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The unexpected happened. My paypal account got a limited account status.

This means that i can receive payments, but i cannot make payments or withdraw funds.

This happened right after clicking the purchase button on ianfernando sale site for his bans templates.

I was not able to make the payment because my account got flagged, and the reason paypal gave me was this:

Why is my account access limited?

Your account access has been limited for the following reason(s):

Jun. 5, 2008: Our system detected unusual activity on a credit card linked to your PayPal account.

Ok, first, i had a credit card registered with paypal that expired long time ago and it was an attempt to verify my account with a service available here in portugal that makes credit cards for one transaction only. So there was no valid credit card on paypal, and the account said i had 0 CC registered with them.

Ok, so how they have detected that unusual activity on a credit card was detected? I really don’t know, but i may think they have still associated my expired credit card with my account.

I wasn’t caught on any fishing mail, because i never click on links to paypal through an email. And im sure Ian fernando site is trustworthy. So what the hell happen to give an alert to paypal?

While i was thinking my first thing to do was change my password just in case. You never know… But now im ready to speculate, that paypal decided it was time for me to get verified, specially after my recent money withdrawal.

What i have to do now it to upload my photo and a receipt proving my address, whichi will doo today. And then i have to add a credit card. This will be a potential problem to me, because i don’t have earnings statements or anything that proves me that i make x bucks a month. I need to study some solutionst oresolve this quickly because there are investments i want to make and i can’t because of this.

If you live in portugal and know a good solution on getting a credit card with a ccv number would be great.

Well, i was giving away 3000 entrecard credits, but for some reason, i only got one application! The deadline has passed, i even extended the the deadline but no more applications were made. I blame my self. I haven’t advertised the contest like i should, but, there is another thing. The prize. Maybe 3000 Entrecard credits don’t make a good prize to give. I agree with this. Maybe if i put a cash prize i would have the success has the first contest i ran here.

So, the contest is officially cancelled! i thank Louis for his application, but im sad to say that the contest is over. well, at least you get a link to your site

But, anyway back to “blaming spree” lol, i also blame those crazy contests! Those super contests, that grab a lot of sponsors and gather a total prize of $1000 , $2000 or even $12000!!!! They ruin the competition!!! or not!! :p

One of these super contest is the University Kid Contest. The contest will end 5th April and it is very simple to participate. The more you do, more entries you will get, and better will be your chances to win a prize. Before goint to the prize list, let me say that there are some prizes that interest me, specially the reviews available on top blogs

Here is the list:

Contest Prizes

Wordpress Themes

- Two licenses for the Revolution Theme ($160)
- Two licenses for the Premium News Theme ($200)
- Two licenses for the Purple Fever Theme ($100)
- One hundred accounts to the Themes Club ($500)

Blog Tools

- Three licenses by FruitfulTime.com ($90)

Blog Analysis

- Full Video Review By Marcus Hochstadt ($700)

eBooks

- SEO Book Donated By The Net Fool

Blog Advertising

One Month

- Two 125 x 125 on Wayne Liew ($30)
- One 125 x 125 On Blogger Noob ($25)
- One 125 x 125 on EZ Money Online ($25)
- One 125 x 125 on Affiliate Gossip ($15)
- One 125 x 125 on Rhyan ($10)
- One 125 x 125 on Jim Karter ($30)
- One 125 x 125 on Neotrepreneur ($10)
- One 125 x 125 on Life is Colourful ($30)
- One 125 x 125 on BLJConsultant ($5)
- One 125 x 125 on Resell Rights World ($5)
- One 125 x 125 on Viking Blogger ($25)
- One 125 x 125 on Dot Com Mogul ($10)

- One 468 x 60 on Blogging 4 Cash ($10)
- Five 16 x 16 on Blogging 4 Cash ($10)
- One 150 x 150 on Blogging 4 Cash ($5)
- One Text Link On Mr Javo ($7)

Three Months

- One 125 x 125 on The WWW Observer ($75)

Blog Reviews

- One Review By The University Kid ($60)
- One Review By Yimto ($20)
- One Review By The WWW Observer ($35)
- One Review By Bloggeries ($25)
- One Review By Neotrepreneur ($10)
- One Review By Life Is Colourful ($40)
- One Review By DaBlogger

Consulting

One hour consulation with The University Kid
Thirty minutes consulation with Neotrepreneur

Design

- One Custom Done 125 x 125 Ad By Affiliate Gossip
- One Custom Done Sketch By The Pencil Sketch And Art Blog

