Today I managed to cash out my latest AdSense payment via Western Union. This is just to show a prove, and to motivate the unmotivated. Although the amount is not that huge, it’s still money and after subtracting the hosting cost there is some profit.
Next objective is getting significant monthly payments (I currently put my [...]

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Google have announced that they are retiring AdSense Referrals. You might want to remove it from your websites.
I have never been a fan of AdSense Referrals as I think it’s a hassle to use

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I have finally received my first AdSense payment since 2005. It’s not much but certainly a very good motivational factor to keep on blogging and making efforts to build websites.
Since I opted for Western Union payment, it was actually a breeze. Filled a form and within 15 minutes I was holding cash in my hands [...]

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In spite of being extremely busy, yesterday I had a chance to glance over some of my daily readings. I am excited to find out that PayPal is now allowing Malaysians to withdraw money to Visa branded debit card.
I need to check with Standard Chartered whether I can use my savings account which is a [...]

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Have your publisher ID ever been used in other sites than yours, without your knowledge? I have never experienced the same problem but I guess some prominent publishers must’ve experienced this.
AdSense now have an Allowed Sites feature where you can specify on which sites your publisher ID will be considered active.
This is indeed a very [...]

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Have you checked in to your AdSense account lately? Try and see the Referral setup page and see whether you have been upgraded to Referrals 2.0. I was surprised by this notification when I logged on to the AdSense account of one of my clients. This is what I saw:

Some of us are lucky enough [...]

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Advertlets is not working for me, so I am dropping it this weekend. This does not mean that you shouldn’t try it out, go ahead it might just work for you. For me the most revenue I am receiving from this blog is through AdSense and Kontera.
Someone from Advertlets did make a comment on my [...]

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Despite of a shadowy day (the shadow is in my head) today, I am thrilled to learn that my AdSense PIN has arrived safely at my home. It felt good.

I’ve been busy and tired lately, this is a very big hurdle for a non full time blogger like me. Less and less time (and energy) [...]

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I received my email subscription to Inside AdSense just about 20 minutes ago. There’s good news - AdSense is launching a referral program where you can refer products from advertisers now, not only Google products. When a visitor clicks on your referral link, if he/she completes an action defined by the advertiser, you get paid!

This [...]

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A client friend of mine complained that he can’t see the pages when he clicked on AdSense links, which is quite weird. When I tried, they all loaded fine. Anyone experience the same problem?
By the way you should not click on your own ads too many times as Google will think you are trying to [...]

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For AdSense users out there who are not subscribed in the blog update, Google AdSense site is down from 10am to 2pm PDT:
This Saturday, November 11th, our engineers will be performing routine system maintenance from 10am to 2pm PDT. Although you won’t be able to access your account during this time, ads will still be [...]

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Uh oh… just now, I became the victim of the Melayu Bogel text advertisement.

Probably because of the S word in the previous post, plus it has some Malay words.

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Oh my oh my. While surfing through a blog by a UPM lecturer today, I saw this ad. Of course it was generated by Google AdSense so there’s no one to blame there. Non-Malay speaking community: bogel means naked.

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