Blogging For Money

So I decided last night that it was the time for me to withdraw my PayPal funds via the bank facility that they have provided. In case you didn’t know already, PayPal has now allowed direct withdrawal of funds to Malaysian banks. However, I noticed that the exchange rate for RM from USD in the PayPal system is significantly lower than the current currency exchange market rate.

Here is the currency rate as determined by PayPal when I used their internal currency converter from USD to RM.

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When I first started my online venture, I did get a lot of flak offline and online. Many people I met were actually skeptical that I would get involved into something which is not really recognised as a (traditional) “job”. Several moronic bloggers (whom I shall not name here) even blatantly chastised me publicly by saying that this is an euphemism for being “jobless”. Of course, what they do not know is that I was not “forced” into starting up my ventures online due to unemployment or anything of the sort. I chose to do what I did because I really wanted to do it. I certainly cannot imagine myself sitting at a desk from 9 AM to 4 PM like an office drone (think Hiro Nakamura of Heroes fame) or take orders from someone who looks down on you just because she thinks you build websites as a “hobby”.

Well, I have proved all the skeptics wrong and I am still doing my online business today, since having started it in mid-2006. I even bought Project Petaling Street in early 2009 with the money I earned from my internet ventures and am currently consolidating it with other services such as my free URL shortener. Here is the latest screenshot of my earnings from PayPal for February 2010, thanks to my online ventures (its not limited to blogging only).

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If you are looking for an e-commerce solutions that can be integrated easily with a payment gateway, you will find that the webShaper Stores solution would be the right choice for you. With webShaper, you can easily combine the solutions with PayPal and receive transactions from your almost immediately after everything needed for your store is set up online.

Of course, before you could do this, you will need to pick a webShaper plan first. The webShaper plan comes in three choices: miniStore, sohoStore or bizStore. After you have made your choice, it is an easy matter to register for a PayPal account (if you do not have one already) and finally, setting up everything and start selling. Definitely this is something that anyone who wants to start selling online should look into.

Many people exertion to the Pay-Per-Click (PPC) technique, just to detect that whenever they don’t use this technique properly, and don’t convince, they’re misplacing profit every day. For instance, whenever you’re commercializing an electronic product, such as an eBook, or program download, and your commission on the sale of an exclusive item is $30 but your unable PPC campaign burns through more than $30 in clicks per day, you’re not doing too well. At this charge per unit, in 3 days you’ll be belt down $90 and have to betray three points to just break-even, which turns hopeless due to the cycle that has set out.

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Yes, I have returned to Blogging For Money again and I have plans to revive this blog again from its slumber. The last time I blogged here was four months ago, before I became preoccupied with the various blog niche projects that I started around that time. Since then, I could safely say that my earnings have increased a lot, especially as of late when I started putting Google Adsense in these niche blogs after the last PageRank update. Having to pay attention to these blogs mean that I had to abandon some existing blogs, and this blog was unfortunately one of the “victims”.

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These days I have been neglecting my focus on optimising my Google Adsense position in my blogs, but I intend to rectify that soon as I come to the realisation that Adsense is essential for websites, especially those which contain a lot of content. The concept behind Adsense is relatively simple, as it involves inserting a Javascript code into a certain website or blog. Each time the page is accessed and shows a related link to a san francisco probate lawyer for example, the Javascript will pull advertisements from the Google Adsense program. The search engine is the one handling all the tracking and payments, providing an easy way for webmasters to display content-sensitive and targeted ads without having the hassle to solicit advertisers, collect funds, monitor the clicks and statistics which could be a time-consuming task in itself. It seems that there is never a shortage of advertisers in the program from which the search engine pulls the Google Adsense ads. Also webmasters are less concerned by the lack of information search engines are providing and are more focused in making cash from these search engines.

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