My 3rd Adsense payment is now ready for collection and this will be the final update on Adsense’s recent new payment method via Western Union.

I have made collection from RHB and CIMB before and it seems that CIMB is more efficient. Therefore, I have ‘appointed’ CIMB as my official bank to collect my Adsense payment. 

You can also collect your Adsense payment via Pos Malaysia as well but not all outlets provide Western Union services. Furthermore, the queue is usually unbearable!

All publishers outside US will generate lesser income due to the drop in US currency recently. I have feeling that it will drop further seeing that US market fared in past weeks.

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 … because most of them are rubbish. The visitors referred by Entrecard were of “drop and go” pattern. They visit your site, drop their card and leave your site.. all done in within an average of 18 seconds. Check out the stats below:-

Despite the “low” quality traffic, I will continue to use them because it gives me an opportunity to advertise in other popular blogs (JohnChow, JohnCow, Problogger) for free. That’s the only beauty of this program.

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MySQL, a popular database system for web application (more than 10 million of installations) announces today that it has been acquired by Sun Microsystems for US $1 billion.

MySQL has been one of the essential component for running web applications like Wordpress, Wikipedia and other huge content management systems (i.e Joomla, Drupal).Most people (web developers especially) would like to know where MySQL is heading after the takeover. Will it remains as an open source project?

I found this on MySQL.com :

I’d like to think that the acquisition of MySQL by Sun will be seen as good news also by the core group of users who form the active MySQL community. This is because Sun is a safe haven for MySQL. Sun knows Open Source, and to the extent things change, I expect Sun to add value to our community. I don’t expect huge change, though. We continue to work with our quality contributors, we continue to provide our MySQL Forums, the Planet MySQL blog aggregator, we remain on the #mysql-dev and #mysql channels on Freenode, we provide MySQL University lessons, we meet at the MySQL Users Conference. We’ll put effort into connecting the many FOSS enthusiasts and experts at Sun — whom we will now learn to know better — with our active user community.

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I am suppose to make this post 10 days ago when I received a notice from Paypal to approve the payment sent by Mpire Corporation, the company behind Widgetbucks. I was excited but not excited enough to make a quick post because I was quite tied up with tonnes of work since 2 weeks ago. I am sorry.

Email from Paypal

Also, this payment may be the last payment I will receive from them since Widgetbucks no longer accept clicks generated from outside North America and their international CPM ad program is not impressive at all. I earned USD 0.03 from 6000+ impression.

Being curious on how other publishers fare in their CPM campaigns, I visited some forums and found that many publishers were disappointed with WB’s CPM program, with some intending to drop WB for good.

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Don’t worry US and Japan publishers as this move does not affect you. However, publishers outside US and Japan can start removing referral units promoting AdSense from your blog/website.

Google has decided to drop Adsense referrals scheme for publishers outside US and Japan with the reason that referral product has not performed as well as Google had hoped in these regions. It is a shame that Google has taken this step as Adsense referrals program is proven to be a good income generator for a lot of publishers. I am not affected as I did not participate in this program but I do feel that pain for those who spend a lot of their time promoting Adsense.

Meanwhile, users who are still eligible to participate will find their “bonuses” greatly reduced. Read more here…

About a year ago, as an experiment, we changed the pricing structure for AdSense referrals so that when a user you referred to the program earned $5 within 180 days of sign-up, you would also earn $5. When that publisher earned $100 within 180 days and removed all payment holds, you’d receive $250. We have decided to conclude this experiment and return to the original pricing structure. As a result, we’ll soon no longer be offering the $5 bonus or $2000 bonus, and the payout for referring a user who generates $100 with AdSense in the first 180 days will return to $100.

Seems that Google is getting less generous these days .. and let’s hope that they will not do something “silly” to the PPC program.

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