How to Verify Paypal Account Even Without a Credit Card?

This uses Philippine banks, but the process is still the same for other banks. This only applies for ATM cards with Visa, MasterCard, Maestro or American Express logo at any part of the card. Note that the card is not necessarily a credit card.

I signed up for Paypal since most of the accounts in ad networks requires one. It's either they mail the check or pay thru Paypal or Payza (I don't know much about Payza though). So, I made a Paypal Account by signing-up here. Don't worry, signing-up is free, just choose Personal Account. Then, for you to make online money transfers, you have to have a Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, or American Express card. Now, these cards are no longer exclusive as credit cards, it can now be a prepaid card or an ordinary ATM debit card. In this case, you can use Banco de Oro (BDO) Mastercard or RCBC MyWallet Visa Card. I haven't tried other banks but I heard that Union Bank is also applicable for Paypal.

Now Showing: Nuffnang and Lijit Ads

If you are a frequent viewer of this blog, you may have noticed that this blog had stopped showing Google Adsense ads. i-Share was banned from Adsense but not my whole account. So, I tried other advertising networks. I think, in count, I've tried almost 10 ad networks and those are Adhitz, Smowtion, Adserve, Clicksor, Chitika, Adjungle, Blueadvertise, Infinityads, Lijit, Infolinks, Nuffnang and Pulse Point. Of all these, I got myself into running simultaneously, so you may have noticed the ads showing everywhere. I was testing things, so my apology for those who are sick of them.

Today, I've got my first ever ad campaign from Nuffnang and my first ever legit ads from Lijit. I've got to the point of e-mailing Lijit because I've been a member for a week already and not one counted ad is showing and sometimes it shows blank pages. I'm just happy for Nuffnang because I read that many blogger had waited for months before a single ads had been shown while in my case I have the ads by only three weeks. Notice the Nestle Crunch Ad at the left sidebar? It's a contest where you will submit your Funtacular photo, you might be interested for some Ice cream gift certificates. That kind of ad (skyscraper) has the lowest CTR. But since I was just testing, I settled for it. Yesterday, I added a leader board and will be hoping for more ad campaign from that. Also, my Glitterati status is not affected since the other ads I am in are not from Asia-Pacific.

Currently, I got Lijit ads showing with Adserve ads as pass tag, Pulse Point ads with Smowtion ads as backup tag, Nuffnang and Clicksor. I now like ad networks with backup tags, you can set your floorprice which is good. Overall, that's four ads in just one blog.

I am starting a new blog about blogging (you can peek at Colored Chalks), but the page is still being developed especially the theme, and am just letting Google to crawl it for awhile. I will talk more about ads at Colored Chalks.

Just happy today!

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Problems after Moving Feedburner Account to Google

For almost two weeks, my feedburner stats had been showing 0 subscriber.

I was hesitant to move my feeds before when they offered the transfer your feedburner account to google. I know the task after the transfer will be much more (you have to update everything that concerns feeds in this blog, widgets, blogosphere, etc). But after continuous refusal to this offer, I was left with no option but to move my account to see my feed stats.

I successfully moved it. The name of this site used to be Information Lot. But changing the name to i-Share did not cause my feed's functionality to alter. People can still subscribe in the previous feed address (feeds.feedburner.com/InformationLot). But after the transfer, my feed was updated to http://feeds2.feedburner.com/InformationLot. So, I thought putting a 2 in the address will not cause any problem. Google had assured me that all the traffic in my previous feed address will be redirected to this new address.

So, I let it stay as is. The message said:
Your feed has been moved into this new account, and your stats have been loaded up. If you see "0" for the most recent full day, don't panic! It may take up to a week for a feed's full dose of stats to appear in your new account. I relied on that message. But after two weeks of hoping, I still see 0 subscribers.

I clicked my site's RSS icon and I was given an error message. I figured out that the problem is in feed address. I don't know how to solve this problem so, I just burn a new feed address and start all over again. I have to update every posts and widgets to make the feeds work. I was running away from this task of updating the blog's feeds but I still ended doing it. I hope you will not replicate this dumb move of mine. Don't try to change your blog title if you have are using feeds.

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I Made it to Top One in Google's Search Results

I am a newbie blogger and still grasping the jargons of this new world. The SEO, html, java, ad placements, monetizing, index and many more have become part of my reading routines last Holiday. This post is kind of late now because my story happened during the Christmas week.

I started using the Google Webmaster Tools only last December for I was so focused on the designs (which I think still needs improvement). When I started using it, the only data available to me are the subscribers and the Top queries because Google haven’t been able to index this site. And on that Christmas week, I was surprised to see that two of my posts were hitting the top spot at Google while others are at number 2. How come?

As for my site status, i-Share is still a baby and its backlinks are about a hundred as well as the traffic each day. Most of my listed backlinks are from FEEDJIT and from STERNDAL’s blog. I was only able to exchange backlinks with the blogs found at my blogroll and only submitted my url to 15 blog directories.

Based from what I read from other people’s suggestions on increasing the SEO, they said that SEO depends on how many backlinks you have. The more there is, the greater chance of being included in the top 10 search results. Then, how did I made it?

