What is the AskPrice that you set?
There are several sizes ads that you can select from. The AskPrice that I put are $1.50, $3.00 and $5.00. Each of them have different fill rate. Just play around the AskPrice to get the best earning for your site.

What is the fill rate that you got?
Oh, I have around 5% fill rate only. Putting high AskPrice will lower the fill rate.

Any other questions you want to ask about ADSDAQ?

Internet income report for June 2009

Google AdSense – US$ 236.06 (RM 823.54)
ADSDAQ – US$ 51.60 (RM 180.01)
Nuffnang – US$ 44.52 (RM 155.32)
Infolinks – US$ 15.70 (RM 54.77)

Grand Total: US$ 347.88 (RM 1213.64)

Well… Nuffnang was the only one that contributed lesser income due to less advertisement assigned to 3 of my blogs. 5xmom managed to get RM 3000 per month from Nuffnang. Why I cannot? Hmm…

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49th of top 100 Malaysian blogs

The ranking is based on Alexa and Technorati. Personally, I don’t like Alexa because it does not reflex the actual visit or page view. Some websites which have very low traffic but have very high rank in Alexa. Technorati is about the same. If the blogs does not clawed by Technorati spider, there are not counted. So you will have low ranking if most of your incoming links are from non-technorati clawed blogs.

Rally from 12 March to 15 June 2009

I always ask this question to myself, “Should I enter stock market now?” There is lot of answers. Some will tell you to buy when low. Some said you can enter market anytime as long as you think the stock worth the price. Keep the stock for long term like 5 to 10 years. No worry when to go in. Average the stock price by buying several times at different price that you think is right.

Oh no… I really need to study more in order to success in stock market. Time to study again…

Google AdWords

Why should you advertise on Google AdWords?

• Reach a massive worldwide audience: Google’s advertising network reaches more than 73%* of Internet users in Asia Pacific
• Only pay for results: Your ads appear for free, and you only pay when interested users click on your ads and go to your website
• Control your advertising costs: There’s no minimum spending requirement, and you can change your daily budget at any time
• Adapt your advertising to changing business needs: Change ads for new products and promotions, and start or stop your campaigns anytime

Above statements were taken from the email. Hmm… It is good if we can attract more people to come to your website especially a new website. So will I try it? Sure, why not?

By the way, people don’t like to read fine print. Here is the fine print of the email…

Terms and Conditions
Promotional credit must be applied to a new AdWords account within 15 days of creating the AdWords account and is valid only for new Google AdWords customers with self-managed signup accounts. Advertisers will be charged for advertising that exceeds the promotional credit. Advertisers will need to suspend their ads if they do not wish to receive additional charges beyond the free credit amount. Subject to ad approval, valid registration and acceptance of the Google AdWords Program standard terms and conditions. The promotional credit is non-transferable and may not be sold or bartered. Offer may be revoked at any time for any reason by Google Inc. One promotional credit per customer. Advertisers with self-managed signup accounts are subject to a RM20 activation fee. Offer void where prohibited by law. Offer expires July 17, 2009. Please note: After the promotional credit has been exhausted, your campaigns will continue to accrue clicks for which the costs will be charged to your credit card. If you don’t want to be charged for additional clicks, you can pause your campaigns at any time.

Remember to pause your ad campaign if you don’t want to be charged when over RM100 limit. It’s time to give Google money back after getting so much from Google AdSense.

Kontera earning

I could not stop myself from testing Kontera again when I see low performing earning from Infolinks. Therefore, I tested for 2-3 days. How is the result? Bad…

Infolinks earning

Staying with Infolinks is a right choice to make. I can get more than USD 1.00 per day with Infolinks while I did not get it with Kontera after using it for more than 6 months.

Which in-text advertising are you using right now?

How to payback PTPTN loan using online method? No worry. Just follow the steps given at PTPTN E-FES website. It is as easy as ABC. But you need to have Internet banking account first. Then, you don’t need to go to bank to pay PTPTN loan repayment already.

