Wooo hoo, Nuffnang Blogger Awards 2009 ended and just reached Link Hotel, finally after a long wait for the bus, for almost 1 hour, should be able to back to hotel earlier and rest.. arghh tiring. Anyway XiaXue from Singapore won 3 awards! Wow!
Here’s some updates while I will cover more when I’m back in Kuala Lumpur!
Nuffnang Blogger Awards Trophy
Best Entertainment Blog – Have not another single boring moment. Kenny Sia
Best Original Blog Design, Most Influential Blog, Region’s Best Blog Xia Xue
Kenny Sia run to the stage when Xia Xue taking her Best Original Blog Design and grab the mic and said “Steven Lim has the best blog design ever…” I guess he meant Blogger Singapore Steven Lim… haha.
Best Celebrity Blog Joanne Peh 白薇秀 from Media Corp Singapore. Love her movie The Little Nyonya (Mediacorp, 2008) and Beach.Ball.Babes (MediaCorp, 2008) which is recently aired in AEC Astro.
Kenny Sia and Joanne Peh 白薇秀 the excellent blogger!
Went to this LG Blog Launch Party @ Metropol Gourment Bar, Menara Hap Seng, Kuala Lumpur. The “Angelic White & Devilish Red” themed launch party was a blast and successful one.
Too bad that I don’t have DSLR with me so what I could do is just video all the way. Haha coz too embarrassed with the photo quality.
All the bloggers were dressed up according to the theme “Angelic White or Devilish Red”.
The food was superb. Ichiban! Sit next to the food so that it’s easier to grab it. Haha… =p
Free flow of beer and vodka. I think organizer should have limit the age of the guest so that no underage ppl will attend this because saw quite a number of underage youngster drinking non stop till vomit… it’s free ma? lol. I didn’t drink much as it’s not good to drink and drive, safety come 1s. =)
“The Internet has become an essential part of today’s lifestyle – from keeping in touch with people, managing our daily bills, doing research on consumer products or sharing our thoughts and opinions via blogs. It is with this in mind that we have launched the LG Blog which complements our corporate website,” said Mr TY Ko, Managing Director and CEO of LG Electronics (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd.
LG Party Dance… Enjoy.
Comments about the Angels and Devils… Enjoy.
Best Dress Winner…
Mira from Redmummy.com won “The Most Wicked Devil” Award as her dress and outlook was no doubt the most wicked in the party. The moment she stepped into the party, everyone knew she was going home with this award and so did the judges. She brought home an LG 32” Full HD LCD TV for her marvelous display of wickedness of a devil.
Kim Ong from kimong.com won ‘The Purest Angel’ Award as she gracefully displayed her angelic moves on stage capturing the hearts of the judges. She brought home an LG 32” Full HD LCD TV for her angelic outfit and personality.
Jovi from Hengjovi.blogspot.com came to the party with face paint along with his mum’s mascara on his face. Donning a black cape and some handmade skull chain, he was awarded “The Out-of-Place Devil” Award and walked home with a brand new LG Cookie mobile phone.
Jolyn Goh from lilmejo.com came all the way from Penang just to attend the party. She came as a Harajuku Angel which the judges all agreed that she deserved “The Confused Angel” Award. For that, she won herself an LG Cookie mobile phone to bring home to Penang.
He did not get home anything. Pity him as I guess it must be damn hot inside and the rental for this costume not cheap?
The launch was officiated by our MD, Mr. TY Ko who always open to fresh ideas and support this special online campaign by our marketing team. The launch was further decorated with special attendance of local celebrities – Serena C of Mix.fm, Will Quah of NTV7 & Mei Yan of fm988.
I have cashed out few months back and now only received the payment. How to get your payment from them? I have emailed them for few times then only they will reply you and after some ding dong ding dong then finally I received my payment! They do direct transfer too, saying that it will be faster and all, so yeah finally I got my payment!
For those publisher that do not get your money for long time, you should do that to remind them if not they will not send you the payment even after 6 months or even 1 year. So please contact them and remind them that you have cashed out and hopefully they will get back to you.
So the question now is should I get back to Advertlets? They said want to have me back in Advertlets and get me some new campaign but the question is will Advertlets pay on time and fulfill their promise?
I personally had some bad experience with Advertlets that they promised this and that, but in the end it’s different case and the way they treat their publisher. The most serious case is Advertlets domain expired and they forgotten to renew their domain?!. Hopefully Advertlets will learn from it’s mistake and gain from their experience and will be better in the future if still want to be in the game. =)
All the best Advertlets.
Hi Kong,
Here is the receipt. It should clear by Wednesday/Thursday as MEPS transfers
require 1-2 days.
From account: XXX
Transfer to: Local Beneficiary (MEPS GIRO)
Beneficiary details
Bank name: PUBLIC BANK BERHAD
Name: XXX
Account number: XXX
Transfer Amount: MYR XXX
Transfer via: MEPS GIRO
Date and frequency
Transfer type: Transfer now
Effective date: 15 Oct 2008
Details
For your account: XX
Transaction reference Number: XXX
Sorry for the inconvenience, it will not happen again in future.