I also checked my site’s Page Rank and it says 3! Weeee! Before, I was always given the NO DATA notice; that’s why I still don’t have the button. But now, I have the chance to include it on the widgets. On the other had, people are commenting that Page Rank is not an accurate measure for the SEO because it is only updated after long time intervals. That Google has a different algorithm to base the everyday results of their search engines. As a matter of fact, at the start of 2009, there had been changes on the Page Rank computation from Google and this had caused a drop to some site’s PR. While many people believe on backlinks, others theorized that SEO doesn’t solely depend on it; they are suggesting that there other factors such as the content which is affecting the result. Maybe that’s the side where I had weighed the most (naks!).

Now, ten of my posts are still on the top 10 while others are not showing on the results. Feedjit was able to give me hints on what people are searching so I constantly update the post to suit wider viewers. Still my traffic is at low but what’s important for me is the fact that people had reached i-Share through Googling. That’s the very reason I am now a blogger.

Update: i-Share is now appearing in Yahoo Search results! Yahoo!!

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How to Insert Y!Site Explorer Meta Tag along with Google's?

If you already have the meta tags from Google in your HTML codes and tried to insert also the meta tags from Yahoo, you will surely encounter error even if you already did the simple instruction (near the head command). When you preview it, red fonts warning appears that says it is parsed and there are errors.

After i submitted a url in Y! Site Explorer, i was asked to authenticate it. The only option available to Blogger users is through meta tags. But the HTML edit template in Blogger always regard my pasted meta tags as parsed or broken link. Here's what you will do.

1. Copy the code that will appear and goto your Blogger account.

2.Customize>Edit HTML and click the box with lots of alien wordings.

3.If you remember, you have to place meta tag from google after the head command. Above that meta tag, paste your copied meta from Y! site explorer.

4.A slash is missing in the code. Insert one between " and >. So if you have <Meta name="y_key" content="43086a3499def"> it will be <Meta name="y_key" content ="43086a3499def"/>.
5.It won't error anymore when you preview it.
6. Go back to site explorer and hit Ready to Authenticate.

Stumble Upon Blogger: Lessons from the Journey

My beginner lessons in blogging had taken me to lot of sites. Thanks to tips-for-first-time-blogger and Make Money Online authors. Their tutorials had helped me grasped the new setting that i am in.

i was able to insert gadgets above and below my header and was able to have a three column template. The experiences had exposed me to HTML codes which i am only able to recognize few commands (my programming skills are only limited to SAS and Visual Basic). There are many of tweaks available and i think i won't try it all.

I had been reading my homeworks on RSS Feeds, traffic, url submission, ad placements, search engines and blog directories. Thanks to Google for having the tools and the noob-friendly guides in their help. Yahoo's are not all free to use. I had involved my profile in different blogger communities.

My setting up is almost done. The next task is to have more people learn from what i am doing. I am thankful that you are being one.

Happy sharing!

How to Back Up Your Widgets when You Change Blogger Template

I recently changed my template from 2 columns to 3 columns. But when i uploaded the xml template, i received a warning that all my widgets will be removed and not be recovered. So, here is what you do especially for beginners like me:

1. Search for the template that you like (use google.Type blogger template free). There are 2 formats, the xml and the copy-paste one. You download xml and copy-paste the other one.
2. Open your blogger acct, click 'customize' at the upper right corner. Click 'edit html', the second tab after page elements.
3. Check the 'expand widget' box. And copy-paste the codes in the box using notepad to back up your old template.
4. View your blog.
5. Click the screwdriver icon at the end of each widget. And copy-paste again the codes that will pop-up in notepad. Be sure to name them so you will not be confused later when you set them up. There are some widgets which doesn't have codes, just take note of their kinds. You can get them again when you add gadgets using your new template. Just copy-paste the codes until you exhausted all your widgets.
6. Go back to 'edit html' window and upload your xml template or if you got the copy-paste one, replace the codes in the html box with your new one.
7. Save and view your new template!

I encountered another way of backing up but it is only good for those who have knowledge in html codes. You search and copy every widget code. Then once the html code of the new template is available in the html box, the next problem is where to paste the copied widget codes. Surely,this is no good for those who can't read the html language.

Bonifacio Day Disaster

It had been raining hard since Saturday night. The weather bureau had announced that we are not experiencing any storm. What we have that night was only heavy rainfall due to cold front. I woke up from sleep and discovered that our streets were already flooded. Since our place is located at low area, that scenario was a usual one especially after heavy downpour. What is unusual is that it continued raining for the rest of the day. What seems to be an ordinary Sunday for the Bicolanos turned out to be a disaster. It was reported that our only source of drinking water is already contaminated due to broken pipes in the main water lines and this lack of supply of water will continue for at least 15 days! Also, the bridges linking us from other provinces have already given up due to violent out flow of water from the rivers.

This force of nature had strike us so unexpectedly. Outside, the water had risen to the height of an adult person. The streets were no longer visible. The water inside our house is already knee-deep. This made us transfer our things, from books to appliances, to higher locations. Electricity was also cutoff and our only source of fire, the gas range, is already floating in our kitchen. It was an experience to have a candle lit dinner while muddy water flows under our dining table. After we have disarranged our house to keep things from getting soaked, another burden waits our tomorrows. Once the rains stopped and the water washed away, how will we dry our sofa in this cold and rainy season? Will we have the same amount of adrenalin pumps to reorganize our place and remove all the mud residues? We surely have tiring days ahead. And take note, more tiring days! Not only we will not be able to take baths regularly, we also have to deal on where will we fetch water to wash our clothes and dishes if the only possible alternative is the rain which in great amounts can turn our streets into a body of water? We are still lucky to have our house intact. Let us not forget how this event had taught people here to trust in the Lord in times of troubles and weaknesses.