If you wish to make money through your blogs, one of the thing to remember is - Always treat each page or each blog post as a website on its own... It is like the gold nugget hidden amongst the hundreds of blog craps we write... c) Check your organic traffic and know what are some of the keywords that bring in the traffic... Organic traffic or those random surfers who stumbled into that page are not in the mood to read how cute your child is, for example... In conclusion - Treat each post of your blog like it is a site on its own and soon, you will be making money from them... Spammers can help us make money Have a good weekend to all and I am going to be so busy with my TVB soap operas and a new point & shoot camera plus a new polarizer for my DSLR camera... … View Post »

The reason given by Kontera is : I wrote to you some time ago and I do not see that you have resolved this matter... Please remove all competitive in-text products from your pages immediately, as we are not willing to work in conjunction with any other in-text providers... I can place Chitika below my title, in the middle of my post and anywhere I want... but I am giving Infolinks a trial run now and it also makes money as well... FOODBUZZ VERSUS NUFFNANG or any type of banner ads Foodbuzz is for selected food bloggers only... So, now you have some ideas on what ad companies do not play well together, do make a choice and choose one... *Note that all the links above are my affiliate links... Bloggers -take advantage of it I don t play link exchange, so sue me Niamah, I don t want to play Adwords anymore!... … View Post »

If I am not a food blogger, I wouldn t even think about these things... However, being a blogger who makes money through my blog, I have developed the habit of buying things that can help with my blog... Some of the things that I have spent my money on are : 1) Purchase of my Sony Vaio laptop and iMac (just because I can afford) 2) Purchase of cameras and lens (more to feed my hobby) 3) Purchase of bigger webhosting like my VPS and another shared hosting with a different webhost 4) Advertising on some selected blogs (I feel this is not such a great idea) 5) Organising contest (now I am too broke to do that) 6) Purchase of things that help improve my blogging (softwares/programs) 7) Getting all the things which are bloggable materials like skincare, cosmetics, cutleries, pots and pans and etc 8) Pay for my mobile phone unlimited broadband service 9) Purchase of a mobile phone which helps with keep track of my blogs 10) Purchase of skincare and vitamins to keep me going and going and going LOL Normally, I will convert what I wanted to buy into USD... --- Related Articles at Make$ Money$ Blog - Truth, no scam: Education about commodity future trading To Menj & Blogging For Money When should a woman strikes out on her own?... (to make an online presence) So many gadgets, so little money Half a year gone, do you have resolutions to make money?... … View Post »

We Malaysians are a frustrated lot... We are at the mercies of the internet service providers like Streamyx, Jaring and the other smaller players... I have just tried for the 100th time to stumble someone s post and it just won t move... It is darn frustrating to surf at night because the internet speed over at my place is too slow... So, as a gentle reminder to those bloggers who have fancy schmancy theme or template, plenty of plugins pulling in all sorts of popular post, most view post, top ten commented yadda yadda yadda frills and lots of photos plus tracking codes, do keep your blog simpler... If your traffic is meant to attract Malaysians, all the more you should trim it because many people dislike waiting for a page to completely download... However, those who come by has to wait for a long time to see all the photos and etc. The other thing you may want to observe is - Are your contents loaded first or do people have to wait for the sidebars and top banner to complete first?... I noticed that many food bloggers have these problems whereby their contents hang while we wait for the sidebars with lots of linked in pictures to download first... … View Post »

After my post on the problems of getting too many mails from Innity , Shadowfox has commented in my post on Innity : Innity is the most fucking annoying advertisement aggregator online... All their bloody ads uses flash crap that jams up your screen and stops navigation of the site... Theyre the most arrogant/obtrusive advertising engine/entity from Malaysia... … View Post »

By now, I am of course pissed with the number of emails I get from the same company, different staffs... If you had read the email you would notice that it was more than just a hi... We have an upcoming campaign for a prominent baby food product and would like to explore the possibility of advertising on http://www.mymomsbest.com/... Should you feel that you are already earning more than enough money from your portals, we will be more than inclined to withdraw... Who the hell are you to rub it in me with, Should you feel that you are already earning more than enough money from your portals, we will be more than inclined to withdraw. ?... In case you do not know, I have owned MyMomsBest website for almost six years already... I give FREE advertising to the work from home mothers... I give my time, my experience and my own money to it... … View Post »

Because I discovered that : One of my blog traffic has overtaken my personal blog s traffic... Though I was doing rather badly at the first half of the month, the income improves these few days so my whole month income is no longer so pathetic like what I was worried earlier... I have to attend class in the morning and I had to rush my blogging till 3 am because if I finish by tonight (I have done it), I will be paid today... I am getting some USD today, just in time for me to pay off some domain renewal... … View Post »

I found the post dated May 11th 2005 on my decision to put Adsense or not ... Mind you, exchange rate was pegged at RM3.80 per one USD... So, congratulation to myself for having survived four years of blogging and making a lot of money through blogging... I am rather proud because I never set out to make money in the first place and I also never work very hard to achieve it... It just falls into place, at my own space... … View Post »

Do you keep a to-do list?... I don t but have them swirling in my head... I literally and physically run his daily lives, day and even at nights when he had dinner appointments, business trips right down to remember which visiting procurement managers like which GROs and etc. Today is Tuesday and I have completed : 1) Change my personal and food blogs Wordpress theme... 5) Trace where the hell is my bank draft sent to Mumbai 6) Ask my leader to upgrade my church website from Windows NT server to Linux or whatever... I wasted 2 hours to clear the problem, read the Codex tutorial and every thing I can find on the net... Plus those daily routine of a make money blogger such as : 1) Check that all my blogs are running fine because there are blogs that I hardly visit for weeks; 2) Upgrade the plugins if necessary; 3) Go out, eat more, take pictures and blog; 4) Log into all my monetization program and see that the money is increasing; 5) Run through my Google Webmaster Central and find out if any sitemap is not readable by Google (it happens so always good to re-submit) 6) Analyse all those stats, income, blek I hate these So, do you keep a to-do list to stay on the track or do you just blindly forge ahead without stopping to recollect your thoughts?... I would detach myself from too much faith/religion related things, question the existence of God, write down the goodness I feel which are God s blessings and then, get back on track to do God s will... The exchange rate I get from Western Union/CIMB is only RM3.31=USD1 - What s yours?... … View Post »