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 to Break Your Own Fear Factor with a Metal Tip Arrow

I have learnt how to break my own fear factor with a metal tip arrow exercise over the weekend at the Millionaire Mind Training by T. Harv Eker in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Some of you may have done this breaking the arrow exercise at other motivation course and training but this was the first time for me.

I am not a fan of motivation seminars and training but I still went ahead to do this.

It started out with the helpers giving out 4,800 metal tip wood arrows to each of us. We were required to get in a group of tens. The group leader would help us to place the arrow tip on the softest part of the base of our throat. The arrow has to be held horizontally.

We are to stand with our right foot anchored to the ground and the left foot behind us to grip ourself firmly holding the arrow with both hands. Then I had to lean forward slowly until I broke the arrow into two or more parts.

It was the scariest exercise I have ever done in my life and was I scared sh*t out of my pants. (P/S: I did not ‘piss’ in it).

Oh …. we have to write one or two of our most feared factor on the tip of the arrow before we split the arrow into half.

Tags: break arrow exercise, fear factor, may ong, metal tip, millionaire mind intensive

May Ong at Millionaire Mind Intensive Seminar

I spent the last weekend at the Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar by T. Harv Eker at the Malaysia International Exhibition and Convention Centre beside the Mines Resort City in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

I do not usually attend motivation seminars but I have friends who highly recommended to me to attend this three-day training on the psychology on the inner game of wealth and money.

I went there without any expectations and kept an open-mind. At the end of the 3rd day Millionaire Mind Intensive training, I went home feeling exhausted but surprisingly relaxed. The event starts from 8.00 am till 11.00 pm on day 1 and day 2. Luckily it ended at around 7pm on day 3.

I came away with some of my favorite Quotes from T. Harv Eker’s Millionaire Mind Intensive training:

“How you do anything is how you do everything”

I find this quote to be so true in its meaning. It simply reflects upon how each of us conducts ourselves in our daily lives and in work, how we deal with problems and solutions, how we treat others and how we do things generally.

Tags: Millionaire Mind, Seminar, T. Harv Eker

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

Why Attend Seminars and Workshops and Outcome

Why do we spend endless amount of money investing on seminars and workshops to learn about online internet marketing?

I can tell you it has not been fun attending 3 full days in an enclosed conference room with hundreds other people there. Why do I go through that pain to learn more?

I pay and invested in these seminars and workshops to help me gain focused knowledge, to shorten my learning process, to get to learn systematically and to spur my business further.

I have written an article about the three (3) different types of people who attends seminars and workshops and shares the outcome of these people.

I estimate about 5-10% of seminar and workshop attendees falls into the Confident category, 70-80% falls into the Confused category and lastly, 10% of them would fall into Coward category.

You read about the article “Types of People Who Attend Seminar or Workshop and Outcome at Wordpress Adsense Mastery.

Tags: attend seminars, blog marketing, blogging, education, Internet Marketing, invest, wordpress workshop

Wordpress AdSense Blogging Workshop News Ads

I am pleased to show you the advertisement that I would be putting up on The Star Metro issues on 20 June, 26 June and 2 July 2007 for the Wordpress AdSense Blogging Workshop in Malaysia.

We hope some of our readers here would be able to support us and hope to see some of you at the workshops.

To Your Success!
May Ong
Online Marketing Coach

Tags: malaysia, newspaper ads, star metro, wordpress blogging seminar

Wordpress Blogging Seminar - Make Money by Blogging

Wordpress Adsense Blogging Seminar is now in Malaysia.

Don’t Attend Make Money Online Seminar Until You Have Read This:

Learn How To Get Paid LONG TERM RESIDUAL INCOME by BLOGGING for working only 10 – 15 hours weekly!

From: May Ong & Steven Wong

Subject: Make Money by Blogging

Dear Malaysian friends,

If you are looking for step by step guide seminar on how to make money on blogging, this is the workshop for you. I urge you to continue reading until the end of this page.

Blogging is HOT nowadays!!
Everyone is talking about blogging, government, private sectors, elders, working adults, teenagers as well as students.

Even you read from local papers reporting on how people making 5 figure income from blogging. You might also hear of people make a living and blogging full time.

Check out some of the coverage in newspaper Star & NST:

Blogging And Big Bucks
The appearance of blog-advertising agencies is giving Malaysian bloggers a chance to cash in through online advertising. Bloggers share their thoughts on this new development. - May 29, 2007 (Star)

From Hobby to A Steady Five-Figure Income
He (Samsul Zamzuri) is one of a small but rising number of Malaysians who earns an income solely through the Internet. Now, he owns more than 15 websites and earns a five-figure salary. - May 11, 2007 (NST)

Casting the Net for Money
Fed up with day jobs and measly pay, a small but rising number of people have become full-time Internet entrepreneurs, some raking in five-figure salaries, often in the comfort of their living rooms. - May 11, 2007 (NST)

Never Too Old (to start blogging)
Olive Riley who, at 107, may be the world’s oldest blogger. Riley writes about her life experiences in her blog, which includes her memories of witnessing the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and her experiences as a cook on a sheep station in western Queensland in 1937. - May 7, 2007 (Star)

According to April statistics released by Technorati.com, a popular Blog Search Engine:

- The Blogosphere is now 70 million weblogs(blog) worldwide
- About 120,000 new weblogs are created each day
- 1.5 million posts per day
- 1.4 new blogs are created every second
- 17 post are made every second
- It took 320 days only to grow from 35 to 75 million blogs.

