Shaadi.com - Rewards?
I don’t remember when i joined the shaddi.com affiliate program.. maybe 2-3 years back, when i was checking out the performance of the indian based websites. As it happens usually, i might have put the code in some of my sites and forgot about it. After checking out a few months, when no rewards was showing, i simply deleted all the code. I think i missed to delete the code from one of the sites and one fine day, i got an email saying that there is a balance of 1581 INR in my account.
I was not too impressed with the earnings, but somehow i felt that atleast i am getting something. But since last one month, there has been no response from their customer care about the process of claiming the money. They say, send an invoice. I sent already.. but no response. I am not sure if they want a proper paper invoice sent through regular mail (that will be an extra headache). This monday i called up their customer care and she gave me an email id of one girl who is taking care of payment from the company called Peopleinteractive. I believe this is the main company which owns all these site like shaadi.com and makaan.com etc . Let us see if they respond soon.
I have had very bad experiences so far with all the indian based affiliates or the ad networks. When it comes to payment time, they just stop responding. Maybe it is just my experience. That way i prefer sites like Google and TLA. There is no payment hassle, either money is deposited every month in the account or you get the cheque of your earned amount. I hope shaddi.com people are reading this and will get back to me soon.
Update (23rd March 2010) - The shaadi.com people were indeed reading the post and they were very quick to contact me on Monday ie 22nd March. The person told me that the payment was on hold as they were verifying the registrations (i wonder how long they take.. but anyway that’s not an issue) and now they will process it and i will get the cheque in next 30 days. They also replied to my emails with the invoice attached. So i must say, they were very quick in their response.
That guy called me back asking me to remove this post but i categorically denied. I told him, i will just put the feedback and update about their response and the fact that i had issues earlier will remain as it is. But i will just update the post saying that they responded and it was indeed a very fast response.
So webmasters, if you are having trouble with any of your payments, it takes just a blog post
Paypal Policy for Indians
.. why is it different from other countries?
On feb 4th, I was surprised to receive this email, which said,
Hello xxxxx,
Your payment of xxx.xx has been sent back to the sender of the payment.
We reversed this payment because we have stopped allowing personal payments to be sent to or from India.
If this was a payment for a purchase of goods or services, and not a personal payment, then you may contact the buyer and have him or her resend the payment as follows: (a) click the Send Money tab, (b) select “Goods,” and (c) provide a shipping address.
If this payment was a personal payment such as a gift, then we have requested that the sender find another payment method until we restore personal payments to and from India.
We are trying to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and we’re sorry for any inconvenience.
Thank you,
PayPal
I soon logged into my account and saw a negative balance. Two days back, i had transferred all my paypal balance to my credit card. I wanted to try this option even though i had to pay $5 for the transaction. Usually i just request for money transfer to my business account. This particular payment was from TLA, so I wrote an email to them also. So far no reply from them. I checked a few of the webmaster forums and it seems everyone was talking about the same issue.
I am sure paypal will solve the issue soon and all of us will get to see the money back in our accounts. Some people are saying, it was because of RBI’s policy to keep a tab on all the money transfer happening over the internet without any record and without any taxes being paid. The most surprising thing is that there is no notification from paypal also. However i feel it is more of a technical issue. I hope it is sorted out soon. Till then, just wait and watch.
SEO - To Improve CTR
We all love to see an improved CTR in our Adsense Reports and with an aim to increase the CTR, i planned to take out some time and revisit each of my sites and do a few tweaks here and there. Some of my sites have been just lying there without any content update or design changes for years. This baby names site of mine - just4babynames.com is one such site. It was once a very very popular site with a good number of visitors and a fair income from Google and and other small time link buyers. However with time, i had no time to look into them… so i stopped selling link spots and the google earnings also went into a downfall.. i never bothered.. as my overall income from all the sites was increasing.
After working on two other sites, i had a look at this particular site of mine, studied the statistics, checked out the popular pages on the site and the popular keywords which was bringing a few traffic. On the 14th of jan, i made a few changes, removed some old content, put some new content on the home page and a few tweaks of the ads and other links. And as usual, i just uploaded the new pages and forgot to check the result. Today, 8 eight days after when i checked the stats, i was surprised to see a sudden jump in the traffic of this site. See the image below
It was a good jump from around 50-54 uniques visitors to more than 400 unique visitors a day. For a moment, i was wondering if i had put this site on Google Adwords by mistake. I am running ads of another new site of mine on Google Adwords ( because i got a voucher worth 2500 INR.. and i had to use that). I checked the stats again and it was for real. The site is listed on page one of Yahoo for a very competitive keyword and it was Yahoo which was sending all the traffic to my site.
I am happy that my tweaks worked. I plan to give some time to all my sites and increase traffic, to increase the CTR which will further increase the earnings.
Wishing all of you a very Happy New Year and Happy Earnings!
Goodbye to DGM and Kontera
…. yes it is time to say that.
After trying Kontera for more than a year DGM for more than 6 months, I have finally decided to say goodbye. I did earn some money from Kontera. DGM also, well some of the advertisers were paying well, but overall performance on my site was not that good.
However I did stick with DGM for more than 6 months thinking that i should reach the minimum payout. I believe it is short of a few Rs. But i am not interested anymore. I don’t want to wait for another month to see that the amount has reached the payout level. I am still very very happy with the main source of income ie Google Adsense and the extra income from TLA and direct advertisers.
Last month i increased my ad spots from 4 to 10 in TLA and luckily 9 of them are sold and only one spot is left. And the last spot will be also sold off soon and it is good money for a 250×250 ad space where you can have 10 links.I am waiting for the day when my other sites will also be included in the TLA.
