If you would like to open a new account and advertise your business on Google Adwords, this article is for you.

This week, we received a few copies of Google Adwords free vouchers that inviting us to place our ad on Google. Since we are not going to activate all the given vouchers, we decided to share it with you.

This voucher code worth RM150.

Voucher Code: 4K23-PBQG-BPF8-FM3Y-G9G2

Redeem your voucher code after you enter your billing and address information.

Bear in mind that this voucher only valid for new start up account. It expires on 7 May 2010. After this date, the voucher code will only worth RM100.

Enjoy!

Are you looking for a great deal on your existing websites or a quick solution to recycle your websites?

If you’re thinking to unload a web property for some instant spending money, or your just plain tired and want to get cash for your site, this article is written for you.

This week we’ve managed to collect some of the great websites that will take a look at your site and make an offer.

Here’re 15 places where you can sell your website for cash. Details next!

1. WebsiteBroker

   WebsiteBroker.com was founded in 1997 by two California attorneys who saw the need for an organization to assist individuals and companies in selling or buying already existing web sites.

   

2. SiteRedeemr

   SiteRedeemr buys websites to add to their portfolio. If you’re looking to unload a web property, SiteRedeemr can get you cash for it within 48 hours.

   

3. Free Stats

   If you are interested in selling your website, Free Stats pays cash for certain websites.  You may be wanting to move onto other things, need some instant spending money, or your just plain tired and want to get cash for your site. 

   

4. Digital West Media

   Digital West Media buys websites from any niche and/or can find someone who will buy your site without having to post it on a “for sale” site online.

   

5. Flippa

   The #1 marketplace for buying and selling websites. As a seller, you have access to a huge crowd of interested and informed buyers keen to bid good prices for premium product. The hard work you’ve invested in building your business will be rewarded.

   

6. Cash For Website

   Sell Your Web Site For Fast $$$ Cash $$$ – Cash For Website buys distressed Internet real estate allowing sellers to free up capital and liquidate web assets quickly and easily in times of need.

   

7. Website Slate

   Website Slate is the easiest, safest way to buy and sell websites. Website Slate connects buyers and sellers together to help you achieve your goals!

   

8. Buy Sell Website

   Buy Sell Website is a popular website marketplace that has been providing professional, reliable appraisals of hundreds of websites in a wide variety of industries for over six years and has become one of the most trusted places on line for buying and selling websites and domain names.

   

9. Flogyr

   Flogyr.com is a marketplace for webmasters, website owners, or other interested parties. It is used primarily for the buying and selling of websites, blogs, or anything else web related.

   

10. BusinessesForSale.com

    BusinessesForSale.com brings together serious buyers and sellers of businesses and franchises, adding value and making transactions happen. They do this by providing a comprehensive range of services to facilitate the buying and selling of businesses and franchises.

    

11. Website Acquire

    Website Acquire is your portal for Buying & Selling Established Websites. Sell your website commission free or buy an established website online.

    

12. Ebay

    eBay is the world’s largest online marketplace, where practically anyone can buy and sell practically anything.

    

13. DealASite

    DealASite.com is free for both buyers and sellers and passionate about websites and the webmasters that create them. Keep DealASite.com in mind anytime you’re looking to add a site to your portfolio or need to offload a site for some quick cash.

    

14. WebsitesForSale

    Websites for Sale is a project recently launched to enable website owners, web developers and website buyers to get in touch under a safe environmnent.

    

15. Webmaster-Talk Marketplace

    

Recently I am experimenting the performance of Chitika on K-Director.com.

If you are a regular reader of this website, the chances are you probably have no chance to view Chitika’ ads on this site because it only targets search engine traffic from US and Canada.

According to Chitika, new released Chitika MEGA unit is a brand new Chitika | Premium unit which able to boost your Chitika earnings up to 400% with more clicks and revenue.

What is the MEGA-Unit

Here’s the screenshots of Mega unit. The original size is 548px × 246px. Super BIG!

For your information, MEGA-Unit’s CTR is 4 times higher than other ad units, adding a massive increase in clicks and revenue.

