If you're wondering where's my chatbox, actually I put in another page. Why? So that bloggers will not use it as a spamming tool for their own blog, you know what I mean. So if you got a question for me, better use the comment form in this blog, because I don't always go to that page. Anyway I check that page a while ago, and found a message from Fred:
"Hello.This is fred.The TOS of P@yu2blog states that you cannot blog for Social Spark if you write for p@yu2bl0g.How come then, you write for both!???"
OMG! You're commenting without checking your FACTS . Can you point a link to that? And as far as I know there is no 'p@id-to-blog' company that tell you not to blog for other company. It's their loss, if they do that. Plus, I'm not that stupid to that in case that's not permitted. It appears to me that you posted that to tell me that "I'm stupid and you know everything about blogging" Actually you're not.
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Don't Pretend That You Know It All
"Thanks for all of your hard work"
“The sheriff is looking out for you. You have been given an extra assignment. Thanks for all of your hard work.”
^Wow! It's my first time to be given extra 'star' by those sheriffs. In this company, if you are seen by a 'sheriff' it doesn't mean that you done something wrong, actually it's a good thing. Everybody is waiting for the same message that I posted above, so if your lucky enough you will received the same.
Actually when I log-in I have 13 assignments to beat. Yay!
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My First Affiliate Payment From Sponsored Reviews
Yay! It's my first time to received an affiliate payment from Sponsored Reviews! Actually I almost forgot that SR has it's own affiliate thingy, until I received an "You Got Funds" e-mail a while ago. Well, I don't promote it that much I just put my affiliate link on this blog sidebar, but still there are blogger who signing-up under me. It's just mean one thing, I'm trustworthy :)
Of course, no blogger will sign-up under you if they don't believe you right? So to all those bloggers who continuing to support me even my blog looks ugly. Thank you!
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Tired of EntreCard?
Well me, YES! Not like before I don't drop on 300 blogs a day. Actually before it is included in my daily routine, but not now. I think there are other useful things to do online like updating my blogs. Plus their ever changing rules, I simply don't like it.
Now, we can feel the changes to EntreCard. There are no big contests now that giving away huge amount of EC's because of the new 'transfer limit' rules. What I don't like about it is, the 'drop & go' traffic, which I always say. There are even 'power dropper' who uses FireFox, EC toolbar, AdBlock Plus and ImgLikeOpera add-on (which prevent images from loading on a blog) just to drop on 300 blogs in just 30 minutes. They even open more than 10 windows at a time, where's the quality in that?
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OMG! A.W. Surveys
Remember, when i posted that I already cash-out in my A.W. Surveys account? Well, i almost forgot about that because I'm not online for 3 days and when I stumbled a blog posts about surveys I remember it so I immediately log-in to found out what's the latest update about my payment. And surprisingly my account is not $75.5 anymore it's just $65.5 :(
I don't know what happened so I search for answers in their FAQ section and this what I found:
7. Why has my Referral Count decreased?
When we periodically delete Fraudulent accounts and they have your Referral tag on them, you will lose them as your referral. We know that you can not control what your referrals do, but this is why we recommend only referring your friends that you know will not commit fraudulent activities.
Have you experienced the same? This maybe sad but it's OK I will just continue to promote my A.W. Surveys referral link. Anyway this is not so good news, but here's some GOOD news: I've won $200.00 from a blog contest! Yay! And the amount is already in my PayPal.
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There Something Wrong
I bet you will notice there's something wrong with this blog, especially in the sidebar. I don't know, what really happen. I never alter or remove any codes in it, I investigate a bit, but I found nothing wrong with the codes.
I'm too lazy to know what is, I just came back home from a 3 day vacation. That's the reason, why I'm missing in action these past few days. Well, I'm back now but I'm not still in my element. I just log-in to check my e-mails. I have no energy to update my blogs.
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Would You Believe This E-mail?
A while ago, I received this e-mail on my inbox. The e-mail is from: charles@gajillian.com
Subject: Visitors love paid product giveaways
We are a blog marketing company that specializes in pay per click promotional giveaways. If you have a high traffic blog, this is a great way for you to make money while encouraging viewer loyalty.
You write an article about a product. Then you encourage the viewer to click on a link that is imbedded in the article. To enter the contest, the viewer has to retrieve some information from the advertisers web site. For example, we might get the viewer to pick out there favorite color. They post a comment with their favorite color. Then, we pick a winner.
