Coming home from field work, I arrived at home yesterday with a letter from Google. It was what I’ve been expecting this past 2 weeks, my Google Adsense (GA) PIN (Personal Identification Number). When my GA earnings reached $10 around 3rd week of March, Google prompted me to enter where I wanted my PIN to be sent. The PIN is supposed to verify the accuracy of my contact information and to help ensure that I will receive my GA payments.
I checked the letter and found out that it was received by our local post office last April 15 (3 weeks later) but for some reasons, it was delivered to my place only last week after more than 2 weeks of gathering dust at the post office. Sigh, nothing new with our postal system really. Sooo incompetent! This is why I always use LBC or JRS when sending letters/packages locally to my friends and acquiantances.
Which reminded me of the advertisement on TV… spell REMITTANCE. Hay naku, kaya lalo’ng nagiging bobo ang mga kabataan ngayon. 
Anyway, here’s the letter I got.
To enter your PIN, login to your Google Adsense account. Select the My Account tab > Payment History.
Click the “Please enter your PIN” link and enter your PIN.
That’s it. When your account reaches $100, GA will send you your first payment.
My site was born on February 6, 2009. As of April 30 (barely 3 months later), my earnings amounted to a mere $23.39 or barely 30 cents per day. The positive thing is that for every month, my earnings surpass that of the previous month. If this trend continues, I might be able to get my first Google Adsense cheque within 10 months or less.
I know I still have a long way to go before I reach the level of the top blogs in this country wherein a $20-day is already bad day for them. But I’m learning a lot reading their sites on making money online. Who knows, Making $1000 a Day in Google Adsense might not be too far fetched after all. 
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UPDATE July 6, 2009: I finally made my first $100 from Google Adsense! It took me just 5 months instead of 10 I originally expected.
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May 10th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
I also got my Google PIN this week and already entered my PIN.
With regards to the LBC ad on TV, I really dislike that ads as it was not a good form of marketing. It has a bad impact on the young viewers and I do hope that proper authority will do something about it
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ark Reply:
May 11th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Hindi ko nga alam kung bakit di pa rin tinatanggal sa TV ung ad na iyon eh. Wala pa’ng nagrereklamo?
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merck Reply:
April 4th, 2011 at 1:26 am
sir ark…where can i find you in the pinas?…gusto kita maka usap personal po..hehe..blogger po ako…and i do good business with google now..can i have your number po? just post a rply here sir..tnx
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May 10th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Congratulations! Glad you are earning that much from GA already. I have yet to fill my blog with contents to earn cent$ hehe
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ark Reply:
May 11th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Thanks bay. Just keep on blogging, paste GA codes at your site, advertise it and the money will start flowing in, hehehe..
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May 10th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Good for you ark. Ako di ko talaga natanggap ang PIN ko, asar!! ang PIN request panay extend ng Google until they decided to manually override my PIN request =)
Too bad for us, meron tayong incompetent na postal system.
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ark Reply:
May 11th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Sinabi mo pa. Dami ko na nga’ng package na di nadeliver sa akin eh. Karamihan eh delayed.
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May 11th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Nice, you have your PIN already. I’m halfway to that. As you said, they will send my PIN as I reached $10.
Regarding to the TV ad, that was really a bad advertisement. Madali pa naman matuto mga bata ngayon. Pano na lang sa school!
-Irene
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ark Reply:
May 11th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Good luck, di mo mapapansin bukas eh naka-$10 ka na. Then, magiging $100 at hopefully eh magiging $1000, hehe..
Yes, that ad really is a bad one. Maganda nga sa kanilang brand recall pero negative kasi ang overall effect nun eh.
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May 12th, 2009 at 6:27 am
congratulations… wow, nice to know you’re doing good in adsense na… hehehe natawa ako sa LBC na yan…
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ark Reply:
May 12th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Ngayon lang nga ako nagkainterest dito eh. Sana maging successful, hehe..
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May 12th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
congratulations for your adsense…good work
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ark Reply:
May 12th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Thank you.
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May 13th, 2009 at 2:17 am
Congrats! Well, i’m waiting for Google to send me my pin. hope to receive it soon.
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ark Reply:
May 13th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Good luck yami.
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May 13th, 2009 at 8:15 am
Spell REMITTANCE…hahahha…buti nalang d na ako bata ngayon. kundi, kasali ako sa mga magiging BOBO.
hay, na-receive ko ang PIN ko August last year but until now d pa rin ako naka-cash out sa Adsense. more than a year na yung account ko eh $77+ palang ako. baka mas mauna ka pa maka-receive earnings mo sa akin, Khe.
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ark Reply:
May 13th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Ok lang un len. Marami ka namang raket online eh, hehe..
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May 18th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
that’s great you have your google pin already… more google earnings for you!
naku bad advertisement talaga yang LBC!
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ark Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
At ang mas masakit pa dun, nadagdagan pa ng INSTANT at AFFORDABLE!
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meiyah Reply:
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:23 am
hhehehe uu nga nakita ko… pero mas patok ung first nila na commercial kesa sa mag sumunod na… pero d pa rin maganda n ehemplo… tsk3…
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ark Reply:
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Oo nga, nagiging corny at nakakainis na ung mga sumunod na commercials.
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August 1st, 2009 at 7:18 pm
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October 28th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
sir ark,ganu po ba katagal mareceive sa pinas yung pin? saka po anu kaya reason bat ala akong nareceive na e-mail from google adsense team na “we have send you a personal identification pin, so on..” nasa 80$ na sana.parang masasayang lang ata
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ark Reply:
October 29th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
I got my PIN after 3 weeks. Di naman nagemail ang google sa akin na pinadala na nila.
Its because of the change of address kaya siguro nagkaproblema ka.
You can manually override your PIN request. Check mo na lang sa GA.
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January 11th, 2011 at 8:25 am
I started my adsense in August 2009 but was not active then. I applied for adsense because of my eloading online store site (ppeso.com). After few months of serving people tru eloading online, my friend introduced my to blogging in April 2010. Last month I received my 4th adsense payment.
My adsense PIN arrived at exactly 2 weeks after I requested it. The delay of the arrival of your PIN maybe because your place is not so accessible or just because of the post office in your locality.
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April 9th, 2011 at 3:43 pm
haha ko after i receive the welcome message in my email that i have been approve in google adsense for the next 2 hours i have already collected $253 hihihihi ..
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ark Reply:
April 13th, 2011 at 8:26 am
Cool. You’re really a Brilliant Idea Master. Care to share any tips?
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May 15th, 2011 at 2:08 pm
Hi Ark. Nag-comment ako dito exactly two years ago. Kamusta naman ang adsense earning ko, $28.93 pa rin since 2009. Ano ba yun? Tinanggal ko kasi ang adsense sa mga blogs ko kasi di nga nagi-earn, and then binalik, ganun pa rin.
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ark Reply:
May 19th, 2011 at 12:13 am
Bakit nio naman po tinanggal. Hayaan nio lang. Di mo mamalayan, naka-$100 ka na pala.
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