As I said earlier in my Top 5 recommended money makers post, I am doing an experiment of ditching Adsense completely(except for rajawang and my personal blog) in this month of *July 2008. I know some of you might say I am letting a month’s of good income down the drain but I think this is the thing that I need to do so that I can fully test life without adsense.

I am not banned from adsense. Don’t worry about that. I do receive the occasional emails from adsense e.g letting me know that sometimes my other ads in the blog looks similar to adsense and ask to change it, sometimes the contain is against some of adsense TOC etc.

I have learned a lot from Adsense since I started blogging about 14 months ago. Much much more than I ever imagine from making in this make money online world. See the screen shot below:

USD$10K is way beyond my dream when I first signup with adsense and earned $0.01 on my first day.

Supporting cast thrown into the main fray.

So what ads company shall I use other than Adsense?

I believe in giving someone another chance if he/she fails at the first time of asking. And the same goes for an advertising company. So, I will give Bidvertiser another chance although they disappoint me some time ago. Maybe the time that I gave it back then is insufficient. Now I am giving them a full month.

I will also try adbrite in some of my blogs.

I will continue with Widgetbucks since they are giving me steady income of USD70-USD100 a month from the first day I put their ads in my blogs.

Shoppingads@auctionads will again be counted to bring in at least USD50 this month.

Nuffnang will complete the lineup for this month.

The supersub - socialspark.com

My Target for this month

As you can see from the excel chart above, I earned on average of USD$140 from income other than adsense a month. So based on my calculation, I will be very happy if I can tripled that amount to around USD$400 for this month. That will be about third of what I get alltogether if I am using adsense. USD400 is around MYR1,200 in local currency and that will sufficient for me at the time being. Anything more will be a bonus.

Conclusion

I am confident that I will reach that USD$400 mark, how bad can the replacement ads fare? since I am sure that my traffic this month will be more the same with or without any ads going on.

Do you have any opinion on my experiment?

Wish me luck!

Popularity: 4% [?]

Although June started encourigingly in terms of adsense income, it slowed down pace from the middle of the month. I am sad to report that I got a lower income last month compared to the previous 4 months. In all, June is not a very good month. Traffic are down on most all of my top blogs.

My internet income for June 2008:

Summary - Adsense -second lowest income in 2008, Widgetbucks is a bit down, Kontera maintain making money-slowly but surely. (Last month income in bracket.)

Google Adsense - US$1,198.76 - (US$1,320.20) down US$121.40
WidgetBucks - US$76.54 -(US$84.79) down US$8.25
AuctionAds - US$42.20 -(US$39.14) up US$3.06
AdBrite - US$1.40 -(US$1.31) up US$0.09
Bidvertiser - US$2.17 -(US$2.26) down US$0.09
Nuffnang - US$19.45 -(US$18.75) up US$0.70
Kontera - US$7.29 - (US$12.82) down US$5.53
Advertlets - Ditched, you owe me MYR400-pay up Josh Lim!

Total Income: US$1,347.81 ~ RM4,299.51 (based on US$1-RM3.19) It is nice Ringgit is getting stronger.

Target for June - $,1500 from adsense - failed!

Note

I would like to point out again that this total income is NOT from this Rajawang blog only, since I am only running Adsense, Nuffnang and Kontera in Rajawang. As I have said before, I maintained around 5 blogs that monetized well enough to earn the figures above. This is not magic, nothing good come easily. You can read my Top 5 Recommended Money Makers here.

So that’s all for this Rajawang make money online income report for this time, there is lots of work still to be done. Hopefully you will do better too. Congrats for whatever you have achieved in this Make Money Online journey.

Breaking news!
Radical Experiment Fort July 2008
For this month, I am going to do some radical experiment for 1 Month, that is by ditching Adsense temporarily for the time being, except for on rajawang(I am not making that much anyway from adsense here) and my personal blog.! Wow. Stay tuned for my post on this plan tomorrow!

Let’s roll.

Popularity: 5% [?]

It is a new month and I would like to kick thing of with my list of Top 5 recommended Money Makers.

