Dreamhost offers free hosting to RegisterFly customers
March 22, 2007
Hosting company Dreamhost is offering RegisterFly customers who are looking for a new registrar free one-year hosting if they transfer to Dreamhost on or before March 31.
RegisterFly customers who will transfer to Dreamhost will get one year of L1 Hosting Plan free, including domain transfer and renewal.
More details after the jump.
Pimp your Google!
March 21, 2007
Tired of the dull, all-white Google search homepage? Then pimp your Google!
A few hours ago, Google added "Themes" to personalized homepages, enabling users to adopt a theme for their own pages. Look, the themes also change depending on your location!
Wanna try it yourself? Log on to your "Personalized Home" in Google and click the "Select Theme" link at the upper-right corner.
Screenshots of Google's new colored themes after the jump.
These Google Adsense cheque thieves should be sent to jail
March 20, 2007
It's not the first time it happened and it definitely won't be the last.
Several scumbags in the Philippines are stealing someone else's Google Adsense check and encashing it using a fake identity.
How exactly can a person do that? Beats me. But it only shows why PayPal took some time before offering the full lineup of functions to PayPal Philippines accounts.
RegisterFly.com is so f*cked up
March 19, 2007
Pardon the language but, yes, RegisterFly.com now is so f*cked up .
First, the embattled registrar’s accreditation has been terminated and second, RegisterFly.com’s site has been defaced apparently by one of its disgruntled employees.
More (including the screenshot of the “f*cked” message in RegisterFly.com) after the jump.
How to disable ProtectFly in your RegisterFly domains
March 19, 2007
Step #5 in our guide to move domains away from RegisterFly.com is to remove ProtectFly if it is activated in the domains. For some of you who found difficulties deactivating ProtectFly, don't fret. Below is a guide on how to do exactly that.
Another fake e-gold email
March 17, 2007
Be warned of the following email purportedly from e-gold. It is a phishing email, one designed to steal your personal data to be used for identity theft.
Do not click the link in the email. It goes NOT to e-gold’s official site (www.e-gold.com) but to a fake site (loooooooooong URL!):
http://lwww.e-gold.com.acc.secure.
accsent.activationacc.
egoldupdateservice.3ahd.net/
5ae52d14451gf45gfffgf54gf1h4524
5412ds45 sd21dsike539e6saas56df
54hg5f4h45ds5445cv5m54zxc45e
4545jh4h87fg8872s356475s78fs8
fs8jfhfd54.html
How a phishing e-gold site works is described in the Beware of the fake e-gold site article.
More examples of fake e-gold emails can be found in the Fake E-gold Emails thread in the forum.
How you can protect yourself from phishing can be described in the Fight the Phishing Sites article.
Full text of the fake e-gold email after the jump.
How to earn from Text-Link-Ads
March 16, 2007
A webmaster-friend of mine told me that exactly a week after he signed up in Text-Link-Ads, his account shows he has already earned $15. I visited his site (PR4 with a fair amount of backlinks) and there they are, the three text link ads worth $15. Not bad, considering all he did was submit his site to Text-Link-Ads and add the appropriate code. That’s it.
Text-Link-Ads (TLA) is a link advertising system that pays publishers for placing advertisers’ links in their sites. TLA splits the final sale price of any ads sold 50/50 with the site owner. Ads on a site are priced based on an algorithm that factors in the traffic of a website, site theme, and link popularity.
How can you earn with Text-Link-Ads? Read below.
- Publishing Text Link Ads
Submit your site to TLA. Once approved, add the publisher ad code to your site and wait for TLA to sell your ad space to advertisers. Text link ads automatically appear in your site (where you placed the code) once an advertiser is found. You can check your earnings in your TLA account. Payments are sent out on the 1st of every month. The minimum payment to be sent out via check is $25. There is no minimum for PayPal payments.
- Feedvertising
Feedvertising is TLA’s RSS ad technology. It allows you to place text link ads at the bottom of your blog’s RSS feeds. Just install the TLA Wordpress plugin to your Wordpress blog and you’re all set. No need to tinker with complicated codes.
- Affiliate Marketing
Refer a new paid client or new publisher and earn $25.00. Payments are sent out on the 1st of every month. The minimum payment to be sent out via check is $25. There is no minimum for PayPal payments.
Join Text-Link-Ads now and start earning.
Another get-paid-to-post-reviews program: SponsoredReviews
March 14, 2007
Another pay-per-post program is in town. Just like ReviewMe and PayperPost, the new player, SponsoredReviews, is paying bloggers who will write reviews of an advertiser’s product or site.
Depending on a blog’s readership and quality of posts, the SponsoredReviews system recommends an amount that can be charged, but the blogger can choose to ignore this and set his own price.
For each task offered in SponsoredReviews, a minimum and maximum amount will be specified. A blogger can bid for how much he is willing to write the review and the advertiser can accept or reject the bid offer. A blogger can earn anywhere from $10 to $1000 per review.
12DailyPro refunds FAQ
March 13, 2007
The latest breakthrough 12DailyPro news came in November 2006 but recently, however, there still are no major updates regarding the receivership status of 12DailyPro or the possibility of refunds.
We might hear some 12DailyPro updates in April 2007, though, once the Receiver submits a 2nd Interim Report to the Court.
While waiting for the report, let's recap some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about 12DailyPro and 12DP refunds, as posted in the website of Thomas F. Lennon, the Court-appointed receiver.
March 2007 Member of the Month: Bentong
March 10, 2007
One of the few "old-timers" still active in the forum until now, Bentong is PMT's March Member of the Month.
9. Any tips you can share about money-making?
Save, save, save. It's not how much money you earn it's how much money you save. Do not gamble your hard-earned money just to escape from your financial burden. Instead turn your savings into a slowly but surely passive income. Save and it will save you!
Read the full interview or ask your own questions in the March 2007 Member of the Month thread.
Get to know other Pinoy Money Talk Members of the Month here.
