September Cashout Requests / Click Fraud & New Tricks
Firstly, let us say that we have been listening, and this is our response. In some cases, we have responded personally on certain blogs, however we feel that a more public explanation would be beneficial, and justified to our valued bloggers.
In Short: The Resolution
- September 2007 Cash outs will arrive to both Malaysian & Singaporean publishers within 1-2 weeks. Yes, we are aware that this is longer than usual, and we apologize. A detailed explanation is after the jump.
- Ad load time could be improved. A recent increase in the number of members and more visitors from countries other than Malaysia and Singapore has put a considerable strain on our servers. Although we are now already running on three dedicated servers, we will be upgrading our resources further to serve your better. An upgrade will be in effect within this week, with approximately 15-30 minutes of downtime required. This scheduled maintenance window will be announced shortly.
24th May 2007, Advertlets.com: So, what’s happened?
The Top 10 list in its entirety:
1. Advertlets will launch new, non-traffic sensitive ad formats beneficial for low traffic bloggers.
2. Your earnings will not just depend on your blog traffic, but the establishment level of your blog (Advertlets Premium Factors)
3. All Eligible Malaysian Advertlets Members with the Advertlets Code installed in their blogs, will get ads!
4. The Advertlets Support System will be launched!
5. The higher you put your Advertlets sidebar ads, the higher you will be paid!
6. More new ad sizes for fun and profit = more options for advertisers and bloggers!
7. New ad packages and billing options for advertisers - making it easier for everyone to get ads.
8. An interface revamp for the bloggers dashboard.
9. New advertisers in the new formats!*
10. No minimum blog traffic requirements!**
* Take a browse around..some of you have already noticed our new advertisers earlier today!
** We can’t guarantee you’ll make money with a very low traffic blog. But you never know until you try, and we’ll like to make it as easy for you as possible! 
More coming over the next few minutes on this blog…meantime, we recommend that those who have signed up already to install more ad formats on your blogs - just click on the blogs tab, and click “get codes”!
Hurry Up! Six More Days for You to Earn RM50 for Reviewing Advertlets!
I’m talking about the Advertlets RM15,000 for 300 Bloggers Review Program!. We want as many Malaysian bloggers to participate in our review program, and there’s only one reason - we want you to start earning! Whether your review will be in Malay or Chinese, we will go through it and I will personally approve it on behalf of Advertlets. All I want is to make you a happier person at the end of the day, and we love to hear your honest feedback on our service.
It’s six more days to the 30th of May 2007 - the deadline for all review submissions. And we don’t want anyone to lose out from our offer. To participate head on over to http://www.advertlets.com/bloggers/rm15k-for-300-bloggers/ to get more details on our fantastic opportunity.
On another note, I’m sure many of you realize that it’s the 24th of May. Just as a reminder, as we’ve promised we will be launching network wide ad campaigns tonight to all our blogs. So if you haven’t signed-up to our network, please do. I’m sure you wouldn’t want to miss out on this opportunity as well. And as for our members, just as a reminder, please update your blog code from the Publishers Dashboard (under the blogs tab) to ensure that you won’t miss out anything tonight.
So there you have it, two great opportunities for all you bloggers! From us at Advertlets.com. Oh, by the way this is my first blog post here, hopefully not the last and I would like to say “Happy Birthday“, to our head programmer, Arsyan Ismail who’s turns an unmentionable age today!
Update: SilverHorseGunnySack and Infomalaya write about the 6 more days left too!
On 24th May 2007: More New Ad Sizes Coming (And One New One Today!)
Dear Advertlets Members,
Please check your “Get Code” section after logging in - you will notice that there is one new ad format added in (468 x 60 : Banner). Please install it!We are going to serve ads in that new format soon, and preference will be given to those who already have the new ad formats installed when the time comes will be the first to earn! More ad formats means more advertising opportunities = more cash for bloggers and more exposure for advertisers. And on the 24th, even more new ad sizes are coming soon with different sizes to fit into all your favourite spots for your blog.
Update: It seems a few of you are coming across problems installing the code in your blog. If you see anything out of the oridinary, please e-mail us at info@advertlets.com, or leave a comment here, and we will get right to fixing your problem. However, please make sure you have the latest version of the code installed (login into your Advertlets account and choose “Get Code”), you will need to update the code for your current sidebar ad as well.
If you want to see how the default version of the Advertlets 468 x 60 ad unit would look like for you (Visitors from the US will not see the ad), check out Liew CF’s Blog - LiewCF.com and check out the banner right on the top of the page. We would also like to congratulate Liew for appearing in the papers recently, together with other local sucessful bloggers! You can read the full story on HongKiat.com.
And in summary…
1. Advertlets will launch new, non-traffic sensitive ad formats beneficial for low traffic bloggers.
2. Your earnings will not just depend on your blog traffic, but the establishment level of your blog (Advertlets Premium Factors)
3. All Eligible Malaysian Advertlets Members with the Advertlets Code installed in their blogs, will get ads!
4. The Advertlets Support System will be launched!
5. The higher you put your Advertlets sidebar ads, the higher you will be paid!
6. More new ad sizes for fun and profit = more options for advertisers and bloggers!
7-10. To be revealed soon.
Just 3 more to go! So, do wait for 24th May 2007, 9:30PM to see a whole lot of changes on Advertlets.com - and a whole new set of benefits & features for advertisers and bloggers. (Yes, and new paying ads too).
PS: To those who have cashed out already, you can expect your cheques in your mailbox very soon!
On 24th May 2007: Put Advertlets Sidebar Ad Higher, Get Higher Earnings!
Perhaps some of you have wondered why we ask you to put your sidebar ads as high up the page as possible:
From our talks with advertisers and bloggers so far, we understand that advertisers want their ads to be noticed (resulting in better clicks), and bloggers want a good reason to put their Advertlets code in a prominent position on their blog. We’ve come up with a solution that we think is fair to all - bloggers who put their sidebar ads higher, will get paid more! We know that your blog design is very personal, and the sidebar is a very visible part of your blog, so we hope this is a good incentive to you. Help us deliver value to our advertisers, and we’ll reward you too
This will be based on an semi-automated system (we will also manually check and adjust if needed) that measures the distance between the top of the page to the sidebar advertisement placing. Please note that this will be sector/range based (eg, there will be no noticable difference putting your sidebar ad 100 pixels from the top of the page or 200 pixels from the top of the page).
For optimum earnings, we recommend that your sidebar ad is visible upon your blog first loading, without having to scroll, at a 1024 x 768 resolution on standard Internet Explorer/Mozilla Firefox web browser and toolbar arrangements.
In summary:
1. Advertlets will launch new, non-traffic sensitive ad formats beneficial for low traffic bloggers.
2. Your earnings will not just depend on your blog traffic, but the establishment level of your blog (Advertlets Premium Factors)
3. All Eligible Malaysian Advertlets Members with the Advertlets Code installed in their blogs, will get ads!
4. The Advertlets Support System will be launched!
5. The higher you put your Advertlets sidebar ads, the higher you will be paid!
6-10. (To be revealed)
