Aside from Google Adsense, another money-earner for this site is Chitika.

Chitika is one of the largest search-targeted advertising networks. Their ads only appear to visitors coming from the search engines especially those from US and UK. To see what a Chitika ad looks like in this site, check this out.

Unlike Adsense which requires a minimum payment threshold of $100 before they pay you, Chitika only requires $10. You can also have an option for payment by check or by PayPal. I chose the latter.

I applied for a Chitika publisher account last May and integrated their ads to this site. Four months later, I have earned $47.40 from them. Yes, already eligible for a payout.

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I first tasted how sweet Google juice is last month with $159.58. I was able to come up with that in 5 months of blogging; from February to July.

However in August, I managed to reach the minimum payment threshold of $100 in only 8 days and by the end of the month, I was bound to receive $278.56 as my 2nd payout from Google Adsense. That amount was buoyed by the $172.19 I made in only 1 day.

So when Google sent me the control number  last Thursday (pictured below), I immediately went to the nearest Western Union branch and get my money. In peso, I got P12, 961.32 (exchange rate is $1=P46.6).

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My first ever post at this site was titled “The Ark Is Now Ready To Sail!” I pictured out myself as an ark carrying worry-free thoughts and now ready to sail into a new world… a world of making money online.

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It was just last night when I checked my Adsense account when I realized that Google had already sent me the Western Union money transfer control number (MTCN) for my first payout. Yippee! Akala ko sa 30 pa, first time ko kasi eh.

Below is the screen shot. Yes, my first payout is $159.58. I got that after 6 months of blogging at this site. My old site was really not intended for making money online so I have not earned anything from it. Anyway, I originally thought that I’ll reach the minimum $100 payment threshold in 10 months but thanks to some “sizzling hoottt” keywords, napaaga ng 5 months.

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I have been blogging for almost two years now. My first motivation was really to share to others random thoughts culled from the deep recesses of my existence. But there came a point where I decided to monetize my blogs. Sa hirap ng buhay ngayon, kailangan may extra income. I buy and sell NBA trading cards online but I don’t make much as I’m also a collector and what I earned, I buy for my own collections.

So this February, I invested in a new domain and started making SEO posts. However, I still mixed it with posts of my personal stuffs like my wedding chronicles series and my action figures. After 5 months, I made my first Google Adsense $100. Then on August 9, Sunday, I made a total of $212.16 from Google Adsense, Infolinks and Chitika. Wooo! Ang saya-saya! Feeling ko, nasa top of the world ako!

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I can’t believe I was able to pull this off.

It was at 9:00 AM of August 9, a Sunday when I logged-in to check this web site. I was shocked when I realized that a steady rate of 50 visitors are coming to this site per minute! On a normal day, I would be lucky if I got 50 visitors in 1 hour but this day is not a normal day. In fact, I expected a spike in traffic for this day but not as high as this. At the end of the day, 43,026 unique visitors have viewed this site breaking my previous record-high of 6,181 by a mile. That’s an increase of 700% right there. I also made it to number 1 of TopBlogs Philippines. Not just in the Personal Category but in the entire TopBlogs list. Considering that they are tracking more than 4,500 pinoy sites, this is no small feat. I stayed there for a day and a half.

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