Write about the web release, please

To those who like to write craps for Blogi, you can’t afford to now unless you like to receive rejection emails from them. You have to write about the web release and review the product. No more writing for Blogi like how we do with Payu. Btw, I am speaking to myself too!

Copy & Paste Opp

Do you know that there is a blog advertiser that gives you the option either to write your own post or copy and paste their ready made ads? Yes! They allow you to do that! Isn't that heaven for those who lazy to think and write their own? Hahaha.

But not me ok. :P I will rewrite to suit my blogging style of course. No matter how lazy I am at times, I will sure add a line or two to the ready made ones.

How much they pay for it? $5 for each but you can only take 3 opps per month per blog. And max 10 opps per account. So far they only accept blog with own domain and with PR. This blog of mine rejected by them. :(

So to those who are lazy and have their own domain with min of PR1 go sign up with Bloggingads.com.

Btw, I am not getting paid to write this. Writing this for the sake of other bloggers who may not know about them. :) I so nice hor? :P

WidgetBucks

What the heck is WidgetBucks?

A friend just ping me telling me to join and earn so money thru other avenue rather than just write paid post. WidgetBucks looks like any other PPC adverts but I do earn thru referral. So now I know why she asked me to click on her WidgetBucks ad. :P

Publishers and bloggers can get the ball rolling with WidgetBucks' instant $25 sign-up bonus, which gets you half way to your first check! With WidgetBucks' Referral program, affiliates can earn a 10 percent referral fee based on the commissions earned by the people they refer. Affiliates receive this 10 percent for the full 12 months after the new member joins. Payouts to affiliates are monthly, along with their commission checks.

Well, they will only pay us when our account reach $50. I wonder how long will it take for me to can get my first $50.

Matched: Matching advertisers with publishers

I came to know about Matched.co.uk when I was reading a comment left in Gettycash's blog. I tried to sign up but they required UK Postcode and UK telephone number then it is obvious that it is not open to the rest of us.

So, here's the good new to Briton's blogger. It works the same like Money4Banners but the payout is lesser. Instead of getting £10.00 for sign up bonus and then £5.00 every month, you will get £5.00 for sign up bonus and then £3.00 monthly.

Btw, this is non sponsored. See, I don't link directly to the company I am talking about. :P

Make Money thru Money4Blogs

Have you heard of Money4Blogs? Well, they pay for links on your sidebar. I think something similar to LinkText from Linkworth. The only difference is, they pay for the link to remain at your sidebar for a year. So you will get one lumpsum payment.

You just need to submit your blog at Money4Blogs.com and they will email you how much they will pay you for a link. If you agree to it, place the link at your sidebar, inform them via email that you have done it and you will get your payment in less than a week.

The more traffic that you have, they offer is higher. PR does not really play an important role here. I got the same payment for my PR4 & PR3 blogs and a blogger with PR0 but have more traffic, get higher offer than mine!

Interim Post Only for PPP

I send a ticket to PPP yesterday asking about the interim thingy because some of my bloggers friends are still blur about it. They still write non paid interim in EVERY paid post that they wrote. I really respect them. Got so many things to blog about and so much time too. No wonder people always say women talk non stop. However, that is not the case for me. I am not that chatty like ShoppingMum. :P

So I wrote to PPP to be on the safe side. This is what I wrote:

Hi, There is still some confusion with regards to the interim post. From my understanding of the clause, non paid interim is a must before and after PPP. For other network, it is not compulsory but to have interim is better. Meaning we won't be banned if we write back to back for other network. Am I right?

I got the reply this morning. They are real fast this time. :P

Hi Michelle, Thanks so much for reaching out to us. You are correct. For PPP sponsored posts written from September 12th going forward, there must be an non-sponsored original content post on either side. We will not be requiring an original post between each sponsored post on your Blog, just before and after a PPP sponsored post.

I am safe. :D

Inventory Software

My company is using EMAS Inventory Software. The software is installed in my computer and recently I got a new upgraded CPU. From Window 98 to Window XP. Due to this, the inventory system does not work anymore. We have to pay the agent $250 just to install the software that is compatible to Window XP. Unfortunately, all the date in inventory is gone. We have to start from scratch and key in all the data based on our hard copy stock card. :(

No More Dreaming about Interim Post

Check this out...

