This Is Meerdeekaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

Go check it out - www.merdeka.com! Its a project from the Advertlets Team, and Wind Koh. We’ll be announcing some exciting contests on it pretty soon, but in the meantime, why don’t you leave a dedication to your country, your “tanah tumpahnya darahku”?.

And what is MyFlag anyway, and why will it take 5000 people to complete the project? Head over to www.merdeka.com to find out!

You’ll also notice some minor changes around the Advertlets site Have a good holiday, and cherish your independence & freedom - yours, and of your country. Malaysia’s a great place to be, it may have its quirks, but its home and I won’t rather be predominantly anywhere else but here. PS: Foreigners, you should drop by here sometime for holiday! Food’s great, people are friendly, and we have a good clubbing scene as well!

Btw, Advertlets members - can you guess how many Malaysian impressions are generated each day? And how many Malaysian unique visitors do you think that we reach each day, across Malaysia? Take a guess, and I’ll be announcing the numbers soon. We’ll be back tomorrow. Cheers, and Meeerdeekaaaaaaaaaa!!!

On Uptime, Speed, Payouts, Invalid Clicks

Most of these things here would warrant their own posts, and there are a few more things I have to announce, but ohwell, here’s another summary post due to the lack of time. In reference to the weird post time: no, I don’t wake up this early, I just haven’t slept yet. Anyway : -

1. Advertlets is now on our THIRD dedicated server. You guys are generating ridiculous amounts of traffic, and the network has grown significantly, congratulations! This should solve most, if not all downtime and slow loading issues for now. We would like to thank you for your patience & enthusiasm, and your faith in us so far. If you do notice your blog taking longer to load, do refer to this post on how you can test your blog for what may be causing the slowdown. Do contact us and let us know if you notice any errors or slowdown, if you have narrowed down the cause to our side, thanks!

2. Malaysians: Your cheques for July should arrive to you within the next 7 days, barring unforseen postal delays. Sorry for the delay this month, there has been approximately a 300% increase in bloggers cashing out. We have also been doing a comprehensive human auditing of accounts for click fraud to prevent “false positives”, after the system has automatically flagged certain accounts.

3. Singaporeans: Certain Singaporean blog publishers whose banks have had issues with Malaysian cheques will be reissued with compatible methods of payment, and should also receive it within 7-14 days.

4. The Rumpun Gathering was a great success and it definitely did berjaya! Look out for not one, but two upcoming sponsored gatherings over the next two months!

5. We have something very the interesting one, planned for Merdeka, coming very soon. No prizes for guessing the launch date…

6. We haven’t forgotten about the Advertlets sticker and button badge contest, don’t fret. Results will be announced within the next 7 days.

7. The RoomsDB opportunity for Malaysians & Singaporeans has been made even more lucrative, and the deadline set to 15th September.

And now for some important stuff, please read:

1. Unfortunately, we have banned a few more blog publishers for click fraud, and all invalid earnings have been disqualified, and returned to the network. We have recently upgraded our click fraud detection system even further, in addition to doing manual checks to make sure we don’t penalize anyone by mistake. We aim to encourage an honest, productive blog ad network, and would like to remind our publishers not to engage in fraudulent behaviour.

2. We will be starting to contact ALL individual blog publishers who have been requesting visitors to “click on their ads”. Our system has automatically flagged a few that have been doing so, and we are giving grace period of 1 week from this date to remove all references that encourage visitors to click ads. Please see the KnowledgeBase for further information.

Terima Kasih Kerana Menjayakan Rumpun 07!

Terima kasih kerana sudi datang! Kehadiran anda telah menjayakan acara tersebut kerana sudi memeriahkan Rumpun ‘07!

