My biggest (yet) Adsense payment finally issued!

Got to go to Western Union fast! :D :D

New Server

I just bought a new server from company B. Really cannot tahan with my current server (from company A). I subscribed my previous server (from company A) on 27th of x month and since today is 27th, I quickly bought a new server coz that's will make server subscription payment easier later.

Performance? Superb! See below.

The package which is around RM150 for 500mb, 30GB bandwidth

Previous server, RM100, 3GB, 30GB

Don't mind about the price coz I just add RM50 and I don't use more than 30mb. LOLz.

What's more important is uptime and performance.

And you know what, when I did reverse ip, company A got 175 websites and this company (B) only got 63. Kinda good.

Server down again

If not because of my home made vista gadget, I dont think they will note it. Now really need to change to steadfast...

Friendster is really dead

I did promote my website on friendster by making a group. I made it 1 year ago. However, despite the traffic, my Adsense dont change a lot coz friendster is dominated by Filipinos (very low cpc). Thus I don't really mind about it and just leave it there. Don't know what happened to the group now.

Lately, I noticed that my Adsense earning don't change much despite decreasing in traffic. Further inspection and by making graph, it is obvious that visitors referral from friendster dropped sharp to 1/5 compared few months before.

Which means, Filipinos are leaving friendster and since Philippines is friendster last fortress, and despite the new look, friendster is actually dying slowly. Kinda sad coz it is my first social network website.

Goodbye friendster.

Another plugin

Made another plugin. Hope this will increase my website pagerank.

This plugin is some sort of complicated, but hey, this teaches me how optimize my php script. My php script has been optimize and it loads 50x faster than before! Yup in milliseconds. Previously it still just a blink of the eye. So may not notice the difference much.

Regarding the previous plugin, the search results (when I google the plugin name) has increase from 14 to 2770.

Stock Market

I want to open an account at Public Bank. Saw my dad made 20% profit in just 2 months.

This makes me wonder... if someone can maintain that for every 2 months, in a year he made 120%!

I invest in mutual fund which gives around 10% annual return. Compared to the one above, if I maintain investing in mutual fund, I need 12 years!

It's so cool. But risky also. In internet, you just need RM150 for capital. In stocks, you need at least RM10K. Kinda thrill also. High risk, high return... but internet return is much more higher but very very low risk ehhh??

I really need a decent webhosting

I hosted at 2 companies and weirdly, these 2 companies suddenly gave me headache.

1. The X hosting. First, hosting down for 15 minutes. No big deal for me. But as a result of this failure, my mysql corrupted and I need to restore back and as them to restore back some of the databases coz I don't backup them. Then my tar.gz backups also lost, but they managed to restore back. Thumbs up. I thank the support for X company coz they really reply your message in less than 5 minutes.

2. The Y hosting. Since my package in X hosting don't have cronjob, I use Y's cronjob to 'cronjob' X hosting. But yesterday, I noticed that Y hosting don't do the cronjob that they usually do. So I check it out and notice the crontab is no longer there. Talked to the owner he said, "Since many account abuse our cronjob, we disable cronjob"... which really gave me a headache. But I talked to him that I really need cronjob (besides it is stated in my package that I will get cronjob) and at the end I get my cronjob back. Y hosting is good, but I don't really like the approach. I mean why not only disable those who abuse it, not all? Then why not send emails notifying us that he will disable the cronjob?

These 2 events gave me a sign that I really need a decent and responsible webhosting company because it is clearly that the 2 webhostings can't guarantee my site will be able to run smoothly without me monitoring it. I'm eyeing 'steadfast'. My package now is 3GB + 30 bandwidth. Steadfast only offer 500mb + 30GB bandwith but cost me 50% $$$ more. Really expensive but I think worth it coz my website actually less than 10mb. Really expensive but I think worth it coz I just want my website to up and running. Besides, the server is located at US. 90% of my visitors are US people.

So yesterday, without any hesitation, I applied CIMB e. Mastercard debit card so that I 'shop' the server later (maybe at the end of this year coz my package will be dead at that time).

For X and Y webservers. I don't mean they are not good (worth with the price), but I just want my website to run without any failure so that my visitors (US visitors particularly) can surf smoothly.

This month...

Is not a good month

Filipino people love Bidvertiser?

I got this website which has high number of visits from Philippines. Since Adsense don't do well in this country, I'm switching to Bidvertiser. Let's see how Bidvertiser perform in this country audience. :D

Made a wordpress plugin

Just made a wordpress plugin!

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So what this got to do with Adsense?

You cannot sell your plugin. How you make money by making plugin?

It's true that wordpress plugins are free and you cannot sell them and you cannot put ads in them. This is because wordpress itself is free so they want anything 'wordpress' to be free.

So are you asking for donation?

Haven't decide yet but I don't put any donation button (yet!).

So what are you trying to tell us?

Just want to share my simply marketing strategy. Make a good plugin -> you'll get many install and may get many backlinks -> page rank increased tremendously -> more chances to get the first 10 search results -> more traffic -> increase in earnings :D

Good, good. So what's the progress now?

Right now if I google the plugin name only 14 results. Will see how it do later.

If this strategy fails what are you going to do? Do you know that top plugin developers don't earn much?

I currently on holiday now and I made this plugin for fun. Even if this strategy fails, I don't mind. I am like other developers, make plugins for fun, personal satisfaction and want to contribute something to the world (wordpress community to be specific). I just want to see my plugin flourish!

Huge number of downloads / search results => people appreciate my plugin => I am satisfied ;)

Good luck!

March 2010 Post Mortem

Here's my total earnings for March 2010

The earnings performance

Unique visitors for March 2010...

Comment : My average earnings per day dropped compared to last month. I believe this is due to the unique visitors. I launched something on January 2010 and the 'heat' last until mid March 2010. I think now it hits plateau and equilibrium already coz after mid 2010, you can see I received quite a steady amount of visitors per day.

After nearly a year (I guess) of holding the payment, I will release the money this April because I'm on a break and got time to go to CIMB. Expecting to get RM7000+

This is far better than any investment. RM150 turns to RM7000++ Which is 4666% ++ return!

:D :D