Me receiving the cash prize and certificate from Fadli the Stonemaster. Picture courtesy of Stonemaster.biz 
 

Since this blog is about Chess and Money, I thought this post is appropriate.
I just won 4th place in the Stonemaster Amateur tournament held at Bukit Jalil cafeteria today. It’s limited to players that… Continue reading | 1 Comment

I’ve stopped writing paid post on this blog. For those who don’t know, I was writing many sponsored or paid post on this blog last year. I have since stopped as Google penalised my blog by removing my Page Rank 4. I now only have PR 0. Page Rank seems to be unimportant now [...]

Did you notice the big block of advertisement on all of my chess blogs (GilaChess, GilaChess Blog, Chess Patzer (this blog))? It’s by Nuffnang and it’s one of the more successful web advertisement company in Malaysia.
Just received my Nuffnang cheque yesterday. … Continue reading

Don’t laugh ok?
I’m seriously broke in Cameron Highlands..
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Source: JupiterResearch;
Wall Street Journal ; www.wsj.comWhat this means:-

This year (2007), online ads equals magazine ads in advertising $$$
Print ads are being overtaken (year 2008 onwards)

Related link: Why Blog ? (GilaChess blog)… Continue reading

Here’s another service that lets you make
money online writing opinion posts about certain topics. You get to
choose the topics advertised and the advertisers pay you a sum of money
for the review. Advertisers are now paying serious money to advertise on blogs and Smorty is one of the better paying services.What
better way of making money than [...]

Ever since I’ve gone into making money from my blogs, I’ve been asked by a few GilaChess readers where to find tips on how to make money online. That has given me the idea to create this new website of mine. This is the third Wiki I’ve set up. My previous two were GilaChess Wiki [...]

Sorry. I missed a lot of updates lately particularly on MAIGOC. I have been busy with work. Although I’ve quit my full time job and gone into blogging full time, it’s not a bed of roses. Some weeks back the passing of my uncle in my hometown disrupted my normal work routine. These are unforseeablethings [...]

It’s happening. Google is punishing websites that are writing sponsored post by reducing their page ranks.Local sites dropped5xmom.com had as many as 6 of her websites reduced in page rank. Sabahan.com dropped page rank from 5 to a 4. HongKiat.com dropped from 5 to a 4 also.Famous sites tooJohnChow.com is another site that got dropped [...]

There is a website whose author’s challenge is to generate USD 10,000 monthly of recurring revenue. Now that’s certainly a lot of money!
Read the following URL:http://www.longest.com/2007/10/02/quest-for-10000-september-analysis/
The author’s target is certainly ambitious and he is starting from ZERO. Take a look at his first month results here. Actually he only started mid September so that’s only [...]

When you make money online, you get income not from one source but multiple sources. For example, one chess enthusiasts asked me whether I was making money from Google Adsense. The answer is yes but it’s not my biggest income earner. In fact it is one of the lowest.
Income streams include:
* [...]

I rarely delete stuff off my hard disk. I keep a lot of materials like articles, program codes, open source libraries downloaded from the web. I do periodic backups but I can never reformat the hard disk because it was always at least 50% filled with some data. Today I’ve decided to backup 100% of [...]

I’m a big fan of Chan Lilian’s blog (5xmom.com). She is a Penang housewife who blogs for money. Last month she achieved her USD 5,000 target. That’s pretty impressive for a housewife. I’m sure many chess players who find it hard to balance their career and chess ambitions would like find out exactly how she [...]

GM Zhang Pengxiang emerged champion with an impressive unbeaten 8/11 score from a very strong field in tge Asian Individual Championship that just ended in Cebu, Philippines. 2005 DATMO champ, GM Wang Hao finished with the same points also but dropped one game to GM Susanto Megaranto.
Top 50 players
Rk.  
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Found this old picture GM Wang Hao vs Singapore’s FM Goh Wei Ming from last year’s GACC tournament website.GACC is just around the corner too. Check out their official site at gacc-chess.com Continue reading

I know you guys are excited over the latest FIDE rating updates and also the coming National rating list. For me, I’m more interested in the Google PR update which is long overdue. I just had to find out if there is any increase in my ranking.This blog sadly won’t see any increase in PR. [...]

Well I guess John Chow of JohnChow.com got it coming to him. He admits to being evil to make money online and Google thinks that some of the things he does is evil too. So as punishment his Google PageRank was dropped from PR 6 to PR 5. That’s pretty painful particularly for this blogger [...]

Yesterday, right after posting my Advertlets vs Nuffnang where I reported how poor my Advertlets earnings was, I received an email from the big boss of Advertlets, Josh Lim! That was fast!The CEO of Advertlets gave me the following suggestions:– Moving the sidebar ad format higher up the page (165×240)- Installing the rectangle ad format [...]