Andrew Ooi

Kaching! Without a full time job anymore, I usually miss the end of the month where I get paid a full time salary. I always check on the 25th onwards if Google has sent payment via Western Union. And yes it’s just in today (on the 29th).
So go out and cash in your Google income […]

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I started my Malaysia Wiki  (http://malaysia.maribelajar.com) as a for-fun-web-project to learn more about Wikis. However a detail check with my Adsense dashboard reveals that it has surpassed my 2 main blog sites.
Both blogs are about chess and they usually get more traffic and Adsense clicks compared to the wiki. A few months ago that […]

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With Google swinging it’s executioner’s axe and chopping of PPP postie’s PR, PPP has become a taboo word in many blogs. Heck, I am even afraid to mention it in my higher PR blogs. In case you don’t know, you get paid for blogging and reviewing certain topics paid by advertisers. There are many […]

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Thanks, 5xmom, for buying a spot on my Scratchback widget. Finally, it doesn’t look so pathethic with 5 empty spots
I love the idea of ScratchBack by James Kukral. Take note that you don’t get the 100% of your set price for a spot. I chose USD 2.88 for a spot on my widget. […]

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That’s because it has lost it’s taste. What do you do with old chewing gum it? Spit it out of course!
Cashquests.com is a blog that’s in my regular daily reads. Kumiko is blunt in her writing and her posts always raises an eyebrow. I remember when she first started out on blogspot her earnings were […]

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Just an update that my USD 100 payment for removing a paid post from one of my blog cleared. Received the email this morning and it took exactly 5 days to clear as an eCheck in my PayPal account.

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So there is still hope for the post apocalyptic Google PR 0 massacre. IZEA is coming up with Real Ranks as a replacement to Google PR to measure a blog’s advertisement value. It is slated to up and running within 2 weeks. This is all good news but with a big number of posties blog […]

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It’s been a depressing day for many Pay Per Post bloggers. Google released a nuke that devastated a huge number of blogs with PR 0 effectively rendering them useless for PPP income. One of the reasons cited over the net is that Google PR was initially created for internal use only. Google felt that it […]

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What is Google up to? I checked this morning and looks like they not only reduced PR but reset it back all the way to ZERO!
Here are some Malaysian blogs that I found to have PR 0 today:-

http://ahpek.com
http://www.hongkiat.com/
http://5xmom.com
http://chanlilian.net
http://blog.xyiry.com
http://www.tenthofmarch.com
http://andrewooi.blogspot.com
http://huei0522.blogspot.com
http://www.mymomsbest.com
http://mymomsbest.com/daily/
http://lilianchan.blogspot.com
http://www.mylongkang.com
http://blogsreview.net
http://www.liferollercoaster.com
http://www.mumsgather.com/
http://www.papajoneh.com/
http://mrbadak.com/
http://nimrodjo.com/
http://www.lifelongsharing.com/
http://wuching.com
http://yp90.blogspot.com/
http://joshualai.blogspot.com/(Malaysian blogger currently living in China)
http://myorganicincome.com
http://www.thesuzette.com

I used LivePR.info to check multiple datacentres and they all came out zero. […]

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I’ll have to wait for it to be cleared after 5 days but the USD 100 for removing a sponsored post is real since I see it in my PayPal account.(also there will be a deduction of USD 3.20 because it’s an eCheck)
I have mixed feelings about this as this means some Advertisers are panicking […]

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Selling text links is a risky business if you live or die by Google’s traffic. Google can punish you in 2 ways:

slash your Page Rank by one, two or even three notches
make you disappear from their Search Engine Results

Of course Google’s open war on sites selling links is clear now so you can either be […]

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After I read LiewCF.com article on the USD 10,000 sale of BlogOhBlog.com (PR6) , it’s interesting to see if other Malaysians were flipping their blogs (in other words selling off their blogs for profit).
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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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My Advertlets earnings on September 26, 2007.
Today (October 7), it has doubled. That’s just a difference of 12 days.Not bad eh? My traffic to my two main chess blogs is the same.
The main changes I made was to add advertlets banner format close to the top of the page in my Chess Patzer blog.

I did […]

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I remember writing my first open source “Shoutbox” for PostNuke 7 years ago. It brought me instant fame on the online world and it was a good feeling. I got huge hits on my personal site with people downloading my free script. Back then I never thought about things like “monetizing” the website to capitalise […]

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For a blogger there are two types of income - Active or Passive
For my current thousand dollar experiment I’ll categorise the income channel this way.

Active
Passive

PayPerPost
Google Adsense

Sponsored Reviews
Text link ads […]

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On April this year I carried out the Thousand Dollar Experiment and successfully reached RM1100 in a month. Of course that was cheating a little as it was in Ringgit Malaysia not in actual US Dollars. Still it was a happy result which proves making money online isn’t all that difficult.
This month’s Thousand Dollar […]

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Well it’s not exactly my PayPal ATM card but my sister’s. You see, she works in the US and has a PayPal account.
By borrowing her PayPal card I finally have access the money I made during my Thousand Ringgit Experiment.
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