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After invisible around 4-6 months (I forgot how long it was ..) a DHL tracking code that help AdSense publishers check the document location service area in a given time, this day after I logged on in AdSense I saw this Air Way Bill was visible again. And then I continued it checking my document, OMG it still in London!

Some publishers maybe doesn’t pay attention too much regarding the importance of this tracking code, mostly because their addresses are inside coverage area of DHL. So they just relax and the package/document will be delivered right infront their door.

But for me, the tracking code is very important! I live in a suburban that is not in their delivery coverage, so they uses 3rd party to send my document to my house, but it usually takes longer than 2 days. Would you imagine, that the package goes from Ireland to Indonesia for only 7-8 days, while in the same province (Jogja) it needs 2-3 days?

So I better to ’self collect’ the packages, but if I don’t have tracking code in hand then the Customer Service WILL NOT looking for my package, they have their own reason and I totally understand the reason, which is privacy!

So for publishers that live in suburban like I do, it probably is a good news!

This post still about pay per post or pay per review or whatever they or you call it. Basicaly, a post that is made upon reservation by other blog/site either direct from blog to blog/sites or via third party (pay per whatever brokers). I have made a post about it, check it out if you haven’t read it before. Even it was just simple post, I encourage you to check it out thou.

There is no more secret for us that there are many PPR (Pay Per Review) broker spread out here, you can check it via google search for pay per review, and you will be served with around 10 big PPR players. And if you wish to dig informations deeper, you can easily notice that almost of these broker are generaly DO pay their affiliate/bloggers. Many bloggers show their earning revenue from PPR and encourage other to apply as reviewer (or blogger) under their affiliate (or not under anybody!), some of those also eager advertiser to join the network.

Blogger can earn up to a whooping thousand dollars in a month (and is increasing) but the rests, only few bucks a month although generally speak we just can earn dollars, how much we earn its depend on our work and our blog quality.

But when money is involved on something, certainly lead to pros and cons. Some ‘real bloggers’ do not agree with this scheme with their own opinions, some search engines also have their own opinion. But for me, that is currently working online, these opinions just a normal behavior that always occur when new ideas are threw publicly.

However Google, that currently is the biggest search engine has their own opinions, via a google guy’s blog Matt Cutts write a comprehensive post on pay per review and how it affects on search engine ranking, how google determine the pay per review post and how we compromising it thus we don’t lose google faith.

But, I rather skeptical on how will google search engine determine the paid links on post. Because no matter how clever is google algorithm it’s just a script and not more, just sorts of code and not a human being, definitely it has limitations. And in my opinion it rather impossible to cleverly judge whether the post is sponsored or not. Also some of pay per review brokers are still having a good pagerank on their site (almost all of these services have pagerank value minimum 4, some are PR5), and these brokers are easily determined by small sort of codes. If google DOES hate the pay per review post, why they did not ban the brokers first?

I also found interesting fact here, even Forbes has paid post on it, it’s about mesothelioma and Forbes is still gaining PR6.

Recently Donny Simonton, a parked.com guy announced that the parked arbitrage was dead effective 1pm PST on Thursday, February 14, 2008.

Bad news? No it’s not. Good News? Probably it is!

I was not jealous on how much parked.com members generates their bucks from it (I heard one of it had made more than IDR 650,000,000 a month (Approx USD 72,000) net from arbitrage scheme they avail) but I hate them because they were using AdSense as a traffic source.

How much they bid from 1 click in AdWords? A friend of mine said they bid as low as $0.01 per click on AdWords, despite on how much AdWords share for advertisers, this low bidding would bring some negative impact on adsense publishers!

How much I got per click from AdSense ? Of course it would be less than $0.01, that’s why it’s good news to hear Parked Arbitrage was DEAD! MAY GOD BURY IT IN HELL!

I want to monetize this blog because I saw a guy that has made $300 in January 2008 from writing post that he loves and getting paid from advertisers because he mentioned links to advertisers on his post.

Such services I realize DO pay their member, I saw a lot of them upload their proven payment because some other don’t believe that such services are paying and could really generate money.

I have been playing for 4 years and generating A LOT of money from this Pay Per Click program make me realize that only 1 format in adsense that generates lot of click and higher CPM. The format is text format 336×280.

336 x 280 is good in CTR because characters and links inside, likely the same as common website/blog text and link inside the page, hence visitor thinks it is a part of the content.

I have tried some other format, and no one gained better CTR and higher CPM than 336×280 format, even the image version recent months has a lower CPM than format I said above.

If you play AdSense, I encourage you to try the most rewarding AdSense format, 336 x 280.