Blogger FAQ

What advantages do you offer ME, the blogger?

• Firstly, there are the monetary gains! We’ll do all the groundwork looking for advertisers and link you in with them. Once an ad is served on your blog, you start making income!
• It is our sincere belief that Blogs should be credible and rich sources of information. Correspondingly, we will do our utmost best to ensure the ads served on your Blog match your content and readership as closely as possible. What this means is that your readers will be up to speed with the best deals in the market place!
• We are also seeking affiliations with strategic partners like web hosting companies to bring you additional benefits. Stay tuned!
• Nuffnang.com has a dedicated “Featured Blogger” column, which will throw the spotlight on a number of Bloggers every month. Will the spotlight be on you next?

How much do I earn?

• What you earn depends on the number of Average Unique visitors you received in the week that the ad campaign is built.
• You will then be arranged into specific “Blogger bands” that directly correspond to your number of Average Unique visitors.
• For each campaign, you will be paid a fixed amount for every ad unit. The amount depends on what your Blogger band is. The higher your Blogger band (i.e. more unique visitors), the higher your earnings.
• All information on your blogger band and your earnings can be viewed within your CMS Earnings Page. All information will be updated within 3 working days after the ad campaign is completed.

When do the ads start running?

• Our marketing team is always out on the ground scouring for related advertisers. We are interested not only in making you money but finding you the best match possible!
• As soon as there are advertisers, their advertisements will be served on your blog.

How do I get my money out into my a/c?

• As soon as you have earned S$ 50, you will be given an option on your earnings page to cash out!
• After you have chosen to do so, we will process your payment and mail a cheque to the address you have provided us.
• Please allow at least 30 days for the processing of your payment after cashout
• Note: Do ensure that mailing address and payee name provided in the registration form is accurate.

What does the code do?

• It allows us to serve on a REAL TIME basis, advertisements onto your Blog.
• It allows us and yourself to track vital visitor statistics of your Blog.
• We have a very strict Privacy Policy which ensures your privacy is maintained as far as reasonably possible.

How do I place the code?

• You may refer to our dedicated tutorial (Which you can find in the “Add Ads” page within the CMS) for advice on how to place the code. Do not fret!
• If any doubts remain, do not hesitate to Contact Us!

My Statcounter is not counting! Help!

• First thing you need to do is to check you have placed the code correctly. Refer to the dedicated tutorial within the “Add Ads” page for guidance. A tip. Default ads should be visible on your Blog if your code has been placed correctly.
• If there is no problem with the placement of your code, go to your blog manager (In “My Account” page), and ensure that the blog URL is correct.
• If all is well, and your stats still do not count. Kindly Contact Us, and a technical team member will be on your case ASAP.

How do I change the URL of my blog?

• Click on “Blog Manager”.
• Click on “Edit”, and provide us with new URL and reason why you are changing the URL.
• We’ll do the rest!
• *Note that your email address may not be changed.

How do I remove/add Nuffnang Ads from my blog?

Removing ads:

• You can’t. Once you join us you’re with us forever! Ok we’re just kidding.
• Just remove the ads from your blog but before you do so, please notify us first at http://www.nuffnang.com.my/help just in case we may have some advertisements due for display on that particular ad unit.
• Tell us which ad unit on which blog you are planning to remove and give us 48 hours to respond to your e-mail.

Adding ads:

• Just go to the “Add Ads” page, choose an Ad Unit and add the code on your blog.
• If you are planning to add Nuffnang Ads on a new blog go to “Blog Manager” and follow the prompts.

Will Nuffnang Ads and Google AdSense work together?

• Nuffnang Ads do not look like Google Ads, are not contextual and is not formatted in any way to look like Google Ads or search boxes so you should not have a problem with putting on Nuffnang Ads on the same page as Google Adsense. Do refer to the Google Adsense Program Policies for further details.

Do I get paid in S$ or USD?

• You will get paid in $SGD. This reduces the trouble of you having to bank-in USD cheques and wait for weeks before you eventually get your money. It also means that the bank won’t have to take a further commission on your ad payments since there is no foreign currency involved.

I have joined Nuffnang for quite some time but have no earnings

• a) Cost Per Unique Visitor Ads
  Earnings for Cost Per Unique Visitor Ads are calculated based on the number of unique visitors to a blog when an ad campaign is being run. Basically, you have to achieve a minimum amount of 20 unique visitors to your blog and maintain that amount in order to be in the running to receive Cost Per Unique Visitor Ads. Then, you can sit back and relax while our advertisers select the blogs on which to run their ad campaigns on. Should you be selected, you will be notified by email based on the type and the duration of the ad campaign.
• b) CPC Ads
  Any blogger registered with Nuffnang is automatically eligible run have CPC Ads. You will be paid each time the ad is clicked on and your earnings will appear at the end of the week.
  In spite of running CPC ads, Cost Per Unique Visitor ads will always be given priority since in the past we have found that that Cost Per Unique Visitor ads seem to pay more since they don’t depend on the number of times your user clicks on your ads.
  The amount of earnings along with its rates will remain confidential until it is released in your earnings.
• c). Advertorials
  Advertorials is when a particular blogger is paid to write about an advertiser’s product in his/her blog. The blogger will be paid per post because of its better reach.

I have not been able to paste the Nuffnang codes into my Wordpress/Xanga/Multiply/Livejournal blog.

• Free versions of Wordpress.com do not allow the use of Javascripts nor the editing of their template’s HTML. However, hosting your blog by using Wordpress.org’s files on your own domain will allow you to do so if you are able to set the file permission settings through your FTP.

• At the moment, Xanga Themes does not support the use of javascript as it prevents the “< script >” tag to be inserted when placing a HTML code into their widgets. At the moment only the old “Look & Feel” page allows the user to insert javascript. You may find the Xanga support forum thread about this here
  http://help.xanga.com/themes/Default.aspx?g=posts&m=6375

• Multiply and Livejournal do not allow 3rd party advertisements nor the editing of their blog HTML. So far, from our knowledge, the blogs that allow you to do this are blogger platforms such as www.blogger.com, the old ‘look and feel’ version of Xanga, full paid versions of Wordpress, Tabulas.com and Diaryland.com.

I am running an ad campaign on my blog, but have no earnings.

• Earnings will only be updated into your earnings page after the advertisement campaign has ended. After you have achieved an amount of SGD50 in your earnings, you will be allowed to request for payment. From there, we will require a 30 day period to process your payment. We normally send out the cheques at the end of each month, it should then take about a week for our cheque to reach your doorstep.

I just received an email that I have been selected for an ad campaign; what do I need to do?

• The email that we sent to you is just a notification to inform you that you have been selected for an advertisement campaign. All you need to do is to ensure that our Nuffnang codes in placed in prominent locations on your blog and wait for the campaign to run on the date stated in the email. If your blog has a bad ad placement as is found to drive a very low CTR, advertisers may withdraw the ad from your blog.