Got my second payment from Adsense, USD $117.80

Finally, got my second payment. Half my income, got it from Hubpages and other half got it from blogger.  Need at least more than 50000 page views to generate this amount. The first payment, it took almost 1 year for me to cash out, and for second payment took about 5 month. Hopefully could get better result in future.

Ok guys, long way to go for me. Good luck.

	Statement of Earnings
Payment From: Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 USA	Customer ID: XXXXXXXXX Payment Number: 000XXXXXXXX Payment Date: Nov 26, 2010 Payment Type: Western Union Quick Cash

Payment To:
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MALAYSIA 

Description
Payment in Payment Currency	USD $117.80
Total:	USD $117.80

How to receive Adsense money via Western Union at CIMB

Once Google has issued your adsense payment via Western Union Quick Cash, you could easily cash out the payment at CIMB bank(any western union local agents). Last time, I received my payment via standard check, it took almost six week for CIMB to clear the check.


By using Western Union, you could easily cash out the money.  You need to fill in the following details in the form.

1. First Name (Exactly the same what you have entered in your Google Adsense Account)
2. Last Name (Exactly the same what you have entered in your Google Adsense Account)
3. Your Address :
4. Sender Information : Who & The Address Details, just refer below.
5. Money Transfer Control Number :
6. Amount (in USD)

Payment Type	Western Union Quick Cash
Payment Date	Nov 26, 2010
Money Transfer Control Number (MTCN)	000879XXXX
Date Picked-up	Nov 29, 2010
Your payment is available for pick-up the day after the payment date above Remember to bring the following when you pick up your payment at a local Western Union agent: The amount of your payment The Money Transfer Control Number (MTCN) for this payment Your government issued ID (Passport, Driver's License, National ID, etc) Sender's information: Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 USA

Homestay Malaysia, Experience a Kampung Life

In Malaysia there are two type of homestay offerings.


One type of homestay is a comfortable guest house that is rented out to guest by house owner for daily, weekly and monthly rate. This is a new industry in Malaysia and the number of house owners who have converted their houses into homestay is increasing by day. The location for this type of homestay is normally in town or well know tourist attraction places.


The advantages of a homestay compared to a hotel room is that the rate is much more cheaper and it's much more spacious. Plus, there is no strict restriction on number of adults allowed. You have more freedom and it will just the same as your house.


For another type of homestay, normally the guest house is located in Kampung or village surrounded by hills and padi fields. You still need to pay for your accommodation and other extras, but you will have the opportunity to join the locals go fishing, preparing dinner or simply enjoy idyllic kampung life. This type of homestay experience is much more fun. One way to runaway from the hustle and bustle of the city life.


Whatever type of homestay you're looking for, you could find it at http://carihomestay.net . You could easily get in touch with the homestay owner to rent out a house/ room or simply arrange at trip to experience a kampung life.


For homestay owner, you could publish your homestay details, contact detail and location map of your guest house.

How to serve third party ads in Adsense

You seldom have to do this if most of your articles are in English, however if your post contains other language such as Malay language. Then, most probably you want to do this.

I give you an example, if you go to carihomestay.net, at the main page it's serving ads from Adsense, however when you select one particular homestay which is written mainly in Malay language Adsense don't have any ads to serve and I have to use ads from BidVertiser to serve ads to maximize my revenue.

So, how to do it?

You need to sign up with alternate adsense competitor such as AdBrite orBidVertiser.

Access the third party site and get the advertisement code. Select the format that you want to use.

Save the code in a html page and upload the page to your website page. Please note for BidVertiser code, if you generate the code for www.example1.com . It will only work for that domain only, you can not use it for other domains

Next, access your Adsense account. Click Adsense Setup Tab.

Then Click Manage Ads, find your adsense code that you want to update. I like to create a new channel for each my adsense code and name it with position and website that I am using it for analysis purpose.

Click Edit Ad Setting.

At the More Option Section, for “Choose what to display if no relevant ads are available. ”

Select “Show non-Google ads from another URL ”

And type url of the html page that you have uploaded just now.

Select the channel you want to use and Click Save Settings.

Now, you can serve other third party ads.

