Nuffnang Unveils Happy-O-Meter

Nuffnang, asia’s first blog advertising community has unveiled has launched it’s first widget advertisement called the Happy-O-Meter. The widget ad has the ability to show your readers your mood, how happy or unhappy you are and the reason you are feeling that way. It even calculates whether you’re averagely happy or unhappy.

The widget ad is supposed to be used in Happy-O-Meter campaigns. Even though you have not been assigned a Happy-O-Meter campaign, Nuffnang allows it’s bloggers to put make use of the Happy-O-Meter widget on their site. However, bloggers who place the widget on their site without a campaign will not recieve any earnings from it.

What do you think guys, do you think I should try it here?

Things To Know About Making Money From Paid Advertising

Before you start making money from paid advertising on your blog or website, there are certain things you need to know so that you won’t break any rules set by the advertising network and so that you can decide what’s the best monetization method for your site.

The Concept:

Making money from paid advertising is like selling advertisement space on a newspaper. The larger your newspaper circulation, the more the advertising space is worth. The same concept applies in internet advertising, the more pageviews and visitors your site gets, the more valuable advertisement space on your site is. Advertisers wants to draw people to their products or services, while publishers (bloggers, website owners)are the ones who help the advertisers advertise their advertisements by putting up the advertisements on their webpage. The advertising network on the other hand is the one that connects the advertisers with the publishers. Advertising networks take a percentage of the publishers earnings, that’s how they make money. Of course you can take away the middleman (advertising networks) and find a publisher on your own to keep all of your earnings, but most webmasters and bloggers let the advertising networks to do the dirty work.

Terms You Need To Know:

• Cost per click (CPC) - If you’re a publisher, the cost per click (CPC) of an advertisement is the amount of money you earn for every click on the advertisement on your site. If you’re an advertiser, the cost per click (CPC) is the amount you pay for every click on your advertisement.
• Cost per mile (CPM) - Mile in Latin means thousands, therefore cost per mile  carries the same meaning as cost per thousand (CPT). If you’re a publisher, the cost per mile (CPM) of an advertisement means the amount of money you would earn for every thousand times the advertisement is shown. If you’re an advertiser, the cost per mile (CPM) of an advertisement means the amount of money you pay for every thousand impressions on your advertisement.
• Cost per thousand (CPT) - Carries the same meaning as cost per mile (CPM)
• Cost per impression (CPI) - Cost per impression (CPI) is commonly used by publishers to determine how much money they can earn per impression for cost per mile (CPM) and cost per thousand (CPT) advertisements . To determine the cost per impression (CPI), you divide the CPM or CPT of the advertisement. If you’re a publisher, the cost per impression (CPI) of an advertisement is the amount of money you’ll earn for every impression of the advertisement. If you’re an advertiser, the cost per impression (CPI)
• Cost per action (CPA) - Cost per action (CPA) advertising pricing structure requires that the visitor does an "action" whether it is buying something or signing up for something. The "action" does not include clicking on the advertisement.
• Click through rate (CTR) - Commonly used to measure the success of an advertisement. You can get the click through rate (CTR) of an advertisement by dividing the number of times an advertisement was click on with the number of times the advertisement was shown.

Forms Of Paid Advertising:

There are many forms of paid advertising, however here I’ll just list out the more popular and common ones.

• Contextual advertising - Contextual advertising is a form of targeted advertising on advertisements. The advertisements shown is selected and served by an automated system based on the content shown to a user. Example: Bidvertiser(Show text-ads on your Website or Blog with BidVertiser.)
• Banner advertising  - Banner advertising is basically banner advertisements placed on your site that leads to the advertisers site.
• Popup advertising - Popup advertising is an advertising system in which whenever a visitor appears on your site, an advertisement will popup in another window.
• Popunder advertising - Popunder advertising works on a system by which whenever a visitors leave your site or blog, an advertisement will popup in another window.
• Link advertising - Link advertising is just advertising plain old sitewide text links on a site.
• In-text advertising - Advertisements appear in-text, as in whenever the visitor hovers his mouse on certain “hyperlinked keyword”, an advertisement appears.
• Intersitial advertising - Advertisements appear from time to time during the period of time a visitor is browsing through your site. This advertisements requires the user to press a “continue” button or the visitor has to wait for a certain number of seconds.

