Andrew Ooi

Problogger Wannabe

Entries for October, 2007

Beautiful Monday Morning

Woke up to the rain this Monday morning. I love morning rain because it makes the air so cool and pleasant. I love it more when I don’t have to get stuck in the bus half wet from the rain going to office
It’s been raining for 2 hours since 8am this morning. It’s […]

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Earnings from Linkworth

That’s what I saw as earnings. It’s less than what I expected but I received my new Linkworth ads only when the month of October was almost over. USD 3.14 is quite a small amount but I am quite happy as this is yet another new stream of income. It’s nothing compared to what Adesblog […]

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Joining a linked list is not a smart idea

We all know that selling ads using Text Link Ads, TNX.net and LinkWorth is frowned at by search engine God, Google.
It’s the popular theory that this was the cause of the massive Page Rank drop for many bloggers these past few weeks. But do many of us know that being on a list of many […]

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My first Linkworth text link

Received this email early this morning.

I quickly logged in Linkworth and copied the code to be inserted into my blog.
I’m excited as this is my first text link besides TLA. The link pays enough for my outdoor WiFi bills for about 4 months.
The main reason I joined is based on the recommendation by 5xmom […]

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Fastest speed ever on Streamyx

Check out my BitComet screenshot.I don’t know about other Streamyx users but 170kB/s is so far the fastest speed I’ve ever got on BitComet. I’m probably getting local peers for the file I’m downloading. Sadly this speed only lasted about 15 minutes before cutting off to 10kB/s. Later it came back on for another 10 […]

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Solving the White Screen Of Death

Here’s a tip on solving the dreaded White Screen of Death that some Wordpress bloggers get when we mess around with the templates file or after we upgraded our Wordpress version.
I was inspired to do this video after seeing problogger LiewCF.com encountering the same white screen of death problem too. Since I am an ex-PHP […]

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Wiki is also earning

One thing I find surprising is that Wikis can earn money too. Since two of my chess websites has the highest traffic among all my other websites, it’s not surprising that the same two sites are also my top 2 highest Google Adsense earners. I don’t earn much from Adsense but it’s enough […]

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My Workspace?

Not really my workspace but something I set up for my parent’s placefor them to use. It’s my old Pentium 3 with a Sonic Gear woofer. Still ok for email, web browsing and watching DVDs.
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I rank number 1 for “Nuffnang Zero”

Just to check whether this new blog is indexed by Google, I tried searching for “Nuffnang Zero Income” and found my entry in the top position. Shortened the search term to “Nuffnang Zero” and it’s still number 1.

Oops, I guess I ranted too much on Nuffnang Zero Income.
Now if I can only rank no. […]

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Nuffnang Zero income - the bright side

Going into the 5th week with zero income from Nuffnang, I am beginning to see the bright side of it.
I’ve been looking for alternatives to “cover” the non-performance of Nuffnang and have activated a few new revenue streams.
For example,

I now have 3 blogs serving Kontera ads.
I wrote my first 2 post in Blogvertise today. Registered […]

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Grab Bag from Blogvertise

Saw this funny icon on my Blogvertise dashboard.
Of course I HAD to click on it to see what it was.
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Accepted by Kontera

It’s always nice to receive emails like this:-
Dear sir,
Thank you for supplying us with a list of site(s) to add to your network.You can find the ad code(s) for implementation on the approved site(s) in your toolbox at http://dc.kontera.com .  (Please note: the ad code(s) will be live at midnight PST tonight).User Name and Password […]

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Switched Adsense Payment to Western Union

The hottest news for Adsense publisher last month was that Adsense payment can be via Western Union. I am going to try to see how fast the payment really is. I’m still waiting for my previous adsense cheque to arrive by post and it would be funny if my Western Union payment gets thru before […]

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Raya Ang Pow from Advertlets

Got a nice surprise today when I say my Advertlets reach this amount:
On the next refresh, the magic “cash out” button showed up on my dashboard.
It’s certainly nice after several months of low income from Advertlets, things suddenly picked up the last two weeks enough to reach RM100 quickly. All I did was reposition the ads […]

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Pennies from Kontera

I’m happy seeing some small income coming in from Kontera on my chess blog. It’s only in cents but I’m happy to see it coming in daily!

Currently I only have my chess blog and Malaysia wiki approved by Kontera. I’m still waiting for approval on my other websites.
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Email from Timothy of Nuffnang

Two of my favourite local ad company (what other local company is there?) is Nuffnang and Advertlets. The results were pretty erratic as both gave me from almost nothing to some consistent income. For example Advertlets income was almost zero in the past, but now starting to bring in a decent income. Nuffnang was good […]

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Marissa Mayer

Marissa Mayer giving a talk at Stanford University. She is Vice-President of Search Product and User Experience at Google.

Lots of interesting stuff about Google here. Also check out her geeky laugh
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Fall from grace, PR7 to PR5

JohnChow.com PR6 fall to PR5 is well known. Tagspage.com is a website lets you post your tags on their page for a price. The website started with an enviable PR7 but is now at PR5 after Google’s latest PR update.
What is sad is that they still place a static image of their old PR7 […]

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