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Google Adsense is now on twitter (@adsense) . Frankly, it is quite late Adsense join twitter huh? But never mind as long Adsense provide more tips for us.

Adsense will tweet fresh product news, optimization tips, interesting links, and upcoming events. Hopefully more tips for make money online.

The Adsense team is so kind to hear from your suggestions by @reply to their tweets!

What waiting for? Follow @adsense and @tim_un (me) for more latest updates!!

PS: By the way, don’t use twitter to troubleshoot individual AdSense accounts issue.

Do you like to snap photo? You can make good money from the photo you have made.

ShutterStock provided an opportunity for photographers to make money. It could make a living if you are good photographer.

Photo Can Make Money

The website setup flat rate for beginner at $0.25 (25 cents) per download. A photo can earn unlimited of 25 cents as long as people download it down. Once reach total payout of $500, you will will increase to $0.33 (33 cents) per download. Subsequently increase for up to $0.38 (maximum) per download.

If your image are downloaded 1000 times over the month, you will receive $250 for that month on the photo itself! Good money huh?

Of course not everybody can download your photo. Only paid members (buyer) can download your photo. The market is already there, all depend how you grab your piece of cake. (more…)

Today just withdraw my Adsense money via Western Union at 3.588 high exchange rate from USD to RM.I’m so happy Western Union is available everywhere even I’m not home can wihtdraw easily.

Only thing is there is only one CIMB bank in Kuala Terengganu and it was so clouded! They don’t have special counter for Western Union. Took me an hour for the 29 people long queue.

My blog only start making some money after few months blogging. On January 2008, my blog just earn few bucks a month! Ya, I know it is so little. After a year, it is so much different. Compare to earning this month (January 2009), it is roughly 50x (50 times) earning of last year same month.

The earning is not that much you think. But I’m quite satisfied with it. I hope it could be more after Google give me back my PR. Hopefully could achieve at least half of my salary this year.

Let’s compare the graph for the past one year of 2008.

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No doubt everyone can make money from blog. Some make good income than a normal job. Where others make only pocket money or a cup of coffee.

My question is can you make a living from blog? This mean can you make enough money for your living just from blog? There is always exceptional case, but generally affected by 2 factors below. (My wife discuss this on her posts-part1 and part2 in Chinese, and now I translate and reorganize here).

Factors of Make Money Blog

Although Chrissie just blog for 6 months, she notice blog for money is not easy. Make money from blog sounds easy but not everyone can do that. Full time blogger that make a living from blog is result after lots of effort, not luck!

So, what the 2 main factors that she noticed? (more…)