You get paid every time a viewer clicks through to the advertisers. Our bloggers tell us that they make more with us than with pay-per-p0st.
Actually I think for a while, when I read about that "pay per click promotional giveaways", It's kinda confusing eh? I don't where did they get my e-mail. Probably from some blog contests that I participated :(
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Another Direct Advertiser
Lucky me huh?! I got another direct advertiser from PayPerP0st, I don't know how that thing work but all I know is the advertisers 'hand-picked' blogs from the system and offer them an opportunity. And the best thing about this is they gonna pay you after approved your post, which takes no more than 24 hours unlike the 30 day rule on 'normal' opps.
I don't know why they like my blogs, probably because of my oh-so perfect grammar ;) LOL!!
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Sick Of Blogging?
I have read a blog post this morning about a blogger being sick because of to much blogging. That's something I never heard before, I never knew being online can get you sick huh?! But as I have read his post, he mentioned that because of blogging he only sleeps for 4 hours a day! That's too much in my opinion.
I don't know if using some sort of herbal cleanser can help him, but the best advice is get enough sleep. Don't abuse your body just because you wanna update your blogs or you're dropping 300 'drops' on Entrecard member blogs. Because the earning you will get online, is not enough to cover your hospital bills if it get worse.
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If I Can Turn Back Time
While checking comments on older posts, I found these comment left by Hannah on this post:
"adsense just disabled my account. invalid clicks daw. i swear i didn't click on my own ads and definitely did not encourage anyone to do so. what's scary bout google adsense is that the publisher cannot protect himself from so-called invalid clicks. you're at the mercy of google. btw, adsense prohibits 3rd party ptc links. they will ban you if they find out. good luck."
She left that comment exactly on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:11:00 PM PHT, I wonder why I don't see it on that day? Actually I answer all the comments posted here, but I missed that one. If only I saw that comment this one will never happen.
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Opening A Dollar Account
If you're a regular reader here, probably you have read that I received a check from AdBrite. Actually it's my first dollar check because most of the payment I got goes thru PayPal, Western Union or checks in local currency.
But my problem is how can I encash that AdBrite check if I don't have a dollar account here? So I'm planning that I will sign-up for a dollar account in MetroBank. I will use all the 'dollar bills' that I get from Google Adsense thru Western Union. Yes! I get my earnings from Adsense in US dollars, for example I earn $132.00 for the month. I will opt to received the $100 in US$ and the remaining $32 will be the one which will be converted to Philippine Pesos. Why I do this? So that I will not spend it that easily!
Actually I should have $600 dollar bills now, but on my second payment that WU agent convinced me to received it 'all' in pesos, which I did! You know I'm easy to convince :) Anyway the minimum maintaining balance at MetroBank is $500 so I'm opening an account at them SOON.
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The Power Of Digg.com
When I'm just a newbie, I've read soooo many tips to increase your blog traffic from pretending bloggers. Sadly most of them don't work, that's what I hate on other blogger they're claiming that their tips work but looking at their blogs it seems that they don't applied at all. I know my blog is ugly, but I don't pretend as a know-it-all person. Before you teach tips on your blog, be sure to know what you're talking about.
As I said 'most of them don't work' but some DO, and Digg.com is one of them. Digg allows you to submit links to the website and when many users 'digg' the story you submit, chances are you will hit the Digg.com, but for small bloggers like me it doesn't work that way. On my other blog, everytime I published a new blog post, I make sure that I submit it to Digg. And it works for me, by doing that I'm able to increase my unique hits by a couple of hundreds or more.
Not bad for just a minute of submitting an article.
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Entrecard Updates
Entrecard send us another mail that goes to my Junk folder, do you think it deserved to be in that place? LOL!! If your experiencing weird things while dropping your card as fast as you can then immediately leave, here's the reason why:
Greetings, faithful Entrecard members.
We are experiencing a slowdown as a result of regularly increasing load. In other words we're becoming more popular and it's causing problems :)
Those who have been with us the longest are aware that these things happen when Entrecard hits milestones or users and widgets, etc. and we always scramble to fix it as fast as possible. Most importantly, we always do what is necessary to get the site back to its typical fast self.
So we will be having a performance-related outage 7 hours from the time of this email (on the hour) which will last for 2 hours max. We have also taken some temporary measures, in the hopes that things will be better for the next 7 hours.