Of course… The better is that we don’t need to pay it back at all.

Here is the solution that I found…

Use the backup feature in cPanel. It will gzip your specified directory and files into a single file, and you can download everything in a compressed format.

There seem like a server limitation to allow 2000 files upload/download only. Besides using the backup feature in cPanel, any other way to fix it? I failed to download the backup due to large backup file size (around 1 GB) and slow Streamyx Internet connection speed.

Download WordPress 2.8

I love WordPress. It is the best blogging engine that I use so far. Using it on 3 of my blogs – Jayce Ooi’s Paradise, Pretty Girl 2u and SP Blogger of course.

So what are you waiting for? Head to WordPress to download it or use upgrade automatically function and install.

I was going to update the register function to a better one. And I discovered that there was a new patch for phpBB – version 3.0.5. This version fixed my problems.

# Added and refined CAPTCHA options to better protect against new version of CAPTCHA crackers.
# Added an option to the registration screen to allow users to refresh the displayed CAPTCHA.

There are others new added features too. But none of them really matter me. Anyway, my phpBB engine was updated to the latest one. How about yours?

By the way, no more auto bot register users and messages since phpBB 3.0.5 installation.

Internet income report for May 2009

Google AdSense – US$ 171.19 (RM 590.26)
Nuffnang – US$ 63.85 (RM 220.18)
ADSDAQ – US$ 42.57 (RM 146.78)
Text Link Ads – US$ 40.00 (RM 137.92)
B&H Photo Video – US$ 20.63 (RM 71.13)
HeartBeat – US$ 17.69 (RM 61.00)
Infolinks – US$ 11.47 (RM 39.54)

Grand Total: US$ 367.40 (RM 1266.81)

More and more bloggers nowadays. Some of my friends also involve in blogging actively lately. Hopefully, all of us will earn more online income. I like to earn online income as passive income because I still can earn money even without doing anything. Some bloggers manage to maintain its earning even without writing anything for months. That’s cool…

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The largest Google AdSense payment so far

The traffic for my blogs is about the same for the past few months. No special marketing plan done by me. Need to find more ways to generate more income.

How about you? Getting payment from Google AdSense lately?

Asia stock markets stumbled

On the time that I wrote this, US stock market already turn green after the 1st hour trade. Will it stay in green for the rest of the day? For me, I wish it will continue to drop because I did not enter market on 14 May 2009.

Based on the research, CPO price to correct in 2H09. I believe that because CPO price had been gone up too far lately. It is time to slow down and drop little bit. Drop to RM2,000 per ton? By the way, I just know that soybean is the competitor to palm oil. They use it as cooking oil?

Up… Up… Up…

DIALOG has a good financial record. From 2004 until now, all financial year records are in green. Better and better each year. However, its price had been up and down for the past few years.

Let’s look at oil & gas sector. With crude oil price going up trend lately, stocks in oil & gas sector will be benefit from it. The question is how much? What is the target price that you set for DIALOG?

KLCI result for last 1 year

The benchmark starts from 28 October 2008 until 8 May 2009. Public Mutual Unit Trust has lot of funds. I did some research on them which invest in KLCI. Public Aggressive Growth Fund (PAGF) is the best performer with 38.51% return and Public Index Fund (PIF) is the worst performer with 16.67% return. All the other Public Mutual Funds which invest in KLCI fall between 16.67% and 38.51% returns. This mean that you will get at least 16.67% if you invest in unit trust.

Let’s see the return if we invest into stocks directly.

PBBANK 1295 (PUBLIC BANK BHD) from banking sector was at RM8.20 on 28 October 2008 and RM8.60 on 8 May 2009. It gave RM0.25 dividend during this period. Therefore, total return for PBBANK is 7.92%.

BURSA 1818 (BURSA MALAYSIA BHD) from capital/financial/insurance sector was at RM4.90 on 28 October 2008 and RM7.25 on 8 May 2009. It gave RM0.078 dividend during this period. Therefore, total return for BURSA is 49.55%.

