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

How to purchase goods online from Kenya

One question that always storms my comments section is users asking for ways to buy goods from online.One major myth that internet users from Kenya share is that paypal does not work here but this is very wrong.In this post I am going to show you how to sign up for Paypal from Kenya and another usable alternative called Google checkout


PAYPAL
Requirements
VISA debit or credit card
Bank statement
Steps
Go to paypal and sign up for a personal account,input all your information correctly especially contact address and credit/debit card number because this will be used as your shipping information and the card for payment
After sign-up and confirmation is complete you will be asked to verify your account,this is just to prove the account is yours and what happens is they take out around ksh 150 and this transaction will show up on your statement as
                                  XXXXPAYPAL----------------------
Once you ask for verification you will be asked to input a code which is the XXXX on your statement(format might differ with your bank but there will always be a numerical code).You can go to an ATM and get your mini statement or for those with Mbanking you can get it from your phone.Once you input this code into paypal you are ready to go.
Note:You cannot recieve money to your paypal account(yet),the only money paypal can use is the one in your bank account
Shopping
Many online shopping sites accept paypal but you can start with the big dogs Ebay and Ioffer
When shopping online a few tip to getting a good deal is always to check the free shipping box when doing a search because products online are very cheap the only problem is the shipping cost.Once again make sure you input your address correctly as this is the information that will be on the package.On average shipping takes 1-2 weeks.

Google checkout
Google checkout is just like paypal only that you don't need to verify your account and you can start using it straight away,the only problem is fewer sites accept it as a form of payment.The goods thing about google is they have a search engine that searches for products for you,you can check it out here:http://www.google.com/checkout/deals.html

TIPS
I would not recommend doing these activities on a computer at a cyber cafe,just to be safe
Also update your antivirus to protect you from phising viruses

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

Finally a useful wordlwide e-currency

With all the buzz about the growth of internet banks have been in a rush to cope with the online craze and have started offering online banking and stuff like that but the thought of open international money exchange has been a long-time dream of many Kenyans.M-pesa has made favourable headway but it is still lacking in terms of international money exchange.This site is a great solution for people who have money that they would like to invest in online and not have to deal with the usual unscrupulous middlemen.Here is how it works.

Alertpay in Kenya

Since I had previously done a post on how useless paypal is I decided to do a post on alertpay which all the Kenyans seem to be recommending so I looked into the site and here is a summary of what I came across.

Kenya's alternative to Paypal?

Since paypal has totally ignored online banking in Africa people have been forced to seek alternatives,as I was doing my usual speed surfing I came across a site that has a lot of potential called pesapal

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

Upload and share images for free with Sharedimages

Are you an avid image uploader.Image hosting sites are very common these days with the likes of photobucket,flickr and tinypic but you may have noticed that most of these sites are very careful with their bandwidth and once your badnwidth runs out,no more image sharing.Now for people who share images on a large scale such as image gallery owners or photographers need a service that will meet to their bandwidth needs and lucky for them their happens to be such a site called sharedimages

What are the features of sharedimages?
1.Unlimited bandwidth
2.Unlimite storage
3.Files are never deleted
4.All image types are allowed even adult material
5.Various image upload methods such as via zip files,url upload and many others

If this is what you have been looking for then you can sign up here and start sharing
SharedImages

Entrecard now accepting cash-out applications

To all you entrecarders who were waiting for cashout to be released the system has been launched and members have to apply for approval before they can cashout which means that a lot of people are going to get rejected.They are also only accepting cashout via paypal.To apply for cashout just look for the Apply for cashout link on your entrecard dashboard under the my account section

Entrecard yet to release cashout system

The much awaited credit cashout system on entrecard which was set to be released last weekend is still not out

There is much speculation on how priority for cashout will be given but according to the Entrecard blog they will create an algorithm that will generate a number which will determine how active you are on entrecard on activities such as dropping,buying ads,accepting ads e.t.c
As for cashout it will be per 1000 EC but the amount is still yet to be determined

Entrecard soon to offer cash for your credits

Word around entrecard is that very soon entrecard will be implementing a new ad system which will feature CPM ads

That is not all there will also be a new system where you can convert your entrecard credits into cash although the details on how this will be done are still unclear bu this has been met with a lot of excitement by entrecards members except the new rule that states all entrecard widgets will have to be placed above the fold i.e visible on your page without the user having to scroll down,which will be implemented as soon as the new ad system is released which according to entrecard will be next week.

Get paid to Tweet!

A few months ago I told of the site called twittad which was going to enable people to make money from their twitter but at that time the service was not active but it now is.What this service does is it puts ads in your twitter profile background and every hour the ad is up you get money.

The minimum payout is 20$ and payment is via paypal.
Ad space is purchased by advertisers and so you have to make sure you are a popular on twitter and also that your profile looks good so that it can be chosen by advertisers.You also have the option to accept or deny ad proposals just like in entrecard.You can also sell ads on twitter profile pages via twittad.
Visit their homepage for more details or to sign up:Twittad

10 ways to make your blog succeed

These days everybody has a blog, some people even more than one.BUT! What people have not noticed is that with the right strategies your blog can start making money for you. Want to know how to do this? Just read the following steps.




