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Succesful Paypal to Unionbank EON Withdrawal

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 | Net Moolah | No Comments

The activation of Paypal in the Philippines was quite a big thing. It opened-up exciting opportunities to Filipino Web Publishers.

I immediately converted several affiliate and publisher accounts to receive payments via paypal upon activation of my Union EON Debit card on Paypal’s Expanded use program (EXPUSE). This month I received payments from Adengage, Etology and CpxInteractive without hassle! Unlike before that I have to wait for a month for the checks to arrive, sometimes they got lost in the mail and actually encashed by scums.

I was very eager to try and withdraw some money from my account and get my hands on those bucks that I earned, thus I withdraw an amount of $125 from the account less $5 transaction fee. It took about 5 banking days to get the funds credited to my Unionbank EON Debit account. The $120 converted to an amount of Php 5,085.32 so that translates to a forex rate of Php 42.375 per US dollar.

Lessons learned: It’s probably a good thing to leave some good amount your my paypal account for online purchases thus your money will not get “devalued” by currency conversions. It’s also wise if you keep an eye on Forex rates and plan your paypal withdrawals to avoid repeated $5 transaction fee.

Geo-Targeting Widgetbucks

Thursday, November 15th, 2007 | Web Thinkering | No Comments

Widgetbucks has recently announced the they will no longer credit clicks coming from outside the U.S or Canada. Thus geo-targeting ads will help to maximize the performance of your ad spaces. The goal is to show widgetbucks ads only to U.S and Canadian visitors and serve another advertisement in place for visitors from every-where-else. Moreover, geo-targeting can be used to run affiliate campaigns that targets specific countries and other ppc programs like YPN (Yahoo! Publisher Network).

Maxmind provides a free database called GeoLite Country and it is 98% accurate. I used their PHP API in one of my site and it works great.

Instuctions:

1. Download the binary database and the API geo.inc , unzip and upload both files to a new directory on your server.

2. Create a PHP file to query the database.

<?php

include(”geoip.inc”); // the geoip functions
$geofile = geoip_open(”GeoIP.dat”,GEOIP_STANDARD); // open the geoip database
$cc = geoip_country_code_by_addr($geofile, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
geoip_close($geofile); // close the data file

if($cc == “US”) {
// It’s a US visitor. Display widget ads.

echo ”
<insert widgetbucks code here>
“;
} // end if US

elseif($cc == “CA”) {
// It’s a CA visitor. Display widgetbucks again.
echo ”
<insert widgetbucks code here>
“;
} // end if CA

else {
// It’s a non-US visitor. Display random ads.

echo ”
<insert alternate ads here>
“;
} // end else

?>

You can include additional countries as necessary.