Types Of Paid Advertisements:

• Cost Per Click (CPC) advertisements - CPC advertisements earn you money whenever a visitor clicks on an advertisement.
• Cost Per Action (CPA) advertisements - CPA advertisements earn you money whenever a visitor buys a product or signs up for something.
• Cost Per Mile (CPM) advertisements - CPM advertisements earn you money by the number of impressions.
• Cost Per Thousand (CPT) advertisements - Same as CPM advertisements.

Different advertising networks have different set of rules and requirements for publishers, thus I strongly recommend that you read up of the terms of service (TOS) of each advertising network. The most common rules are that you should not click on your own advertisement, or encourage others to click on your own advertisement. Besides that, some advertising networks also do not allow you to use the same form of advertising as their advertisements on the same page. For example, Google Adsense does not allow other contextual advertising advertisements on the same page as it, but it does allow other forms of advertising such as banner advertising and Popup advertising.

Really do try to stick to the rules, as once you get banned from a certain advertising network, then generally do not let you sign up again. I got banned from Google Adsense a couple of years ago. That time I was still naive and have since learnt my lesson. Never again would I try to go against the TOS of a website.

Paid Advertising

Paid advertising is one of the most basic and popular mediums in which webmasters and bloggers in general makes money on the internet. Basically you get paid to put up paid advertisements on your blog. Sort of like selling advertising webspace on the internet. . I like to call this kind of advertisements paidvertisements (haha, yea, I’m trying to coin this term and make it popular ).

Anyway, here in this category "Paid Advertising" I’ll post about all the things I learn from the whole paid advertising industry, my income, the newest advertising networks, reviews and news of various advertising networks and more.

Hope you guys find what I post in the category insightful.

First Payment Recieved From ClixNCash.com

I just received my first payment from ClixNCash. This is one of the few sites which I have found to have really paid their members. At first their payment din’t come through, but after I opened a support ticket, they sent the payments and I managed to receive it. The payment I received this time is $0.27. It is quite easy to reach payout here as there is a large number of PTC and PTS (has around 1000 and pays $0.10 each, do the maths ).

If you want to earn a small side income doing something simple, then I recommend that you join ClixNCash.com as they really do pay. If you sign up, I’ll really appreciate it if you join under me (click on the banner to sign up) as it’s a win-win situation for both of us.

In Depth Review Of ThinkBux.com

ThinkBux.com is my favourite PTC site out there. No, it has not paid me yet, but from what I have read about it, seen in their forums, it is very reputable and has been paying on time and regularly. ThinkBux is the only PTC site I have come across that pays you $0.01 a click and a low minimum payout of $2.00. Most sites which pays $0.01 a click has a minimum payout of $10 or more.

Like all PTC sites, to really earn money out of ThinkBux.com you have to have patience and a nice and active downline. If you’re just looking to earn a couple dollars a month, ThinkBux is perfect for you as you don’t need a downline at all to earn a couple of dollars a month. If you’re looking for some semi-serious income, ThinkBux also has the potential to provide you one with enough active referrals.

The forums in ThinkBux is also a nice friendly place. Members of ThinkBux regularly posts their payment proofs there along with their success stories which is quite inspiring.

Basic Information:

• Minimum payout: $2.00
• Payment processor: PayPal and AlertPay
• Allows international members: Yes
• Offers: PTC
• Amount per click (standard member): $0.01
• Amount per referral click (standard member): $0.005
• Total amount paid to users so far: 17090
• Total amount of users so far: $1945.63
• Can upgrade?: Yes
• Forum?: Yes

Premium Membership Price And Benefits:

• Price: $25.99 a year
• Amount per click (premium member): $0.012
• Amount per referral click (premium member): $0.01
• Comes with: 5 referrals and a minimum of 15 advertisements a day

Estimated Income (without referrals or upgrade of any kind):

• Average amount earned a day: $0.085
• Average income earned a week: $0.595
• Average days needed to earn $2: 24 days

If you think that this site is as promising as I think it is, I would really appreciate it if you sign up under me. ThinkBux.com

TemplateP2P Invites Giveaway

Guys, I have some TemplateP2P invites that I would like to share with my readers. Just leave a comment here stating the reasons why you think you deserve it with your email address and I’ll send you an invitation code.

