A brand new website, www.malaysiaairlines.com, is designed by Malaysia Airline (MAS) to offer low fares flight tickets online booking. That means, besides Air Asia, consumers have a new option to purchase budget and cheap flight tickets.
On March 31 2007, for one hour, Sydney made a powerful statement about the greatest contributor to global warming – coal-fired electricity – by turning off its lights. Over 2.2 million Sydney residents and over 2,100 businesses switched off, leading to a 10.2% energy reduction across the city. What began as one city taking a stand against global warming caught the attention of the world.
In 2008, 24 global cities will participate in Earth Hour at 8pm on March 29. Earth Hour is the highlight of a major campaign to encourage businesses, communities and individuals to take the simple steps needed to cut their emissions on an ongoing basis. It is about simple changes that will collectively make a difference – from businesses turning off their lights when their offices are empty, to households turning off appliances rather than leaving them on standby.
There are some new changes for Google Adsense referral program as Google team has decided to modify the original plan. Bad news for anyone who depends heavily on the earning of referring new publishers to Google Adsense.
1. New Plan for Promoting Google Adsense
Thanks for many fraud cases of cheating Google Adsense USD250 referral fee, Google Adsense team has decided to pay to user(the person who being referred by you) who is located in North America, Latin America or Japan ONLY!!!! Location of publisher has nothing to do with this change. You’ll earn USD100 for every user you refer to Google Adsense when they generate USD 100 in their Adsense revenue within 180 days. This condition comes with they must remove the payment holds too.
Previously Google Adsense pays USD250 for every user you refer when his/her revenue has reached UDS100 within 180 days.
These changes will go into effect the last week of January.
2. New Plan for Promoting Google Pack and Firefox
Google Pack – Each successful Google pack referral will only earn up to USD1 instead of USD 2 from the third week of February. Location of referrals and users has nothing to do with this change.
Firefox – Any Firefox from China will get a lesser payment from the third week of February. That means any installation from China users will not make publishers a good earning.
Needless to say, these changes sure will decrease revenue for most of the publishers. What else can publisher does besides accept these changes? If you want to stay in the game, play with the new rules and continue have fun with it.
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! Â 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
Publishers from Malaysia are abusing Internet to make money online.
Our (Malaysian) reputations are not good.
Lack of purchasing power from the local market.
Too many MFA websites are based in Malaysia.
We can’t bring targeted traffics to AzoogleAds.
They are not aiming Asian market.
The above reasons are just my wild guess. Â :cool:Â So for whoever from Malaysia, you can save your time to apply as a publisher on AzoogleAds after you read this post.
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.
Are you feeling of starting a website or blog after you read my previous post – I Got My First Google Adsense Cheque?
Here are some tips you can count on.
Tip 1 – Select A Good Niche
Select a good niche you’re passionate with, and of course it’s better to have experience on what you’re going to show and talk about. A website doesn’t mean you must make it as a blog. There are many CMS(Content Management System) free engines can help you to create forum, online database and e-commerce site easily. If you purchase your webhosting with cpanel support, you can even install these CMS engines through your fantastico within 5 minutes.
Tip 2 – Get A KEYWORD-RICH Domain Name
After you have decided your website’s niche, you should start to think for a good domain name. Choosing the right domain could BOOST your search engine rankings. By having a KEYWORD-RICH domain name is an important factor of Search Engine Optimization. You can check for KEYWORD-RICH domain name’s availability here.
Tip 3 – Get A Webhosting
If you’re Malaysian, I would like to suggest you to get a local webhosting plan instead of foreign webhosting plan. The reason is simple – stupid Streamyx “lets” you load the local sites and servers much more faster than foreign sites and servers.
I am currently using Datakl.com’s linux webhosting plan with cpanel support. Everything is fine so far and they really provide me a very good service(7 days 24 hours technical support). Moreover, the price of their package offered is reasonable.
Get the cheapest webhosting package+1 domain name = RM165 per year only. Remember type in the promotion code before you put your order so you can get the discount up to RM50.
Tip 4 – Installation
Select the most appropriate softwares in fantastico and install it.
If you’re going to start a blog, WordPress is the one you shall install it. Then, you can select thousand of free WordPress themes and install free WordPress plugins to enhance your blog.
Wondering you got a summons in Malaysia?
Thanks to our JPJ hidden cameras. We are always informed we got summons when we are paying our road tax or renewing car insurance.
But now, you can have your summons checking and enquiries on the internet without step out from your house.
I have tried several times to book my movie ticket online. But most of the time the selected movie is fully booked. When I complained this to my collegues today, I was told that there is an alternative method to get movie ticket online.
Silly me just keep thinking we only can “book” the ticket but actually now we can straight buy it online by using credit card. It is simple and we don’t need to rush to collect our ticket 40 minutes before the show.
What do you need?
1. Be a GSC member. (You can register at www.gsc.com.my, it’s free)
2. Credit Card.
How to start?
1. Visit to www.gsc.com.my.
2. Sign in.
3. Go to “Showtimes & Ticketing” – “E-payment Ticketing”
4. Select your movie.
5. Select Ticket.
6. Select Seats (Yes, you can select your favourite seats)
7. e-Payment
There is a very complete e-payment ticketing flash tutorial provided by GSC, you can visit here if you have any doubt.
Now I believe queuing isn’t neccessary when we want to enjoy a good show.
According to Wikipedia.com “PageRank is a family of algorithms for assigning numerical weightings to hyperlinked documents (or web pages) indexed by a search engine. Its properties are much discussed by search engine optimization (SEO) experts. The popular search engine Google to help determine a page’s relevance or importance uses the PageRank system. Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed it while at Stanford University in 1998.”
“PageRank is Google’s way of deciding a page’s importance. It matters because it is one of the factors that determine a page’s ranking in the search results. It isn’t the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but it is an important one. ”
Why do we want it?
According to webworkshop.net, “PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page’s importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page’s PageRank is calculated.ÂÂ
How much you know about PageRank and what is your new PageRank?
Share it with me.
Tip: To check a website’s PageRank, you can simply install Google Toolbar. The PageRank feature of Google Toolbar gives an indication of the PageRankâ„¢ for the page you’re currently viewing.
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