Earn Money by Blogging

Get Free listing in Google Local Business Center

2009-09-04T15:38:00.000+08:00

Do you know that you can have your business listed on Google Map and searched by others for free. After someone enter an address, and if they want to search for nearby business under certain categories, say hotel, your hotel will be shown on the map, and that is for free!

To get started, follow these three easy steps:
1. Visit www.google.com/lbc.
2. Add your business details as you'd like them to appear
3. Verify that you're the business owner by receiving a phone call, or postcard by mail.

Well, isn't it too good to be true?

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Singapore Google Technology User Group

2009-08-13T21:27:00.000+08:00

The Singapore Google Technology User Group (SG-GTUG), hosted at http://sg-gtug.org/, is the Singapore chapter of the global Google Technology User Groups. SG-GTUG is a non-profit professional developers group to learn, know and share about Google technologies. The group was started by a group of Google fans and enthusiasts who are interested in using Google's evolving technologies and APIs. Membership is open to developers, managers and organizations who use or plan to use at least one of Google's technologies in their projects.

SG-GTUG's vision is to become the first-stop top-notch Google developer group in Singapore where individual and corporate developers can interact with, and learn and share from one another.

SG-GTUG's mission is to make available various channels for the developers to interact. Their channels would be both virtual and real. They are building a strong web presence through many of the leading social networking websites and tools. In addition, they plan to organize regular developer events where developers can showcase their products and interact with other developers.

The 1st big kickoff meeting for SG-GTUG will take place on Aug 29 (at Google Singapore's office) and features talks on Google Web Kit and Google App Engine -- for event details, please refer to http://tinyurl.com/sg-gtug1

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Google zeitgeist - let you understand the TREND

2009-08-12T22:18:00.000+08:00

Google zeitgeist shows you a look inside the world of search. Try to search your name, your website, and see is it getting more and more people looking for you, and how is the traffic for your website.

For example, it shows you the:
- Top 100 fastest-rising search queries right now at USA
- See the searching trend for a particular keyword
- Insight and more detailed on the search information
- Traffic trend for website

Interestingly, you may know which actress or which TV program is most popular right now.

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Project Wonderful - Publishers make the most money

2009-08-11T23:21:00.000+08:00

Instead of setting a fixed price for advertising, they use their innovative Infinite Auction model. Advertisers name the price they want to pay (and when they want to pay it), and whoever is willing to pay the most gets their ad shown! It's profitable and fair to both you and the advertiser, and allows prices to respond quickly to changes in your site.

Step 1.
You create a personalized advertising area for your site. You set the terms of the auction and can approve every bid.

Step 2.
Readers bid on your advertising space, competing for the best deal. As soon as someone is the high bidder, their ad is shown. Anyone can become the high bidder at any time, and you can cancel any bid you don't like.

Step 3.
Profit! It really is as simple as that.

Visit http://www.projectwonderful.com/ to find out more.

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BloggerAds - Advertiser Network for Chinese Bloggers with Traditional Chinese Character

2009-08-06T18:35:00.000+08:00

BloggerAds is a Taiwan based advertiser network for bloggers who write their blogs in Traditional Chinese characters. Well, this is of course a very localised advertiser for the Taiwan bloggers. Interestingly, they got this expanded type advertisement that you can't find in most advertisement platform. One example is shown in the figure below.

However, for Taiwan blogger, you will be charged 15% for the tax, while foreigners will be charged 20% for tax. Seems like no matter how much you earn, you will be taxed 15% at least, quite a lot!

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Wildfire - one-stop for creating viral promotions

2009-08-05T17:09:00.000+08:00

Wildfire's patent-pending technology aims to solve that problem with a self-service web application that allows corporations, small businesses, marketing agencies, bloggers and nonprofits to easily create their own attractive, branded interactive promotions and simultaneously publish them in multiple social networks.

1. Your company creates a branded interactive campaign using our easy-to-use software. Available campaign formats include sweepstakes, user-generated video, photo & essay-based contests and coupon give-aways.

2. Your branded campaign is simultaneously published within multiple social networks (e.g. Facebook, MySpace, Bebo) and on your company website.

3. Users engage with your campaign via a widget on your website or applications within the social networks. Either way, they can invite their social network friends with a few simple clicks and generate activity feeds that promote your brand within the social networks.

4. For every contestant, scores of their social network friends may hear about and enter your campaign. They too can invite their social network friends and generate activity feeds, and so the word spreads.