We hope the direct bank in is a sufficient resolution.
We would like to have you back with Advertlets, and would like to match you
with a new Toyota campaign commencing this week. We noted that you wrote a
post and joined the Vios contest sometime back, and the client appreciated
the feedback and wants you in the new campaign as well.
If you already have your own blog, like mine “blog.saimatkong.com”, or are thinking of setting one up, you’ve undoubtedly read one or more of the beginner’s guides to blogging that frequent the Internet. Blog often and provide unique, fresh, entertaining, accurate, and relevant information. That’s the content of virtually all of those articles, but this information is only going to get you so far.
The information they provide will help you drive traffic to your blog, as long as you stick at it, and some of the more in depth articles may even give you a basic shove in the right gold paved direction. However, there will come a time when you’re ready to take your blog to the next level.
WordPress And Why We Believe It’s Essential For A Successful Blog
First off, I feel this has to be said – if you’re not using WordPress then it’s highly likely that you’re missing out. WordPress has the biggest collection of plugins, themes, and other features of any blogging platform and, of course, it’s free. Rather than spend money on using another blogging platform, save your dollars to pay for a custom design or get help with marketing.
What Plugins Do For You
Plugins represent the greatest time saving addition to your blog, as well as the greatest opportunity to add increased features and functions that will help you take your blog to the next level. To really succeed in blogging for money, you need to start treating your blog like any website owner treats their website. This means you have to look at it like a business.
A Small Selection Of Top Notch Plugins
WordPress plugins offer a huge range of different functions and features that you couldn’t otherwise obtain. We’ve listed a few of what we believe to be the more important here but there are many others:
Google Sitemaps – The Google Sitemaps plugin automatically creates an XML sitemap, which can be submitted to many of the major search engines. It will also automatically inform them (ping) when you add any new posts or pages to your blog.
Firestats – There are several in-depth stat packages available as plugins but our personal favorite is the Firestats package. It is crucial that you track and act on the stats for your website. Knowing how your readers found your site can help you with promotion and improve your profit levels by giving you a clearer picture of exactly what your visitors are looking for. It’s also good to know the topics that are working out and those that aren’t.
Social Bookmarking – The social bookmarking plugin adds the links to the bottom of your posts that lets readers quickly and conveniently bookmark a post with their preferred social bookmarking site. Some of these sites can help you generate traffic and even improve your search ranking.
All In One SEO – The All In One SEO plugin enables you to add a title, description, and keywords to each of your posts. These can help improve search engine results and make your posts appear cleaner in the search results. It can also be used to ensure that visitors are highly targeted.
Related Entries – It’s important to get traffic flowing around your posts because the more of your site a person views, the more likely they will be to click affiliate links or Adsense links. If your blog is entirely related to your business, they will be more likely to buy your products or pay for your services.
Adsense Deluxe – Don’t let the name fool you. Adsense Deluxe provides a fast and efficient method of adding Adsense code to any post or page, with just a single tag, but it also does the same for Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads.
Comment Subscription – The big benefit of a blog is that you can often persuade interested visitors to keep returning to your corner of the net. The comment subscription plug in further enables them to sign up and be notified of any responses to comments they have added.
Monetizing Your Blog
If you want to make money from your blog and you have a reasonable amount of traffic then the methods of advertising you use will quickly become an important topic to you. There are a lot of different ways to monetize a blog, and it would be damaging of me to try and tell you exactly what method will work without knowing at least a little about your blog. However, there are some things we will willingly share.
Don’t Sell Out – There’s a temptation for those with more mature blogs to write a post and review an item, website, or service and get paid for doing so. Our opinion on this can be summed up in pretty much one word or two; “don’t” or “do not”. You might think that you can write a genuinely informative piece and be completely open and honest without your readers ever realizing what you are doing but it is highly unlikely that this is the case.
Sponsorship – Sponsored advertising is a great way to monetize some blogs. Generally speaking (and there are exceptions), the more specific the topic of a blog, the more likely this will prove to be a viable advertising solution and it may be easier to bag sponsored ads than you think. And, because this is WordPress, there are plugins that help you do it too (AdServe is a good one).
Affiliate Data Feeds – Most affiliate networks have some form of data feed or affiliate feed. If you intend to promote affiliate programs then make the most of these, but ensure that the feed fits with your site. Don’t just slap up a bit of code and expect it to miraculously turn your hobby blog into a multi-million dollar, award winning blog because it takes careful planning, ad placement optimization, and some trial and error to get the best results. Guess what? There are numerous plugins to use with the Amazon affiliate program and other programs so make the most of them.
