Google Adsense Referrals is Retiring

Google is retiring the Adsense Referrals program with effect from the last week of August 2008.

Google said their Google Affiliate Network will permit publishers to apply for advertiser programs but get paid based on advertiser-defined actions, instead of clicks or impressions.

For those who are currently displaying Adsense Referrals program, the publisher is to replace them with Adsense for Content ads instead before end of August 2008.

If you are currently running a campaign, you may want to save all referrals reports on your desktop soonest possible before they are removed from their system.

Google said they want to focus on improving Adsense and drive better monetization results for their publishers in the long term, so they are retiring the Adsense Referrals program.

Tags: adsense referral ads, Google Adsense, Google Referral Program retiring

How Do You Analyze Sites with Google Trends

Google Trends is not the latest of Google’s new gadgets but it has been around for some time. I use Google Trends charts to analyze future and upcoming trends for websites, blog or events. Of course, there are various way to analyze these trends from the charts.

Basically, all you need is to type in a keyword or phrase you want, in the Search box. I have typed in keywords ‘wordpress’ to compare trends with ‘bloggers’ below.

Wordpress’s trend is indicated in Blue and Bloggers’s trend is indicated in Red.

Wordpress’s trend has been moving upwards since 2004. That means Wordpress has been growing in popularity and has widespread use as a blogging platform.

These trends are broken down further into Regions, Cities and Languages.

Interestingly, I see Indonesia being the top region to adopt Wordpress platform, follow by Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. All from Asian countries. Similar trends are found for Cities.

What is surprising is the Indonesian language tops the list in Languages, followed by Russian and English as third.

How do you interpret these trends when you use Google Trends?

Tags: analyis, analyse trends, google trends

Malay Mail Published May Ong’s Blog Post

Malaysian newspaper, the Malay Mail came across my blog post at MalaysiaParenting blog and published the blog post titled Can A Man Survive On RM3000 Salary in Malaysia. Sheila Rahman of Malay Mail was generous and kind enough to let me in on the interview on the subject that I shared deeply with Malaysians. Everybody is feeling the pinch in higher costs of living. This came to effect since the price of raw oil keep on increasing from USD40.00 to USD130.00 per barrel and its affecting the whole world. More so on developing countries. I sympathize with families who are relying on only the male as the sole bread earner of his family. More so for large families with growing children. How are you managing?

Tags: malay mail, malaysia, may ong, oil price hike, salary man, survive

How to Make Money from Freelance Writing

I have been managing and writing my own blogs in various niche and on the same note, I want to know how to make money from freelance writing too, since I write a lot.

There are various way of writing as a freelance writer for blogs, websites or copy writing for that matter.

Make Money as a Blog Writer

If you want to make money writing for products or services for advertisers in your blog, you can join PayPerPost. The registration is free. Once you are in there, register your blog with them and wait for the approval. Next, go to check out Open Opportunities to find a writing job you would like to write about.

Check out all the conditions required for that job offered like price, type, minimum words, dateline and rating to apply for the job. Then wait for the advertiser to reply. You may be rejected the first time round but try again for other jobs there that interest you. Minimum payment per blog posts you write is US$5.00. Isn’t that good money for a start?

You may also go to PPP Tools to get your buttons to advertise. You may also do a Review on my blog posts by going to the link here.

Make Money as a Freelance Writer

If you wish to learn the ropes of how to be a freelance writer as a business, then you can read this Freelance Writing Guide.

Monika has a writing structure that includes where you can find work, how to propose for a job, how to set your rates and how to invoice your clients.

Writing is demanding work with datelines to meet but if you just want to make some passive income from freelance writing, you should first start by learning the ropes of the business.

“Do you have any other suggestions for freelance writing blogs you wish to share with in this blog?”

Tags: blog writer, freelance writing, Make Money, pay per post

Funny Asia News

A friend of mine, Eddy Cheong who resides in Sydney, Australia has shared with me his collection of some funny Asia News pictures you may been interested in.

Environmentally Friendly Taxi

Mirror, Mirror on the wall,
Who’s the Dumbnest of them all?

Thailand

Welcome to Bangkok Hilton!

Tags: asia news, funny

Wordpress Blogging Seminar at Crystal Crown Hotel

Actually I have not been posting much here recently. I have been busy preparing my Wordpress Blogging Seminar on Saturday 4 August 2007 at the Crystal Crown Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

We have had a number of blogging seminars in July 2007 at a training center but we decided to try it out at a hotel this month. And so we did.

The turn out was rather unexpected. I made arrangements for 25 seats but we had more than 30 callers who registered via SMS. Steven presented on this day and I took the role of Registration. Majority of the attendees were over 30 years above but we had a few younger ones too.

Check out these pictures. And by the way, I will be having 2 blogging seminars per month and we advertise them in The Star Metro or The Sun papers. So look out for them now and then, if you want to attend.

Tags: , malaysia, petaling jaya, wordpress blogging seminar

Negarakuku Music Video Clip

I got this YouTube music video clip from a friend of mine, who said that I must watch this music video.

Tags: music video clip, negaraku ku song

Wordpress Blogging Seminar Review 4

Sean Tan is a fast emerging Internet Marketer who lives in Penang, a northern state in Malaysia. He is the founder of Sean Tan marketing that specializes in Internet marketing, export trading, product review and e-cover design.

He is very good in e-cover design and he started early this year by helping his clients to design good looking e-cover. Later, with the release of Graphic Collection and eventually become one of the hot selling products in the market.

His lastest product released including PagePeel which creates outstanding peel advertisement makes your site visitors click. See some of the example on how does the peel ads look like.

He also has another hot selling product that work for $7 scripts. This PayPal Link Cloaker software will help you to hide your PayPal email from spam bot.

Transform spam-attracting, easily hijacked affiliate links like:
http://Your7DollarProduct.com/?e=youremailaddress@example.com

Into:
http://Your7DollarProduct.com/?e=youremailaddress

Check out his products for more info.

Tags: blogging seminar, review, Wordpress

Successful Mindset of Blogging for Beginners

I have just written a post of what I determine to be the characteristics of a Successful Mindset of a successful person.

What triggers me to write about this is, recently I have had encounters with a variety of Malaysians whom I came in contact with over the phone. It was really sad for me to say that out there, there are many Malaysians who are still holding on to their Freebies mentality without them putting in much effort from themselves but have huge Expectations of Results, like being a Millionaire overnight.

Read more from this post at Successful Mindset for Blogging Beginners.

If you like that post, please write in some Comments. Thank you.

Tags: blogging for beginners, learn how to blog, make money by blogs, successful mindset

Wordpress Adsense Blogging Seminar Review 1

This blog is created by Meor Shukri and published in Malay Language. He writes about guideline on how to do business online, cater for Malay market or anyone who can read Malay language. Go here to find out more: http://jomwebtemplate.blogspot.com/

My friend, Gobala Krishnan wrote some Google Adsense Tips in his blog, you may want to find out more if you want to are already earning adsense income.

If you are looking for nice and good Wordpress Themes, you can check out this page from EasyWordpress.com. They have extensive review on the new themes from time to time. A good resource for people who want to read review on the themes before install.

CK Wong has a blog on Ambatchmasterpublisher. Trying to read his blog and understand what he does but too limited info I can discover. I guess he probably enter a SEO contest that run by Kelvin Hui of Ambatch, expect in SEO & publishing business.