The Benefits of Working at Home

This is an old article written by me years ago for a client to showcase my writing abilities. It was not used anywhere, hopefully, by the client who later hired me for a while to write for him on a part-time basis. Well, I am still on the learning curve when it comes to English, spellings, grammar, etc. I am not perfect in my writing, but nevertheless, it has allowed me to at least earn a little allowance here and there for the hirers who are not so stringent.

For proper journalism, I have to edit a few times, as required by my editors in Singapore. Hence, I have had experience writing for the professionals whose English is impeccable with writing that attracts repeat visitors. All credits will go to the online publisher. My 2 younger sisters have better English than me, with better grades in school. They scored 'A's while I got 'B' for English 1119 many years back. They are avid readers of novels written by Americans and British authors. While late granny made sure I spent my time studying text books, depriving me of improving my English since mum bought the books and grandma didn't want me to read those books.

Anyway, with software and constant reading, my writing has improved a little, not to say by leaps and bounds. Therefore, it is imperative that you read a lot and become a voracious reader. Consuming knowledge is better than consuming alcohol, don't you agree? Being able to write sufficiently well, it is one of my few streams of income now and then. But you have to work hard and be able to revise a few times to satisfaction.

Sometimes, people may also take advantage and get you to write for free, editing so many versions for them. But then again, this is part and parcel of life, learning from your own working experience. Working at home certainly has its many benefits. Just listen to the video above carefully, and you may get some tips on why we should now take advantage of technology to work at home, especially in this Covid-19 pandemic that has ravaged the world economy, causing mayhem globally.

It behooves me that people are still searching around for their calling and vocation in life, the honest way. Of course, we should be cautious of the quacks and scams that abound in the internet fraternity. I, for one, do not like to depend on a fixed salary from 1 source of income. You should always have multiple sources of income to retire comfortably with excess to donate to charity, or pass to your siblings, as in my case, should I pass on.

So, blogging, writing, microjobs and surveys have kept me very busy these few days, not counting being a content creator for YouTube. Everyday is a learning curve for me and the internet is full of information, if you are hardworking and search for it. Do implement what you have learnt, as action speaks louder than words. Finally, some final words: "Stay safe at home and always wear a mask whenever you are in a public place."

Offered Virtual Assistance Work

Just 2 days ago, I was paid 50% for the virtual assistance work to be rendered at only USD10 per hour for 25 hours lump sum. That totals up to be USD125 which is pretty good if you consider I love to nap around in my free time. So, now I will be occupied doing productive work for money. I was contacted directly by an engineer from Australia to check out and compare the flight brokers for their flight prices given a certain date to travel and return from Perth to Kuala Lumpur and back, Perth to Singapore and back, Melbourne to Auckland and back. Apparently this guy loves to travel and is considering the best and economical place to stay for a while.

Enable Placement Targeting on Adsense Channels To Increase Revenue

Google Adsense is no doubt the best CPC advertisement platform for Advertisers as well as Publishers. If you are using Adsense for monetization on your website or blog and having nice amount of visitors then you should try enabling Placement Targeting of important spots on your blog. Actually spots or location of placed ads on your website are defined as “Channels” on adsense thru which you can track the CTR for particular ad slot. As you know, Adsense is a bidding based advertisement network where Advertisers bid for keywords on AdWords and then their ads become visible on sites. So here I will let you know the important of enabling “Placement Targeting” which will help Advertisers while making their decision about your site.

Placement Targeting is actually a way to tell Advertisers about a particular ad slot on your site. It allows AdWords advertisers to choose a specific spot on your site to place their ad. If your site is having good PageRank and Quality Traffic, Advertisers will even pay more for their ads to appear on your site or blog. In that way, you will generate more revenue from the same spot or ad slot. If they don’t do anything like that, your revenue will remain as it is. So by enabling “Placement Targeting”, you are actually adding a way for advertisers by providing them more information about the spot and your site.

How To Enable “Placement” Targeting on Google Adsense

Placement Targeting is done for channels on Adsense. For example, if you are having a channel named “Below Title – 336×280”for ads running below the title of each post. Now you want to enable this slot’s targeting so that Advertisers on AdWords can choose that location to place their ads. To enable Placement Targeting on that channel, go to “Adsense Setup” tab on top navigation of Adsense Dashboard and select “Channels” from the sub-navigation bar. There you can see all channels created by you. Find that particular channel for which you want to enable placement targeting, and click on “edit” link on right side of that channel. Now edit window for that channel will open, there you can see a check box for “Targeting – Show this channel to advertisers as an ad placement”. Check the box to enable the same.