1. Google Adsense
2. Widgetbucks
3. AuctionAds@ShoppingAds
4. Kontera
5. Nuffnang

Google Adsense

Most of us will start with google adsense. I am sure the majority will agree with this statement. I will be surprised if someone actually learned anything else before adsense. Google display simple text and image ads on your blog that are targeted to what you’re writing about. Google has been a consistent money maker for this blog. I have earned over USD$1OK from June 2007 through adsense, and that is a lot. CPC ads, Payment via Western Union. Very Fast. Minimum Payment USD$100.

Widgetbucks

Specifically targeted to USA and Canada visitors. So, if you have a targeted audience there Widgetbuck is the thing for you. WidgetBucks features pay-per-click shopping widgets that help our customers make money fast. They instantly display the most popular products based on buying trends of 100 million shoppers. Thus they are highly engaging, which means instant dollars for our customers. Widgetbuck is alive and paying. Pays via PayPal. Minimum Payment USD$50.

Signup for Widgetbucks here.

AuctionAds

AuctionAds is one big eBay affiliate. What AuctionAds does is put all their publishers into one big “collective” to go after the higher revenue share. Publishers can leverage AuctionAds’ creative delivery of eBay’s auctions and AuctionAds’ ability to achieve the higher performance incentive tiers with the aggregate volume of traffic to make more money than they could with their own eBay affiliate relationship. This is a CPA ad. Pays via PayPal. Minimum Payment USD$50.

Signup for AuctionAds here.

Kontera

Kontera ContentLink allows you to make money from advertising without giving up any current advertising spots. Their technology reads your post and turns certain words into an ad. The highlighted words are double underline and an ad pops up when you hover over it. Minimum Payment USD$100.

You can sign up here.

Nuffnang

Nuffnang will not enter my top 5 recommended money maker list if this is compiled 2 months ago. But as thing turns out, first cheque and glitterati status and all - nuffnang will be one of my top money makers from now one. Sorry Advertlets. CPC, monthly cheque. Minimum Payment MYR50.

Signup for Nuffnang here.

That’s all for my recommended money makers. Good luck all!

I will post my income report tomorrow. Stay tuned. Earnings dropped!..

Popularity: 5% [?]

With all the Malaysian political dramas going gone nowadays like soap operas, having a famous political blog is something that I wished I have now. From C4 explosive going off to kill a mongolian to Damansara Condo in which the latest sodomy charges is said to take place, I bet everyone is googling the keyword “Anwar Sodomy Charges“, “Saiful Bahari” or even “Parliment Malaysia“.

These kinds of blogs are going to make a killing making money now.

Some of the more famous political blogs:

1. RockyBru
2. Malaysia-Today
3. KickDeFella
4. BodohLand
5. Kuala Lumpur Traveller
6. Susan Loone
7. AminIskandar

Back in 1998, the internet is still in infancy here in Malaysia. That is 10 years ago. I was still in Uni doing my bachelor degree 2nd year. Pete Sampras was still the no1 player in men tennis. Lol. Not everyone know about blogs or this world without borders concept back then but now as we can see today, the news spreads faster than anyone can think of.

Maybe it is still not too late to start a new blog on this political scenario. Making money online is sometimes all about taking the chances when it comes at the right time.

Happy watching and reading a drama of the highest quality, humor and tragedy unfolds.

And for the blogs owners above, congrats for your increase in traffic blog and moolah coming your way.

Popularity: 6% [?]

There are bloggers cum publishers and there are also advertiser in the google kingdom. Both are willing to do almost anything to generate money. But sometimes you will find an interesting ad that you just can stop thinking about it and have a good laugh.

I was blog hopping the other day when I saw this ad:

For non Malaysian reader, the ad is roughly translated to :

What? 3-8 hours of sex? No need to go to work aah? No need to sleep? I can’t stop myself from laughing and imagining someone having sex for 8 hours. Maybe this is what MR. Chua Soi Lek ate before going to the hotel.

This kind of ad sure will bring tons of visitors.

Lol.

Popularity: 7% [?]