Posted on March 13, 2010 by Ajith | 5 Comments
Looks like the recent PayPal India chaos – whereby the personal account holders couldn’t withdraw money to Indian banks – has come to an end! When I tried to withdraw money to my bank account last week, it asked me to declare a purpose for the proceeds received through PayPal (Screenshot below).
This is definitely a great move. As I have always maintained, the online income earners need to comply to government rules and regulations while making money. In principle they are bringing in foreign exchange (Forex) to India that’s not accounted for and sometimes not taxed.
Continue reading » PayPal India conforms to Government regulations
Posted on March 7, 2010 by Ajith | 10 Comments
Exactly two years ago, I had maintained that facebook is going to witness explosive growth over its competition. Today it has actually done it and well beyond expectations at that. It’s no more a mere social networking platform but also a place where people market their products and promote their brands.
Facebook fan pages have become one of the bare minimum ingredients for any company in order to successfully build its brand and online campaigns (even for offline success). Last night, I spend some time to build a small fan page for DollarShower and I strongly recommend that you build one for your business today! Creating a fan page is as simple as 1-2-3 as explained in this post.
Continue reading » Facebook fan page: Create one for your brand or business today
Posted on February 25, 2010 by Ajith | 12 Comments
In October last year, I had written a review on QueryAds as an alternative to the Google AdSense program as well as an effective search advertising option. Recently they launched an affiliate program and this post is a short review on the same.
The QueryAds publisher network is an excellent value proposition for bloggers and webmasters because they share 70% of their revenue with publishers and the payout happens when a $50 threshold is reached. And now they have an unmatched affiliate program where a 10% of the referral revenues for life is given to the affiliates.
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Posted on February 15, 2010 by Ajith | 26 Comments
After a week of inactivity on the blogging front, I tried to moderate the pending comments today. Unlike my previous reactions on the spam folder, this time around, I decided to give some respect to the spammers and actually read many of those comments. To be frank, I do not entirely blame them for their backdoor marketing efforts. On the other hand, I thought, some of them are really very creative and childishly funny at times.
The following are some of the very interesting spam comments that I keep receiving and my answers to them, if I had actually moderated them in. I am sure, all of you must have gone through similar situations and hence please feel free to add some of your greatest spam comments as real comments here.
Continue reading » Spam Comments Fun!
Posted on February 9, 2010 by Ajith | 40 Comments
It has been only a week since PayPal India stopped processing all money transactions to personal accounts in India. They have also blocked the withdrawal of available funds. Apart from receiving the AdSense checks, most of the Indian bloggers and freelancers would have used PayPal for online money transfers and hence the future of their hard earned money remains uncertain.
A lot of people think that making money online in countries like India is a really easy to do thing. Indeed, it’s so easy to get started but with all its related risks (Read Online business risks) and a lot more related uncertainities.
Continue reading » Making Money Online in India gets tougher
Posted on February 6, 2010 by Ajith | 9 Comments
I recently came across this amazing free SEO analytics site called SERP Analytics. At the first glance, it looked to me like a normal search site but as I started digging deeper, I realized that it has got a set of powerful tools for SEO specialists, Internet Marketers and bloggers.
SERPAnalytics.com is an online solution and hence you don’t need to download anything to get started – not even a browser toolbar as in the case of some other solutions. Some of the exciting features of this include detailed site statistics from SEO point of view, top paying AdSense keywords, SEO parameters under live search results from Google, Yahoo or Bing etc and lot more as explained below.
Continue reading » SERP Analytics – Free Online SEO Solutions for SEO & SEM specialists
