You might noticed few changes on the design of the blog. The theme used by the blog is the same but I just made few adjustment especially on the width of the content section. I also changed the placement and width of the Adsense ads displayed.

This is actually my response to the message sent to me just recently by the Google Adsense Team who personally reviewed my blog. They said that I am missing out on Adsense revenue but I still have a “great opportunity to increase” my “AdSense earnings.” They recommend that I change the current implementation of the Adsense ads.

For now, I am still observing what will happen to my Adsense income after these few changes. In few days, I will again implement some changes and then observe what will be the result. Whichever of the implementations resulted to higher increase of my Adsense income, then that will be my final implementation of the Google Adsense on this blog.

Actually, the message that I received recently was the second one they sent to me. The first one was sent to me last November 2010. And as a response to their recommendations, I made some changes on the implementation of the Adsense. And yes, the result was great. The CPM of my Adsense ads has increased by 300 percent.

However, it seems that my Adsense recent CPM is not yet good and I am still missing something even if it is already 300 percent higher compared to its previous CPM. And I am very much thankful to the Google Adsense Team who reviewed my blog for their advices. I just hope that the new changes I made will result to another another increase in CPM.

I wonder, if I can manage to increase the current CPM by 1,000 percent.

Just imagine if the Adsense displayed on this blog will generate 1,000 (just an example) impressions and if the CPM is $1.00, then the revenue will be $1.00 for that 1,000 impressions. Now what if it will increase by 1,000 percent. So the CPM will become $11 and the income will be $11 for that same impressions.

But I don’t think that a $11 is already good. I know some Adsense publishers whose Adsense are having a CPM of more than that.

Maasin City is a fifth class city but it’s the capital of the province of Southern leyte. People here mostly are fishermen and farmers. Few of them are working with the government offices, stores, and other private offices. More than a thousand of men are drivers of tricycle, tri-sikad and passenger jeepneys.

However, there are few of the Maasin City – Southern Leyte youth who are making money online.

Some of these online money makers are earning money through:

Making Money Online by Blogging

I don’t know if I am right, but in 2006 I noticed that I am the lone blogger in Maasin City who managed to earn decent income by blogging in my own blogs. But today, there are few others who learned and managed to find a living through blogs online.

Earning Money Through e-Marketing

There are some Maasinhon who engaged in emarketing. They’re selling products by sending email to prospect buyers. Once someone buy a product through their referrals, they earn a commission.

But they are not just receiving commission from the product sold because they also earned credits everytime they refer someone into the network.

Online Show

There are women from Maasin City who earned money in illegal way. The called this occupation as “Online Show” and I called them as “Online Showgirl”.

According to the AppData.com as reported by Mashable, Zynga’s CityVille has 16.8 million daily active users in its less than a month of existence at Facebook. It actually overtakes the Zynga’s Farmville on its top position which only has 16.4 million of daily active users. And as of writing this post, CityVille has atleast 69 million monthly active users compared to FarmVille which has at least 57 million monthly active users.

My wife and I are not yet included on the number of users of the CityVille because we haven’t tried it yet. But I know that the figure above will still be changed and increased because if those 69 million Facebook users learned to love the CityVille then I’m sure others who will still try to play that game will also love it too soon as they start playing it.

This is of course a good news to those who wants to make money online. Facebook and Zynga are not just the ones who are earning money here. You can take advantage of it too. You can do it by blogging about Zynga’s CityVille or do other ways where you can earn money from it.

Question

I am trying to find ways on how to earn money for a living in the internet without the problem of getting scammed. I already have visited websites promising everyone to make money from the internet but when I read the end part of the website, I was asked to enter my credit card. I don’t know what will happen if I will enter my credit card information but I think, I will be going to be scammed by this kind of website.

How can we really earn money in the web without getting scammed?

Answer

It is true that there are many internet scammers who introduced themselves as guru who promised everyone through their websites that they can teach everyone the ways to make money online, however, anyone who wants to learn how need to pay for certain amount using the credit card.

Now, if you really want to learn how to make money online, then just google the internet and you’ll get a lot of free information. You don’t need to pay anyone just to learn how to do it. Just read those articles posted on blogs, websites and forums and I’m sure that you’ll really learn a lot.

For example, you can read the article that gives you 10 tips on how to make money online by blogging. If you don’t want to blog, you can try reading articles on promoting Clickbank products and learn how to be paid for the commission on every items sold. You can even read articles in trying the CPALead and then join a lot of Filipinos who are already earning thousands of Dollars twice a month.

There are actually lots of ways on how you can earn money in the web. And for you to learn about them, just read the articles in the internet you found by googling. Just like what I said, they’re free and you don’t have to pay for a cent.

Google prepared this series of videos about the new interface of Google Adsense. Watch the videos, learn and earn more money from Adsense.

Google Adsense New Interface: The Story

Google Adsense New Interface: The Tour

The New AdSense Interface: More Insights to Help You Make Business Decisions

The New AdSense Interface: More Control Over the Ads on Your Site

The New AdSense Interface: Greater Efficiency to Manage your Account

Title: Make Money Online on Ebay
Author: Fred Gonzales

EBay is actually a website where sellers and buyers meet. The seller sell their stuffs and buyers buy them. The payment however is not made through the eBay, instead buyers will pay the seller the amount through any other payment services like Paypal, bank to bank, Western Union and others.

So, how could you make money online on ebay?

Making money online on ebay is actually just simple to do. You just need to be a seller. And as seller, you just sell your stuffs through the eBay.

The first thing you need to do is sign-up an account at eBay. After successfully having an account as seller in ebay, auction your stuff on eBay. Then if buyers bought your stuff, then that will be the time for you to send the stuff  to the buyer. Then finally you are already earning.

