Expiration date extended

They’ve now extended the deadline to pick up your Western Union payments from 35 days to 60 days. If you haven’t picked up your payment within 60 days of issuance, the payment will be credited back to your account and a payment hold will be placed on your account. You’ll then see a notice in your account with more details on how to proceed.

Split payments

As you may know, Western Union has specific payout limits depending on location. In the past, if your payment amount exceeded the Western Union payout limit in your country, they’d send your payment by secured express delivery check instead. Unfortunately, this would also incur a delivery fee, so they’re happy to let you know that this is now no longer the case.

Now, if your payment exceeds the maximum payment amount, they’ll divide up the amounts but still send them via Western Union. For instance, if the payout limit in your country is $3,000 USD and your payment for the month is $5,000 USD, they’ll send you two payments: one for the limit of $3,000 USD and another for the remainder of $2,000 USD. If you’re sent multiple Western Union payments, you’ll see multiple ‘Payment issued’ lines on your Payment history page, each with the corresponding MTCN associated with it. Depending on your local Western Union agent, you may need to pick up multiple payments on subsequent days. They recommend consulting your local Western Union agent for further details.

Payment by Western Union is currently available in a limited number of countries, but they’re working on expanding the countries we support, and we’ll keep you posted with any updates.

Hopefully, Western Union payment method available for Indonesia. Have a great day!

[Source: Inside AdSense - Western Union Payment Updates]

The first thing that users will notice is the new administration interface which was completely redone to optimize processes.

The development team claims that nearly every task in Wordpress 2.7 will take fewer clicks than it took in previous versions of the blogging platform.

Unlike previous versions where it’s a good idea to wait, it is highly recommended to upgrade to WordPress 2.7 now. It is very stable and has been well tested on WordPress.com with more than 5 million blogs over the past week. WordPress 2.7 includes the latest security updates. Once installed, it will notify you for automatic upgrades, making the upgrade process incredibly easy.

To upgrade from older versions of WordPress, follow the instructions in the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users, in Upgrading WordPress.

Don’t wait. It is critical that you upgrade WordPress now because:

• Future upgrades will be easier.
• Your blog will be protected from current security vulnerabilities.
• It features easy WordPress Theme and Plugin upgrades, additions, and news.
• Some search engines and directories are considering penalizing page rank or not indexing old versions of WordPress due to security vulnerabilities and failure to upgrade (few spam sites upgrade).

Happy upgrading!

No basic different within these programs, but Bidvertiser has an instant payment option, PayPal.

It will be a good news for people who don’t want to wait a long time to clear the Check payment from the PPC Ads programs, since PayPal is growing worldwide and they are most secure payment method.

Advantages of BidVertiser

• High pay-per-click: Normally $0.5 to $2 per click for good niches. This is as good as Adsense’s.
• Pay on monthly basis, within 30 days after the end of each calendar month. So BidVertiser pays faster than Adsense does!
• Instantly pay to your PayPal account with a minimum of $10, or via check with a minimum of $50 to any country.
• No fee to mail a payout check. Adsense charges $25 for every check courier mailed.
• You can view all the ads running on your website, their CPC, title, description and url. Adsense doesn’t show these.
• You can block and approve the ads any time. I love blocking those low-paying irrelevant ads.
• You can customize the format of the ads to suit the theme of your website without updating the code block.
• BidVertiser has many features of Adsense: Tracking Channel, Summary Reports, Detailed Reports, etc.
• Earn up to $25 for each advertiser you referred, and up to $50 for each publisher you referred.
• No phone verification.
• No PIN-mail verification.

Disadvantages of BidVertiser

• In some cases, click-through rate (CTR) is a bit low compared to Adsense’s. The best remedy would be blocking the low-paying, irrelevant ads and approve only high-paying, relevant ads.
• You cannot turn off the “Your Ad Here” ads shown in the place of
  regular ads. You’ll however get paid up to $25 for every advertiser who
  joined through these.

BidVertiser Supports Indonesian Websites

A good news for Indonesian websites, BidVertiser now supports Indonesian websites. It means you may now display the BidVertiser ads on your Indonesian website and generate additional revenue.

Get interested? Why not to give a try? Join BidVertiser For Free and Make money from your Website or Blog today!

Gud Lak!

I was waiting for this phone. I am exciting so much to have iPhone.

Since I can not buy iPhone in Indonesia (actually I can but… ;)), I need to find the nearest country that officially sell iPhone. The possible country is Singapore. The good news is I can buy iPhone in Singapore without any contract since there is available officially unlocked by one of Singapore telecommunication operator (I believe you know what I mean ;))

Fortunately, I got training schedule in Singapore. Great! Therefore I excited so much. I planned to buy iPhone in Singapore.

First, I need to find the cheapest iPhone’s price in Singapore. The possible places are Funan, Lucky Plaza, Sim Lim, or Far East Plaza.

And finally I got my iPhone 3G in Far East Plaza =)

Here is my iPhone 3G…

My favorite features are:

• Touch screen
• iPod
• Maps with GPS
• Games

My missing features (compare with another phone) are:

• SMS report
• MMS
• SMS forwarding

Anyway, I still love my new iPhone 3G so much =)

Thanks and have a great day!

InLinks is an ad network that allows advertisers to buy text links within the content of your posts.

