good.
3. Lack of purchasing power from the local market.
4. Too many MFA websites are based in Malaysia.
5. We can’t bring targeted traffics to AzoogleAds.
6. They are not aiming Asian market.

The above reasons are just my wild guess.  :cool:  So for whoever from Malaysia, you can save your time to apply as a publisher on AzoogleAds after you read this post.

 

Just a quick post to share with you guys. 4th Malaysian ad network – Nufflets.com is now officially launched. I just registered as a publisher and waiting for their approval.

Here’s some facts about Nufflets.com:

• The word, Nufflets = Nuffnang + Advertlets
• 4th Malaysian ad network
• PageRank 1
• Minimum payout = USD50
• Pay in check (I hate check)
• Founded by Nabil
• Serving Cost-Per-Click (CPC) ads
• Its ads design looks similarly with Google Adsense.

Nothing much to comment yet before I have really go through it. But I wonder how many bloggers are willing to take the risk to publish Nufflets ads as its ads is violating Google’s TOS from my point of view.   :shock:

X’mas is around the corner and I found some interesting Christmas games online. Games after jump.

Snow Line

Deep Freeze

Polar Rescue

Polar Rescue Try to get to the end and defeat the ice giant.

Play this free game now!!

Snowfight

Snowfight Destroy all the snowmen and avoid the other kids.

Play this free game now!!

Snowball Warfare

Snowball Warfare Take out the bad guys with snowballs, before they take you out.

Play this free game now!!

Merry Christmas and have fun with these games.

Links are the main source of targeted traffic and very important to all the website because the popularity of a link is the top factor in majority search engine rankings. It’s good to know what links are but it would be better if we really get our hand dirty with playing “links”.

One of the most direct technique to get more back links is through “Link Exchange“. Webmasters could always exchange links with other webmasters in a traditional way. This kind of old method is detectable by Google bot and therefore, a website which has too much reciprocal links does not get high PageRank because a website receives many back links does not cover the outbound links that it given away.

Why Select Link Exchange Experts?

Link Exchange Experts has developed a system that will allow you to quickly and easily get links pointed to your site with minimal effort on your part. This webmaster tool helps to increase search engine rankings and get over 600 links pointed directly to a website.

Link Building with Link Exchange Experts saves your precious time to ensure that the links that traded are still up. Moreover, there is nothing to install or link out from your website. By subscribing the service with $24.95 per month, you can easily et over 771 one way links from different IP address ranges. This can definitely increase your website’s traffic and search engine rankings.

Affortable Pricing and Features

If compare the pricing with TLA or ReverseLinks, I think Link Exchange Experts offers a reasonable price for link building. The purchased link will point directly to your home page from real and high-quality websites but not link farms.

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Last Saturday night I had a gathering with my ex-coursemates – Alex, Isabella, KuanYew, Kevin, Hwei Yee, and Kymberly at DaoRae. DaoRae is a Korean BBQ restaurant.

(Located in Taipan, opposite McDonald)

We ordered few plates of meats, very small portion dishes, soup, raw beef with egg and rice.

Kuan Yew, used to be our chef in our uni life… (Yew, I will remember your steak forever!)

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Phishing is an attempt to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

Today I received an email from “PayPal” that reminds me to update my billing records or my account will be suspended. My first thought was surprised and panic. But then I look carefully on the email, I found out there are few suspicious spots.

After I’ve confirmed that is a phishing mail, I tried to click the provided link and wanted to see how it looked like. But too bad, it leaded me to an error page.

Anyway, we all just need to be more cautions of phishing emails as we always deal to online payment services. If got any suspicious email, verify it first before click the provided link.

According to WidgetBucks International CPM Q&A, advertisers of WidgetBucks are not willing to buy traffic from Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, China, Egypt, and Romania. Therefore, impressions and clicks from the above countries are NOT COUNTED!