However, if you really want to earn a lot of money from the stuffs you are selling, then you need to find a product that you think will be profitable for you. You can of course get products from wholesale suppliers sell them on eBay on a little bit lower to the suggested price so that buyers will entice to buy your product.

But you need to be careful in doing this because if you buy something from suppliers to be sold in eBay, you are actually spending your own money. So, you need to make sure that someone will buy it.

There’s actually another option where you can get products without paying them initially. The suppliers of it are called dropshippers. They will allow you to display a sale on eBay while they are holding the actual product. When someone buy it, you will of course receive the payment and from it you can pay the supplier for the product and they will send the product to the buyer.

Some big-time earners of CPALead use Facebook viral script in getting thousands if not millions of fans to their Facebook page that leads to a website equipped with the CPALead widget.

If you don’t have idea about the CPALead, please read my post, How to Make Money with the CPALead.

There was actually a time that I was convinced to buy this Facebook Viral Script. However, I hesitated and my instinct was telling me not to do it.

After several months, I keep hearing news of somebody earning more than one thousand Dollars a day through the CPALead widget. And these people allegedly earned those money by using the Facebook Viral Script.

How the Viral Script Works?

I don’t really know exactly how the script works. I haven’t tried it yet.

But some friends told me that the viral script works this way: You create Facebook Fan Page -> Invite one of your friends -> If your friends visit the Fan Page, he automatically became a fan of it and then the script automatically post a link to his wall and to the walls of his friends. ->  When his friends click the link shared on their walls, they automatically became the fan of your Facebook Fan Page. -> The process repeats everytime a Facebook user visit your Facebook Fan Page.

So, with this, in just a day, you can have at least a thousands of fans in your Fan Page.

How they make money from it?

Just like what I said, they make money using this Facebook Viral Script if someone completes the survey from the CPALead or from the other CPA Survey sites.

The Facebook Fan Page is actually just the tool for your marketing activities. Once your Fan Page got thousands if not millions of fans, you can easily send them the invitation or promotion  to visit a page wit the CPALead widget on it. A fan of yours who wants to access the page, needs to complete first the survey because CPALead widget works that way. And then you’ll be paid in every survey completed.

How the Facebook Viral Script became Illegal?

The process that I explained above is simply a violation to the terms and policies of Facebook. With this, we can immediately consider the script as illegal. Spamming those fans, is another illegal activity.

Facebook actually took action against it already.

According to the report, Facebook filed lawsuit against individuals who “fraudulently created” more than 40 deceptive Facebook Pages advertising legitimate services between December, 2009 and March 2010. Those pages took Facebook users on a tour of a variety of intermediary sites that paid Richter for the referred traffic. Among the scams was an offer for “Facebook Gold” accounts – a non-existent, advertising free Facebook offering. (source: threat.com).

I am not really sure if this “Richter” referred as the defendant of the lawsuit really used the Facebook Viral Script, but threat.com on its report said, Richter’s spam campaign also benefited from the use of “malicious computer code” to spread the spam messages across Facebook’s network, the complaint alleges. This made me think that the malicious computer code used by Richter might be this Facebook Viral Script.

Final Thought

I think, we need to find other safe and legal ways in making money online using CPALead widgets. Facebook Viral Script might not be safe for you to use since it might end up into a lawsuit against you, banning from Facebook or disabling of your CPALead account.

Email Sent To Us

Hello.

I just want to tell you my experience while looking for ways to earn money online.

FYI, I was your follower. I was searching for ad*lt materials when I accidentally came into your blog. Although I was a little bit embarrassed that I did not found a single materials that I was looking from your blog, but at least I was inspired by the content of your blog. Since then, I frequently visited your blog to read more articles related to making money online and blogging.

I tried what you’d advised through your write-ups. But I realized that making money online by blogging is not that really easy especially if you don’t have the expertise in writing.

Since then, I keep searching the internet of the other ways which might be suitable for me. I subscribed to different Make Money Online blogs like that of John Chow, Darren, Carl Ocab, Macuha and others.

Because of that, I am receiving emails coming from marketers who are claiming to be a Make Money Online experts.  These emails promised me to earn more than 1,000USD everyday by simply following their techniques and scheme. I read them but then I still don’t have the courage to give in.

Until one day, I received an email from one of the blogger mentioned above who claimed to be earning more than 100,000USD through his blog. This time, I was convinced and spent $50 for a service that according to him will guarantee me high income. But after spending that $50, something inside me is telling me that this was just a scam. The 50USD that I spent for was actually a membership fee. And then to access the promised tutorial materials, I need to spend more.

I am not that rich. Fifty Dollars is already huge for me. So, I just couldn’t pay more.

This is where I think, I was tricked or scammed or maybe I was just an idiot.

Thank you for your time reading this.

Google Adsense Team posted today at the Google Adsense official blog a post that tells us a very important tip on how to avoid invalid clicks on Adsense ads. And this can be done by keeping the right distance.

The tip is actually for those Adsense publishers who owns websites of flash-based games. It was noted that the Adsense ads should have a minimum distance of 150 pixels away from the flash games because based on their research increasing the distance between the flash games and the Adsense ads resulted to a long-term positive effect on ads CPC. The nearer the Adsense ads from the flash games, the more invalid clicks to occur. And if Google Adsense Team found out that most of the clicks coming from your account is invalid, the higher possibility that your account will be disabled to protect their advertisers.

However, the tip can also be applied to any websites that are not of the flash-based games. Remember that invalid clicks most likely to occur if the Adsense is placed near the clickable page element especially the navigational controls. So, keeping the right distance of the Adsense ads from the clickable page element minimizes the invalid clicks.

Check the post, Avoiding accidental clicks Pt. 1: Keeping the right distance.