Whoa! I'm so surprised that PayPerP0st reduced it's opportunity price from a normal $5.00 to a very saddening $1 or even $0.50. At first I thought there was a technical glitch on their part but it's not. After I learned about it, I immediately rushed to their official forum and found out a lot of bloggers sharing the same sentiments as mine.
I can really says that even us, bloggers are affected to this economic down trend around the world. So as I always saying: grab any opportunity that comes your way, so you will not regret anything at the end.
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Showing posts with label Personal. Show all posts
Sign Of The Times
Another Win!
Wow! even though I don't join blog contest that much, unlike before. I can still say that I'm quite lucky on those. Just this month I won $100 form FlashMint and 2 days ago, I won $10 from PinayMommy! Yay! I'm so happy.
I actually need some extra now, because I will move my one blog from blogspot to wordpress. Thanks God for all of this.
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This Blog Survived!
Well I think I can say that finally eh? On the last week of December to the first week of January, bloggers are so ecstatic over another PR update. Some are happy, some of them are so disappointed. I don't deserved this! blah blah. I hate you G00gle! LOL!!
As for me, all of my blogs stayed the same. One has increased from zero PR1, not bad at all. I can continue with I'm doing now. Actually this blog started from PR0 to PR3 then PR2 then PR2 again, actually I'm not expecting it because of 'that', you know that already. As I'm always saying, use your PR while you have it.
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WidgetBucks Suspension! - Part 2
Remember the letter that I received from WidgetBucks? Well this is the part 2 of that. On the day that I received that letter, that states that my blog is banned because I have adult content on my blogs, which is none as far as I know. At first, I didn't reply to their letter, because I was so shocked by then.
I just searched for explanation on the recent blogposts about Widgetbucks on Google's BlogSearch, but I don't find anything that related to what happened to me.
So the next morning I compose an e-mail & sent it to Widgetbucks' support team, and this is their reply to me:
Thank you for contacting us.
After reviewing you sites it appears that this was a mistake. We have reactivated your account. Please contact us if you have any further questions.
Thanks,
WidgetBucks Help Team
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Some Bloggers Are Parrot
As I have said in my previous post, I will have a new blog that will launched early next year. Of course like my other blogs, I will not reveal what this blog is. It's for you to found out, some of you already know what my other blog is, so I just leave it that way.
I think some anonymity is good, because some bloggers are just copy-pasting your ideas which makes the niche so crowded. Call me selfish or what, but I think it's so stupid to copy others idea and claim it your own. They just like a parrot that keeps repeating what's already been said :P
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Tired Of Contest Scams?
Are you tired of contest scams? Who doesn't right? I think this is the reason, why you don't see me joining all of the contest that I stumbled to. Before, you can see me, whenever there are contest. But now, it changed a bit. Of course, before I join any contest I make sure that the blog is legit and will not run after the contest is ended.
Well now, I really picked what contest will I join because all of my efforts will be wasted in the end especially if the contest requires a lot of steps before you're entry become valid.
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Are You Planning A Blog Contest?
If yes, Please inform me so I can sponsor it okay? I have LOTS of Entrecard credits and I don't want to spend it on advertising on other blogs because I only get few clicks from there. I think sponsoring some blog contest is most useful.
So if you have an upcoming contest, just leave a comment here and we'll talk about it. And mind you, I immediately send the prize after the contest is ended unlike other bloggers that takes months before you received it.
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Creating New Blog
Yup, I'm creating new blogs now because I want to try different niche. I don't put any advertisement on that blog yet because I've read that you're blog must be 10 days old first before you put ads like Google Adsense.
I'm hoping my new blog will be successful like my previous blogs.
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Does Sponsoring Some Blog Contest Lower Your PR?
That's the question I have in mind, because as you know before this blog is a PR3. And so I want to increase it by one point, to make it a PR4. To meet that, I've read that I should build more links going to this blog. Specifically 'one way links' because they say Google weight it more compare to a regular 'two way links' or links exchanges that we do often. Incidentally on that month, one blogger ask me if I want to sponsor her upcoming contest and in return she will required all entrants to link to all the sponsoring blogs, so I immediately accepted the offer.
And then, the buzz of another PR update is almost on all blog so I prepared myself for the worst, because as we all know Google hates p@id links so I'm expecting to be PR zero, or if my PR increased, Google did not see me. Surprisingly after more than 7 months of blogging, this blog still has it's PR. I dunno what's the reason behind this, but as of now I can still say: "Google love me."
I hope I can say that for long.
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Where Am I?
If you're wondering where I have been, I'm just here. Some of you think that my last post about a commenter is the reason why I stop updating this blog. Actually not, I'm still around and no one can stop me from blogging, I do still reply to your comments here. I just have no energy to post a new one not until now.
Anyway, I'm also busy with my offline life. My family is planning to move to a new house, which I really hate because there's no internet there. Plus there's no friends, no anything. I don't want to start anew.
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Don't Pretend That You Know It All
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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"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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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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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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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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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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