My Maybank account is opened for Innity. Really loves the auto cash in cheque feature offered by Innity. Wish that Nuffnang also do the same. I have HSBC Bank account. Nuffnang can direct cash in the cash there too. If HSBC cannot, I have Public Bank and RHB Bank too.

Earning RM500 per month is not an easy task. It took me 15 months to achieve that. Some lucky bloggers take less time. However, most of the bloggers take longer approach. Are you the lucky one? If no, it’s time for you to learn how to earn money by blogging. Blogging is not just posting whatever you like. You cannot make much money this way. The approach that I took ~ search engine optimization (SEO). Be friend with search engines. They will bring lot of visitors to you then. Or write your blog creatively like one of the Malaysia famous bloggers ~ Kenny Sia.

I cannot write the way like Kenny. I don’t blog about my life. I write mostly in software, hardware, photography and mobile topics now. And talk about travel, food and drink sometimes. Of course, I do write some popular search engine keywords’ topics too (when I have the mood. Don’t purposely find popular keywords and blog).

Learning is the key. And do get your own domain like ’spblogger.com’ directly if you really want to make money online. A little bit investment is must. Don’t bother to use free blogspot or wordpress.com hosting then migrate. Get your own domain NOW!!! That’s the first step…


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Sumatec proposed rights issues. It wants more money from stockholders. This can be good or bad depend on companies. But for Sumatec? It just released its financial year end result with net loss 62.167 million (increased 12.06% from previous year).

Sumatec Resources Berhad

LKT has another issue ~ take-over offer. Yup, Singapore Precision Engineering Limited is going to buy back LKT shares with RM2.10. Say bye bye to LKT stock. I don’t even have a choice and have to sell it at ‘underwater’ price.

LKT Industrial Berhad

Compare these 2 stocks. I rather keep LKT and sell Sumatec. But I don’t have much choice. What I can do now? Wait for Sumatec stock price up a little bit. Will cut loss then. Done deal.

Guess what? I bought these 2 stocks at the peak of the chart. How stupid am I in stock market back then?

Internet income report for February 2010

Google AdSense – US$ 220.05 (RM 739.52)
Innity – US$ 143.36 (RM 481.81)
Nuffnang – US$ 93.86 (RM 315.45)
ADSDAQ – US$ 74.52 (RM 250.43)
Infolinks – US$ 37.27 (RM 125.25)

Grand Total: US$ 569.06 (RM 1912.46)

I told myself long time ago. Write 1 article at least each day. I manage to do so on Pretty Girl 2u only. Why? No brain is needed on PrettyGirl2u articles. I just need to find, edit the girls’ photos and schedule to post them. So I get lot of money from it? Nope, easy tasks == low return.

Writing quality, current trend, popular keywords articles do help to bring more traffic. For example, Dell UltraSharp U2410 Review post. I knew that I am going to get some traffic based on this review. So I bought this monitor on September 2009. By the way, it is not cheap ~ RM1799. 200+ page views in the first 2 weeks. Around 150 page views after that and getting 100 page views nowadays. Finally, total 21,986 page views as at now.

It took me several days to write this article. I need to run lot of testings. But it is worth the effort based on the return. However, you will get the same traffic or even more sometime with less effort if your keywords are matched to the current searching trend. Never stop get updated with latest info and knowledge. You will get more in return when you are in the front end of the technology.

What is a dedicated IP?
You will get 1 unique IP number for your web hosting account – your primary domain. For my case, 70.40.213.222 is the dedicated IP that I own. When you type 70.40.213.222 into your web browsers address bar, it will route you to the main domain which is JayceOoi.com.

What is a shared IP?
Most of the websites have shared IP addresses. Depend on web hosting provider, 200 to 300 websites sharing the same 1 IP in shared web hosting package is normal. Some have less than 100 websites sharing 1 IP.

Who need a dedicated IP? What benefit does dedicated IP bring?

• Having your own Private SSL Certificate.
• Anonymous FTP.
• Access your website with IP even when the domain name is inaccessible.

Okay, there is lot of myths about dedicated IP on SEO. Some said it did improve Google PageRank and search engine ranking while some denied. I saw some blogs which rank higher in Google does have dedicated IP when I purchased it last year. It is just USD 2.50 per month for dedicated IP. Can’t you earn that back with your blogs? I asked myself. After using dedicated IP for more than 6 months, does my blog traffic increased? YES. But I did lot of other SEO optimizations too. So does dedicated IP really help? I don’t know…

Will you purchase dedicated IP for your blog?

