Archive for December, 2007

Well people, This is the start of the new year and it’s time to let it go with a bang.

How do you fancy winning RM50? Feels nice right? Well, that is what Shoppers@Kedai.TV are doing. I am not putting up my own link down here, but the contest ends 15th January.

No Purchase Required.

FINE PRINT:
OPEN TO ANYONE WHERE ALLOWED. IF WINNER IS NOT FROM MALAYSIA, A VOUCHER OR PRODUCT WORTH TO THAT AMOUNT WILL BE PROVIDED IN LIEU. CASH VOUCHER. ALTERNATIVES POSSIBLE. PLAYERS MUST BE OVER 13. UNDER 21, PLEASE SEEK PARENTAL CONSENT.NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. EACH MEMBER IS ALLOWED ONLY ONE ENTRY. EMPLOYEES AND ASSOCIATES OF THE COMPANY IS ALLOWED TO PLAY AS IT’S ALL RANDOMLY SELECTED. POSTINGS MUST BE IN EITHER ENGLISH OR MALAY LANGUAGE,WITHOUT ANY VULGARITIES OR PORNOGRAPHY.

WINNERS OF THE AMEX USD25 GIFT CARD MAY RECEIVE AN ALTERNATIVE CASH VOUCHER IN LIEU. WINNERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SHIPPING AND HANDLING. ALL WORKS AND POSTS MUST STAY THERE FOR AT LEAST 365 DAYS.More T&C in the Site’s Pages

Nuffnang admittedly said that they can’t track 5% of the visits and clicks. Which is by far, a huge cry for those who needs every click or visit counted. Surprisingly, analytics can’t account for ads and clicks if they are fraudulent.

How can that happen? Well,some people love to SABOTAGE the blogger if they are popular enough or hated enough like me. However, Bots are something we have to dismiss against our server logs if you get my drift, but sometimes, it’s more to the ability of the viewer or reader to view the content itself.

Likewise, Nuffnang utilises Javascripts. I did point this error before to Timothy that the NUFFNANG_BID is not declared properly and mostly, users utilising Internet Explorer version 6 and above will show an Error and don’t load the ads at all due to the lack of P3P privacy policy missing within the domain. Another aspect is ICRA Rating,which rates the site as General or PG or R rated. To add salt to the wound, the drift from IE and Windows towards Linux and iMac is a serious issue. Linux don’t have Shockwave built in as the RPM and .DEB composite repository differs from each flavor whereas FLASH maybe easily plugged in using the Firefox (ICEWEASEL to some) addons. And since alot of the ads are in Shockwave, your user cannot see the ad and all they see is a broken link.

So, a tracker will show that if you are sabotaged by a MetaBot or a Crawler or even Google’s Spiders. A simple Tracker.js can show that or even a hidden pixel embedded inside the header will do a trick.Otherwise, a good AWSTATS will show that too.

So, how to make sure you get your 20c worth of click? Knowingly, a Global CPM Ad band works on a basis of how many clicks per thousand impressions. The higher the ratio, the better it works for your wallet. Remember that blogger who had RM93 for a week of ad? He has about 50 clicks per 1000 visitors. How to deliver that? Well, one way is to BEG for your Clicks. Another is to hot mention your advertiser should they paste a static one on your site. Ads like National Treasure 2 or Motorola Q2 cell phone or even the prominent Orang Oren (HAPPY.COM.MY) which is actually Digi doing it’s dirty tricks…. is one thing to entice your advertiser and reader to explore.

That way, it actually compensates your visitor and advertiser alike. Words like please visit or click my ad so I can get credit or 20c is not the way to go. That will get you kicked off any advertising network, be it Nuffnang,Advertlets or PayPerPost (oops). Blogsvertise,Blogitive and Smorty will love them though but definitely Google Adsense and Adbrite will terminate you without any payment at all in the first instance when you utilise PPC (Per Per Click) or PPV services;heck even mentioning it will get you the sack.Ask my sis, who lost $72 on Adsense because she paid 70c for 500 visitors..which surged and killed her Adsense and me, whom had a surge , overloaded my servers and got myself a kick in the behind because of the hardware failures.

So, in good faith, this will teach you to earn that big fat $1000 packets of gold from the advertising industry, and not to mention the fact of affiliate programs,which I will cover later on. As for me, this mention is to see if there is another bug on the Nuffnang system which has not been tracking my SEO Engineering 101 pageviews properly. So,every NANG will be a visit. Thanks for visiting, and for your time, I am giving you a FREE HOSTING for 2 mths, on me,and should you want more,I’ll let you in on the secret.

Best Regards

Merry Christmas and have a joyous New Year!

Did you know that Nuffnang is the highest paying advertiser in South East Asia, well, Asia for that reason. Compared to Nuffnang Singapore, the Malaysia Head Office actually has a variety line up of advertisers for your little great blogspace. How much? Well, TWENTY CENTS doesn’t mean much to you much to the Singapore Blogger.

Remember the options in BLOG MANAGER ?? Make sure it shows SHOW GLOBAL CPC ADS. Unfortunately, there are only TWO OPTIONS in the SINGAPORE version, which says SHOW DEFAULT ADS, which is a bummer. So if you want extra money Singaporean, place a NUFFNANG MALAYSIA AD into the adspace.

How to do so? Well, you can place a SINGAPORE address in your NUFFNANG Application, but it is up to you to decipher how to bank that cheque in. Opening a Bank Account is quite simple actually, commonly known as an EXTERNAL ACCOUNT. Common Options will be the RHB Bank Branch in Giant Plentong Hypermart in JB.

Of course,traffic counts. A typical CTR of more than 1% is best, but with a higher ratio of pageviews are also part of the criterion of getting placements. A typical BAND 2 CPM ad by NNSG is $2.88 compared to RM3.58 on the same placement. Of course, you will need at least 50 visitors a day, so how can that make a huge difference?

Placements, Content and return visits.

One least utility used by Bloggers are the MyBlogLog service widget by Yahoo! Install that ALONGSIDE with your NUFFNANG SKYSCRAPER, setting the pixel width to 150px for Blogger.
That will show WHO HAD VISITED your blog,and in turn, come to their profile and convey your thanks, and do the same. If the person has Adbrite Network Full Page Ads, he will be compensated about 0.3SEN / 0.2Cent. That will network yourself to their community, and in turn get better visits.

Placement wise, how and what is the effective method?

MY LEADERBOARD for TOP PLACEMENT
MY SQUARE at the TOP CORNER
MY SQUARE in between the post (or end of post ::refer to Theme codes::).

(try the style:”clear:both;float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;” alongside the SQUARE)
I just wish they just use a non-javascript IMG SRC so it can be embedded in Wordpress easier.

Add a SG Sidebar and a MY SIDEBAR on your sidebar
Add the MyBloglog Widget under it. So you know who and where they came from.

(MY is denoted for Malaysia, SG for Singapore)

And so, within a month or so, you can drive great content, and yr friends drive you great cash, because each click is TWENTY MALAYSIAN SEN. It’s better than Advertlets or Auctionads. Even this surpass TEXT LINK ADS placements and forget Adsense, they pay less than .01cent! Takes ages to get a check from them.

So this is more than twenty points, but if you want more money for your blog, make sure you have a constant flow of traffic. INNIT is a good source to broadcast your topic. I just wish Tim have standard IAB Banners *(468*80) so we can embed more stuff in. This don’t get us demoted from Pagerank analytics. That includes REALRANK and SMARTRANK by Yahoo! OOps, did I mention that new ranking system?

That will be for another day.