GAMUDA 5398 (GAMUDA BHD) from construction sector was at RM1.40 on 28 October 2008 and RM2.52 on 8 May 2009. It gave RM0.04 dividend during this period. Therefore, total return for GAMUDA is 82.86%.

BAT 4162 (BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO BHD) from consumer sector was at RM42.00 on 28 October 2008 and RM43.00 on 8 May 2009. It gave RM0.76 dividend during this period. Therefore, total return for BAT is 4.19%.

GENTING 3182 (GENTING BHD) from gaming sector was at RM3.94 on 28 October 2008 and RM4.98 on 8 May 2009. It gave RM0.04 dividend during this period. Therefore, total return for GENTING is 27.41%.

PETDAG 5681 (PETRONAS DAGANGAN BHD) from oil & gas sector was at RM6.70 on 28 October 2008 and RM7.85 on 8 May 2009. No dividend during this period. Therefore, total return for PETDAG is 17.16%.

IOICORP 1961 (IOI CORPORATION BHD) from plantation sector was at RM2.19 on 28 October 2008 and RM4.36 on 8 May 2009. It gave RM0.03 dividend during this period. Therefore, total return for IOICORP is 100.46%.

There is lot of stocks to invest. Above are just some of them that have positive return. Some of them are still in red colour ~ negative return.

After seeing all of these… Which one is better? Stock or unit trust? For beginner investor, better put more money at unit trust because the fund manager will look after it for you. For those who don’t want to study stock one by one also advisable to invest in unit trust. The risk is higher by investing directly in stocks but the return is better too.

Choose wisely…

My friend Jason told me to monitor HSPLANT. I checked it and discovered that HSPLANT has a good dividend yield ~ around 5-8% depend on the price you bought it. And the capital gain easily goes up 50-75% as the 52-week low is RM1.25 with current price RM2.20. Isn’t plantation stock good to invest?

Most of the plantation stocks hit bottom during November 2008. And bounced back at least 50-100% since then. It will keep going up. So what are you waiting for? It’s time to buy more. Now or never…

KLCI result for last 3 months

52wk Range = 801.27 – 1,302.83. Current = 1,023.47. I missed the lowest point. Who know the lowest point? It might go down again, right? Nope. Based on the current situation, it will have a correction ~ maybe small drop to level 970? The sky is not falling.

7 May 2009 is not a good day for Malaysia. This is not the first time and will not be the last time.

If you are an investor, do you dare to invest in Malaysia with uncertain politics?

Account Suspension (Urgent)

CIMB ALERT MESSAGE – HIGH-58-02/ID

Dear Valued Customer,

CIMB Aaccount Security Systems (CASS-8/8/9) detected a security “threat” in your account as it was accessed from a blacklisted location. We have suspended your account pending your immediate reactivation for safety reasons.

Reactivate
http://www.cimbclicks.com.my/

Note that inactive accounts will be deactivated in less than 5min for security reasons. We regret any inconvenience caused.

Sincerely,

CIMB Group

My CIMB account has been suspended. What should I do? Just follow the link above to reactivate back, right? Yup. I clicked on the link. Below is what I got…

Do be careful every moment. Bank will not send email to ask you do anything including account activation. So don’t fall into this trick.

Lastly… I don’t have CIMB account. Why did you send this email to me?

A new investor like me faced the common issue ~ buy high and sell low. I did lot of mistakes during there years. And it does scare me from entering the stock market. My luck is not so good. The stock price will drop when I buy it and go up when I sell it. See my previous ramblings on this…

IOICORP performance

IOICORP was the first stock that I bought this year. I managed to buy low and sell high. I bought it at RM4.1 and sold at RM4.44 the next 2 days. That’s 8.29% increment. Far more than fixed deposit rate at 2.5% per year. This is the power of stock market. You can earn lot of money in a very short time. Loss money in the same way too.