Most of you must have noticed this. An advertisement that appears persistently on your blog and yet it is not of of those Buffered Earning Ads from Nuffnang. Global CPC ads only appear at specific time. BE ads only appear at selected blogs. This new ad is everywhere and appear most of the time…
I am sure the ad below looks familiar…
Could this be the first cost per action (CPA) ad since the announcement from Nuffnang recently?
Not everyone has a constant stream of ads running all the time so we’ve been experimenting with methods in which to further optimize the ad space from your blogs and increase earnings. After consulting some of our loyal Nuffnangers, we’ve decided to roll out our first Cost Per Action (CPA) ads. With CPA ads, you get rewarded whenever there’s a specified action desired by the advertiser e.g. a product being purchased or, a registration form being submitted as a result from clicking on the ad from your blog etc. The amount earned will range from the transaction involved. The more difficult it is to do the transaction the more you earn. For example, if users who click on a banner are meant to just fill up a form, a blogger can earn say RM1 to RM20 per sign up (depending on the advertiser). However if it’s something more challenging, say if something of high value is bought then the amount rewarded can be even over RM50 being rewarded per transaction. – Quoted from Introducing another way to optimize your Nuffnang earnings.
Anybody has any idea or any comment on this?
This is a follow up, as promised, to the Maxis In and P1 Out post.
After two months using the Maxis Wired Broadband, under the 2 Mbps package, We would say that this WBB is satisfactory. Previously when using the Jaring and P1 services, the connection was not as stable as this Maxis WBB. Here are a few of the improvements that we are enjoying at the moment.
- With all 3 computers connected to the internet, no noticeable impact on the surfing speed.
- Downloads, such as movie files, can be done at any time without affecting others who are surfing.
- Able to watch online streaming video or TV with almost no interruption.
Below are the results of 3 speed test that we did with different sites.
Maxis very own speed test site gave the best results. Up to 1.95 Mbps download and 0.33 Mbps upload. Was it because we were testing its own service?
Let’s see what P1 said. Actually not that far off from the result from Maxis. 1.826 Mbps download and 0.421 Mbps upload.
How about an independent party? Speedtest.Net returned 1.79 Mbps for download and 0.42 Mbps for upload .
In conclusion, speed is stable and acceptable. Theoretically, the speed can be further improved if we were to replace the modem + wireless router setup with a 2 in 1 modem and router box. At the moment, bridging mode is being used between the modem and the router.
Lastly, we also did a ping test using Pingtest.Net and the line obtained an “A”. That should be good and hopefully it will remain that way for its lifetime.
Any downtime so far? Yes, there were a few downtimes but the main problem, until today, is not so much of the WBB but the competence level of the customer services. None of them that we talked to have sound knowledge on modem, router or broadband. A few could not even differentiate between a modem and a router. We had officially complained to Maxis about that. Nowadays, any problem encountered, we would first call the contractor, instead of Maxis, and so far, the few problems that we had were quickly resolved.
Earlier this evening, P1 called us up and made an offer on their 4G broadband services. The thing about P1 is that it is no more a case of once bitten twice shy. They bit us twice already…
Important! Shoutbox or chatbox users must read this!
Blogwalking and leaving your track behind in the shoutboxes of blogs that you visited is one of the easiest way to get reciprocal traffic. It is a supposedly win-win situation for bloggers. However, the win-win situation can only happen if everybody plays fair. Fair in the sense that when you visited my blog and leave me a shout, I would then go to yours and leave mine and vice versa.
Recently I was shocked to discover that some unscrupulous bloggers have taken advantage of this method and started to hijacks thousands of shoutboxes and put them into splog aka spam blog. They can easily do this by opening your page source code and copy the shoutbox code and paste it to their own splog page.
The other method used is by utilizing the so called Auto Blogwalking tools or software. By doing this, they can leave shouts without having to visit your blog and they could claim that they are able to blogwalk to thousands of blogs a day.
Here are a few bloggers that have written about this phenomenon for your further reading an understanding:
- Penipuan Penggunaan Shoutmix! – Critical Angle
- Penipuan Shoutbox! – deCrewz [dot] com
- Penyangak Traffic Blog..Sama sama kita banteras..Jum kenalpasti siapa Lanun disebalik AutoBlogwalking - Wan Hazel
- Penipuan ShoutBox : ABCDEAD dot COM Dalang Atas Segalanya?? ALANGKAH HINA~!! – Pendekar Berkuda
I am sure that there are many others who have already blogged about this out there. By the way, the favorite shoutboxes targetted by these “pirates” are ShoutMix and CBox.
What can you do? The first thing to do is to lock your shoutbox. The iShoutbox that I am using on this blog provides Website Locking function.
By doing this, the shoutbox can only be used by the specified domain only. The results would be as shown below…
Error message is what they will get from now on. I know that the other shoutbox that has this function is ShoutMix. You can turn this option on under the Settings menu. I am not sure about other shoutboxes such as, CBox or Oggix. You may have to check them if you are using those.
The results of doing this was almost immediate. Right after I turned on the lock, the number of shouts have reduced and from there I can tell that some of those previous shouts might have come from Auto Blogwalking software and Splogs. Good riddance to those baddies!
Spread the news! Protect your shoutbox and earn your traffic!
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