You can get the unit by clicking here, then choosing the 550×250 "MEGA-Unit" from the drop-down.

Too Big for Content Width

I have inserted MEGA-Unit on the top of my page (below Google Link ads) simply because my content width is restricted to 500px only.

It’s not the best placement but there’s where I can think of. Any suggestion?

This three-part video series have covered:

1. Best-performing Ad Unit Sizes
2. Design Your Ad Units
3. Position For Performance

Part 1 – Bigger Is Better

The best performance (proven by Google and most of publisher) sizes for Adsense ads are 300×250 medium rectangle, 728×90 leaderboard and 160×600 skyscraper.

Part 2 – Design Your Ad

A better ad unit design can result in improved AdSense performance because users are more likely to read ads when they’re well integrated into your site.

Readers like blended ad without border. Rotating colours or occasionally switching the location of your ads on the page does help either.

Part 3 – Position For Performance

A good position is where the ad can be noticed easily by readers. Great positions include above the fold of page, at the end of an article and aligned with content.

Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads on their website’s content pages and earn money. Google AdSense matches ads to your site’s content, and you earn money whenever your visitors click on them.

How much money a website owner can generate through Google Adsense is very subjective. Website traffics and high quality content are no doubt one of the element in this recipe. However, with proper Google Adsense optimization tips, you can still double up your earning.

Here’s 13 most wanted Google Adsense optimization tips I’ve collected since I registered as a Google Adsense publisher. Detail next!

1. Ad Positioning

   Tactics to Increase Your AdSense Earnings Overnight

   

2. Adsense Link Units Optimization

   The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Effective Adsense Link Units Optimization

   

3. Increase AdSense revenue by selectively displaying ads

   If you are able to display ads to only the targeted crowd, and avoid displaying it to crowds that are likely to generate less revenue or are less likely to click on ads, then you have a better chance to generate more revenue.

   

4. Unobtrusive Ads Can Boost Revenue

   You can create a custom color palette to help combat "ad blindness" and increase your site’s revenue potential.

   

5. How to Wrap AdSense Ads Around and Inline Beside Blogger Post Content

   Layout that is considered and proofed to be able to generate higher CTR (click through rate) for AdSense ads

    

6. Quick Apply Google AdSense Account

   Tactics to get the Adsense account approved quickly if your application have been rejected.

   

7. How to find HIGH paying Adsense keywords and low cost Adwords

   This will help you greatly lower your adwords bill while targeting a larger audience.

   

8. Make More Money With Less AdSense Ads

   The theory is that sites bid for their ads to be placed on contextually relevant web sites with the highest bidders getting the best adsense spots (the higher the better).

9. Tips for Better Adsense Ad Layout

   The best ad is the one looks like content

10. 30 Google Adsense Tips

    A compilation of AdSense tips.

11. Adsense tips – Improve your 300x 250 ad performance

    If you are using the 300 x 250 Medium Rectangle Adsense ad format, you might be interested to learn about this.

12. Understand And Calculate Adsense Statistics

    A quick breakdown of those Adsense statistics and what they mean in layman’s terms.

13. How To Find High Paying Niches (For AdSense)

    Find $10 keyword instead of a $1 keyword

Last  but not least, http://adsense.blogspot.com/ is the place worth a thousand visits if you’re new in Google Adsense.

Google has finally launched Adsense for Feed after acquired FeedBurner. Now Google Adsense publishers are allowed to displays contextual and placement-targeted ads in FeedBurner feeds and earn extra cash from that.

About Google Adsense For Feed

Adsense for Feeds units are automatically sized. Publishers are allowed to select either text ads, images ads or text/image ads to appear ONLY for a certain post with customized length. Of course, position, colors and channeds can be customized too.

Some Facts:

• Adsense For Feed is using html code instead of Javascript
• Only up to 2 sizes for Adsense For Feed, 468×60 and 300×250
• Some bloggers reported Adsense For Feed only displayed in Google Reader
• Low click rate is expected for Adsense For Feed

How To Insert Adsense Ads For Feed

For FeedBurner Users

At this moment, there’s no way for Google Adsense publishers to add a script/code into FeedBurner account.