Of course these are not free of charge, however, there is a free trial for the basic function until 15 Aug 2009.

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ChurpChurp - the online advertiser for Twitter based in Singapore and Malalysia

2009-08-04T18:55:00.000+08:00

ChurpChurp is an advertising network for Twitter. Their advertisers will specify the tweet contents to be propagated, also referred to as a Churp, so when you sign up and allow us to post Churps among your tweets, you earn money!

Their Churps will be targeted to users with matching Twitter contents so that it remains relevant to your followers as well as minimizing the awkwardness of generated Churps. In other words, we will assign to you advertisements that are suitable with your usual tweets and follower type.

I don't Tweet, so never try this out, you may try and let me know how good is it. But it takes you SGD 100 or RM 100 to cash out, pretty much!

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2009 Q2 Adsense Earning - SGD 1332

2009-08-03T23:32:00.000+08:00

Here is my Google Adsense earning for the past 3 months. Well, the very last month is the toughtest time in my life. You will see a drop in the next month earning. Life is alawys up and down, but bad days will over and sun will still rise tomorrow.

Apr 2009: USD $231.01 (SGD 332.31)

May 2009: USD $324.94 (SGD 471.52)

June 2009: SGD 529.66

I will keep my promise share with you on some of my experience when time permit. And mean time, I can only say "do yourself a good job, and you will be reworded one day". Though sometimes that day may come in late.

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$100 of free advertising on Google

2009-07-31T16:21:00.000+08:00

Google is giving all Singapore businesses the chance to get S$100 in free advertising with Google AdWords.

Google, SME Infocomm Resource Center (SIRC) @ Singapore Polytechnic (SP) and PurpleClick are partnering together to offer Singapore businesses a stimulus package to attract new customers and grow sales by tapping into the power of the Internet.

A screenshot of adsense ads is shown above. To find out more about the $100 free advertising, refer to https://services.google.com/fb/forms/sgstimulusoffer/

Please note that this offer is only available to new Google AdWords advertisers. Offer ends 31/08/09.

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Record Adsense Earning - USD $22.20 in 1 Day

2009-06-26T16:56:00.000+08:00

Today is my lucky day, just take a look at my Adsense earning, USD $22.20 today ! Quite a surprise. No jump in traffic, but maybe the quatlity of ads is better. And of course, don't worry, I am not using any kind of screen shot generator, you should know that I alawys show you the real screen shot with the real check.

Well, this could be small amount to many of you, but it is BIG for me, I never get such earning before (within a day, usualy it takes me many days to get such amount). But I just want to tell you, if I can do it, you can do it too (that is someone told me years ago before I achieve this today).

To see my past earning, follow the link below or take a look at those shown on the upper right corner. Follow my blog and I will share with you my experience.

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Speed up your Windows Vista

2009-06-05T17:01:00.000+08:00

Sidebar gadget: If you don't need the "gadget"in the Vista sidebar, get rid of them. Right-click the Windows Sidebar icon in the taskbar tray and choose Exit. Open the Control Panel and launch Windows Sidebar Properties in the 'Appearance and Personalization' category. Uncheck Start sidebar when Windows starts and click OK.

User Account Control (UAC): Irritated by the system that keep asking for your permission to install software, or gives you warning when you try to add, remove, or rename any of your Start menu folders? Turn it off. Choose Start, Control Panel, click User Accounts and Family Safety, and select User Accounts. Or just click Start, type User Accounts, and choose that option from the search results. Next, click Turn User Account Control on or off, and then click Continue when prompted.

Change the appearance: disable those fancy display stuff, right-click the My Computer \ Properties \ Advanced \ Adjust for best performance.

Spend more Power: If you don't mind spending more, you can boost your system's performance by adjusting its power options. In the Control Panel, launch Power Options in the 'System and Maintenance' category. Select High Performance, close the dialog box (see the screen shot at left), and prepare yourself for a higher electric bill.

Change the default Shut Down button: The default action for the Power button on the start menu in Windows Vista is Sleep, which isn't necessarily useful for everybody. You can configure this setting easily by using the advanced power settings panel. Control Panel \ Power Options \ Change Plan Settings \ Change Advanced Power Settings.