For BidVertiser, maybe you don't want to use to pop up ads. I think Google don't allow pop up ads at domains that their serve.

I received a policy notification asking me to make changes to my site.

I received a notification. What do I need to do next?

The notification you received should contain details regarding the policy issue and an example page on which Google found the issue. Please read the notification carefully and make any appropriate changes to your site to resolve the issue. Sometimes it can be resolved by removing violating content or removing Google ads from those pages. In other cases, it may require changing the implementation of your ads. Keep in mind that the example page Google provide is just an example, and you should review your entire site to ensure that the same issue doesn't continue to exist on other pages.

Google will automatically review your site again after 3 business days, so there's no need for you to contact Google and inform Google of your changes.

What happens if I don't make changes within 3 days?

Your site will be reviewed again after 3 days from which you received your notification. If Google find that the violation still exists, then Google will disable ad serving to your site.

If you missed the deadline and ad serving has already been disabled to your site, please make the appropriate changes and then contact Google for reconsideration.

What if I need more than 3 days to complete the changes?

If you can't complete your changes within 3 days, ad serving will be disabled to your site. However, even though ad serving will be disabled, you may continue to update your site and contact Google for reconsideration after your changes are complete.

I believe I received a notification in error. What should I do?

Google's policy specialists monitor all sites participating in the AdSense program according to Google Terms and Conditions and program policies, but errors could occur. If you believe that you've received a notification for a site that you do not own, please contact Google. 

After Google have investigated the issue, they will either contact you with further information regarding the issue or let you know you can disregard the notification.

I need clarification regarding the policy that my site is violating. What should I do?

Please search Google Help Center or visit Google's Help Forum to find additional clarification regarding their policies. 

If you are unable to find your answer, you may submit a policy clarification request. However, please note that they will only be able to respond to inquiries that do not exist in Google's Help Center or the Inside AdSense blog.

Finally Got My First Adsense Payment

On May 26, Google issued the first payment to me. In beginning, I was thinking whether I can really get any payment from adsense at all. I embed adsense code in my forum and expecting that it will be successful.

After few month, then I notice that my forum, and my blog using my own domain name wasn't getting the result that I want.

Then, I created blogs using blogger. 

The first blog was http://probyte2u-internet-marketing.blogspot.com/ and then I create another blog focusing on Penang Hotels http://www.penang-hotels-review.com/.

Using blogger.com, I could add in many type of widgets to attract visitors. The following widget, I find it useful for me.

Link Within

BlogCatalog

Between the two blog, Penang Hotel Reviews was getting much more better result.

Why? Because Penang Hotel Review only focus on Penang and other interesting places and events in Malaysia.

Visitors are searching for more information about the Penang Hotels and the best deals they could get. Plus, adsense ads were showing relevant ads from advertisers.

Still blogging using blogger platform and personal website, the adsense revenue was not so great.

Luckily, on June last year, I found hubpage. At hubpage, initial stage you don't expect too much. With constant blogging and writing in Hubpages and other blogs, the revenue also starts to show better result.

With more pages added day by day, the impressions follow and the earning becomes better.

For you information, half my adsense earning generated from Hubpages. On March 2010 and May 2010, getting more than 15 USD / month was really great.

So, what I need to have better result.

1.I need to release more quality articles.

2.Need to have better discipline.

3.Create more blogs focusing on niche market.

4.Digg my articles, tweet them and share them with my facebook friends.

Troubleshooting your AdSense for search box

Today, we’ll take a look at some tips for implementing your AdSense for search box, to avoid some common issues.

• Are your search results hosted on your own webpage? When implementing your AdSense for search box, you have the option to display the search results either on a site hosted by Google or on your own webpage. If you choose the second option, make sure you select an existing site to host the results, such as www.example.com/searchresults. 
• Once you've selected a site to display the search results, hit 'Submit and Get Code' and you'll generate two sets of code:
  
  
  1. The first is for the search box, to be implemented on the site where you would like to place the search box
  2. The second piece of code has to be pasted on the results page

Please be sure not to place the two sets of code on the same page, as this will prevent the search box from working correctly. Also, note that the option to host the result on your own page is not available for Blogger sites.