Entrecard Credits

- 2000 Entrecard Credits By Xavier Media
- 1750 Entrecard Credits By Mixed Market Arts
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Toast & Egg & Me
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Affiliate Confession
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Yimto
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Site Hoppin’
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Neotrepreneur
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Affiliate Gossip
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By BLJ Consultant
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Resell Rights World
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Happier Life
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Article Snatch
- 800 Entrecard Credits By Kirushanth
- 750 Entrecard Credits By Money Making Student
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Bud Calabrese
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Mr Javo
- 500 Entrecard Credits By ImpNerd
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Life Is Colourful
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Money Making Blogs

Total: 15,800

Cash

$100 Paypal by The Profit Hustler
$30 Paypal by Viking Blogger
$15 Paypal by Final Fantasy Fan
$10 Paypal by The WWW Observer
$5 Paypal by Affiliate Gossip

Miscellaneous

300 Stumbles + 300 Reviews from Niklas
$50.00 In Stumble Upon Advertising By Mixed Market Arts
Twenty Pages By One Buck Wiki
Domain Monetization Package By Domains Earn 4U
One featured, three regular links from The SEOTree Directory

If you don’t know The university blog, then you have been missing a great blog. TUK delivers quality articles about making money and has always up to date content. His blog is well organized and i just love the blog theme he is using. One day i will have a design like that! lol

another supoer contest is the one at Winningtheweb. The blogger managed to gather a total of $12021!!! Amazing! The prize list is big, so if you want to see what you can win check their contest page. To participate you just need to subscribe their mailing list. Again, you can rise your chances of winning by doing tasks that will give you more entries. The contest runs until 31st of march!

One of the most profitable ways to make money blogging is selling links. But some times it may be hard to find someone that want to by a link from you. The best choice is to have a “middle man”. TNX.net acts as the “middle man”, and with surprisingly efficiency.

You may sell links not only to the main page, but for all pages of your blog/site that are indexed by TNX.

How does it work?

You just need to register, add your website (sadly, they don’t accept Portuguese websites), place the code where you want the links to appear and wait for your website to be accepted.

I did this a couple of days ago, and TNX already managed to provide me with 100 possible paid links! And i decide wich to use and where to use them.

Each link you sell, TNX will take a share of the profit. Only 25% of the link price. It is very reasonable, if you compare to other sites that take 50% of your revenue!!

Tnx works on a points system, meaning that you don’t earn money right a way for selling links. Instead, your site is evaluated according to specific page rank, and yahoo back links.

So, the better you are ranked more money you will make.

The points you earn are then converted into cash by selling them. You can choose to transfer to another user (you may sell them, for example at digitalpoint forums), or sell them directly to TNX. Currently, they by 1000 points for $0,75, and the minimum payout is only $5 payable to your paypal account.

They have also a referral system. If you refer someone to use Tnx network, then you will earn 13,3% of the points earned by he/she for life!

If you are scared by the recent google slap on sites that sell links, i can assure you that TNX links look like normal site links. It’s one of the best software that i have found that can make a paid link look natural to the google bot, and preventing the publishers for being slapped and loose their page rank.

If you want to become an advertiser, then one of the best aspects is the very reasonable price of links! And above all, you can get thousands of static links that will help you improve your search engine rankings.

I admit, the possibility to have thousands of links for my sites so easily is very tempting.

The site is clean, graphically appealing but soft. The administration area could be improved. You don’t have a personal info control panel. Instead you have an advertise and publisher panel.

As a final note, i do recommend this system. It is very easy to sell links, although i admit that if you have a PR of 0, your earnings will can be limited (try their calculator to see how much you can earn).

Happy earnings!

January 2, 2008 and the blog contest winner has been found! But before i tell you who won i will just say again how the winner was selected.

The total entries for the contest were 15.

as i said before, i went to random.org and placed the parameters to generate one integer number from 1 to 15.

The lucky winner will have to contact me through the contact form placed in the top of the page and give me the paypal adress where he wants me to send the prize. I will give the winner 7 days to reclaim the prize ( i think that it is enough time).

Enough talking. Who won the contest?

The lucky entry was number 6 and belongs to Mrgee Blog! Congratulations!

MrGee.info is a blog that talks about making money online, but also talks about games, music and movies and a lot of internet stuff.

Visit his blog and congratulate him

In the previous post i mentioned that it would be a good idea to subscribe my RSS feed because i would have somethin good to offer this week! here it is:

Blog.dahh.net wants to give a present to all visitors this Xmas! $20 for the winner sent through paypal! This is a simple contest and does not require a lot from you.
I hope to increase traffic and increase revenue to give more and bigger prizes for my readers.
You will get $20 and a post linking to your blog!

How can you enter the contest?

What do you need to do?

1- Sign up for my Rss feed

2- Stumble my blog

3- In a new post (doesn’t matter what subject it is) just mention in 2 or 3 phrases about this contest.

The winner will be randomly selected in January 2

The minimum participants required is 10. If the number is not met i will extend the contest for one more week.

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