I really do appreciate your patience as we continually evolve our site's architecture to handle the load of bloggers who like our service. This compete graph illustrates how our service has grown sharply in September, and is on track to grow even more in October:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/entrecard.com/?metric=uv -hence the load issues.
A Note about Quality Standards
While we're down, please take advantage of the opportunity to review our quality guidelines located here:
http://entrecard.com/docs/doku.php?id=blog_quality_standards
Among the recent changes, and other rules we'd like to remind you of:
1. Blog's must be updated within the last three (3) months
2. No full screen ads or popups
3. Blogs cannot consists of more than 50% advertisement posts, paid posts, or affiliate-linking posts
4. Entrecard widget must be present
5. No auto-playing audio -all audio must be initiated (played) by the visitor
We have taken a handful of new moderators onto the scene, and they have been combing over Entrecard weeding out everything that does not adhere to our basic quality guidelines. Thousands of accounts have been removed. To our rejoice, the overall quality of the Entrecard network has grown in leaps and bounds over the last month, and I'm sure you've noticed the difference. We strive now and always to create a high-quality network of bloggers that we can all be proud to participate in.
So, to wrap up, thank you for being patient with us while we deal with our increasing usage, and while we move quickly to enforce the updated quality standards network-wide.
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Wow at My Alexa Rank!
179,007! That's my current Alexa Rank, which makes me so happy. Considering I don't have any Alexa toolbar on my browsers (Internet Explorer & FireFox) this is a feat for a 8 month old blog :) Actually I have it before, but I have read a blog post that it's an spyware and it slows down most webpages.
It's not that I'm afraid of spyware but I don't wanna see slow loading blogs just because Alexa is gathering stats from me. After I remove that FF add-on my browsing is better.
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BidVertiser Update
When I log-in to my BidVertiser account today, which I don't usually do. I was surprised that my earnings went up, especially on this blog. So now, I can say that it worth the space provided on this blog. Especially now that I put that ad block at the top fold of this blog.
As you know, Bidvertiser minimum pay-out is $10, and the best thing is they pay via PayPal. I hope I will achieve the minimum pay-out for the second time :)
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The Joy of Internet
One of the advantages of having an internet access, is the convenience it brings. Now you don't have to leave your house just to pay your bills, shop anything or even performing an ohio inmate search. You can basically go to the 'other world' in your PJ's. With an internet connection, everything is possible.
With just a click of a mouse, everything you need to do can be easily done. With these you can save time & money too.
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A.W. Surveys, Finally!
After my plead on my post yesterday, heaven sent me a blogger to help me achieve the minimum pay-out in A.W. Surveys! Yay! After months & months of collecting referrals, finally I was able to achieve it. Well, the page said that I will be paid after 4 days so let's wait for that, and I will keep you posted.
*finger-crossed*
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BloggerWave Payment Proof
Yay! Finally, after so much wait, BloggerWave paid me! Even I almost forgot about them, here they are saying "We're alive!" Actually this is the first time I've been paid by them.
Looks like BloggerWave & Blogitive is run by the same company huh?! Because they always pays late.
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Get $25 From WidgetBucks' First Anniversary
WidgetBucks is actually one of my best money-maker eversince I joined them. I have been paid twice, $54.14 and $52.46. Unlike Google Adsense and other similar ad servers, this one doesn't need that much clicks for you to generate income. As long as you got a decent amount of traffic, you will earn.
And as WidgetBucks turn ONE, they are offering a $25.00 bonus for just signing-up from October 1 - 31, 2008. Too bad on the month that I signed-up there is no offer like this one.
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Beware of Scammers
Have you noticed almost every single day a new contest is sprouting? I can't blame the blog owners because according to Technorati.com, 175,000 blogs are created everyday. They want to be noticed out of millions of blogs on the entire blogosphere, and making a blog contest is one way of doing it.
But beware some blog owners are deceiving like Rishabh Sood from Gautam Nagar, New Delhi India, he created a 'blog review contest' that if your review is selected you will win a 8GB iPod Nano. So the contest is ended on the last day of September, and he announced the winner after a few days.
On the announcement post, there is no link to the winning blog. He just mention that a certain Viresh Vasu won. Surprisingly when that Viresh commented on that post, he doesn't also provide link to his blog. Fishy huh?! So with the 'success' of his first contest, he immediately launched another one.