Vista's Snipping Tool: Of course not all Vista's features are slow. There is this snipping tool, which provides a great screen shot function. If you have a version of Vista other than Home Basic, you already have the Snipping Tool screen capture utility: Choose Start, All Programs, Accessories, Snipping Tool. If you don't see it there, it may not be activated. Go to Control Panel and open Program and Features (you may have to click Programs first). In the task pane on the left, click Turn Windows features on or off. Scroll through the list of features, check the box next to Tablet PC Optional Components, and click OK. Turning on these features gives you not only the Snipping Tool, but also the Tablet PC Input Panel, Windows Journal, and other stylus-related features.

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It is all about Twitters - for beginners to advanced users

2009-06-03T19:07:00.001+08:00

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

Twitterfeed and RSStoTwitter are two online tools that can help you automatically publish your RSS feed (e.g. your blog) to your Twitter account:

1. Enter the URL of the RSS feed you want to tweet.
2. Enter your Twitter details (e.g. username and password).
3. They will publish your RSS feed to your Twitter account.

Tiny URL will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires. And this is particular useful as Twitter limits every update to only 140 characters.

TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter.

RevTwt has the solution for earning money with Twitter: they give you links to post on your Twitter account, and you earn money each time someone clicks on your link!

Posting a Twitter address is easy to do online, but until now there have been few offline opportunities for consumers and businesses to recruit new Twitter followers. Jumping at the entrepreneurial opportunity, StickyTwits (@stickytwits) designs stickers featuring Twitter addresses for easy distribution in the analogue world. The idea for StickyTwits came from a signage designer and a marketing expert who wanted to stick their Twitter URLs on their cars, computers, office windows, etc.

Pizza Hut's new "twinternship" is a full-time, 10- to 12-week paid assignment to work with the PR team at the company's Dallas headquarters this summer. The intern will focus on new and emerging social media, including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and others, and will be given "unprecedented access" to marketing meetings, brainstorming sessions, ad shoots and special events, the company says. He or she will be creating and posting videos, conducting media outreach and assisting with national PR programs will also be part of the job, as will managing the company's new Twitter page.

iPhone and iPod Touch users, you like to check it out at Twitter Fon and Tweetie iPhone

Any more tools or tips you like to share? Leave me a comments and I will add them on.

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Protect your copyright, Prevent others copy your blogs, Punish those

2009-05-27T19:13:00.001+08:00

You spend a lot of time in organizing the information, and writing a nicely articles. However, someone else just copy the content from you. So what can do you now? Don't worry, we got 3P:

1. Protect your copyright
2. Prevent others copy your blogs
3. Punish those who do so

To protect your copyright, there are several online tools that can help you:
- http://myfreecopyright.com/
- http://creativecommons.org/
- http://disclosurepolicy.org/

With those tools, you can effectively prevent others copy your blog. Next is to find way to punish them, the most effective way is to report them to Google, as it makes no sense for them to copy when their adsense account will be suspended forever.

Google supports Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and in fact, they act very quickly upon receive complaints.

So if you did copy from others, I suggest you erase your blog and run away now.

Read also:
- What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content
- How to Protect Your Website’s Copyright When Someone Steals Your Content

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HubPages - new blogging platform that earn you money

2009-05-20T16:34:00.000+08:00

You write a blog and no traffic. You have traffic but no earning. Here comes a new blogging platform, where you can write, and you will receive great traffic due to many people like you are there. Even better, the platform is going to share the revenue with you.

HubPages is a new community that provide a platform for you to write to post what you like and the system rewards you to be actively visiting others Hug Pages. They claim:

HubPages is an online self-publishing ecosystem with an underlying revenue maximizing architecture.

HubPages is to provide writers of all backgrounds and interests with the best tools, traffic and community so that they're successful.

In summary:

1. Publish online with easy to use, non-techie tools
2. Be widely read thanks to their large, active community
3. Create ongoing royalty opportunities

Check it out at HubPages.

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Blogspot allows upload of Animated GIF, but there is a bug

2009-04-21T16:13:00.000+08:00

In the past, if you want to upload an animated gif like the one below to your blog using Blogspot, you will have a great difficulty. Either you use the 3rd party image hosting or you upload to your Google Doc, then share it to your blog. Finally, Blogspot realise this difficulty, and allows the upload of animated GIF directly using the Blogspot build in image upload function.

However, there is a bug! After you try to upload, you will notice that there will be unlimited of upload, non stopable uploading of the same image over and over again. End up, many duplicated copies of the same animated GIF will be added to your blog, a screen shot is taken below:

Let hope someone at Blogger can hear me. I don't really like the way to feedback in Google Group, I still prefer the old style with contact us, at least I can assure my feedback is read.