Each PayPerPost post must be immediately preceded and immediately followed by at least one non-sponsored, original content post. 'Sponsored' posts apply to both PayPerPost Direct and Marketplace Opportunities, as well as other sponsored posts from competitive services.

PPP has revised the controversial ToS to the above. This is what I have been practicing. Non paid post before and after PPP. However they have come out with Best Practices that can be found at PPP University. (Wah...PPP also got U!)

Read this...

Try to separate each sponsored post with at least one non sponsored post. Please remember that the ToS requires that each PayPerPost sponsored post have a non sponsored post before and after that post.

Normally I will do the above for paid post that are not contextual link. Normally contextual link are in my personal post. Like the one I wrote about Sate Worm, there's actually a contextual link in it. Btw, if you were to read it, I did not create the story. Many have agreed to what I wrote. :P

Sigh of relief

So happy to be able to reserve quite a handful of Blogitive offer this morning. After 2 weeks of silence, finally I breathe a sigh of relief. I thought due to their new rating system, I am no longer qualified to write for them! Who knows, they want professional writer! Hehe. Now I have to go crack my head to write interim post. Should not be any problem coz I have a lot to share. :)

PLEASE READ!!!

I just woke up coz my son wanted milk. Took this opportunity to check whether got new opp from PPP and Blogitive. The first thing that I saw when I am in Blogitive dashboard is the above. LOL! There must be a lot of people like me sending them email asking about the SSN thing! hahahahahaha.

I don't have SSN

I read this message when I login to Blogitive.

Notice: In order to receive future payments from Blogitive, you'll need to update your settings with your SSN and a current mailing address so we can send you a W-9 tax form. Click here to update your settings.

So I click. They need my SSN number. I have no Social Security Number if that is what they meant by SSN. Sosco number got lar. Like that how ah? I won't received my payments eh. So I send an email to them telling that that I am not living in US. Today when I login I saw there's new message (blog post) at the home page.

You will probably notice some system wide issues as we update the site over the next several days (for example, if you're based out of a different country than the US, you won't be able to update your payment info yet).

Bear with us -- the changes should speed up the review system and help with accounting, and prepare the directory for re-release. As we make the changes, fewer offers are going to be going out, but will return to normal levels once the changes are complete.

Fuh! All my worries gone. hehe.

Interim Post for PPP

Do you know that PPP amended their TOS about interim post? Now it has to be Non-Sponsored Post. No longer Non-PayPerPost Post.

Each PayPerPost Opportunity post must be separated by at least one non-sponsored, original content, post. 'Sponsored' posts apply to both PayPerPost Direct and Marketplace Opportunities, as well as other sponsored posts from competitive services.

I didn't know when it takes effect. I just found out about it today when 2 mommies informed me that their post got rejected and they are told not to resubmit.

I feel that is it a lil bit unfair if the post is auto approved. After one month of advertising for the advertisers, when it comes to payment time, we are told that it is rejected due to the interim post. Like that the advertisers got free backlinks already.

Well, I quickly went to check my blogs. Thank God I played safe all this while, making sure my interim post for PPP is non paid post. :) So I am safe. I hope. :P

Bug in Blogitive

I found a bug in my Blogitive. Took a few offer on Capella. Logout out. Login the later in the day, all gone. Thank God it is Capella because there is a lot of it. So I don't really mine loosing them. Asked other blogger about it. Theirs are ok. So I just send a bug report to Blogitive. I hope they fix it fast. Scared I took other offers other than Capella also gone.

Approved by Blogitive

Few days back I have so many assignments from Blogitive that has not been approved. It does makes me worry. What if they suddenly announce there's an error in the system and request us to delete all the post written? Fainted. Even though I taken a few last week, I rejected 8 of them and wait for the rest to be approved. Praise God for the past 2 -3 days, post has been approved one by one. Well, it is encouraging to receive email saying that my post has been approved. Next, the payment. One week time, I will know. Meantime, continue writing for them. :)

More Time To Write

I was just complaining how I wish that PPP would give us more time to write like other blog advertising company. It is because, one hour is too short for us to dig in the advertiser website especially when we are required to write a review or opinion about it. Creating a buzz no problem lar but a review, a lil bit tough for a quality review.

Today, my wish come true. PPP is giving us 6 hours to write a post!!! Read it here. :D