• Is your AdSense for search code nested within FORM tags? A form tag is used to create an HTML form for user input, such as text fields, buttons, and checkboxes. The code you receive for your search box uses an HTML FORM to submit the search queries. In order for the AdSense for search code to work properly, it can't be nested within another set of FORM tags on a page. To implement the AdSense for search feature on your page, please paste the code into your pages outside of any existing FORM.

Source  - Inside AdSense Team 

Improve Earning with Adsense Tips Send To Your Email

Earn more with optimization tips send direct to your email. The tips are targeted to your your specific account setting and implementation. 

Roughly one email will be sent to you each month, so you don't have worry overflow of email tips from Adsense.

To get the optimization tips, you need to subscribe  to "Customized help and performance suggestions" newsletter in your Google Adsense Account.

To subscribe, the steps are as follows.

Access your Adsense Account.

Click My Account Tab.

You will find Email preference setting in Language and Contact Preferences section , click the Other notification categories link.

And select Customized help and performance suggestions to get your optimization tips.

Click Save and Done.

Other email communication that you could subscribe from Google Adsense are as follows.

• Newsletters
• Google market research 
• Special offers
• Information about other Google products and services which may be of interest to you.

Plus, I am getting good tips from Adsense Blog as well. 

Making Money on HubPages and Google Adsense

Making Money on HubPages & Google Adsense

1. Can I make a living with HubPages “Royalties”?

We consider the program to be a nice bonus, but it should not be the main reason why you participate in HubPages. There are revenue generating opportunities with HubPages, but we are careful not to over-promise any results.

To Sign Up Hubpages, click here

2. How does the program work?

The HubPages “Royalties” provides you with an easy way to take advantage of the Internet’s top ad revenue and commission generating tools.
* You can set up affiliate accounts with Google, eBay and Amazon.
* Google automatically displays ads in your Hub that are relevant to your topic.
* eBay and Amazon products can be featured in your Hub – you decide which products to highlight.
* Kontera contextual link ads can be turned on or off either on all your Hubs, or on a Hub-by-Hub basis.

HubPages earns its revenue from these ads, so we split the impressions with our writers.

To Sign Up Hubpages, click here

3. What are impressions?

Impressions are what drive revenue generation. An impression occurs whenever an ad appears on a Hub. HubPages earns its revenue from these ads, so we split the impressions with our writers.

To Sign Up Hubpages, click here

4. How do impressions generate revenue on HubPages?

After you’ve joined the affiliate programs from eBay, Amazon, Kontera, and Google, ads for these companies appear on your Hubs. Any revenue generated during one of your impressions (a click-through with Google, an actual purchase with Amazon or eBay) is 100% yours.

HubPages splits the impressions with you in the following way:
1. Your own Hubs: Hubbers receive 60% of total impressions.
2. The HubPages Affiliate Program: You can refer new writers to HubPages and if they become Hubbers within 30 days, you receive an additional 10% of their Hubs’ lifetime impressions.
3. Traffic Referral Program: If you send traffic to any Hub, you’re entitled to either 9% or 12% of total impressions. You’ll receive 9% if the Hub you’ve referred people to already has impressions allocated to an Affiliate. If there are no Affiliates, you’ll receive 12% of the total impressions.

Whatever is left from the splits above goes to HubPages. Note that these splits apply only to Hubs and User Profile pages. On all other pages, such as a referral to a Tag page or the HubPages home page, you’ll receive 30% on a traffic referral, with HubPages getting the rest.

To Sign Up Hubpages, click here

5. How do I sign-up for Google Adsense?

Getting signed up with AdSense is easy. Please follow these step-by-step instructions (Also includes a troubleshooting section if you’re running into problems). http://hubpages.com/help/googleadsense

To Sign Up Hubpages, click here

6. How do I get an Amazon affiliate ID?

You have to sign-up for the Amazon Associate program by visiting Amazon.com. If you’d like to sign up, start here.

You’ll be asked to fill out information about yourself, such as name, address, payment information. You’ll also be asked what your site – in this case, HubPages – is about. The entire process is very quick.

We then provide you with step by step instructions, including text that you’ll need to cut and paste into appropriate places. Once you’ve been assigned an ID, simply add it to your HubPages profile so you can begin earning commissions immediately.

