Blogging For Money

To be fair to Advertlets, they did apologise for the domain renewal hiccup they experienced a few days ago which caused a massive script redirect and a lot of frustration among bloggers. I am not serving Advertlets ads and I don’t think I ever will (just one reason why: Glitterati) but I do hope they will recover from this serious customer relations problem.

Trust is always a big factor in the online business. I know that very well.

Has Advertlets gone down under (and no, I am not referring to Australia)? I have never used them anyway so I do not know what has actually happened. But someone alerted me that their domain had expired and some bloggers have complained about the issue since it was down. Even if it was a simple mistake such as forgetting to renew their domain (which I personally think is unlikely), I find it hard to foresee that they will recover from this flurry of bad press they are currently receiving.

In any case, if they have really gone bust, I have a few ideas on what to do with that domain….

Last night after coming back from watching Die Hard 4.0 (a truly geeky/action-explosive experience!), I was groping around the mailbox as usual and I found an envelope addressed to myself. At first I thought it was my debit card statement, but it was in a plain white envelope with no other markings. It couldn’t be my Google Adsense cheque either, I thought to myself, because I had received that two days earlier. So I ripped the envelope open and this was what I found inside….

Woohoo…my first Nuffnang cheque, after four months! Considering that this is the first cheque, it is not bad really.

Finally I qualified for a Nuffnang cheque, since starting to serve their ads on thr 25th of March 2007. Not bad, I think. But I will not cash in the cheque just yet. I will wait until it accumulates to at least RM200 before I click on the link to initiate the sending of the cheque. Its not that I need the money for prom pictures anyway.

One thing I noticed, however, that the CPC campaigns are not working too well for me. Nuffnang pays quite well per click but heck, even my Google Adsense performs better. Perhaps I need to do something about placement or make mention of the advertiser at least to encourage people to click on the advertisement. Oh yes, since you are reading this, will you be so kind as to support the Nuffnang advertiser of the week in my sidebar?

For the first time, at least five of my websites/blogs has been filled with ads in their Nuffnang slots, including this one. This came as a pleasant surprise, I certainly did not expect it. My mistake was that I put up the large rectangle on only two of my sites

Time to expand on that, I guess. I won’t know how much I am earning from these slew of ads until the end of the week, so I guess I would have to wait. I have a feeling that the RM22 short of getting my first Nuffnang cheque is going to be covered….

Seems to be that “Advertlertshing” (Advertisement Alerts Bashing…yeah, I made the term up) has suddenly become a popular fad in the Malaysian blogosphere. You can easily see that from the numerous pings in PPS on that topic. Sure does look like fun…

Seriously, however, I think I should reserve my opinion about them because I have never put up any of their codes in my Kerajaan MENJ list. And I don’t have any reason to do so. As one may see, Nuffnang is the official blog advertising partner of the Kerajaan MENJ network. Let’s just say that when I first came to knew of them on that fateful morning (when I saw their ad in a Google Adsense advert in Rojak’s Daily), something inside my head tells me that they will become big. I mean big.

Its either that, or maybe its because I find that the blue background with the funny stickman intriguing and very Web 2.0-ish.