By the way, Innity changed the cash-out period for earnings to 45 days after the end of each month of accrued payments. So Innity is on-time for this December 2009 payment. I don’t even notice that the payment was already in until I checked Maybank account.

If you are not publishing Innity ads yet, then you are out already. Hurry to sign up as one of the Innity publishers. More detail at Innity publishers page. (P/S – small small fishes are not allowed. )

DOW last 1 year performance

FBM KLCI last 1 year performance

Lately bump caused most of the index erased previous months gain. DOW back to 10,000 level after dropped 7% from peak. And FBM KLCI was below 1250 after dropped 4.6% from highest point. Shanghai Composite Index dropped 9.7%…

DOW past 3 months performance

FBM KLCI past 3 months performance

And finally the stock that I use to monitor ~ Tanjong PLC. It is still above SMA 50. But going to break it soon if all the stock index still going down.

Tanjong PLC past 3 months performance

Back to the question… Is stock market going up or down? Or a far more correction is coming? Hmm… That’s the question that I cannot answer. Look like the stock market is going for side way. Riding the roller coaster.

Okay, not every visitor will come to your website directly. For example, a visitor translated your website using Google Translate. Google AdSense does not detect your website address but Google Translate address. Therefore, the earning is not counted there. Besides Google AdSense, Nuffnang also use that method to display its ads. But we can’t do anything here.

Funny Chinese translation

I already set Google AdSense back to Allow any site to display ads for my account. Let’s see the earning will be up or not…

Infolinks December 2009 payment

Infolinks pay rate is lower than Google AdSense but have higher click through rate. Maybe Infolinks does not look like an advertisement. What do you think?

Internet income report for January 2010

Google AdSense – US$ 224.28 (RM 760.19)
Innity – US$ 107.35 (RM 363.87)
Nuffnang – US$ 80.45 (RM 272.69)
Infolinks – US$ 70.09 (RM 237.57)
ADSDAQ – US$ 69.71 (RM 236.28)

Grand Total: US$ 551.88 (RM 1870.60)

Getting RM 2,000 per month is hard. Getting RM 3,000 is even harder. How much visitors per day should I need in order to get RM 4,000 per month? I checked Google Analytics traffic and the earning for the pass few months.

RM 500 == 500 visitors
RM 800 == 1,500 visitors
RM 1,200 == 2,300 visitors
RM 1,900 == 3,300 visitors
RM 4,000 == ?? visitors

So RM 4,000 only needs around 7,000 visitors, right? Not exactly but it is near I think. The earning does not come in this way. Google AdSense and Infolinks depend on keyword rate, CTR, articles and visitors behavior while Innity, Nuffnang and ADSDAQ depend on ad inventories. To be safe, my target…

RM 5000 == 10,000 visitors.

Here come another question… How long will I need in order to get 10,000 visitors per day?

In SEO world, everyone is fighting to be the highest ranking on a good keyword. I tried lot of efforts to fight a particular very hot keywords (let’s said it as A) by commenting on lot of dofollow blogs with CommentLuv. I also write another post with cold keywords (let’s said it as B) but without any marketing. Based on 1 week Google Analytics traffic, A got 1000 visits and B received 800 visits. I really did lot of works on A but nothing on B. In return, I rather write more articles like B. Normally, I don’t active much in commenting on other blogs. I focus on writing more.

Based on the experiment, the result tells me… Write more valuable articles to get more traffic. The articles must be hot and latest topics. And thanks to Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking too. It tracks even more accurate. Hitting 5k visitors per day by March 2010 is not a mission impossible.

FBM KLCI 2009 performance

Wow… I started to invest in stock market back in middle of year 2006. Lost lot of money until end of year 2008. Invested in some ‘dangerous’ stocks (gain fast & lose fast). Bought called warrants too. Whenever I look back those years, I laugh. How silly am I back then?

I started to invest late in year 2009. And set target to earn RM 20k in stock market that year. And I achieved it. However, it just managed to cover past few years losses. So year 2010 is a new start for stock investment. I paid lot of education fee and it’s time to gain it back.

What did I do in year 2009 compare to year 2006-2008? I studied stock research firm reports. Be aware of the current economy trend. I selected recommended stock to invest. I did my own analysis of course rather than follow research report blindly. I did not ‘play’ called warrant anymore. And invest in high dividend stock only. Focus on less than 10 stocks only like Tanjong PLC, Mudajaya and IOICorp… By the way, I did lend some money by using stock margin facility. It helped me to buy stock even that I did not have such amount of money. Else I could not reach my year 2009 target.

Looking forward ~ year 2010. This is not a smooth year to invest. Most of the stock price already reached the fair value in year 2009. But it is not impossible to make money this year. So I set another high target for me ~ RM 30k. Let’s fight for it.