To Sign Up Hubpages, click here

7. How do I get an eBay affiliate ID?

Like the Amazon program, you’ll need to visit eBay to sign up for their affiliate program.

Follow our step by step instructions to sign up, then enter your affiliate ID on the affiliate settings page of your account. EBay is fairly strict when they approve applications, so be sure to have some quality product related hubs on your profile before you apply.

If you have questions about the impression sharing system, send us an email for further clarification.

To Sign Up Hubpages, click here

8. How does the Traffic Referral program work?

You can drive traffic from oustide of HubPages to the Hubs of other Hubbers and receive a percentage of the overall impressions. The traffic referral program works the following way:
1. We start with Unique Trackers

Every HubPages account has its own default referral tracker – referred to as a Unique Tracker. You can create additional referral trackers as you organize your link campaigns.

2. Use the Unique Tracker to link to someone’s Hub.

Before you can link, you must be signed in to HubPages. Then, when you’re at the Hub you want to link to, look at the bottom of the page (or click the green share it button). There will be two boxes marked “link to this page” and “email this page”. You can click on these links and choose the Unique Tracker you want to insert in the email, URL or HTML code we will generate for you. From that point, you can either send the mail, or cut and paste the URL link or HTML code and place it wherever you’d like outside of HubPages.

3. The Traffic Referrals is guaranteed to be yours for 120 minutes.

If someone clicks on your link to a specific Hub, you are entitled to the traffic referral impressions for 120 minutes. We set this limit because there may be multiple Hubbers referring people to a particular Hub. No other tracker can replace yours during that 120 minute period. This is called the ‘first dibs’ rule.

To Sign Up Hubpages, click here

9. How do I check how much money I’ve made?

Revenue updates from Google, eBay, Amazon, and Kontera can be checked via the links below. They house all the revenue numbers. Your revenue generation will not begin until you’ve: 1. Signed up for Adsense; and 2. Signed up as an eBay and Amazon affiliate and put your affiliate code into HubPages.
* Your Google Adsense earnings
* Amazon Associate earnings
* eBay Affiliate earnings
* Kontera earnings

To Sign Up Hubpages, click here

10. How do I track the performance of Google AdSense on HubPages?

The easiest way to keep track of your Adsense earnings on HubPages is to create a channel URL in your Google Adsense account. This will allow you to seperate your HubPages earnings from your other sites.

1. Log in to your account at https://www.google.com/adsense/
2. Click the Channels link below the AdSense Setup tab.
3. Choose the AdSense for content sub-tab and click the URL Channels link
4. Click Add new URL channel, and in the resulting text box, enter the URL that you would like to track (use “hubpages.com” to track all of your impressions on HubPages)
5. Click Add channels.

The new URL channel will begin tracking data almost immediately.

To Sign Up Hubpages, click here

11. What is the Flagship Hubs Program?

The Flagship Hubs program is an elite program for the very best Hubbers. It grants $25 for the completion of a Hub that meets strict standards, and must be written on a preapproved topic. There is an additional $10 bonus if the Hub gets at least 10 visits from each of 10 non-HubPages sources within 30 days of publication.

The Flagship Hubs program is limited to Hubbers who have published at least 5 high-quality, non-promotional Hubs. You can read more information about the program here.

12. How do I sign up for Kontera?

HubPages now offers the option of adding contextual advertising with Kontera. Click here to sign up. Please note that Kontera has a minimum payout threshold of $100, and therefore may not be appropriate for Hubber’s with relatively low traffic numbers.

Follow our step by step instructions to help you through the sign-up process, and place your Kontera affiliate ID in the appropriate field on your affiliate settings page.

IMPORTANT: In the Kontera signup form do not enter hubpages.com as the website URL, instead use the URL to your HubPages profile page, or to one of your hubs.

Note that Kontera is off by default for all hubs. You can enable or disable it for individual hubs by editing them, and changing the Kontera setting next to Ad Level. You can also turn it on or off for all of your hubs at once on the affiliate settings page. The text link ads will only appear to readers that are not signed in to HubPages.

Read answers to other users’ Kontera questions here, and check out the Kontera Knowledgebase for additional information.