InLinks allows you to purchase links within the content area on web pages. You search for instances of your top keywords and replace those static keywords with a hyperlink back to your website.

There are many benefits that make inLinks a great fit for your site:

• Ads that are easy on the eyes. Sell in content ads without the annoying pop up
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• Blog friendly. Install our simple plugin and we take care of the rest. Just sit back and collect your monthly earnings. Plugins available for: Wordpress, MoveableType and Drupal.

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This one is a significant and promising launch in last few days including “aStore” for associate program. Amazon.com is directly competing with Yahoo store, Google base and Microsoft small business initiatives. Service like these could be a serious threat to eBay’s dominance by removing a many of the barriers and logistical problems in online commerce. Small and Medium-Sized Businesses can use Amazon.com’s ecommerce pipeline to leverage their website. Amazon allows businesses to use Amazon’s own order fulfillment and post-order customer service infrastructure, and allows Amazon.com customers to receive the benefit of Amazon.com shipping offers when buying from third-party sellers who use Fulfillment by Amazon. Amazon.com customers can now use offers such as Amazon Prime and Free Super Saver Shipping when buying products with the “Fulfilled by Amazon” icon next to the offering listing.

WebStore allows anyone to have a world-class e-commerce site. Whether they’re a business owner or an experienced developer, WebStore has taken the complexity out of building and maintaining a professional e-commerce site. Better yet, WebStore provides online merchants a powerful platform that is powered by the same technology, support, and transaction processing that powers Amazon.com.

WebStore by Amazon allows businesses to:

• Maintain their brand while leveraging Amazon’s own scalable, reliable, and secure back-end technology.
• Make it secure, simple, and easy for visitors to buy using their existing Amazon.com accounts.
• Earn additional revenue by including other products from Amazon.com in their WebStore and referring customers through the Amazon Associates program.

There’s also a way to earn extra cash by selling Amazon.com merchandise at your WebStore.

Readers, do you use Amazon’s WebStore or fulfillment services? How have you fared? Do you have other companies you’d recommend for this type of service?

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Today, they announced that Western Union is now offered as a payment method for publishers located in Panama.

To sign up for payments by Western Union, sign in to your account and follow these instructions. Please also keep in mind that they’re only able to make Western Union payments to individual payee names, but not to businesses.

If you are disappointed again (not living in supported country list), according to Google AdSense blog, they are working hard to find more convenient ways to send you your earning. You are asked to leave feedback on the AdSense blog.

Not located in Panama? We’ve been reading your comments on our other recent payment-related posts, and understand that many of you are looking forward to new payment options in additional countries. Please know that we aren’t able to provide details about when new options may become available, as setting them up can take time due to factors like compliance with local laws and tax regulations. However, we’re working hard to find more convenient ways to send you your earnings, and we’ll definitely announce any new options here. In the meantime, please feel free to keep leaving your feedback, and we appreciate your patience!

OK! So I should be patience for Adsense Western Union available in Indonesia, right? Have a great day!

WebHostingRating.com is a new web hosting rating site where they are trying to build the biggest searchable web hosting directory featuring complete information on all web hosting providers, all their web hosting plans, promotional and discount coupons, and unedited reviews by real customers.

Webhostingrating.com also have other sections on the site, such as a directory, web hosting awards and web hosting tutorials. The articles section is basically their blog in which they discuss everything web hosting.

Web hosting ratings are vividly illustrated in this site. You can also see for yourself the different web hosting sites which you can choose from should you decide to avail the service of one. In choosing a web hosting service for your web site, there are important considerations that need to be borne in mind. These include for example affordability, reliability, dependability and the technical support that the web hosting site can provide.

In addition to hosting reviews and ratings about hosting companies, Webhostingrating.com has included a section where you will find informative articles. These articles will help you to learn tips and tricks.

Have a great day!

There’s a new version of WordPress out now, 2.6.2, which addresses a database issue as well as the weakness of mt_rand(). This is especially important if you accept registrations to your blog.

Anyway, go ahead and upgrade WordPress ASAP, especially if you have open registration enabled.

Happy upgrading!

But, I got a new “problem”. The problem is how can I cash my Clickbank cheque. Is it possible to cash my Clickbank cheque in my local bank?

OK, my journey just began…

First, I tried to cash my cheque in Bank Niaga. Unfortunately, I have to have a current account in Bank Niaga at least for 6 months in order to cash my Clickbank cheque. I think this is a must requirement to cash any cheque in Bank Niaga, such as Adsense, Commission Junction, etc CMIIW. IMHO, I need to open one account in Bank Niaga just in case only

Second, I tried to cash my Clickbank cheque in Citibank. About one year ago, I cashed my Adsense cheque in Citibank. Hopefully, I can cash my Clickbank cheque in Citibank also. Unfortunately, I can not I have to have Citibank account.

Perhaps, I can try another local bank, but I use my US Bank to cash my cheque. You can learn how to open US bank from Indonesia from IndoUSBank (Bahasa Indonesia).

Here is how to cash my Clickbank cheque in my US Bank:

• Endorse (sign) the back of the check
• Download and complete a deposit slip (provide by my US Bank)
• Mail the check and deposit slip to my US Bank
• make copies of the check and slip for my records.

That’s it. Have a great day!