October was a very good month for this blog also. The monthly income doubled. I now believe that this blog can also earn good money . I am still reviewing what all keywords are popular on this blog. I will make sure that i post more on those keywords. However this is my blog, so you will find other posts from me, which may not be so interesting for you, but I know, it will make me happy and the blog is all about Being Happy.
Be happy and enjoy life!
TVIExpress - On Hold List
…..looks long ..! But don’t worry, it is not
Other day I was going through the announcements section in TVIExpress and it seems that just everything is on hold.
1. Prebookings for the travel vouchers on hold - Booking requests have been placed on hold till 31st October as we are compiling the data collected so far to generate the list of preferred destinations using the choices entered in our pre-booking database.
2. Bangaluru Office - This is to inform you that we have got all necessary approvals for the office at Bengaluru, India and now the office furnishing is in process. The staff recruitments and fixation of other operational functions will take some time. Hence, we anticipate the launch date of Office towards the end of October. (This was to be completed in September as per another announcement).
3. Wire Transfer Facility on Hold - Purchases through Wire Transfer on Hold and only LR to be used for all purchases. No date given for this Hold.
4. Support Request - I had sent a support request on 14th Sept. Today is 15th ocotober. No reply so far. I am not sure if support requests are also on Hold.
So everything seems to be on hold on TVIExpress for now but as mentioned in the announcements, October or we must say end of October is a crucial time for us to see if all these activities are started again. I am sure the company is growing every day and more and more people are joining the ever growing team. So the management is busy in all the backend processes.
We wish them all the best and hope that everything will be back on track soon. Looking forward to a happy October!
Earn $5000 in a day using Google Adsense
….i would love to!! what about you?
You must be wondering how. Imagine earning 5K USD every single day There may be some, who are earning such good figures from Google Adsense, but i am sure, they are just few. I do earn a respectable figure from Google every month, but yes it does not reach to 5K in a month also. Well this screenshot was taken from a website which actually generates google earnings as per the income you want. It was surprising to know that people have created such websites and we have come across that website also
I get many emails from the new bloggers(especially mommy bloggers) about making money online. Well it is not easy, it is hard work and it takes time to see the results. For me, i had started few of my sites, just out of hobby when there was no Google Adsense, no Kontera , no TLA… when i had started the site just for the love of it and earnings followed later on. When i came to know about Google Adsense, i just created my account, took the code and put it just two places on the homepage and when there was no money coming in, i thought it was waste of space and removed it. Later i did some research, looked around the web, read articles, participated in discussions and then applied some of those techniques and that is when i saw the money coming in. And now each month the earnings are just increasing though i have not been able to give any time to see or do the optimization of my sites.
Online money making is one hot topic over the internet, and it will remain so for many more years to come 
TVIExpress Keywords
…are getting very very popular with each passing day!
Yes it is true that the keywords related to TVIExpress are quite popular and when I had written my first post on TVI Express - Is TVIExpress Fake? around June 2009 and that time the exact search on the keyword “TVIExpress” used to show only 4500 search result pages on Google and on this day it shows 134,000 pages. So the popularity has increased and at the same time you will see many teams doing advertisements using Google Adwords, You will see the Winners Team, Top TVI Team, Join Now Online etc being targeted.
These days the visitors on my blog have increased many folds, thanks to the good ranking of my blog for the term TVIExpress.
The keywords, which people use and land on my blog are :
can’t access tviexpress
tviexpress
tvi express pyramid
proof that tvi pays
tviexpress check
stay away from tvi express
new location of tviexpress corporate office
tviexpress is fake
tvi pyramid
getaway club website does not work
tviexpress.com chinese
tviexpress in chinese
www.tviexpress india
tviexpress.com
tviexpress.com is a scam?
Recently when TVI announced that they are moving to a new location from their old location in London, many people were searching for the keyword “new location of tviexpress corporate office” and they landed on my site. Sorry even I am not aware of the new location of TVI Express so far
BTW, yes I have joined TVI Express and I have got a holiday voucher, which I am yet to redeem. The company has announced that redemption need to wait till 30th October as they are studying the favored holiday destinations among the members. They are going to run some big queries to their database so all the pre-bookings are on hold. I will keep you guys updated about my progress in this MLM business. Well.. this is the first time that I have joined any MLM business, but it is different from other MLM companies and moreover I love travelling, so that was the main reason for me to join. I would love to say that I bought a holiday package and along with that I got the membership which gives me a chance to get my money back and earn more income through their revolving matrix.
I will write more about the TVI Business and my journey with TVI. However it was good to see and read some testimonials from the other members. I am impressed with Deborah’s earnings so far and Deborah, I must say that I really loved talking to you.
For more on TVI Express, stay tuned to my blog
Earn while Snoring
….is a very good option indeed. And I am sure, we all would love it.
Now, the big question is how you can do it. I get lot of visitors on my blog because this site is ranked very high on Yahoo and Google for money making business and online money making keywords. I have got the highest value for a keyword from this blog only. I mean.. I never expected someone paying that much amount for a single click. I would love to get just 10 such clicks every day However, I don’t get that many clicks on this blog compared to my other sites.
So talking about earning while you snore, the good option is to sell your ad space to the advertisers and you just have to put their link on your site and money will keep coming. You can have a ready system of subscription from paypal, which will take care that the monthly payment is coming into your account. But then finding advertisers is also not an easy task. You need to visit those ad selling or webmaster forums and advertise your ad spots. I prefer leaving it to the professionals. So, I opted for .
Getting approved from TLA is also tough as they have certain standards. Not all the sites are approved. Also their commission is 50%, which is very high. But it is still the best way to sell your ads and earn while snoring
Happy Snoring… I mean… Happy Earning!!