TemplateP2P is like a torrent tracker, but instead of downloading the files you want through a torrent, TemplateP2P users provides links in the forum to the downloads which are usually hosted on sites like Rapishare and MediaFire, making TemplateP2P more accurately called as a link forum. Among the download links shared at TemplateP2P are things like applications, games, stock photos, tutorials, ebooks, videos, fonts, scripts, templates, graphics and much more. One added bonus is that there is an invites section where the users regularly trade and give out invites, which I’m sure all of you would want some more of

If you’re a designer or webmaster who actively uses Photoshop, then this site would be of extreme use to you as there are many resources there from which you can download and use.

Note: I have a limited number of invitation codes, so it’s a first come first serve basis.

[EDIT: Sorry guys, but I accidentally deleted all the comments, that explains why there is no more comments ]

Demonoid Invites Giveaway

Demonoid is one of the most popular private torrent sites and my favourite torrent tracker on the internet. Demonoid has a whole lot of torrents in various categories, ranging from music, applications (both PC and Mac), books, movies, games, anime and more. In my experience, the torrents listed in Demonoid are prepared really carefully and have lots of seeders to leechers ratio. Demonoid was close for a period of time just a few months back due to some legal proceedings agaisnt it, but now that it is open once again, it is still going as strong as ever.

As a way to say thank you to you for taking the time to read my blog, I’m giving away invitations to Demonoid to as many readers as I can. All you have to do is comment here saying that you want it and the email address which I should send the invitation code to.

I hope you guys like it.

[EDIT: I’m sorry but I accidentally deleted all the comments here, that exlpains why there are no more comments ]

First Approved Job Opportunity For Bloggerwave

My first job opportunity which I did for Bloggerwave on the 18th of June, has finally been accepted today the 22nd of June, after waiting for 4 days. In the an email they sent me, they said that I would receive payment within 30 days, this is to prevent  bloggers to delete the post right after getting paid. I’m really excited about this payment that would be coming, as this would be the first amount of money I earn by doing paid posts. However, I did hear quite a few stories about Bloggerwave being a troublesome company by not paying on time, sometimes not paying at all. Some bloggers have even gone as far as to say that Bloggerwave is a scam. I however like to believe the best in people (in this case companies). I am really looking forward to this payment . I’ll keep you guys informed when or if I get paid.

Approved Blog

[edited],
Congratulations!
Bloggerwave has accepted the following blog

BlogTitle : Drett.com - Monetize now
logUrl : http://drett.com

for the following opportunity.

Opportunity Title : Bloggerwave.com
Offer Amount : 10 USD
You will recieve your payment within 30 days

Thank you,
The Bloggerwave Team
support@bloggerwave.com

First Payment Received From Cash-Hi.com

I received my first payment from Cash-Hi.com today. I requested payment on the 14th of June and got paid on the 24th of June. Although it’s not the "weekly payout" which they advertise, the payment time is still reasonable. Yes, I know the 6 cents here seems very insignificant, but to me it means that I have found another PTC site that actually pays. At first I had my doubts that this site would pay me, but now that it has passed my "mini" test, I would start to invest more time on this website.

Cash-Hi.com is now officially part of verified PTC that pays list which I am still in compiling. If you want to join a PTC site that actually pays, then I recommend Cash-Hi.com.

Payment proof:

Evernote Invites Giveaway

  I recently got my invitation to the Evernote Beta, and from playing around in it, I must say that it is impressive. In fact, it’s so impressive that It’s already one of the few applications that I usually leave open on my laptop. That’s how useful Evernote is to me now.

Remember everything.

Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.

 

Evernote is basically a program where you can type and keep my notes. Not just notes notes, but information in nearly any medium, from photos to audio to scanned material to clips of webpages. Photos that are stuck on the notes in Evernote are made searchable by Evernote. Notes can be organized into different Notebooks. You can also assign tags to different notes which makes it much more easier to find and locate your notes. The killer feature of Evernote is the ability to synchronize all infromation in Evernote across all your different electronic devices, from you desktop PC to you mobile handphone.

I have about 20 invites with me. All you have to do is to leave a comment along with any ideas (if you have) on how to use it. Enjoy