Make your blog professional.
1. First and for-most you have quality articles which in-turn will bring in traffic.
2. Make your blog stand-out, don’t use default blogger templates as this will automatically make readers think that it is a personal blog and not a professional one.
3. Update your blog frequently, it is not a must it be daily but at least twice or thrice a week, this shows how seriously you take blogging.If you have nothing to write don’t force it as it will just dilute the quality articles you have.
4. If you have many widgets arrange them nicely in your sidebar as this will make them look organised.
5. Respond to reader feedback such as comments or questions asked via mail. This will cement the relationship between you and your readers encouraging them to come back often and comment.
6. .If possible get a TLD(top level domain) such as .com or .net as this shows readers you are willing to spend money in order to get your articles read.Now again if you don’t have the resources you will be just fine with the .blogspot or whichever sub-domain you use.

Know your readers.
When I say know them I maen know which countries they are from,the sites that reffered them to yours and such details.Now in order to get this information you are obviously not going to ask each and every reader these details but you can get analytics such as Google Analytics or Histats.This information will help you improve your blog even further as you will have a rough idea of what the reader is looking for.For example if you have many readers from countries that do not speak English it would be wise to add a language translation widget to ensure that you do not lose all those valuable readers.

How to make money
1. Sell ad space on your blog directly(which is harder but more profitable) or via services such as Google Adsense and Adbrite.Directly is where advertisers contact you and you negotiate the price and duration their ad will be up.
2. Get refferals to the GPT(get paid to) sites that you are a member of.
3. Grow a blog and then sell it,which many big time bloggers usually do.
4. Get a sponsor,this is a company or website that will pay you if you put ads and links to their respective websites.

Is AwSurveys legit?

If you are a an avid reader of blogs and forums you will always see someone write a post or comment about how to get a rapidshare account free legally and it is like they always use the same explanation of how they have made aclot of money using AwSurveys and they now have lots of money in their paypal account but I have to warn you that it is not as easy as it seems.

I am talking here from experience and I can tell you that I really think that Awsurveys is a scam but then I ask myself 'why is it still online?'.So first of all I am going to tell you what basically happens when you sign up.
First you will see many offers that are easy to do and when I say easy I mean very easy and so on your first day you will have over $20 and so you will be excited at how much easy money you made.
The next time you find another survey to do will be like a month later and it will only be one and it will pay you $1.Since the payout is $75 most people turn to refferrals and that is why you will always see people sending you referral links to Awsurveys.
For the few who have been successful to reach payout they say that if you redeem your money to paypal they deduct $25 as a payment fee which doesn't make any sense to me.
I also have an account with them and I am really wondering if I should cancel it or not.
If you have been paid or you have not been paid please leave a comment and share the experiences you have had.

Adsense for games launched

You have all heard of adsense for content or adsense for search but you will be shocked to find out that Google recently launched adsense for online games.Publishers will have the ability to put video,image or text ads in their online games in places such as the beginning of the game,inbetween levels and wherever else the publisher chooses.

To qualify for adsense for games you have to have had at least 500,000 game plays and 80% of your traffic has to be from U.S or U.K.
If you are interested you can view some videos or submit your application here;Inside adsense

If you don't know any popular online game sites you can search the web here

Custom Search

Make money from your tweets on Twitter

There are two ad networks coming up that are going to enable publishers to make money from their tweets and advertisers to advertise on them.
The two sites are not yet operational but seem to be in the process

The sites are twitad and twitads.The sites appear still to be under construction so I could not get information about details such as payment methods and such but as soon as I do I will keep you guys posted.

Get paid to Digg/Pay per digg?

I recenlty came across a very wierd GPT site that pays people for digging certain articles,get paid $0.50 for every 3 stories you digg.Sounds like an easy way to make money.

The site is called User/Submitter.First of all paying to get your story dugg kinda defeats the purpose of digg as it is a site that promotes popular and unique articles.So if people start paying to get their stories dugg then whats the point of going to digg anyway if the top stories are just gonna be boring articles about someone probably advertising something.People who want their stories dugg by this website pay $20 plus $1 per desired digg.$20 and you still don't have a guarantee that your story will be on digg's homepage,I'd rather spend that on some other quick traffic scheme.But anyway I am not a member so I can't say it doesn't pay well but from what I have read online some says its OK while others say their digg accounts were cancelled and their IP banned from digg so I would think twice before joining such a site.
By the way you can add me as a friend on digg here

Also I could not find any information on their homepage as it has the least informative homepage I have ever seen,no FAQs,no testimonials just 2 links for users and submitters to click on.

If you have any information on this site feel free to comment and also you can go to my forum and discuss whatever you feel like

The top 5 ways to succeed with GPT sites

Most of you have definitely been invited by friends or relatives or have seen links to GPT sites on certain blogs and wonder why people bother with GPT sites,that is because they are very beneficial if properly utilized.GPT stands for 'get paid to' and you get paid for completing certain tasks.Here are some tips you can use to succeed without much effort.



