One of the site’s i’ve had a pleasure watching grow is The Pinoy Tube. The owner, now a good friend of mine has put the website up for sale, with an amazing growth pattern - From Feb after having a 6,000,000 alexa rank - the pinoy tube now stands at a whopping 14,000 thats truely an amazing acomplishment. The pinoy tube just shows you that although youtube are the big boys video niche websites can still find success. Now if your looking to bid checkout the information site for the sale - Ending August 1st.

The Pinoy Tube Auction

I have submitted my offer through a broker, (friend) But from the Pinoy Tube owners i know that it is significantly lower than what they are looking for. So if your looking to get your hands on a very popular niche website with a couple of bucks in your pocket checkout the pinoy tube auction.

Attention - The Main Site Contains Adult Material

Interesting Fact about the PinoyTube. Essentially a soft porn website, it’s rare to find one operated and owned by a women. Well the Pinoy Tube is! Thanks Kat and goodluck with your sale.

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Today while surfing the internet i came across the BumpZee widget on one of my favourite blogs.  But i was shocked to see that the widget was displaying the owners details - these details include website stats which i know i would not want my visitors seeing.

For those of you that don’t know, BumpZee is a SocialNetwork for bloggers - similar to BlogCatalogue and MyBlogLot, which allows users to create and browse communities.  The site also offers stats to blog owners and allows bloggers to put a BumpZee widget on your site showing the latest blog visitors and stories.

Here’s a screen capture i took while browsing one of the top affiliate marketers blogs,

As you can see the Stats section is visible to everyone.  This is not my blog but i can view the website stats i wonder how BumpZee is going to regain the confidence of it’s users after this stunt.  Ofcourse if the site was hacked then let’s hope they improve security measures.  At the moment the BumpZee website looks like;

Let’s hope they can sort of the problems and fast.

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A couple of weeks ago i came across a new PPC Advertising Company, Adsung. After reading a couple of reviews of the site i decided to create an advertisers account. Advertising on new Pay Per Click Ad networks can prove extremely rewarding if your wish to test conversion rates or kick start a campaign.

One of the main benefits of using a new Ad Network is;

• More Publishers than ‘paying’ advertisers

Often these new companies are quick to signup publishers as everyones out to make money but not alot are out to spend it. Here you are able to bid on low CPC values and i started off lastweek at an extremely good rate of 0.01 cents per click. Unfortunately this was short lived and to my surprise i logged in to find position 1-3 filled up at 0.35 and i was stuck in position 6 in the adblocks at, 0.01.

So to get back into position 1, a bid of 0.36 was required. I was testing this network so i decided what the heck let’s give it a go, my whole account was cleaned out in one day - hmm, Thats suspicious considering the amount was not that high. Adsung lacks a good adcenter stats section although it tells you how many clicks and the CTR - basic information you would expect.

After taking a look at my stats using google webanalytics i found this website hooked up to convert users;

Now, the advert displayed here is not my own - my account has already been emptied by this page. Note, this is not part of a website it is simply a page with this on. I am tempted to post the URL but that will only lead to more advertisers missing out and will only leave the publisher with more money. After looking through Adsungs shortlist of Terms. It states;

In response to this i emailed Adsung’s support on Friday but have yet to hear anything back. I’m hoping the next working day this issue will be resolved or atleast noted and can be used to riddle out this problem . It just goes to show that you need to take care of your campaigns while your out to take advantage of new Ad networks there is a small percentage of publishers out to exploit the system.

Am i right to complain? Would you?

I’d also like to say that the Adsung business model is proving useless to publishers. it looks like every Advertiser is bidding on a ten block ad box (much like google adsense 160×600) skycraper. This is going to push the price of the top spot continously up crippling most advertisers. Currently it’s set to 0.35cpc which to me is way to high for the campaign i was running.

Is there anyone else using Adsung to make money online?

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Well, after my short break thats me back to business.  I’ve had a look at my sales and so far so good - I’m not going to complain they are once again passing my expectations.  Each day i’ve made on average $280 this month and still there’s another ten days to go.

I’ve been webdesigning and outsourcing alot of my work to new designers.  So they design and i code - it seems to be a very good business model that allows me to get a massive amount of work done that results in a larger profit margin because of the volume of work being produced.

Before i left, i talked about starting a new job.  Thats right i’m going to be working in the real world soon and the reasons are purely social.  Working infront of a computer for 9 hrs a day on your own takes it’s toll on me because i’m young and very acustomed to socializing and having a laugh.  Something that the weekends are for i know but thats the time i’m often working the most.  So i decided to change it up a little and see the results.

The social side of blogging is something i’d like discussed, maybe i’ll write an article about it soon.  I am not going to reveal the job as it’s nothing special and is long hours for little pay but we will see how it goes and i can continue to market my business early in the mornings and after work at night.

 Also,  I would like to mention that my new web project, it’s very web2.0 is starting to come to life.  Expect invitations to the first BETA week in a few weeks time.  I will be interested to hear everyones thoughts.

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Well today i’ve decided to take a blogging break.  Although quite foolish and it’s going to set back my blog growth quite a bit i fell it’s worth the sacrifice.  Thursday i leave for a weeks holiday and the days leading up to Thursday are filled with organising my house aswell as my business to ensure everyones informed and able to cope.  Blogging for me is a long term goal but things at the moment are just to hetic to actually sit down and write good informative articles, something i feel my blog has lacked since my intial posts.

New direction.  Blog Me Famous was ideally only suppose to be about  myself and my journey, i started writing articles that where a little offtopic but brought in alot of visitors and they expect that to continue but for the reasons stated above it’s difficult to continue publishing alot of the time especially when you don’t want to monetize your blog.

Fear not although.  Once i have all my projects up and running and i’m back from holiday. I will be returning here to update everyone on whats happening aswell as a new lick of paint for the blog and a new direction.  moving away from my personal journey into a more mainstream blog.

Signing off from the Blogoshpere,

Chris,

Why not checkout the following blogs - BloggingDosh, BlogGrrl, BenjaminCass, Blogging Tips

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