What do people use their blog for?
Generally people use blog for purposes:

- write live journal, personal online diary
- hobbies
- Travel
- FREE video sharing
- Store Pictures
- Politic
- Fashion
- Business
- Make Money

You might wonder how to make money from Blogging?

Our answer to this is make money from the online advertising revenue.

Media services group ZenithOptimedia has conducted a survey on advertising expenditure and the result showed, Internet ad spending (adspend) is predicted to grow at 28.2% this year, seven times more than the rest of the market at 3.7%.

Advertising agencies are expected to spend about US$445bil (RM1.56 trillion) this year and about US$495bil (RM1.73 trillion) in 2009.

In the same timeframe, Internet adspend would grow from 7% to 8.7%, while newspaper ad spend will drop from 28.3% to 27%.

But Why Blog?

What is the different between a normal website and a blog?

Let check out the comparison chart below to find out the difference:

WP Blog vs Static Website
• No programming skills required & Versatile VS Requires HTML or PHP or ASP knowledges.
• Can change the outlook anytime easily with few clicks VS Takes time develop & need careful planning before
start designing.
• Easy To Setup (With our 5-minutes installation methods) VS Page creation process longer.
• Many Themes & Plugins available VS Cannot change skins easily.
• Software available for free download & usage VS Require Paid software to design.
• Updates anywhere, anytime VS Require long time to re-design / upgrade the whole
site.
• Build in natural SEO features, no advance tricks require VS Require SEO skills to enhance the site.
• Interactive and easy to navigate VS Static pages.

In Wordpress Adsense Mastery (WPAM), we aim to help our student to learn how to create blog and earn long term passive / residual income while you are still working on your 9 to 5 Jobs.

Once you have setup the blog, you just need to spend 15 – 20 hours weekly to maintain it. You spend the remaining time with your friends, relative and family members.

What will you learn in out Workshop? We offer you:

• Step-by-step instructions and guide to help you setup your blog.
• Practical and easy to follow workshop.
• Start your website on WP blog within 30 minutes.
• How to look for good themes to beautify your site from a merely plain to a colorful one. (See demo site for plain blog & beautify site).
• How to find useful plug-ins and widgets to change your site to hot, trendy and sticky.
• How to drive visitors and legally steal traffic from other blogs.
• How to post content, beautiful images, hot video and music on your site for Free.
• How to look for possible online income revenue and make money from your site / blog.
• Build passive or constant stream of future income.
• Virtual Real Estate.
• How to attract free natural search engine traffic.
• How to attract search engine traffic (SEO).
• How to optimize your site and get indexed by Google search engine in the next 48 hours and rank no. 1.
• How to manage your blog painlessly.
• And Many more ….

Who Should Attend This Workshop?
• Beginners or newbies who want to make money online.
• SOHO
• Retirees
• Work At Home Mums and Dads.
• Hobbyist
• Single Parent
• Unemployed

In fact, people who want to earn extra income but don’t have much time should attend this workshop.

We have seen so many fast emergence bloggers coming out from nationwide (as well as worldwide), their blogs are so popular and read by so many people. Some of them already making a living just for blogging.

How about you?

Do you want to blog for fun, easy and earn long term online passive income?

Join our Workshop and find out how you too can make money on blogging.

Wordpress Adsense Mastery workshop details:

Our workshop is design for small crowd and we only take not more than 25 people per workshop. This is ensure all students have equal chance to learn from the trainers directly.

Trainers & Speakers: May Ong & Steven Wong
Duration: 1 day
Date: Sunday, 1st July, 2007
Venue: Subang Jaya
Enrollment fee: RM 699 599 for 1 person (RM100 discount for the first 5 to register)
RM 1,099 899 for 2 persons (RM200 discount for the first 5 pairs to register)
Late Enrollment: RM1,199 for 1 person, RM1,799 for 2 persons

(This offer price is valid as the stated terms & conditions only and you need to confirm your registration 3 days before the workshop begin by paying 50% deposit.)

How To Make Payment
• Direct Bank-In - An Email with Bank Account Number will be sent to the attendee. We use Maybank Bhd. OR
• Cheques: Made to “Think Rich Enterprise”. State your Name at the back of your cheque.

Course Fees are inclusive of:
• 1-day workshop
• Tea breaks (AM and PM)
• Wireless Broadband is used throughout the training

Other Information:
• Please bring your own notebook
• If didn’t have notebook, we can arrange PC for Rent at RM65.00 per unit used. Please give us advance notice if you need assistance to rent PC.

Next Seminar:
Date: Saturday, 14th July, 2007
Duration: 1 day
Venue: Subang Jaya

Sign up for the Workshop and learn how to Make Money on Blogging today!

