Tuesday 17 May 2011

I got accepted by Google adsense!

Life is about not giving up easily!

Just thought I share my experience so that new bloggers after me may benefit.

During my first month of blogging, I was in my monkey see; monkey do phase. So I innocently applied to Goggle adsense when I was only averaging 2 visitors a day. 

I got rejected with a cryptic message that it was because I have too many keywords and cybersquatting? What's that in english? 

After 5 months of fun experimenting with different kinds of post, and thanks to all of you, I've finally managed to average more than 20 visitors a day -  a 10 fold increase!  (See? Everything is relative! Why spoil my fun by comparing myself to blogs with thousands of visitors a week?)

I re-applied to Google last week and they said OK today. Nothing has changed at my blog! Why don't Google Adsense just say the requirement is X minimum of visitors a week to be accepted in the first place?   

Anyway, I've just "pimped" my blog with Google ads. Hope I've not overdone it.

Little things that make me happy!

12 comments:

  1. Hi SMOL,

    Congratulations! :)

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  2. Hi SMOL,

    Congrats! You're on your way to earning a few cents per month!! :)

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  3. Hi SMOL,

    Mine still not yet approved. I got the same "cybersquatting" massage as you.

    haha. seems like visitor is the key.

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  4. Hi SMOL,

    Congratulations. I hope my little site helps to boast your traffic.

    Cheers!
    Derek

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  5. A big thank you to you all!

    When you guys visit my experimental site, others follow too ;)

    AK for your openess and sense of fairplay. I simply love your personal "gan chao" and "old chang kee" type of posts - then I can comment and join in the fun mah!

    LP for your constant encouragement and inspirations. Lucky I knew you are a guy early on. If not I would have fallen for you. Who knew a guy would call himself "butterfly"? LOL!

    Derek for you patience and big-hearted way of allowing my alternative voice into your site where "giants" reside.

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    1. Remember the invisible fields between men!

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    2. Frugal_Daddy,

      I do can;others do cannot!

      That's another characteristics of men.

      LOL!

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    3. You must be a crab. 横行霸道。walk sideway. :)

      My adsense is approved but I don't see any advertisement.

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    4. Alamak!

      You have to put the adsense ads manually in your blog lah!

      Just goggle: "How to enable adsense in Blogger".

      Follow the simple steps and you are on your way!

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  6. Hi OT83,

    Ya lor! After checking dictionary, I got worry I am breaking some copyright law or something - silly cybersquatting reason!

    So the trick is to get average 20 visitors a day - why so secretive?

    Strange world....

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    1. Hi SMOL,
      Could I know how do you receive payment? Do they send over a cheque or something? I'm very new to blogging =)

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    2. Paper N Sort,

      Thanks for asking! Makes me feel good that I can help you as others have helped me when I started :)

      There are 2 options when you signed up for Adsense:

      1) Payment by cheque

      2) Money collection at Western Union centres. I saw one at Lucky Plaza.

      Nice blog you have ;)

      Have fun!

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