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Q1 2009 Adsense Earning USD $429.60

2009-04-08T16:31:00.002+08:00

Time flies, first quarter of 2009 is over. Economy is still not doing good, already give up hope on bonus and increment. Luckily still got some side income from Google Adsense. This quarter is not bad, the "business" seems bottom out at Jan 2009 and then recover, this seems to be aligned with the stock market! Lets see the Q1 2009 report card.

Jan 2009: USD $103.83 (SGD 157.74)

Feb 2009: USD $125.87 (SGD $189.38)

March 2009: USD 199.90 (SGD 298)

Total earning for the first 3 months: USD $429.60.

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Adsense showing two different earning at Reports and My Account

2009-04-07T14:51:00.001+08:00

In fact, I never check the earning in Reports and My Account of Google Adsense in the past, my default, I assume them to be the same. Until last month March earning, where I remember I get just over $200 in the report. But then when I see the earning history in my account, it was displayed as $199.90, $0.10 (in fact, should be $0.14) is missing!

The above is monthly report, lets see in My Account, Payment History:

Not sure why is that so, as I never pay attention to it before. You may take a look at your account, see if such things happen. Anyway, it is just a small different, after the exchange rate fluctuation, you will notice nothing.

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Domain Gmail.google.com gives error message

2009-04-03T15:39:00.000+08:00

Do you ever try to key in gmail.google.com as URL to your browser? Recently, it has been giving out some error messages (sometimes), displayed in Dutch laguage. Take a look at the screen shoot below.

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Lieber Nutzer,

in Deutschland heißt unser E-Mail-Service Google Mail, nicht Gmail.

Sie können Ihre E-Mails in Deutschland direkt unter http://mail.google.com abrufen.

Ihr Google-Team

Der E-Mail-Service von Google ist in Deutschland nicht mehr über die von Ihnen eingegebene URL abrufbar.

Allgemeine Informationen zu Google finden Sie in Deutschland wie gewohnt unter www.google.de oder www.google.com.
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Don't really know why, there has been so much "errors" or "glitches" with Google recently. Really when you becomes bigger, it is getting harder to maintain, not even to mention growth?

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FeedBurner RSS Feeds not updating

2009-03-31T12:52:00.001+08:00

Not sure if it is the news that Google going to lay 0ff demoralize the spirit of the staffs. More and more Google services are now having glitches. Many of the RSS Feeds through FeedBurner are not updated. Look at the screen shot below, the last update is on 29 March!

If you try to troubleshot, by either Ping the Feedburner or even resync the feed, it provides no help at all.

So lets join in the forum forum and hope the problem draws the attentio of the Google team.

Personally, I suspect the cause to be following:

1) Only those RSS that subscribe the Adsense Feed services are affected.
2) If your published post has a published date in the future, then very likely your feed will be affected.

So lets wait for a solution, either official or unofficial.

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Images that Google Street removed

2009-03-23T23:15:00.000+08:00

Google has removed dozens of photos from its new Street View service. The firm has been forced to pull some of the images after complaints. A spokesperson for Google told the BBC that anyone could have their images removed if they asked.

Offending photos have been replaced by a black image with the message "This image is no longer available". However, many of the images can still be viewed by moving up or down a notch on the street. So let us look at some examples:

I am sure, you don't want your buddy see you being hit by your wive:

How can the car that taking the photos no stop by and have a help?

Street View first launched in the United States in May 2007 and is already available in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, France, Spain and Italy. Below is one from Japan:

Bet if she is your girlfriend or wive, you may request to remove it:

Send me more links to share with everyone here.

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Google Earth found a 1,000-year-old fishing trap

2009-03-19T21:00:00.001+08:00

The 260m long construction is thought to have been built 1,000 years ago, using large rocks placed on a river bed. They found a huge V-shape was clearly visible on the satellite images and divers were sent down to examine the structure.

Google Earth to narrow in on its precise location. Scientists estimate the stone fish trap to be 1,000 years old, the oldest underwater structure made by man, discovered in Wales. Scientists say, the sea level was much lower thousands of years ago, and the original fish trap was above water. Only a few ancient fish traps remain in Wales, once a thriving coastal fishing community.

Scientists believe large numbers of people worked together to erect the trap and it allowed them to catch plentiful numbers of fish for their supper. The trap is believed to have been made from locally quarried rock, or possibly boulders carried in by glaciers during the last Ice Age.