You can download this form. Fill up and faxing to us or call us for the registration.

You need Adobe Reader to open this form, if you haven’t install, go here to download the adobe reader for free!

Tags: make money by blogging, wordpress blogging seminar

Link to 2 PR4 Websites Review Exercise for Wordpress Adsense Blogging Seminar

My new blog site, Wordpress Adsense Mastery required back links, so I offered this link to 2 PR4 websites review exercise on certain keywords we picked.

I was referring to the recent project by my friend, Gobala Krishnan on his Internet Home Business Site Linking Project.

I just spoke to Steven Wong last week about this and my idea to build back link for our new JV – WPAdsenseMastery.com and he agreed to my suggestion here, to offer Wordpress AdSense Blogging Seminar Review linking exercise.

Very often people looking for back link from high PR & traffic site. If you review my new project site, you will instantly get 2 link back from PR 4 blog (Yes 2 PR4 site, not one - InternetOn9.com & OnlineInternetMarketingTip.com.); get more free traffic to your site and get better search engine ranking.




It is very simple to qualify for this, just follow the step-by-step instruction below:

Do a 50 – 100 words review of WPAdsenseMastery.com on your blog or website – say anything related to the workshop. You can find more about this Adsense Blogging Seminar.
Write your review on a new blog post that is composed from your blog software (either Wordpress, Blogger, Blogspot or Typepad).

Link back to WPAdsenseMastery.com using the anchor text “Adsense
Blogging Seminar” or “Wordpress Adsense Seminar“.

Complete the contact form with your blog post review URL, your targeted keyword and website URL, and I will link back to your blog in my post.

This is the example blog post on how you can write about: WPAdsenseMastery.com offers workshop that teach you on how to get started blogging. In this Adsense Blogging Seminar / Wordpress Adsense Seminar, Steven Wong & May Ong will show you how to use powerful Wordpress Blogging as a platform to make money online.

To use Adsense Blogging Seminar as Anchor Text just copy and paste the following codes to your blog post:

To use Wordpress Adsense Seminar as Anchor Text just copy and paste the following codes to your blog post:

You can post your review in as many websites / blogs as you like, as long as you own it. However, the following websites / blogs are not accepted.

Adult / Porn content websites / blogs
Gambling websites / blogs
Spam / syndicated websites / blogs – means you didn’t create content your own, but only syndicates other people website contents / RSS feeds.
No flash or image linking - means you can’t use flash or images that link to our website. All must be written in specific instruction as stated above.

Note: Limited back links from 2 PR4 sites only, please review us and submit your link before we stop this offer to get free back links from 2 high PR sites.

Thank you.
May Ong

Tags: linking exercise, website review

Wordpress Adsense Blogging Seminar

This newly launched 1-day practical hands-on seminar, Wordpress Adsense Blogging Seminar originates from myself, May Ong and a Wordpress specialist, Steven Wong.

Both of us have opened up this Wordpress Adsense Blogging seminar for registration from June 2007 onwards. We will both be conducting this practical training in Klang Valley, Malaysia for the moment. We are also offering ourselves for hire as Wordpress Trainers in Malaysia.

As for myself, I am also open on hire as an Online Marketing Trainer for “Create DIY Website” workshop.

Now, coming back to this Wordpress Adsense Blogging Seminar.

This seminar is suitable for Non-Technical Beginners with no Blogging knowledge but are very keen to pursue learning:

a. Work from home
b. Mums and Dads planning to earn passive income
c. Retirees
d. Hobbyists
e. SOHO, SME, SMI in Malaysia

Check out Wordpress Adsense Blogging Seminar here.

How To Add A Wordpress Theme?

How to add a Wordpress Theme to your site?

Oh! By the way, most people will tell you that it is better to host a wordpress theme or blog on its own ie. with its own Domain Name. The authority site, Wordpress will also suggest the same.

However, there are 2 ways you can in a wordpress blog theme in your site.

Method 1 - An individal site hosting a Wordpress theme/template

1. Go to Wordpress and search for your preferred Theme. Themes may come by 2 columns to 4 columns. Select the preferred Theme.

2. Download the zipped folder of the selected Theme into your local computer ie. your hard drive.

3. Next, you can upload the chosen Theme folder to your server using any FTP program.

4. Be sure you follow this path: www.yourdomain.com/public_html/wp/

That is to say, go to your domain name server and locate the public html folder. In here, create a folder named ‘wp’ in public_html. This is the place where you will upload your Theme folder to.

5. To change any of the contents in your Wordpress Theme, go to: www.yourdomain.com/public_html/wp/wp-content/

Method 2 - Upload a Wordpress template to your sub-page of your website

1. Again, repeat steps 1 - 3 of above.

2. Only this time, your files path will look different. It should look like this:

www.yourdomain.com/public_html/subpagename/wp/

You should use any FTP program to upload the chosen Wordpress Theme folder in to ‘wp’.

If you are keen to learn more about how to add a Wordpress theme on your site, please register for Wordpress Adsense Blogging Seminar here.

Tags: plugins, self-host blog, template, wordpress theme