Step 1:Get reliable people you can send referrels

-What for?Because majority of these sites have refferal programs where you get paid for active refferals.Active means that the refferal has reached the minimum payout because you can have many refferals but if none of them are active you get nothing.So you can forget making a blog just for the purpose of advertising your refferal links,you won't benefit much
-How?Group up with some of your friends and form a refferral link as I like to call it where one person joins a GPT site and reffers everybody else and another person joins and reffers everybody so in essence each person has a GPT sites which they joined and others that they were invited to by members from the group.If a person is not active then give him/her the boot and with time you will notice that you will be getting a constant stream of money every month.Also consider location as most GPT sites pay more for US refferals so be aware of that.

Step 2:Get a disposable mailbox
Almost all the GPT sites that I know offer registration or sign-up offers where you are told to register to a certain website for free and they will pay you.Sounds fair doesn't it,but you will notice that your mailbox will be constantly filled with spam offers so to avoid this get a disposable mailbox from fake mail generator.No sign up is required all you have to do is go to the site and they give you a free disposable mailbox and email address.You can send and receive emails with it.

Step 3:Get an automatic form filler
If you want to complete many offers at a go you will have to get an automatic form filler to save the time spent filling registration and survey forms.One very useful one is AI Roboform which enables you to manage passwords,logins and identities.Another one is Fireform which is a firefox addon.

Step 4:Get a cookie cleaner
When you complete an offer on a certain site cookies containing these details are stored on your computer.If the same offer is on different GPT sites you might not get paid if you do the offer on another site as the site will see that you have already done the offer.To avoid this get a cookie cleaner.I reccommend CCleaner as you can set-up which cookies you want deleted and which ones you want kept which is a very important feature so that you don't delete other unrelated cookies.

Step 5:Always read the terms of service
Most people overlook this and when they get banned they start saying that the site is a scam.Don't ruin a good opportunity at making money because of ignorance.For example some sites don't allow getting refferals through social sites like facebook but you will still see people advertising their refferal links on their profile pages.Always make sure you abide to the rules and everything will go smoothly.

Make money online

This can be done using GPT sites where GPT stands for get paid to and what happens is you get paid to do certain tasks such as surveys,qiuzzes,visit sites and such. Most of you have received referral links from friends and relatives and you are wondering what the site you are being invited to offers. I have provided detailed information about the common ones. I know most of you thinking that I am just doing this to promote GPT sites that I use but no some sites I have collected data from others and therefore my info is not biased.

Quickrewards

This is one of my favorites because you can request payment anytime you want and there is no minimum payout and they pay to your paypal account and they have lots of offers such as surveys, quizzes, site visits and coupon printing. Apart from the money you get you also get points which you can redeem for prizes. This site is for quick money and also pays you 5% of what your refferals get.
Quickrewards

Cashcrate

Who doesn’t know cashcrate, everybody does, it is the most popular and reliable GPT site there is. Here are the basic details
• Minimum payout-$10
• Payment method-Check sent monthly
• Refferal bonus-$1
• 1st level referrals-you get 20% of their earnings
• 2nd level referrals-you get 10% of their earnings
• They also offer point redemption

Your referrals have to reach the minimum payout before you get the bonus
Cashcrate supports almost all countries even those in Africa but the offers are fewer for other countries except USA or Canada.If you want long term cash this the website I would recommend.
Cashcrate

AWSurveys
This is one of the sites I would not recommend as it has some of the most unbelievable offers and I was a member so I believe me when I tell you that its not that good
• First of all the minimum payout is $75,quite hard to reach
• They only offer surveys and when you first sign up the offers are many but after you finish them you will have like $20 dollars since you get $2 per survey and after that you will only get like 1 survey a month and therefore you will never reach the payout on surveys alone.
• They offer $1.5 per referral
• They pay via paypal and via check to US members

I did not even bother to reach the payout because this site looks like just a waste of time so I do not know if they pay on time and from what I,ve heard they don’t.
AWSurveys

Treasuretrooper

One thing I like about treasure troopers is that it is profitable at the same time fun.There games you can play and you can get certain items that give you special abilities such as the friendship bracelet which will make the next two people who sign up your referrals,cool huh.
• Minimum Payout: $20
• Ways to Earn: 20% of the money that your referrals make and 5% of your second level referrals
• They pay via check and paypal.
Treasuretrooper

Swatcash
I don’t use this one but it must be popular
Referrals - 20%
Minimum Payment - $15
Payments - Monthly by Paypal or Check
Swatcash

Here are some others
http://www.cashontap.net/
http://www.gangstergreed.com/
http://dealbarbiepays.com/
https://www.surveysavvy.com?id=3376318&action=join
http://www.rapidloot.com/
http://cashlagoon.com/
http://www.thecashgrab.com/
http://revolutionoffers.com/

If there is another site that you think is worthy email me and I will add it to the list.I’ll have to look at it first though.

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