Finally, I received my first payment from Vibrant after waiting for 60 days. The payment was transferred directly using Swift Code Wire from United States to Public Bank Malaysia. No more manual work to withdraw money out by Western Union or cheque. Something to take note for first time Vibrant publisher like me. The payment is due 60 days after earning month.

Based on Vibrant terms and conditions…

4.2 Payment Terms. Not more than fifteen (15) days after the end of each calendar month, Vibrant will e-mail to Publisher or post in the Vibrant Publisher Dashboard a finalized revenue statement for amounts due to Publisher for that calendar month. Vibrant will pay Publisher in accordance with the revenue statement not later than forty-five (45) working days following the delivery of the revenue statement. If payments due to Publisher for any month are less than seventy-five dollars ($75), Vibrant may, in its discretion, credit amounts due to Publisher’s account and pay them in the next month in which cumulative amounts due meet or exceed that threshold. All payments will be made in U.S. Dollars.

This payment consists May earning @ USD 3.12 and June earning @ USD 509.39 == USD 512.51. The USD to RM conversion is a little bit low ~ 1 USD = 3.0862 RM. Based on Malaysia Bank Negara, the rate is 1 USD = 3.1060 RM. Maybe there is some processing fees incur.

Are you publishing Vibrant In-Text Ads? How is your earning lately? Mine is going down hill…

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Up… Up… Down… Down… My Internet earning is like riding roller coaster. Vibrant, ADSDAQ and Nuffnang earnings dropped a lot compared to previous month. I noticed that less and less advertisers lately. Is the economy really that bad and most of the companies started to cut their advertising budget?

Internet income report for July 2010

Google AdSense – US$ 414.39 (RM 1283.78)
Vibrant – US$ 166.23 (RM 514.98)
ADSDAQ – US$ 131.79 (RM 408.28)
Innity – US$ 93.34 (RM 289.19)
Nuffnang – US$ 19.71 (RM 61.07)

Grand Total: US$ 825.46 (RM 2557.30)

Besides lesser advertisers, USD is getting even lower this month with 1 USD == 3.0980 RM. It is heading to RM 3.00 which mean US earning is getting lesser too.

By the way, blogs’ traffic is almost the same for the past 3 months. Around 150K visits and 300K pageviews for JayceOoi.com. Click here to see details at DoubleClick Ad Planner. Working hard to increase it but still the same. I think I need to post more popular keywords article to attract more traffic.

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Yeah… I got my 6th Innity Performance Network payment already. This time is not a cheque but direct banking transfer. The payment was done on 16 August 2010 and it was not floating like cheque clearance.

Innity June payment

I only enable CPM campaign in Innity Performance Network. And the earning depends on advertisers a lot. I will get very less income from Innity if few CPM campaigns are assigned. Why I disable CPC campaign? Image ads do not work well in CPC mode. Fewer clicks compare to CPC text link ads like Google AdSense on the same above the fold placement. Seem like Malaysian don’t like to click on image ads.

Do you click on ads?

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Yeah… I updated all blogs WordPress to version 3.0.1. As usual, I don’t upgrade to 3.0.0 initial version. But will wait for bug fix version. Besides upgraded WordPress 3.0.1, I also updated several plugins to their latest version. All working fine…

WordPress 3.0.1

Have you updated your blog to WordPress 3.0.1?

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