China Paper Holdings Revisit

With recent relatively high trading volume, many investors are still interested in this counter. The price has bounced back from as low as 30 cents. The most anticipated result is due by 1st Mar. Will it announce a dividend of 0.1 RMB?

pay-per-click ads revisit

After my previous post The Advertisements That I have tried, I tried some more ads companies. Here is the update:

(1) BidVertiser has closed my account. Reason: invalid clicks. Frankly speaking, if it feels clicks/impressions rate is too high, or constantly clicks each day, it will think you are fraud.

(2) CrispAds only counts the clicks from several countries, excluding Singapore. So does BannerBoxes / RevenuePILOT.

(3) AdBrite has a setting which allows you to display general advertisements, even gambling and adult contents.

(4) After trying so many companies, I feel it is not a good channel to earn money online. With so few viewers and traffic of your blog, how could you think your blog worth a lot? Each valid click worths 3 to 7 cents only. I think UOB online rewards is even better than this "online making money". If you did an online transaction using UOB internet banking, you get points worth 25 singapore cents.

China Paper Holdings

In favour factors:
(1) Steady growth: FY05 Q1 gross margin: 25.09%, EPS 6.86 fen RMB. Q2: 25.66% and 8.66 fen. Q3: 29.97% and 11 fen. Q4 will be reported by 1st Mar. 06.
(2) Increased capacity: announcement on 3rd Jan. 06. Output increased by 12.5% or 20,000 tonnes.

Uncertain factors:
(1) Major shareholder Rise Business Inc. was exiting.
(2) Changed auditors during FY05.

An email from BidVertiser

We are sorry to inform you that due to a violation of our Terms of Service, we have terminated your account. Reason for termination: Invalid clicks generated by any of the following actions:

1. Clicks generated by the website owner. Clicking on the BidVertiser ads on your own site, for any reason, is strictly prohibited.

2. Asking or encouraging others to click on the BidVertiser ads. Asking or encouraging others to click on the ads for any reason, either directly or indirectly, is strictly prohibited. Using sentences such as "click the ads to support us", "visit our sponsors" or "please click the ads" will lead to account termination.

3. Displaying the BidVertiser ads in an unrequested pop-up, pop-under
or third-party's frame. Pages showing the BidVertiser ads may never be loaded in an unrequested pop-up, pop-under, floating HTML item or as an inner frame of a third party. Promoting your website or purchasing traffic from clicks-exchange networks is strictly prohibited.

4. Displaying the BidVertiser ads on sites that contain prohibited content. The BidVertiser ads may not be displayed alongside any type of content prohibited by our program policies, such as adult or mature content, or illegal drugs content.

5. Generating automated scripts or any other method solely meant to generate clicks on the BidVertiser ads.

We would kindly ask you to remove any BidVertiser HTML code from your website ASAP.

Adsense Exchange?

All pay per click agents can disconnect a publisher’s account if it feels frauds. This includes not only self-clicking. Now all over the world there is a certain "Adsense Exchange" where you essentially pay and exchange members rotate clicking each others ads. Many people are induced and actually go and join. While you may see some immediate increases in your AdSense dollars, Google will ban your account sooner or later. This is very important, you will get banned. It may take a day, a few weeks, a few months but you'll get banned. No problem.

If you are truly looking to earn an income with Google Adsense, there is no quick route. You must have quality developed sites with fresh content being added. You must tweak your sites and make them somewhat unique! You must NOT click your own ads! You simply do these things and you will make money from Google AdSense.

The Advertisements That I have tried

As in the previous blog, I listed so many companies which provide pay-per-click advertisement. So far I have tested five of them. Here is the result:

Tested but removed: (1) Google adsense. It is very fast and convenient. However, due to its popularity, you see same advertisements everywhere. I removed it. (2) AdBrite. It doesn't provide general advertisements on your site. Only interested advertisers indicate to place ads on your site, and then you can make money. So my account was zero for more than two weeks. (3) AllFeeds. This one is a surprise. All the ads don't work. Clicking on them will transfer to allfeeds homepage.

Currently running: (1) BidVertiser. (2) Clicksor. I will elaborate them later.

P.S. Amended at 11 AM. Clicksor often times out to fetch data. I decide to remove it too. But I applied for RevenuePILOT. They will reply me in 1 or 2 business days. :)

P.S. Added at 2PM 16 Feb 06. RevenuePILOT only accepts clicks from UK/ US/ Canada/ Australia. I have to remove it as well.

P.S. Added at 9AM 17 Feb 06. Contextweb.com rejected my application to open an account, citing that they don't provide ads situated for my category. They will notify me when they start the category in the future.

Pay-Per-Click Advertisement

In current tide of second generation of internet, many of us create our own blog sites. After you have created your website, and you are getting some visitors. So next step you want to earn some revenue. Currently there are many companies out there that will provide you advertisements to display on your site.

You receive money (pay) per click (PPC) or a percentage of any sales that your lead makes. Google AdSense is currently the main player in the Pay-Per-Click advertising field. Nowadays you often see "Ads by gooooogle" when you are surfing. Google's high quality network infrastructure enables it able to accept big number of websites. But it has a drawback. Just imagining many sites are displaying same advertisements, who will click the ones on your site?

Some companies provide advertisements based on the content of your site, or contextual. While some claim to display the one who bids at highest price.

For your reference, here is a list famous companies who offer Pay-Per-Click:
7Search / Adhearus / Adsense / AdSonar / AffiliateSensor / AllFeeds / AzoogleAds / BidClix / Bidvertiser / BrightAds / Chitika /Clicksor / Context Web / FastClick / Revenue Pilot / TargetPoint / Yahoo.

Publishers and Advertisers

Thanks to the booming blogs, which some people call the second generation of internet, many of us become bloggers, or publishers. Where publishers exist is where advertisers do. Although a blog provides little chance of boosting sales, people won't waste it. Thus many advertisement agents are born. They are bridges to advertisers and publishers. They collect money from advertisers and share it with publishers. The money is based on eyeballs, i.e. impressions or clicks.

Due to the nature of personal blogs, the audience of personal blogs, normal newspaper advertisements could not find it is worth advertising on them. But many online book-selling stores are different. They sell books about how to make money online. For example, the book title could be I make online weekly money of $3,000 without doing anything. Or Secrets of Google Adsense. I believe many blogger wish to earn this free money too.

It is not surprised that many authors live upon these kinds of books. And even an author claims that 20% of online clicks are fraudulent. He can tell them from legislated clicks. Advertisers can refer to him to find out truth. Of course advertisers must pay for it. Blogs created a lot of business in deed.

Making money is not easy

Although your account balance may accrue by some clicks, Google people are very intelligent to detect invalid ones. They don't disclose how they found that. They have therefore disabled your Google AdSense account. Please understand that this step was taken in an effort to protect the interest of the AdWords advertisers.

A publisher's site may not have invalid clicks on any ad(s), including but not limited to clicks generated by:

(1) a publisher on his own web pages; (2) a publisher encouraging others to click on his ads (3) automated clicking programs or any other deceptive software (4) a publisher altering any portion of the ad code or changing the layout, behavior, targeting, or delivery of ads for any reason.

In conclusion, your web pages must have the ability to promote advertisers' interest. Only in this way can you get paid. NOT EASY.