But one blogger commented/e-mailed all the blogger who participated on the first contest telling that it was a hoax, there is no real winner. So these bloggers commented on Rishabh Sood's blog asking to air his side on the matter. But Rishabh Sood deleted most of the comments and all comments posted on the blog are now moderated. He also deleted the first contest post, the announcement of the first contest, and the post about his second contest. So if you're not GUILTY then why you delete that 3 posts. And we found out that this blogger is scamming people in Digital Point.
He also owns the following sites:
virtusohost.com
rishabhsood.net
rishabhsood.com
health-figure.com
rectifylinux.com
superhosterz.com
SymbianGalaxy.org
mastiarea.com
adtechz.com
tinypix.in
pyng.org
BLOGSPOTS:
http://myblog-rishabh.blogspot.com/
http://urineproblemblogspotsux.blogspot.com/
http://forexontr.blogspot.com/
http://studentconsolidationblog.blogspot.com/
http://superhosterz.blogspot.com/
http://earnmoneyonlineoffers.blogspot.com/
http://forexblog2.blogspot.com/
With the following e-mail:
sood1992@gmail.com
rob@virtuosohost.com
vireshvasu@gmail.com
hotantivirus@gmail.com
viresh_vasu4329@yahoo.com
vi2vee@gmail.com
sood1992@gmail.com
aditya@adtechz.com
adi-uk@hotmail.co.uk
pradeep.sood1963@gmail.com
I.P. Address:
116.74.8.165
59.180.146.231
59.180.145.187
ADDRESS:
46/1, 3rd floor Gautam Nagar, New Delhi, India
BLOGGER:
http://www.blogger.com/profile/15178303030004219491
Digital Point username:
Rajdeep (banned)
invisible
fibula
evolution_x35
voiceofsoul56
He is using new name of Aditya, Fibula or DesiSquad! Thanks SYC for the heads up.
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Did BlogTV Contacted You?
Upon checking my e-mail a while ago, I seen this message sent to me by Kara-Hannah of BlogTV.com
I'm Kara-Hannah, the community manager at blogTV.com and I have to say that I find your blog very interesting. If you are not aware of blogTV, it is a live video broadcasting platform and a community site.
Given the amount of followers you have on your blog, I think it could be extremely successful and exciting for you to do a live broadcast and be able to chat with your followers live while allowing them get to know you and your subject matter even better.
Although we, at blogTV, certainly respect the written form of blogging, we do know that these days people are prone to simply logging on to and pressing play to get the information they crave.
If you were to come over to blogTV we would offer you a featured artist position which would include wide spread promotion and personal attention to your needs.
What do you think of it? Do you think it's a spam? I try to go to BlogTV and it seems legit huh!
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One Blogger Needed
I think this is the second time I promote AW Surveys, but I can't help it. I badly needed help from 1 blogger. As you know, in A.W. Surveys you must meet the $75.00 minimum so they can pay you. And after I log-in a while ago, my current balance is $74.25, $0.75 shy to the minimum pay-out.
If you sign-up today, they're gonna credit your account $6.00 as your welcome survey. Please sign-up using that link under the green square on the left ->
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Tired!
Just lately I feel so bored at blogging. Really! I'm feeling this for two days already, in fact two assignments has expired on me already. One is $10 and the other is $5, I really don't know why I'm feeling this way, I'm too lazy to update my blog. Or I just update it, because it is needed.
I think I need to breath some fresh air. I'm exchanging e-mails with a blogger friend, and she told me that I should be thankful because I'm so lucky when it comes to blogging. My blogs are still receiving a good amount of traffic, which is the goal of many. Well, I'm still thankful because luck is on my side.
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On PR Update
It's so sad to read blog posts, telling that their blog's PR have been decreased by Google. I know what you feel. It's not that I'm immune to this, I'm ready myself for anything. Come what may. But we must all know, that Google slap blogs because they allow pa1d l1nks, which can ruin how the search engine gives accurate results.
As you know, Google based it's search results on links a websites get, the more links you get, the more likely you will top the search results page. And Google doesn't want spammy websites, topping the search results. So they do the 'slapping' as a counter measure.
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Google LOVE Me!
Well, what can I say?
Despite that 'fact' I still feel the Google lovin'! As you know, there's another update PR update this weekend. Actually I didn't know that there's another PR update coming because there's no news about it. So there's no nail-biting for me unlike the last one. Guess what? None of my blogs have been decreased! In fact I have a 2 blog that increased it's PR from zero to something. And my stagnant blog have been awarded a PR1.
Yay! And the great thing is, that 3 blogs is on a domain not on a blogspot. You already know what that means ;)
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