I learn from Ah Pek that one factor to avoid losing interest in our blog is to change the theme.

Today, I just put in a new WordPress theme for this blog, and spent some times to modify the CSS file as well as to test some new plug-ins.

The new look is built on white background, which is easy for our eyes. The new design is simple and easily navigable.

What do you think of the new look?

Please gimme some feedback.

In the same day, I read the official blog of WidgetBucks (WB) that, they are going to offering CPM ads for international traffic in early this month. This is a piece of good news for many of us in Asia, because in mid November, WB no longer paying clicks coming from outside the U.S. and Canada.

The new feature will give us some revenue per impression, for our visitors who come from other countries. WB are working with advertisers covering 100 countries to offers thousands of creative ads for the benefits of the bloggers.

The WB system will detect the geo-location to determine where the visitor is coming from. Then WB’s widgets either show the regular pay-per-click ads for visitors from the U.S. and Canada or show an ad that pays per impression to visitors from other countries.

So far, my earnings using WB is very poor, a part of the $25 signup bonus, I only made $0.31 in October. I will wait to see if the new CPM will help me to earn a bit more or not.

If you have not sign up WidgetBucks, click on the referral link or the banner below to join now.

When you sign up now, you will automatically receive a $25 bonus, this means you are already half way to your first payout with WidgetBucks.

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Continue from Part 1

I hate to do repetitive tasks and perform so much mouse clicks just to do such simple and boring thing.

So, in this post, I’m going to show you how to hack ST701 Shops to re-publish all your expired ads easily and automatically.

Before I begin, let’s take a look at the ST701 Shop ads.

As you can see, each ad has a unique ID, such as SHO-1234.

All the actions, such as View, Copy, Delete, Edit and Publish, uses the unique item ID to pickup the ad from the database to process the request.

Step 1
We need to extract the ads IDs from the My Shop Ads page.

The line 3 is to login to SPH authenticate server and save the login session in to the cookies file. IDToken1 is ST701 username field while IDToken2 is the password field. Replace the username and password with your own.

The line 5 is to browse the Expired Ads page and cached the page content to a file.

Line 7 is to extract expired ads IDs into a text file, named as ExpiredAdsID.txt.

Step 2
With the expired ads IDs ready in the ExpiredAdsID.txt file, we are now to copy all the expired ads to Saved folder.

Continue To Read: ST701.com Classified Hack Part 2

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I have been using ST701.com Shops system to post classified ads to sell some of my collection items.

I’ve highlighted in previous post that the ST701 Shops system is not perfect yet.

There is no re-publish function to re-list expired ads

I have to follow the same process to create new ads for the expired ads. This process is really troublesome and time consuming to re-do all the expired ads.

First, select the package to use, either free or paid package, and then choose the most relevant category and sub-category for the product or service.

Now, write a good title, describe the product or service in details and quote a price for the item, select billing methods as well as other fields.

You can upload up to 3 photos or add YouTube video link to improve the sales.

Once you satisfied with the product descriptions, now provides your contact information, like mobile number, email or pick-up address.

Next to preview the ad, and if you’re happy with it, click Publish. Otherwise, click Amend Details to change the ad or you can click Save Only for review at later time.

Continue To Read: ST701.com Classified Portal Hack Part 1

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I got an email from Josh Lim, the Advertlets CEO, that there will be a major CPM campaign from a large local media, which will commerce tomorrow (27 November) for approximately a week.

Josh encourages us to ask our friends to sign up with Advertlets and install the code so that they can earn some money to cover the high living cost in Singapore.

One of the method is multiplication

In order to make more money, I get my family members, including papa, mama, wife & mistress, brothers & sisters, to insert mine Adverlets code into their blogs.

Not forgetting all the old blogs or websites too.

Previously, I used to maintain some blogs at Blogspot and BlogCharm too. Thanks to Google Search Engine, those old blogs or webpages still managed to attract some visitors from time to time.

If each blog got just 20 page views per day, 10 blogs will generates 200 page views in one day. So, inserting Advertlets code into those old blogs may help to earn more money too.

Therefore, more page views = more impressions = more money!

Lastly, make sure you have the sidebar ad format (165×240) installed, visible on above the fold to attract eyeballs and maximize earning$.

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The theme for this week Photo Hunt is HOT.

We love to eat Steamboat dishes, sometimes refer as Hot Potin Chinese.

I like the steamboat of authentic ChongQing style, where I will always ask for a split pot with a chicken broth on one side and herbal hot spicy mala soup on the other side.

First load the ingredients into the hot pot to cook.

After the food is cooked, you scoop whatever you want to eat into your bowl and dipped in a sauce or chili before eating.

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