However, Google is kind enough to embed Adsense ads into FeedBurner feeds after a FeedBurner account migration to Google account.

Currently, migrating your feeds from from FeedBurner to a Google account is a manual process. If you wish to migrate your FeedBurner account to Google account, send an email to adsense-support-aff@google.com and provide the following information:

• Your FeedBurner account username
• The Google Account email address you use to sign in to AdSense

For New Users

It works easier for new feed users in this stage. There is an option for Adsense publishers to activate a new feed for use with Adsense for Feeds. One stone kills 2 birds.

I know video explains better. Here’s an official video released by Google to explain more what is Adsense for Feed, why Adsense for Feed and how to implement it.

A friendly reminder Adsense publishers. AdSense Referrals will not longer in use at the end of August. Remember to remove any remaining referral ad code.

To avoid any traffic jam circumstance, the best way is check the traffic condition of particular road before you’re heading to it.

For this, you can try http://llmtrafik.gov.my/traffic.aspx.

http://llmtrafik.gov.my/traffic.aspx provides a real-time traffic information for most of the highways such as

• GCE
• KESAS
• LDP
• SOUTH NORTH HIGHWAY
• NEP
• LPT
• PENANG BRIDGE
• SPRINT
• ELITE
• KLP
• SHAPADU

You can either select the highway map to check a particular place’s traffic status or select a camera of an expressway for a traffic condition.

A traffic updates can be determined in form of video, picture or merely text.

Backlinks.com provides a free online service that allows webmasters to easily trade, sell or buy static text links. Its software enables webmasters to easily add and track static text links to and from their web sites in real time.

$ Pay Rates $

You will be paid the following monthly rates for text links. Rates are paid per month per text link.

PageRank (PR) 1 homepage $.50 , subpage $.50
PageRank (PR) 2 homepage $1 , subpage $1
PageRank (PR) 3 homepage $2 , subpage $1.50
PageRank (PR) 4 homepage $3 , subpage $2
PageRank (PR) 5 homepage $4.50 , subpage $3.50
PageRank (PR) 6 homepage $12.50 , subpage $10
PageRank (PR) 7 homepage $30 , subpage $25
PageRank (PR) 8 homepage $75 , subpage $50

Each month you will receive a payment from us for 50% of the revenue generated by the text links on your web pages. You will be able to customize the look and feel of the text links on your web pages such as font size, color, etc.

Click here for publisher FAQs.

Its Irresistible Affiliate Program

Like other online money makers, Backlinks.com also supports affiliate program for its business.

• By referring a publisher who sells at least one text link with Backlinks.com, you will be paid $25.
• By referring an advertiser who buys at least $50 text links with Backlinks.com, you will be paid $100.

Tips

By looking at its affiliate program, we actually can grab some advantages from it. If you’re good in calculating, I believe you already have a clear idea on how to earn money while getting $50 free text links.

• Create a search engine in minutes.
• Customize the appearance of search results and ads.
• Tune results and ads to your site’s content and audience.
• Get more comprehensive site search results with improved indexing.

For more information, log in your Adsense account or visit http://adsense.blogspot.com/.

TNX.net is my weekly income generator. I like it because of its $5 minimum payout, endless text link ads on my site, and of course its earning speed.

Basically I cash out my points every week as long as it is more than 10000 points regardless the buyout price (buyout price grows every week due to growth of the entire TNX network and its effectiveness.)

Just yesterday when I tried to cash out my points for buyout price $0.82 per 1000pts, I saw a new statement – “Including points on hold: 33279.00 (you can not withdraw these points because they are given in advance, but you can use them for your campaigns)“.

Some new policies have been applied.

The New Policy

1. Points are actually given in advance, therefore, publishers are not encouraged to cash-out points that are given for one month in advance.
2. Advertise the links first, then only get paid. It make sure publishers won’t delete unwanted ad campaigns after cash out the points.
3. All links on publishers’ websites are summed up then number of points given to you in advance is calculated for each link.
4. “On hold” will be shown for unavailable points until the link was displayed on publishers’ website for 3 days.
5. No more 50% withdrawal limit because earnings are counted in daily basic.