Archaeologists say medieval communities constructed stone fishing traps to catch fish and scooped them out with nets as the tide rolled out. This particular stone trap is larger than normal and would have required many medieval laborers to haul in the heavy boulders to construct it. The trap in the estuary of the River Teifi, near Cardigan, West Wales, lay undiscovered for a millennium until a strange underwater shape was spotted from a plane flying overhead.

Unlike the previous case, this discovery is real.

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Increased confidence in online ads

2009-03-17T23:48:00.000+08:00

According to a survey, with today online advertisements, such as Goggle Adsense, advertisers have access to tools and techniques to reach customers with highly targeted and customized campaigns. There has been in increased confidence in online ads, among all the countries, Europe countries like UK, Germany, and France rank the front. As for Asia: South Korea and Singapore are among the best compared with others.

As the internet becomes a mainstream channel for distributing and accessing information and entertainment content, the market for all segments of the online advertisement industry are expected to grow. Hence get yourself a good quality content, and over the time, you will be earning more and more with online advertisement as an online publisher.

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Half year 2008 Adsense Earning: USD $1242.89

2009-03-06T15:07:00.001+08:00

Been with Google Adsense for more than a year. Slowly learn the technique, and wish to share with all of you the tips that I have learned. So far, the earning is not really great, but at least is some extra pocket money. And here is the earning of the second half last year 2008.

The break down of the monthly earning is as follows, and you can see Olympic and Christmas did affect the earning a little bit:

June 2008: USD $271.92
July 2008: USD $232.39
Aug 2008: USD $183.80 (due to Olympic 2008)
Sept 2008: USD $218.23
Oct 2008: USD $195.81
Nov 2008: USD $140.77
Dec 2008: USD $126.49 (due to Christmas festival)

June to Dec 2008 (7 months) Total Adsense Earning:
USD $1242.89

June 2008: USD $271.92 (SGD $368.53)
July 2008: USD $232.39 (SGD $329.30)
Aug 2008: USD $183.80 (SGD $260.02)
Sept 2008: USD $218.23 (Check missing!!)
Oct 2008: USD $195.81 (SGD $296.10)
Nov 2008: USD $140.77 (SGD $203.37)
Dec 2008: USD $126.49 (SGD 189.99)
I will share with you some tips that I have been using, and some important statistic later on.

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Solution to bX errors when uploading or updating template in Blogspot

2009-03-02T21:39:00.001+08:00

Recently, whenever you try to upload or update or change a template in Blogspot Blogger, you will experience this "bX-bliced" errors. In later stage, the errors becomes all sort of numbers include: "bX-y6cz0v", "bX-8dyqz0", "bX-si9ejx", all sort of varieties. And here comes the solutions:

1. Open the new template XML file in any text editor, preferably WordPad (right click --> Open With --> WordPad).

2. “Ctrl + F” and search for the word "widget id"

3. Replace the "b:widget id='Anything1'" to "b:widget id='Anything11'" (example "b:widget id='Header1'" to "b:widget id='Header11'"), you can replace the number into any number you want, but must be at least double digit, 1 to 11, 2 to 22, etc... is a good choice.

4. Save the file. And upload the template either upload the xml file or cut and paste as usual.

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Google Adsense adds in Host ID on top of Pub ID

2009-02-26T17:12:00.001+08:00

Google Adsense and Blogspot Blogger have been recently make significant changes on the adsense advertisement on blog. In the past, all you need is to identify your adsense publisher ID (called google_ad_client), your adsense slot ID (called google_ad_slot). Now, there is a new identity being added - Google Adsense Host ID (called google_ad_host).

Publisher ID is to identify your account, such that all the click on ads will generate income to your account.

Slot ID is to identify the particular adsense identity, e.g. the channel, the color, the size.

The new Host ID is to identify the blogger host that host the ads. This may due to the fact that many people has many Blogspot account, and in order to obtain Google paycheck every month, different Blogspot account share the same Adsense Publisher ID.

The new code looks something like:

google_ad_client = "pub-1234567890123456";
google_ad_host = "pub-9876543212345678"; (<-- this line is something new)
google_ad_slot = "35678901245";
google_ad_width = 250;
google_ad_height = 250;

Don't be surprise if you didn't see that line when you obtain the code from Adsense. That line will be added by Blogspot after you paste your Adsense code into your blog. It will be added even nif you add the adsense code directly to your template. And this may explain the recent glitch happen at Blogspot.

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