Using Xoom to accept PayPal payments
April 30, 2007
UPDATE: PayPal Philippines accounts are now eligible to accept payments. Alternatively, you can use Xoom to accept PayPal payments from abroad. The article below has more details on that. Note, however, that Xoom cannot be used to withdraw funds from PayPal Philippines accounts.
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Using the money transfer service Xoom, you can accept funds from a PayPal user even if you don't have a PayPal account. The sender can pay you using his or her PayPal balance, credit card, or bank account.
Details of the two ways to receive PayPal payments after the jump. If you need to open a Xoom account, click HERE.
How much of your monthly salary/allowance do you save?
April 28, 2007
Do you spend all of your monthly salary/allowance or do you save a part of it? Tell us by posting in the "How much of your monthly salary/allowance do you save?" thread in the forum.
Replies of some PMT members after the jump.
Got paid $40 by Blogitive in March
April 21, 2007
Definitely not bad. You just rephrase an advertiser’s press release, post it in your blog using no less than 100 words and you get paid $5. In my case, I was paid $40 in March. And I wasn’t even that active yet, logging in to the Blogitive site only once every three days.
Blogitive is another one of those get paid to blog programs. In contrast with other programs, however, you can easily earn five dollars just by “paraphrasing” a short article (they call it a “web release”) from advertisers. There are very few slots available for each article, so if you refresh the “Open Offers” list without claiming an article, you might miss it right there and then.
Falling in love with Moscow
April 15, 2007
No, Pinoy Money Talk is not turning into a travel blog (well, not yet) but here are some pictures and a video of my recent trip to Russia and Ukraine which explains why this blog went into a one-week no-post hiatus last week.
I first visited Moscow, Russia in August 2006 and fell in love with the city right there and then. The sights and sounds were astoundingly different from what the Philippines, Korea, Singapore or the US have to offer, and the story behind each building, street or monument make Moscow more enchanting.
Photos after the jump.
Survey of SEO experts on Google SERPs and site ranking
April 8, 2007
Search engine optimization (SEO) company SEOmoz.org recently released the follow-up to its first series on "Search Engine Ranking Factors" initially published on August 2005. The new report, dubbed Search Engine Ranking Factors Version 2, documented the opinion of 37 recognized leaders in organic search engine optimization. The report included a survey of these SEO all-stars on their thoughts about sites' ranking in Google's SERP or search engine results pages.
Their answers to the survey questions after the jump.
You’ve got mail! A customized optimization report from Google Adsense
April 5, 2007
Quick, log in to your Google Adsense account now, go to "Reports > Overview," then scroll down a bit. What do you see?
You've got mail! From Google Adsense!
Google Adsense started sending today customized optimization tips to Adsense publishers.
More specifically, our system will automatically analyze your account and ad settings. Based on these findings, you'll receive a notification each month in your Adsense account if there are changes you can make to improve your overall Adsense performance.
Screenshot of this new section in Adsense and their personal message to me after the jump.
“Real” definitions of some stock market terms
April 4, 2007
So you aced the Stock Market Vocabulary Quiz, huh? But do you know what the following stock market terms really mean?
Read on to see Ron Nathan of Philippine Daily Inquirer's Mr. BearBull column put a different spin on these stock market-related vocabularies.
Warning: Brain processing not required. Laugh when the need arises.
Reliving the old Studio Traffic forum
April 3, 2007
Not everyone knows this, but Pinoy Money Talk (PMT) owes its existence primarily to Studio Traffic or ST, the de facto "mother" of all autosurf programs.
It was early 2005. Studio Traffic was growing, and more and more Filipinos were joining the autosurf bandwagon. Pinoy ST members often found themselves gathering in the official Studio Traffic forum at www.studiotraffic.org/forum (now offline).
Despotic rules in the ST forum, however — such as absolute ban on links to external sites, on signatures, on posting contact information, and on non-English posts, among others — prevented Filipino and non-Filipino ST members alike from actually discussing what they want to talk about. Any negative post in the forum is outrightly deleted, and those who continue posting account-related questions are banned.
Pinoys eventually found the need for a less-strict forum where they can freely talk about ST without the fear of being banned. In response, the Pinoy Money Talk forum was born.
Google’s MentalPlex, Romance, TiSP and other April Fool’s jokes
April 2, 2007
Don't tell me you fell for PMT's own April Fool's joke? LOL.
It's ok. Even Google has punked a lot of people worldwide, thanks to their annually hilarious April Fool's hoaxes. Here's a rundown of Google's April Fool's jokes.
2007
Google TiSP - a free broadband service that would make use of a standard toilet and sewage lines to provide free Internet connectivity.
PinoyMoneyTalk.com is closing down
April 1, 2007
The end is the beginning is the end.
Last month marked PinoyMoneyTalk.com's second year of existence. And this month we end it. Effective immediately, PinoyMoneyTalk.com will cease operations.
More details here.