If your site is targeting local traffics, I would suggest you to remove WidgetBucks ads in your website for own sake. I just checked my WidgetBucks’s CPM ads statistic. My widgets got 500 over impressions but the revenue is still $0.00. I believe most of the advertisers of WidgetBucks do not have confidence in Asia users’ online purchasing power. It maybe sound sad but this is the fact that we need to accept it.

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Update: WidgetBucks ads is successful displayed in my site now. But due to its loading problem, I have removed it again and placed it another site. 

Last week, I removed WidgetBucks from this blog due to its slow loading and effectiveless (I got over 2000 impressions but yet I got any money. ). Sometimes, it even caused my browser hanged for 2-3 seconds for loading WidgetBucks ads.

WidgetBucks International CPM Ads Launched

Just the day after I removed WidgetBucks, they announced that they have successfully launched International CPM ads to be included in their Widgets.

Our system will do the geo-location for you, determining where the visitor is coming from. Then we’ll either show the regular pay-per-click widget (to visitors from the U.S. and Canada) or show an ad that pays per impression (to visitors from other countries).

It means now I can generate income from WidgetBucks even no one from the U.S. and Canada click the ads (normally for image ads, click rate is extremely low). Therefore I decided to give it another try and see how much money can be generated per 1000 impression.

WidgetBucks Ads Can’t Be Shown

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How do you make money with your blog? By using Google Adsense, Text-Link-Ads or WidgetBucks? Are you in a situation of having some little earnings but not enough to cash it out yet? For Google Adsense, it requires USD100 for minimum payout. Text-Link-Ads requires USD25 and WidgetBucks requires USD50. Even for the Bidvertiser who is famous with its lowest minimum payout, still requires minimum payout USD10 for every transaction. For some minor bloggers, it may take few months to reach minimum payout amount as the earning speed is just like a snail crawling.

Minimum Payout: USD5.00

TNX.net is a platform that enables webmasters sell links on every page of their website, instead of just the main page. If you have registered for Text-Link-Ads but not yet get any link sold through them, TNX.net may be the best alternative option for you. Moreover, whenever your payment exceeds USD5.00, you can sell the points earned to TNX.net to get some hot cash. Payment will be paid to your PayPal account. From cash out until get the payment, everything is within 24 hours.

Approval Is Fast

It only takes 3 days for TNX.net to review and approve any added site. A website must be indexed by Google search engine and it must not be using free web-hosting services that do not support PHP, Perl or asp, aspx. After your website is approved, it will be indexed by the TNX system, and within very short period of time links will start to appear on pages of your site. Everything is automatic after you install the TNX code on your website.
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Update 17/12/2007: After I submitted 2 support tickets to Advertlets, I finally received their reply today. Advertlets calming that all valid cashouts for October should be received in the next 1-2 weeks and reminded me to replace my Advertlets ad placement for higher revenue.

Update 13/12/2007: Finally I saw my cash out status changed to “Processing“. It’s already 42 days, they are just started to process my cheque. What’s wrong with Advertlets?

Today is 2-12-07. I suppose to receive my Advertlets cheque in November if according to what Advertlets stating in Earning/Cash Out History page:

Blogger payments are processed at the end of every month. Please submit your cash out request before the end of the current month to make sure you receive your payments by the subsequent month.

I will take the subsequent month as the next month after I cash out my money. It’s fair enough for them to issue a cheque in 30 days but not more that it.
I still remember what they state in their FAQ section:

How will I get my money ? How do I cashout?We will pay you by either cash or cheque once your account balance reaches the minimum payout rate of RM100.
Currently you can only cashout via cheque. In the future we will offer Maybank2u (for those with Maybank2u accounts), and also prepaid reloads (currently only for Maxis Hotlink and Celcom Xpax) cashouts. For prepaid mobile users, as you will not need to wait for us to send you a physical reload card. Your reload number can be sent to your e-mail. Please wait 15-30 days for payment.

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