How to increase your google adsense earnings?

July 20, 2008 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · Comment 

How to increase your google adsense earnings

Blogging for money is not my cup of tea, but that doesn’t mean I hate the idea of making money online, who does? Lately, I’ve noticed a large number of people decided to blog not because they enjoyed blogging but wanted to make a living out of it, and that really annoys me. Reminds me of a good friend of mine, when the blogging world was in its infant years, I proposed the idea of co-blogging, with no intention of making anything out of it, but he rejected my idea, reason is because it is a waste of time.

Fast forward 2 years, he came talking to me and wanted to know how blog works and told me he bought a book - ‘Google Adsense for dummies‘, and just like yesteryear, I politely rejected his proposal on the ‘idea’ of co-blogging with him. His sudden passion in blogging was due to the fact that he overheard I’m making a living out of it.



Anyway, GeckoandFly was meant to be a collaboration between my friends (non-tech savvy people) by it did not materialized, glad that it didn’t worked out, if it does than my earnings would be equally divided among them. Three years of blogging and numerous trial and errors, I conclude that the art of monetizing your blog comes in many forms, depending on the blogging platform, keywords, language and many more, I would like to take the opportunity to highlight some of the key issues or shall I say some really simple technique that all newbie should know.

1. Insert Ads into your post.

This is by far the easier way to increase your CTR, but be cautious that just like a sword, it cuts both ways because it can be potentially annoying to your readers knowing that you are bombarding them with advertisement. Some of my favorite formats are the 468 x 60px, 300 x 300px, and 125 x 125px. Read AdesBlog.

2. Filter unwanted or low paying ads

Rumors has it that the author of AdsBlacklist own numerous spammy websites and the only for his splog to appear in adsense is by blocking out the competitions, thus born AdsBlacklist, basically he provide a list of his competitor’s splog to be filtered by the publisher. Well, it does works to a certain extend.

3. Ping your blog, submit to all the search engines.

Based on my 3 years of experience, pinging you blog and submit it to every known search engine does not guarantee traffic, and in most cases you get spammed in returned.

Submit to Google
Submit to Yahoo
Submit to MSN
Submit to Baidu (China’s biggest search engine)

Ping Moreover - http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http://www.YOUR-DOMAIN.com/sitemap.xml

Ping MSN - http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://www.YOUR-DOMAIN.com

Ping ASK - http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.YOUR-DOMAIN.com/sitemap.xml

Ping Google - http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=http://www.YOUR-NAME.com/sitemap.gz

Ping Yahoo - http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=Yahoo&url=http://www.YOUR-DOMAIN.com/sitemap.xml

4. Sitemaps and SEO

Submit your sitemap.xml manually to Google, MSN, and Yahoo, it is a great way to monitor the keywords and your ranking in Google and Yahoo, highly recommended. The following table lists the Sitemap submission URLs for several major search engines:

Google Webmaster Central
Yahoo Site Explorer
MSN Webmaster Tools

If you are using Wordpress, then you should install these plugins:

All in One SEO - It works, based on both my blogs’ traffic, I noticed a 10 - 15% increase in term of pageviews.

Google XML Sitemaps - Will generate a sitemap.xml automatically whenever you update your post and comments, it pings all the three major search engine as well. A highly recommended plugin.

I’m not a SEO expert, neither am I a rich millionaire with tons of money lying around on the carpet. Just an ordinary kid making some spare cash for my college education. Whatever I wrote here are pretty basic in term of monetizing your blog, Google for more.

5. Drop Comments

By dropping your comments with a link back to other blogs, you’re building a social presence in the blog sphere, make it a habit, I would say at least 3 comments for each for your write.

p.s. If your new to the world of blogging, do read ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income, it is very informative for beginners.

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Must full time blogger pay income tax in Malaysia?

July 20, 2008 · Filed Under Life Log, Uncategorized · 2 Comments 

I’m not an accountant, neither am I familiar with the tax structure in Malaysia, the only thing that is troubling me when it comes to paying tax, should I or shouldn’t I pay tax? Clause 12 says money made outside Malaysia are tax exempted.

Tax Exemptions For Individuals
12. Income Remitted from Outside Malaysia
With effect from the year of assessment 2004, income derived from outside Malaysia and received in Malaysia by resident individual is exempted from tax. (Link)

I have conflicting answers from different accountants, and this is killing me. Do you pay tax from money made online?

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Buy Apple 3G iPhone Online From eBay in 60 days

April 8, 2008 · Filed Under Sci and Tech · Comment 

Walt Mossberg Predicts 3G iPhone in 60 days

Walt Mossberg Predicts 3G iPhone in 60 days. Thinking of buying the iPhone? Hold your horses because tech pundit predicts that the much awaited 3G iPhone is around the corner. This could very well be true because there is a price cut and a stock shortage, this means that Apple has stop the manufacturing of the current EDGE iPhone and clearing their old stocks.

Walt Mossberg, an American journalist who is the principal technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal gives a semi-guarantee that the 3G iPhone would be available in less than 60 days. Get ready ebay sellers, it is time to clear you existing and be prepare to stock up those brand spanking new 3G iPhone when it is available, it is going to be a hit. Ka Ching! ka Ching! Money is everywhere.

For more information, surf to Engadget.com

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NASA and the Zero-Gravity Pen

October 18, 2007 · Filed Under Make Money Online · Comment 

Here is an interesting story, found at Teaching Sells.

Back when NASA started launching manned spacecraft in the 1960s, they found out that the astronauts couldn’t use pens to write with while in space. The ink wouldn’t flow down through the pen in a zero-gravity environment. NASA decided to retain a man named Paul Fisher to design a pen that would work in space.

A mere $1.5 million later, they had a solution. NASA now had a pen that worked in zero gravity, in a vacuum, and in a drastic temperature range.

The Russian cosmonauts had the same problem, of course.

So they used a pencil.

Now, this anecdote isn’t historically accurate, and has become a bit of an urban legend. The truth is both the US and Russia used pencils at first, and Paul Fisher independently created the pen and sold 400 of them to NASA for a song. The reason the exaggerated story is so widely embraced, though, is because it rings true.

We often expend large amounts of time and effort creating elaborate solutions to problems when a simple answer is right under our noses.

make money online

Making money online is not that tough after all, it requires an innovative approach, not labor intensive approach. Showmoney’s belowabuck.com is a great example, read all about the hidden agenda.

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Google #1 Ranking for ‘Make Money Online’

October 12, 2007 · Filed Under Make Money Online · 6 Comments 

Ranking for 'Make Money Online

I’m lost, clueless. How in the world this blog - http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com/ make it to the number one spot for the keyword ‘make money online’?

What ever information that appears on the blog has been somewhat modified or duplicated from another source, in short, it is a splog - Spam Blog. That are tons of other better blogs on how to make money online, problogger.com is a good example.

The guy must be laughing all the way to the bank.

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New American Five Dollar Note

September 24, 2007 · Filed Under Humour and Weird · Comment 

New American Five Dollars Note

Finally the all new five dollar note, the new $5 bill was just introduced and might be considered the most colorful piece of US currency ever produced.

The main difference is the introduction of the colour light purple in the center of the bill, which gradually fade into the grey background and those small yelow dots on the right.

P.S. North Korea happens to be the biggest producer in US counterfeit money, it is the North Korean Government that prints almost one quarter of the world’s fake US notes and sold it to the black market, these fake US notes are almost identical to the real thing except for the serial number, after all they’re the government and only the government of every country has the machine to print currency.

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