Google Adsense Western Union payment now available to Kenyans

For Kenyan Adsense publishers who have been groaning about cheque payment you no longer have to frown as Kenya has been added to the list of supported countries for Western Union payment.You no longer have to wait for cheques in the mail as all you have to do is visit a Western union agent once the funds have been disbursed.To change your form of payment just login to adsense and you will find payment settings under account settings.A national ID though is required to receive payment form the agent.Here is a list of countries supported so far;

Algeria Argentina Bahrain Barbados Benin Bolivia Bulgaria Burkina Faso Cameroon Chile China (Mainland) Colombia Costa Rica Cote d'Ivoire Croatia Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt Ethiopia Gambia Georgia Ghana Guatemala Iceland Indonesia Jamaica Jordan Kenya Kuwait Latvia Lebanon Libya Lithuania Madagascar Malta

Malaysia Mauritius Mexico Moldova Morocco Mozambique Nepal Nicaragua Oman Pakistan Palestinian Territories Panama Paraguay Peru Philippines Puerto Rico Qatar Reunion (FR) Romania Saudi Arabia Senegal Seychelles Slovenia South Korea Taiwan Tanzania Thailand Tunisia Uganda United Arab Emirates Uruguay Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (British) Yemen Zambia

You can now receive send and recieve payments in Kenya via paypal

During the world cup period it was with much excitement that paypal announced they would add South Africa to the list of countries that they would enhance support for by enabling members to recieve funds to their paypal accounts.Kenya is now proudly on the same list and together with South Africa are the only two countries in Africa from which you can send and recieve funds to your paypal account.
NB:You cannot withdraw your paypal funds to a local bank account just in case you did not know(yet)
For a list of which features are supported in which country you can visit their country list page here;

Send. Receive. Withdraw to a U.S. Bank Account.

Send and receive payments in these countries. Withdraw from your PayPal account to a U.S. bank account.

• Bermuda
• Bulgaria
• Cayman Islands
• Costa Rica
• Cyprus
• Dominican Republic
• El Salvador
• Estonia
• Gibraltar

• Guatemala
• Iceland
• Kenya
• Kuwait
• Latvia
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Malta
• Panama

• Peru
• Qatar
• Romania
• San Marino
• Slovenia
• South Africa
• United Arab Emirates
• Venezuela

KDN and FamilyBank team up to offer free WiFi internet

The joint venture between Kenya Data Networks (KDN) and Family Bank Limited, will allow the bank’s customers, and the members of the public, to use the free Wi-Fi connections to the internet, within a radius of one kilometre of each of the bank’s 50 branches.Here is a list of some of the branches so you can know if there is a spot near you

Adsense payout now available in Kenya Shillings

Just today I recieved exciting news that Google Adsnse was now offering cheques in Kenya shillings(Credit goes to collins over at Siku-moja for the find)
Here are the instructions on how to change the currency
-When you log in you will see a tip with a green background saying that earnings are now available in euros
-Click on the link and agree to the terms of service
-After that go to My Account then under account settings edit payment details and after selecting check you will see a drop down list from where you can select the checks to be Kenya shillings

No more money for your EC credits,and thats not all!

 

I have been racking up EC credits ever since may that I could cash them out but to my shock when I transfered them to the cashout nothing happened,they just remained there for like 2 months and very unhappy about this I contacted entrecard and this was the message they sent me

Sorry we no longer offer cashout services on entrecard,thanks for your continuing support

Xbox360 price change again?

I know many of you were aware of the price change in august that led to a 100$ decrement in the price of the xbox360 elite system but know it has been confirmed.If you don't believe me check it out for yourself on the xbox360 page

Theme changes!

I have changed my theme abruptly because the other theme had faulty images so I am going to change it and abruptly so give me a day to change the appearance.The posts are still viewable.

Competition over!

I had recently started a competition where the prizes were free ad space on my blog but since there was only one entrant she won by default.
Congratulations to Penny,I will contact you very soon with more details.

Adspace giveaway competition

I recently added ad blocks to my sidebar and so to get things going a little faster I decided to start a competition where the winners will get to have their ads on my blog for 2 weeks.Here are the conditions of the competition

1. All you have to do is leave a comment here on this post with the address of your blog to enter,no need to write a post about this competition and no need to subscribe to my feed(but you still can if you want)
2. Competition will run from 1st November to 10th November
3. Ads will be in the form of 125x125 images(preferably PNG) hosted by the advertiser.Basically if you win you will create a 125x125 image and host it online either on photobucket,flickr or blogger and then give me the link and I will ad you advertisement.
4. The ad has to be about your blog and not a competition or a get paid to site
5. There will be 3 winners since there are 3 ad spaces who will be chosen via Randorm.org
6. NO pornographic ads

Ad space for sale!!!

That's right,I am selling above the fold ad space on my blog to any one willing to advertise on it.Ads will be in the form of 125x125 images.
The forms of payment I will be accepting are via paypal or via Mpesa
The price for the space is for the meantime negotiable so just contact me here. and we can discuss the price and the time you want your ad to be put.
The ads will be located above the email subscription box

3000 page views anniversery post

Today my blog officially hit 3000 page views and to commemorate this extraordinary event I am going to write a post about the history of this blog from the very time it was at the drawing board to where it is today.

The Beginning
When I started this blog I was a complete internet newbie so I did not know anything about blogger or wordpress or free web hosting.So about a year ago someone asked to me to make a website for them using Ms Publisher since I knew the basics and I agreed and also decided to make one for myself too since I had a lot of free time to burn.From that the first layout for the Kenyan Guru website was born.
I took like a month looking for a suitable free web host because back then I didn't know that many sites.I finally found one and uploaded the HTML to it and that was on January 16th of this year(this is an estimate as I don't remember the actual date).The url was kenyanguru.kohost.0lx.net(don't visit the link now as it will just redirect back to this blog)

The take-off
For the next month I was the only one visiting the site and updating the site was a real hassle because every time I updated the posts or the layout I had to update the HTML files all over again which used to get on my nerves.Since I was using Ms Publisher the website didn't look very pleasing and so I rarely got new visitors or any significant traffic.To solve my updating problem I decided to add a blogger blog to my articles section so that I could easily update the section that needed to be updated.The traffic was still not significant enough so I did what all new blogger do by submitting the site to directories and search engines but it did not help much as the site was not interactive as it did not offer any feeds and readers could not post comments.
As time passed I started concentrating on the blog more than I did on the main site and around July I moved my site to the blog and redirected all the little traffic that was there here.
With time I got used to the blogger tools and editing the layout that I got bored with the default Rounders 3 template I was using and so I changed to another very popular template(guess?)Langit Blogger.Even though it looked good I still wasn't happy with it and so I scoured the web until I found this template called Vista84 which is the one I am currently using.From then on I increased the frequency at which I updated my blog and in months such as August I even updated my blog daily.

The present
From then on traffic and readership has been on a steady increase and I couldn't be happier.I would like to thank all the readers,commentors and subscribers for making this possible.