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As a very proud Romanian, I have to say that my favourite month this year is by far September. Why?

Let’s see:

1. Adsense pays through Wester Union. We had checks .. it was OK since we would be able to cash it, but we’d wait for 1-2 months to be able to take money from the banks. We were patient thought, now it’s way better: we can get money the next day from the bank through Western Union.

2. Paypal is available FULL OPTION for us. In this year Romania was accepted partially in the system: we were able to pay but not receive funds. From now on we can earn money too. I sold some links the first night I had the account activated.

So .. September was great for us

We all try to get some revenue from our hard worked sites. I never started a site to get rich (maybe I should think about this), but I could surely use some money from all my work. I have created sites for the last 5 years, I have written hundreds of articles in many topics and thousands of posts in  my 12 forums.

I have domains to renew and also hosting to pay. That’s what makes me think a bit more about getting few bucks for all these expenses and the time I could spend shopping or suntanning …

I tried Adsense with very small results. I didn’t yet give up on it, but the payment is so small I just stopped thinking about it as my best source of income from my sites.

I don’t even know how I got to use Text Link Ads … I saw a banner or something and visited the site. It does look OK and the system too. My main problem as a Romanian is to be able to cash the check (cannot get money through Paypal), so I made sure I also have this checked. It looks like other people from my country were able to use this with some success, so I created an account and started submitting my sites.

The system is simple: I am being paid for putting a link in a page or sitewide and that depends on my page PR. Yes, it’s for the first time in my life I care about this and you can understand now that I do try to make my PR higher. I can also be paid for RSS and even affiliate links. I have several sites that were accepted and little by little advertisers started buying links on my pages. Here is what I earned so far:
March 2007      $8.27
April 2007     $21.53
May 2007     $48.07
June 2007     $87.28

I already got the check for these payments (I set it to 100 USD + and I have 160 ~). The check arrived very soon, I didn’t even know what’s in the envelope since I thought that it would take more time to go from USA to Romania. Well .. it took 5 days.

I am waiting for my bank to confirm payment and I’ll get myself a nice IPB license for one of my martial arts forums.

I already earned 96 USD on this month and I hope I’ll be able to get a steady 100+ USD for the next period. I will work more on my PR and hope I’ll be able to submit more sites into the system. The only issue would be that I am paid 50% from what my links make, but that doesn’t bother me too much because:

1. they put a small list of links (I chose the number), where I WANT …

2. I don’t have to fear I will be kicked from the system for invalid clicks (they buy my PR, no one cares about clicks)

3. I can sell whatever advertising space I want and still get some small revenue from this (not that small at all right now)

4. the bigger the PR, the better my payment.

I can’t wait to see my next PR for the sites .. maybe we can earn even more