My $0.02

Everything now is back to square. Sell first, then only get paid. Actually it sounds fair enough for both parties. I believe publishers are able to go through this low earning month if they are already get paid 1 month in advance.
But still, TNX.net is the fastest and easiest money maker for me so far.

PS: Buyout price has increased to $0.82 per 1000pts from $0.69 per 1000pts in last Decemeber.

Google Adsense has 2 most profitable units for website owners to earn money with – Ad Units and Link Units. Adsense users can now check your “Link Units” performance under “Reports – Advanced Reports” section.

2 more options have been provided for Adsense users to choose and view beside “Ad Units”. Adsense users can select either “Ad Units, “Link Units” or “Both”

It would be more user friendly for Adsense users to check only Link Units’ performance instead of choosing it from channels.

Google Adsense has finally implemented the latest text ad format for its Adsense users. This new format includes “next” and “previous” arrow buttons for website surfers to look for more related CPC ads. It’s more like a controlable ads slide show to me.

Bear in mind that no profit will be generated when user clicks on the ‘next’ and ‘previous’ buttons. These navigation buttons just built for providing a better ads search for internet surfers, and so, Adsense users can increase their revenue at the same time.

Not bad huh??

I came across this page yesterday – Google Adwords $50 free advertising.

Terms and Conditions:

1. Promotional credit of A$60 must be applied to a new AdWords account within 30 days of creating the account and is valid only for new Google AdWords customers with self-managed signup accounts.
2. Advertisers will be charged for advertising that exceeds the promotional credit. Advertisers will need to suspend their ads if they do not wish to receive additional charges beyond the free credit amount.
3. Subject to ad approval, advertisers must have a valid registration and accept the Google AdWords Program standard terms and conditions.
4. The promotional credit is non-transferable and may not be sold or bartered.
5. Offer may be revoked at any time for any reason by Google Ireland Limited or its affiliates.
6. One promotional credit per customer.
7. Advertisers with self-managed signup accounts are subject to a Ten Australian Dollar (AUD $10) activation fee.
8. Expires 30/06/2008.

Read the above T&C before you apply for it. Enjoy!

This is what Nuffnang states at the bottom of “Earning” page.

[Please note that a transaction fee of RM 1 will be applied to any cashout payments.
Please also allow about 30 days for your payment to be processed and sent.]

For my 11 Dec 07 earning, it takes almost 3 months to reach me. It’s about 90 days but not 30 days. I am not someone who is waiting for Nuffnang’s payment for my living. I am just disappointed with their service.

I think they should change their website banner to the below one.

PS: For Gokita or GrabMyAds, I seriously doubt anyone has got their payment as their ads earning speed is super slow if compared to Google Adsense.   :?:

WidgetBucks has launched International CPM Ads last year. However, traffics from Malaysia and other Asia countries were not be accepted in cost-per-thousand impressions basic

Unfortunately, according to WidgetBucks blog, WidgetBucks just shortened the list of countries that pay on CPM basis, which means, only traffics from lesser countries will earn CPM revenue.

Revenue earned through visitors from countries no longer on the list will still be paid through today, March 7.
If a WidgetBucks ad widget is placed on a site that is visited by a user in a non-paying country, that user will not see any ad content.

List of countries whose traffic continues to pay on a CPM basis:

• Australia (AU)
• Austria (AT)
• Belgium (BE)
• Denmark (DK)
• France (FR)
• Germany (DE)
• India (IN)
• Ireland (IE)
• Italy (IT)
• Netherlands (NL)
• New Zealand (NZ)
• Portugal (PT)
• Puerto Rico (PR)
• Singapore (SG)
• South Africa (ZA)
• Spain (ES)
• Switzerland (CH)
• United Arab Emirates (AE)
• United Kingdom (GB)

My $0.02

So again, Malaysia is not in the list. Traffics from Malaysia is apparently valueless for WidgetBucks’ advertisers. Therefore, if your targeted traffics are mostly from Malaysia, WidgetBucks might not be an efficient money maker for you.