Walaupun hanya beberapa jam sahaja yang telah berlalu, beberapa saudara telahpun menulis tentang acara ini, kamu boleh tengok di sini:

Hafreze.com - Rumpun ‘07.
NoorizamShah - Himpunan Rumpun ‘07 Projek PCmalaya.com dan Sponsor dari Advertlets.com
Ikhwan Nazri - Rumpun ‘07
Vangardx - Gathering Blogger Melayu
Iced Nyior - Rumpun Gathering
Farid Zenon - RUMPUN 07
Mixterr - Thanks To Rumpun ‘07
InfoMalaya - Rumpun 2007 berjalan lancar!
Robotys - Rumpun 07
Quaiyum - Rumpun 07
Mirakimura - rumpun 2007
Omar Bahrin - Imbasan Rumpun ‘07
FahmiMahat - RUMPUN 2007
StarStreet - Rumpun 2007 Anjuran Advertlets & Infomalaya
MohdIsmail - Rumpun 2007 Rangkuman Pantas
MohdIsmail - Aku Perjalanan Penuh Sejarah Sesuatu

Kalau kamu telah menulis post juga atau ambil gambar, jangan segan, sila beritahu kita URL anda melalui ruang komen. Saya tengok ketika itu ada banyak mamat bawa kamera, kalau takde blog boleh e-mail saya juga, kita semua nak tengok lebih gambar wei!

MohdIsmail: Semoga bas balik ke Penang tak rosak, dan perjalanan selesa dan selamat!
Hafreze: Akak cun tu ialah Nora Elina yang riang dan terkenal

RoomsDB & Advertlets Present: Write A Review, Get A 1-3 Month Campaign + Bonus!

Hi all, some of you might be familiar with RoomsDB.net, which has been advertising with Advertlets in Singapore. Since having the campaign, the Singapore RoomsDB site has gained major success - increased traffic has forced Sebastian of RoomsDB to upgrade to a dedicated server, and the site was featured in The Straits Times Singapore!

For those of you that don’t know what RoomsDB is, it is a site that allows you to find rooms to rent. Communication is directly between the buyer and seller, and you don’t have to incur agent fees! In short, you pay directly to the landlord, without any third party taking a commission!

We’re now hoping to replicate the success of the Singapore site with the Kuala Lumpur version of RoomsDB, and we’re welcoming bloggers to join us in a win-win situation.

Its simple - just write a post to review and promote RoomsDB.net on your blog, and you will get a CPM Campaign for RoomsDB KL on your blog for a time period of anytime between a minimum of 1 month, to a maximum of 3 months, depending on your blog. You will not be paid for the review, but keep in mind that CPM Campaigns are more lucrative than the CPC ads we automatically match you with, as your earnings depend on your site traffic, not clicks. Most excitingly: if your blog is one of the top referrers to the site, you will also get an additional bonus at the end of the month!

* for every 1000 pageviews that kualalumpur.roomsDB.net receives, a certain amount will be added to a “pot”.
* after 1 month, the money in the pot will be distributed among the 100 top referrers that take part in this promotion!
* the money will be distributed according to how many visitors these bloggers referred to kualalumpur.roomsDB.net

So how exactly will it work?

* every blogger who fullfills the requirements (after the review has been written) will be issued a unique referral ID that he/she will include within the links to roomsDB.net. Example:
kualalumpur.roomsDB.net/index.php?ref_id=5
* referrals will be counted and in the end of the month it will be evaluated for how many percent of the overall referalls each blogger is responsible for and receive exactly this share of the money in the pot.

So what do you have to do to take part in this program and get your unique referral ID ?

In summary, these are the steps you need to take:

1. Post a review of RoomsDB according to the specifications below. Feel free to add in your own opinion on the site and point out useful features.
2. When your review is approved, a CPM Campaign will go live on your blog, earning you money based on your traffic.
3. On top of that, you will also get a bonus at the end of the month if your blog is one of the top 100 referrers to the site.
4. The top referrer will earn an additional RM100!

You have time until the 15th of September to write your review and therefore take part in this promotion campaign! After you wrote this review, just use the comment function of this blog to tell us about the URL of your review! That’s all, it is that simple. If until the 15th of September at least 50 bloggers signed up for the campaign, we will start to count referrals and after exactly one month evaluate how much money every blogger will receive. You will be able to watch the live statistics. Special goody: The top referrer will earn an additional RM100!

Here are the requirements: