Archive for the ‘Make Money Online’ Category

Making Money with Adbrite’s BritePic

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

For someone who owns a photoblog or blog with a lot of pictures, then maybe you can try britepic. I quote from their website:

Features:

  • * BritePic adds interactivity and ads (if you want them) to the photos on your website.
  • * BritePic is free and easy to use.
  • * If you’re an HTML coder, use BritePic instead of the <img> tag

What kind of interactivity?

  • Link to this image
  • Embed this image (you still get the ad revenue, even if your pic is embedded elsewhere)
  • Zoom in and out
  • Captions that slide out when you hover over the pic
  • Link the image to another URL
  • Subscribe to RSS

You can read more about BritePic here.

So my first Britepic try :

a picture of my lazy cat.

and another

a picture of my current blogging workplace setup.

If you are using adbrite, then maybe you can give it a try.

Cheers.

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Rajawang internet income report for June 2008.

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Although June started encourigingly in terms of adsense income, it slowed down pace from the middle of the month. I am sad to report that I got a lower income last month compared to the previous 4 months. In all, June is not a very good month. Traffic are down on most all of my top blogs.

My internet income for June 2008:

Summary - Adsense -second lowest income in 2008, Widgetbucks is a bit down, Kontera maintain making money-slowly but surely. (Last month income in bracket.)

Google Adsense - US$1,198.76 - (US$1,320.20) down US$121.40
WidgetBucks
- US$76.54 -(US$84.79) down US$8.25
AuctionAds - US$42.20 -(US$39.14) up US$3.06
AdBrite - US$1.40 -(US$1.31) up US$0.09
Bidvertiser
- US$2.17 -(US$2.26) down US$0.09
Nuffnang - US$19.45 -(US$18.75) up US$0.70
Kontera - US$7.29 - (US$12.82) down US$5.53
Advertlets - Ditched, you owe me MYR400-pay up Josh Lim!

Total Income: US$1,347.81 ~ RM4,299.51 (based on US$1-RM3.19) It is nice Ringgit is getting stronger.

Target for June - $,1500 from adsense - failed!

Note

I would like to point out again that this total income is NOT from this Rajawang blog only, since I am only running Adsense, Nuffnang and Kontera in Rajawang. As I have said before, I maintained around 5 blogs that monetized well enough to earn the figures above. This is not magic, nothing good come easily. You can read my Top 5 Recommended Money Makers here.

So that’s all for this Rajawang make money online income report for this time, there is lots of work still to be done. Hopefully you will do better too. Congrats for whatever you have achieved in this Make Money Online journey.

Breaking news!
Radical Experiment Fort July 2008

For this month, I am going to do some radical experiment for 1 Month, that is by ditching Adsense temporarily for the time being, except for on rajawang(I am not making that much anyway from adsense here) and my personal blog.! Wow. Stay tuned for my post on this plan tomorrow!

Let’s roll.

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My first Nuffnang cheque! Cool!

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

I was very surprised to received a cheque from Nuffnang yesterday. Although the amount is only fro RM61.41 but it is still money! Btw,  Robb correctly predicted this cheque to arrive in Mid June in one of my post earlier. You a great man.

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The Nuffnang cheque on top of my new Cordless Logitech Wave Keyboard

This is the first cheque that I receive from Nuffnang and hopefully I will be getting it on a monthly basis since I earn around RM50-RM60 a month. FYI, I immediately cash out earning that reached RM50 every month.

nuffnang-earnings

At least the payment history is updated and the status is not for decoration only.

If you ask me which one is better Nuffnang or Advertlets, then I have to say nuffnang based on my own experience. First they pay on time(60 days for non-exclusive member).  Secondly, the payments status is updated and third they don’t go accusing bloggers of fraud clicking etc. For advertlets, I am still waiting a RM400 cashout since March.

I am cool with any ads company as long as you pay according to your promise. That is the truth.

What is your experience with nuffnang?

Let’s go for a drink.

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Have you tried SocialSpark yet?

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

SocialSpark the newest site for blogger that can help you monetize your blog, build community and drive traffic. At first look, the site looks like another normal paid to post program that we are so used to. But one of the difference is that all the link will carry the no-follow code which is supposed to be more link-friendly for Big G. So, in theory writing for SocialSpark will not give you are big fat zero pagerank by Big G.

Some of the key codes of SocialSpark are:

-100% Audit-able In-Post Disclosure
-100% Transparency
-100% Real Opinions
-100% Search Engine Friendly

The main page of SocialSpark is very interesting with good navigation and preview of each main section e.g popular opportunities, members, message center and also recent comments.

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SocialSpark main page

Social Spark will combine the best of paid to blog services with social networking. No longer will Google Page rank dominate how much money a blogger can make. It will be up to the advertisers, after seeing the bloggers stats, traffic, demographic, profile, and other pertinent information, and also while forming online relationships with the bloggers themselves through Social Spark, that they will be able to select the blogs they want to do business with.

In socialspark there are 3 kind of Marketplace Opportunities:

Sponsored Post:
In the Sponsored Post Opportunity, a Blogger will create a unique sponsored post on his/her blog based on the guidance the Advertiser provides. The Advertiser can choose to have each Blogger include an image, video or press release along with the Blogger’s own text. The Advertiser pays per unique blog post that is created on each unique blog.

Blog Sponsorship:
Blog sponsorships are a means by which the Advertisers to utilize SocialSpark’s unique technology to create a ‘welcome mat’ and persistent sponsorship banner on blogs. Sponsorships can consist of text, images or video. The advertiser pays per day that a select blog runs the Blog Sponsorship.

Spark:
Sparks are free Opportunities that serve as ideas for blog posts. Sparks are utilized primarily by Bloggers, but may also be used by Advertisers.  They offer no tracking or segmentation options.

Minimum payment is $20 and paypal is available

So if you have not join SocialSpark, common give it a try.

Let’s roll.

Sponsored by SocialSpark

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Widgebucks Payment received! Kaching!

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

I have been waiting for the Widgetbucks payment since Friday last week and only got it yesterday. Everything that pays through paypal is like music for my ears since I can withdraw it into my Visa Debit Card already. So the amount is only $116 but it still a nice sum since I heard most of the readers are not getting any luck with Widgetbucks.

widgetbucks-april-payment

Last month(May) I only got around $80 for widgetbucks and the sum seems to be declining for this June(currently only $43). Anything above the minimum payout amount of $50 is still acceptable for me. At least this money can take care some of the petrol that I buy monthly. Making money online is hard, trust me.

Let’s roll. :)

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