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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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.

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?

WordPress 3.0.1

Have you updated your blog to WordPress 3.0.1?

You cannot get popular car plate number in these running numbers because most of them had been bidden. Plan well ahead or you can’t get the number that you want.

Malaysia top popular car plate number

Top pick numbers

Interesting numbers

Popular numbers

It is hard to get the top pick numbers especially number 1. For your information, PJT 1 was bidden with RM50,000. I can buy a Malaysian made value car with this amount already. Anyway, for those who are interesting to buy / bid popular car plate number. Be sure to tender it early. Don’t wait last minute like me. Else most of the beautiful numbers are gone…

via: JPJ Malaysia

Based on Reuters, Malaysian billionaire Ananda Krishnan is set to buyout utilities and gaming company Tanjong PLC TJLP.KL for RM20.50 a share. It this true? Or he will split the power division and gaming division?

Let’s wait and see…

Internet income report for June 2010

Vibrant – US$ 509.39 (RM 1607.38)
Google AdSense – US$ 413.99 (RM 1306.34)
ADSDAQ – US$ 288.55 (RM 910.51)
Nuffnang – US$ 89.06 (RM 281.04)
Innity – US$ 25.82 (RM 81.48)

Grand Total: US$ 1326.81 (RM 4186.75)

Hmm… USD is getting lower this month with 1 USD == 3.1555 RM. Earning from US advertising is poorer. But on the bright side, I can purchase cheaper stuff from US directly. It’s time to get some photography / video gears from US.

It is good or bad? Let me know.

Last updated ~ 30 June 2010

via: Employees Provident Fund Malaysia

Non-dutiable goods include:

• Fountain Pen.
• Cigarette Lighters (except of plastic).
• Printed books, newspapers, magazines and journals.
• Perfumes.
• Cosmetics (except face powder) and skin-care products like lipsticks, eye shadows, moisturizing cream, skin tonics.
• Manicure products like nail polisher and nail varnish.
• Carpets of jute.
• Portable radio equipped with recorder and sound reproducers (weighing not more than 10 kg., with handles / straps and AC/DC powered).
• Pocket watches, wrist watches and table / wall clocks.
• Photo cameras, camera flashbulbs, camera flashbulb equipments and film rolls.
• Cinematographic cameras, projectors, sound recorders and sound reproducers, for films of less than 16 mm width including cameras for double 8 mm film.
• Video cameras / television cameras
• Pocket calculators.
• Shillings / Gold bar.
• Computer.
• Fishing equipments (e.g. Fishing rods, Fish hooks etc.)
• Golf clubs (complete).
• Racquets (Tennis, Badminton and the like)
• All sorts of balls except golf balls.
• All musical instruments (excluding upright piano)
• Leather shoes
• Leather bags including wallets and leather hand bags
• Video tapes (empty or recorded)

Yeah… Video camera is one of the non-dutiable goods. Now back to the question ~ should I get US version without international warranty?

via: Royal Malaysian Customs Department

Spam comments

Got these 2 comments on different blogs. Both coming from the same IP but with different name and email address. Look like spam comments to me. So I spammed them.

How to block WordPress spam comments? Do install Akismet plugin on your blog. It will help filter a lot of spam comments. One or two spam comments might slip through from time to time. But Akismet plugin does block most of them. You can help Akismet too by identify spam comments by spam it.

Download WordPress Akismet plugin here.

AdSense for Search

Will monitor the earning. Hopefully, the estimated earning will be the finalized one. And continue to improve the blogs. Of course, plan to do lot of marketing from now on…

Google Custom Search

I took half day to change the blog theme. Created Google Custom Search for JayceOoi.com and spBlogger.com. Integrated it to WordPress then. You should be able to get more accurate data with Google Custom Search’s help now. And I can make some money from AdSense for Search too (if someone click on the ads). Will come out a guide to install Google Custom Search and AdSense for Search soon. Stay tuned…

Past 1 year PBBANK stock performance

With current price at RM12.20, PBBANK has 4.51% interest yield. Public Bank Berhad target price from Maybank Investment Bank Research is RM12.50 (hold), OSK Research is RM13.00 (buy) and S&P Equity Research is RM14.00 (buy).

Public Bank Berhad is a good fundamental stock. Has good earning for past several years. It is one of the must have dividend stock counters.

The 27th Nuffnang cheque

I lost count how many Nuffnang cheques that I received. I am getting payment every month (if I remember to cash out it). Hehe… I just counted. This is my 27th Nuffnang cheque. The first cash out request was on 29 October 2007 13:22. Time flies…

Only the strong will survive. Nuffnang vs. Advertlets. Definitely, Nuffnang is the clear winner. Why? I am a happy blogger who getting monthly Nuffnang payment. But a blogger still fighting hard to get his hard earn money from Advertlets. Check it out here. Anyone can help him?


Last updated: 15-07-2010

via: Banking Info

Last updated: 14/07/2010

via: Banking Info

Last updated: 12-07-2010

Most of the banks should raise the BLR rate to 6.30% from 6.05%. Sooner or later…

via: Banking Info

Vibrant In-Text Revenue for June 2010

Wow… US$ 0.56 per click

By the way, your site must generate a minimum of 500,000 page impressions of traffic per month in order to join Vibrant In-Text Ads. However, I was given a chance by Mike Dean, the Director, Business Development at Vibrant Media to have a trial. Payments are sent out 45 business days after the end of the month. There are 3 payment options ~ ACH/direct deposit (US only), wire transfer and cheque. I selected wire transfer to my local bank ~ Public Bank in Malaysia. Let’s wait and see how long does it take and any processing fee incur.

Let me know if your site have more than 500k page impressions per month, I am happy to be your referrer to join Vibrant Media Network. You will be a happy publisher like me.

Infolinks May 2010 Payment

This is the 6th Infolinks payment. The next one is going to take a very long time. Why? JayceOoi.com is not publishing Infolinks in-text ad for the moment. Left spBlogger.com only. Based on spBlogger.com traffic, I think that I need to take 1 year++ in order to get my next payment…

This payment was less US$ 3.17. I should get US$ 355.28 (after deduct US$ 1 process fee) based on Internet income report for May 2010. I wonder why…

How to get more revenue from ADSDAQ? Be sure to set the correct AskPrice. And get more US traffic as it works there only. That’s all.

ADSDAQ performed great and hit historical high again. Infolinks also did a very good job by almost doubling the earning from previous month. However, Innity was falling apart with only RM0.59 earning…

Internet income report for May 2010

Nuffnang – US$ 663.59 (RM 2129.16)
Google AdSense – US$ 366.98 (RM 1177.45)
ADSDAQ – US$ 356.28 (RM 1143.12)
Infolinks – US$ 185.77 (RM 596.04)
Innity – US$ 0.18 (RM 0.59)

Grand Total: US$ 1572.80 (RM 5046.36)

Thanks God. And many thanks to the advertising companies that support me all the while. YES!!! I broke US$ 1,500 and RM 5,000 level (it will take sometimes to hit this record again since that Celcom advertorial only come once in 2 years). Writing more quality posts, increasing US traffic helped a lot to improve this Internet income earning. And choosing the correct advertising company is important too. You don’t want waste your layout space to show those under-performing ads, right?