Adsense For Domains
You read it right, Adsense For Domains is now available in the Philippines. You should see the link when you login on your Adsense account. I got intrigued and read the terms and conditions.
This is good news to publishers who have unused domains, another way of earning from Google Adsense. I wonder if what is the best way to monetize your unused domains… to sell them or list them on the program?
I don’t have unused domains. The program was offered to US publishers in December last year and now its open for international publishers. To those who signed up, you can comment here if applying for the program is worth it.
Click A Google Ad?
Being an entrecard member somehow have some disadvantages. I don’t want to enumerate these things but I want to point out something about Google Adsense.
To those who didn’t use Entrecard, Entrecard have a feature called Messagebox wherein we can send private message to any entrecard member. I’ve been a long time member of Entrecard, its normal to received messages especially if someone asks you to be a contest sponsor, if you’re holding a contest, a thank you note for advert, things like that. Its unusual for me to received messages that they’ve clicked on my ads and they hope that I will do the same to their blog.
The first time I received almost the same message, I ignored it and never drop by to that site. Normally, if I received a “normal” message from Entrecard, I usually reciprocate. I wonder if these guys read the Google Adsense’ Terms and Conditions which states in #5 that:
You shall not, and shall not authorize or encourage any third party to: (i) directly or indirectly generate queries, Referral Events, or impressions of or clicks on any Ad, Link, Search Result, or Referral Button (including without limitation by clicking on “play” for any video Ad) through any automated, deceptive, fraudulent or other invalid means, including but not limited to through repeated manual clicks, the use of robots or other automated query tools and/or computer generated search requests, and/or the unauthorized use of other search engine optimization services and/or software.
Therefore it is strictly prohibited. Here’s another link for clearer information. Did you know that it took me over a year to received my first $100 from Google Adsense? For the record, I seldom used leaderboard and skyscrapper google ad. I don’t even have Adsense income during a month of absence with trojan on my blogs because they were not updated. Just a friendly advise, drive traffic to your frequently updated site and the rest will follow. My silence in this issue doesn’t means “yes“.
Although I didn’t report any of these messages to Entrecard, there is an abuse in the messaging system.
Entredroppers Kicked Me Out
I should have posted this the day I came back to blogging after a month of absence with trojan. When I installed entrecard toolbar and login to my ec account, I checked the entredropper list (started by Arnold). I didn’t choose to be problematic on my pc but in a way I felt bad not doing my daily routine which is ec dropping.
Few months ago, if there was an inactive dropper, I usually received a group email asking for a certain blogger why he/she didn’t participated… if he didn’t explained his side, he will be removed from the list. But I didn’t received any email. And I learned that I’m not listed anymore.
In a way, looking at the brighter side… I’m not obliged anymore to drop on the list which some of them are not as active as I did before. I’m stress free now from entrecard dropping but it doesn’t mean that I stopped my entrecard principle, “You Drop, I Follow“. I do follow whoever drops on my ec widget and I find it fair enough, reciprocating to my “actual droppers“.
Since I’m AWOL (absence without leave) for a month, I’m surprised to see that I still have perfect droppers on my site. I’ve stopped linking my top droppers few months ago. I’m in a good mood now to say thank you to my top droppers.
- On The Bricks
- Mr. Soleh’s Outburst
- Lady Coder
- 1 Blog And 2 Sides
- ImamKhalid
- verITableLIFE
- Online Games
- Fitting On Fiction
- My Notes
- Make Money On The Internet
Watch out for my good mood again because I’m NOT doing this every end of the month. Cheers!
A Month Of Absence With Trojan
I’m a part time blogger but when my computer got infected with trojan virus from my son’s USB , all my attention caught up with battling trojan. My fault, I’m not aware that my antivirus settings was not automatically updated. That was mistake #1.
Mistake #2, I don’t have Windows recovery disk. It came to a point that I have to format my computer.
Mistake #3, my drivers were not updated. Viruses are variety of trojans, backdoor , commwarrior, worms and other spywares infected my pc. I’m not sure what virus or worm change my drivers that also caused errors.
Mistake #4, I didn’t setup email account for instant blog posts.
It took me 3 days to backup my files when I’m sure that were no virus already. Installed Windows XP was already damage so I have to clean format my pc. It was unfortunate that when I was in the process of formatting, I noticed something weird. I have UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply). Normally, when I turn on UPS, I will wait for a few seconds before I turn on my computer. During formatting and installing softwares, there were times that I have to restart computer. When I turned on UPS, computer started at the same time. I thought, the problem was the software and not the hardware.
I brought my pc to in-house computer technician at the nearest mall. The power supply (inside the computer) was damage and motherboard was also affected. I was using Pentium 4 then, instead of buying the same motherboard, I bought a motherboard compatible for Pentium Dual Core processor, 1GB RAM, power supply. I don’t have plan of upgrading the computer that time but for me that was the right thing to do. Next target to buy: video card, dvd writer, 2GB RAM.
Well, learning lessons the hard way again. FYI, the good thing was I still have my handyphone to read emails and look for guides on computer problem I’ve encountered.
I’m happy that I’m finally back! Give me some time to update some posts, approve and answer comments. I’m also thinking of changing my template. Cheers!
Drop Down Menu, Drag And Drop Of WordPress 2.7
I’m done updating this blog to wordpress 2.7. Actually, I’m excited to see my new dashboard after the upgrade. If you haven’t updated your blog, the image below shows how it would look like.
At first, I’m not impressed because of the default gray color of my dashboard. I’ve changed it by editing the profile, it is located on the upper right side of your dashboard. But hey, this is a major upgrade, lets not talk about the colors.
I’m impressed with the drop down menu (left side of the image). I love drop down, spacious dashboard. I haven’t explore much of this new wordpress admin panel and haven’t heard that “drag and drop” feature of it. I was supposed to make an entry tonight but I can’t wait to make a quick post. When I was writing this post, when I point my mouse to “widget title” (sorry, don’t know what to call them) and tried to drag (hold left click mouse) and drop (release left click of mouse) it to other location. It was transferred. Wow! Now, I’m really impressed!
But when I card dropping this morning (haven’t plan of upgrading my wordpress at that time), I saw a blog that was used to have the same template as mine and she changed her template because of unusual outcome of her template. I hesitated to upgrade and decided to test upgrade. The template didn’t looked funny so I proceed to upgrade this blog.
Take note that I shifted to simple script from fastastico few months ago. I didn’t use Automatic Upgrade plugin because this is a major upgrade. Now, I’m hoping for plugin updates.