Blog Networks
The final point we’re going to cover in this, now extensive, article is whether or not you should join a blog network. A blog network is, unsurprisingly, a network of blogs. The overall aim and the method that connects the blogs differs with each network. Some may be connected by having different subdomains on the same main domain. Others may simply use the same banner. Similarly, some networks are established to bring profit to bloggers and (understandably) to the network owner. Other networks want nothing more than to promote a near state of hippie euphoria over one particular topic.
To Join Or Not To Join
It seems to have become a habit but we can’t honestly tell you whether you should definitely join, or definitely not join, a blogging network. They work out for some by providing traffic, improving search rankings, and even helping out with the general blogging process. However, other blogs would fare better on their own, especially the more popular ones. Similarly, some networks are so powerful that they can generate thousands of hits to a blog instantly before you even submit a post, while your blog may carry a smaller network if you have good traffic levels.
The reason that a lot of bloggers do join a network is so that they can network with other bloggers. It provides a sense of belonging and can help develop blogging relationships. If you get invited or accepted into a particularly large network then you should consider trying it because it really can pay dividends but be warned that the large networks have pretty stringent guidelines that you must adhere to in order to be accepted.
What’s Next For Your Blog?
This article covers some of the blogging factors that you need to look at when you consider taking your blog to the next level. Simply posting good content will often help you build traffic, but that’s really all it will do. You need to monetize that traffic, and where possible, keep it returning over and over again. You should also employ some methods of further building your traffic, other than posting good posts.
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Did you notice that your earning shown in the earnings tab do not tally with the totally earning that shown in the available balance at the bottom of the page. Although this bug is not very critical but I was wondering and curious why no one ever notice and question about that? or maybe I’m a too detail person? Haha
At the earning tab: RM15.03
At the bottom: RM30.12
No one ever notice that? Any how, I have notified them and within few days I have got this reply after I print screen and showed to them what I was talking about. Yes, Nuffnang is pretty efficient I would say. Below are the reply.
Kong Tian Leong,
Your ticket concerning ‘Earning not tally’ has been responded to. You can viewthis response (and reply to it if necessary) using the information or link below.
Ticket ID: XXXXXX
Email: XXXXX
Link to ticket: http://helpdesk.nuffnang.com.my/ticketview.php?XXXXX
Here is the response made to your ticket. Please do not reply to this email directly, use the link above to reply.
Hi Tian Leong,
Thank you for reverting this to me. I had to check with our programmer who was not around and thus the delay in my response. It is our slight technical error as we forgot to add the codings in the earnings tab which would tally the income from completed metered CPM campaigns as well. Before this, the tab only shows the tally of income from CPC and normal CPM campaigns. It has now been fixed thanks to your notification to us.
Many thanks once again!
Nuffnang
http://www.nuffnang.com/
Did you notice that or you don’t even bother about that? =)
New to the Web: Screen capture of Dr Mahathir’s blog taken yesterday, the day it was launched. The blog received more than 10,000 visitors by 5pm Thursday.
KUALA LUMPUR: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is now a blogger.
He is blogging through his website www.chedet.com, which is named after the pseudonym he used when he wrote articles for the newspapers.
In his profile, Dr Mahathir lists himself simply as the “Prime Minister of Malaysia 1981 – 2003″.
Dr Mahathir wrote that the site was dedicated to publishing his writings as and when he was able to pen his thoughts and opinions.
He added that interested parties, including the media, were allowed to reproduce or quote materials published in his site but to credit them to chedet.com.
Comments and feedbacks accompanied by names or pseudonyms were welcome, while anonymous ones and those containing profanities and obscenities would be rejected, he wrote.
His first article, posted at 1.27am yesterday, was on the appointment of judges, in which he posed a few questions on the setup of the proposed commission on the appointment of judges, and how recommendations would be made.
Dr Mahathir wrote that it would be interesting to know the full details of the procedures especially with regard to the role of the Prime Minister in the appointment of judges.
He pointed out that any changes to the appointment of judges required the Constitution to be amended and, as the Government did not have two-thirds majority in Parliament, it needed votes from the Opposition.
“Is the Government proposing to work with the Opposition on these issues, and so display its weakness? Will there be a quid pro quo, a bargain with the Opposition? It would be interesting to see how the PM proposes to deal with this,” he wrote.
Dr Mahathir’s blog received more than 10,000 visitors by 5pm yesterday. Many commentators welcomed the former prime minister to the blogosphere and said they had been waiting for him to start blogging.
Many said they were eager to hear his thoughts on various issues and welcomed the fact that they could interact with him through the blog.
Some who left comments on his first posting disagreed that it would be a weakness on part of the Government to work with the Opposition to reform the judiciary. They felt that national interest should prevail over partisan politics.
One commentator also asked Dr Mahathir if he thought that the ex-gratia payment for the judges affected in the 1988 judicial crisis was tantamount to contempt of court.
Ex PM Mahathir also blog! This proves that anyone can blog! It’s interesting reading his post and there’s plenty of responses to this post (more than 230 comments). Check it out yourself for the latest post “A Weak Government is not good for Multi-racial Malaysia“
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