Unlike a traditional installation, asynchronous tracking optimizes how browsers load ga.js so its impact on user experience is minimized. It also allows you to put your Analytics snippet higher in the page without delaying subsequent content from rendering.

Yes. I always wanted to keep track of my blogs’ traffic totally and without slowing the blog. Therefore, I put Google Analytics code before </body> tag. This will not slow down the website loading but will fail to capture some of the visits due to certain pages did not finish loading until footer and visitors left already. However, with the new asynchronous tracking, thing become totally different. I can keep track all of the visitors and also keep my website loading speed at optimize level.

Testing had been done for few days. I did notice the increase of page view track by Google Analytics. Yeah… I have certain very long pages that can’t track by it. Now it can be tracked with new code. So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and install the new Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking code. Let me know the outcome then.

Never be afraid to try something new on your blog layout. We learn from mistakes and improve there.

As a SEO blogger… What will you do when you see a post that has lot of page view? For me? I will research on the post title keywords popularity. And start my own post on it. Will you do the same too?

By the way, WP-PostViews has the ability to show the most view posts of all time. I stopped using it because of this.

2nd Innity cheque

But… But… But the second payment was delayed again. Based on the Innity Publisher FAQ, I should get my November payment by end of December 2009. But I only received it now. They should update the FAQ. And I think my December payment will be not reach me by end of this month too.

There was a spike in traffic during January to March 2009 because I changed the Google Analytics code to header from footer (You can have more traffic this way because some visitors did not wait until your page to finish loading and left).

611,650 visits in year 2009 ~ 213.97% increased from year 2008. And broke 1 million pageviews ~ 1,029,483 pageviews (195.80% increased from year 2008).

Year 2010 will be a better year. And target to have more than 5000 daily visitors and Google PageRank 5 (PR4 at least, now still PR3). Okay, let’s fight for it.

The lesson that I learn. Don’t stop monitoring stock market. I was busy during holidays with my new gadget ~ HTC HD2 and focusing on increase blog traffic too. Did not study well on stock market at all.

Well… The rally should continue until Chinese New Year based on past historical record (Don’t trust past result). Anyway, I am not going to buy Tanjong with price over RM17.00. How about you?

Arr… Still remember Mudajaya? The stock that I regretted most is at RM5.13 as at 5 January 2010. Lesson learns… Never sell good potential stock.

Leaving the same comment in short period and in the same article is not a good method. Automated comment link building will lead your website to Akismet spam folder. You may get few first comments approved. However, when more and more people started to mark your comment as spam. In the end, all your comments will in spam folder all the time. Does it worth the price?

Personally, I won’t purchase this kind of service. And Google does not like it too. I believe most of us don’t like our blog being spammed by these useless comments, right?

Internet income report for December 2009

Innity – US$ 243.79 (RM 825.73)
Google AdSense – US$ 209.01 (RM 707.91)
ADSDAQ – US$ 143.67 (RM 486.61)
Nuffnang – US$ 69.04 (RM 233.86)
Infolinks – US$ 67.10 (RM 227.26)

Grand Total: US$ 732.61 (RM 2481.37)

I changed blog layout last month. Removed Google AdSense leaderboard ad. The earning is about the same. But Infolinks earning is getting better. Will continue to improve the layout and earning.

NoDoFollow in action

There are 2 colour of links when you enable NoDoFollow Firefox add-on. Purple colour links are dofollow while pink colour links are nofollow. So I cut short lot of work with this little simple add-on. I am on this colour mode for few days. And will be in the coming days too. Did you have this NoDoFollow installed at your Firefox? If no, grab yours now – link.

JayceOoi.com traffic sources on November 2009

JayceOoi.com is the first blog (I called it website for last 2 years as I did not want to admit that it is a blog) that I have. And then PrettyGirl2u.com and spBlogger.com. All of them have traffic from search engines for free. I am not going to discuss on every single step here, just high level as most of us know to do so already.

Things that I do to get traffic to my website for free…

1. Make my website a search engine optimized (SEO) website.
2. Comment at others’ blog.
3. Active at famous forums.
4. Don’t stop learning new stuff

Search engines love SEO websites. You will get lot of traffic there. All you need to do ~ get lot of incoming links as you can. Personally, I don’t blog purposely for search engine. There are some who do so in order to make money online. And it is proven that it work. I would like to have more direct traffic. Why? This mean that your blog is informative and people are willing to visit again. And indirectly, it will bring more incoming links too. Finally, I always keep this in mind.

Write good content, do proper marketing == money money traffic traffic come.