Blogging in Khi

Posted September 10, 2004 to Pakistan category.

One of the lesser dangers of having a weblog in this country:

Message: hellow dear A.A
I WANT a new computer . p4
please send me priceses of p4 brinded & non brinded
only cpu prices
thanks ( cpu p4 with out modem)

Suprisingly, I get tons of such junk from this website, though almost all of them are now diverted/blocked by various spam filters. So for any future emailers, the going rate for the above is one beeellliiiion rupeeeeees. I’ll even throw in the modem for free!

There is other, more offensive stuff also sometimes, but mostly misguided people.

Updated at 10:14 AM on August 15, 2005 | Email
Comments (14 comments so far.)
1. | Zack at September 11, 2004 12:14 AM:

At least you don’t get comments calling you a Jew masquerading as a Muslim.

2. | Abez at September 11, 2004 2:39 AM:

Does this mean you’re not going to research laptop prices for me? lolz..

Btw, are you using Adsense?

3. | Ali at September 11, 2004 6:10 AM:

Running a website with a weblog anywhere in the world stinks. They have figured out how to squeeze in spam crap even tho. I got tired of it and installed MT Blacklist and it works for the most part…every now and then you still get one through. IP Banning also works well but there will be thousands of IP’s.

Peace.

- Ali

4. | KO at September 11, 2004 11:41 AM:

Zack: thankfully not, but still every now and then someone sends along a zinger.

Abez: I am using adsense, but am going to get rid of it whenever I next redesign the weblog - It’s been there for many months yet has hardly made any money - a few hundred rupees in that entire time. I figure it’s only usefull for high-traffic sites, not weblogs with random postings. It is interesting to see what adds show up though. It’s also a very accurate page counter. So there are some benefits besides the monetary aspects.

Ali: The new version of MT-Blacklist is now working very well at my end.

5. | Abez at September 13, 2004 1:38 AM:

I was wondering how lucrative adsense really was. I asked and they couodn’t give me a straight answer, and seeing as how my blog doesn’t really qualify as ‘high traffic’ (ha ha) I think maybe I’ll pass on it.

But you know, the greedy-guts in me is thinking what a few hundred rupees can buy… a new err… pair of shoes? (or a really, really big lunch!) I dunno.

6. | thor at September 13, 2004 4:35 AM:

sigh! the price one has to pay for a popular blog. hehe

7. | KO at September 13, 2004 5:10 PM:

Abez: A few hundred rs. in a few months is… not very exciting. Also, the minimum amount they pay out is a 100 dollars, so it’s going to take a looong time before I actually see anything. But I think now on blogspot blogs you can easily turn on adsense, so just try it out for a while.

8. | thor at September 15, 2004 12:50 AM:

oh please. even if u get a million hits there is no way u are gonna be making any cash. it all depends on the people who click on the ads.

9. | Abez at September 15, 2004 4:10 AM:

True. Ok, I’m too lazy to look further into it anyway. sigh

Can’t someone just give me a few hundred rupees every month?

10. | Jalal at September 22, 2004 8:52 PM:

I just get a lot of hate mail.

11. | Nabeel Khalid at November 7, 2004 11:18 PM:

i signed up for a publisher account 3 months ago. on 1st month my site was getting a very small number of visitors, i earned around 20$ on 1st month, on second month i earned 35$, and in the 3rd month(October) i earned about 120$ . Total is 175$ which is appx = 10,325 Rupess , 3,440 Rupees per month. still not bad.
my site gets around 400 U-Visitors per day.

12. | Mudassir Sheikha at November 30, 2004 3:47 PM:

Let me throw in something I received recently…


i wana addmition in law college and i did my F.sc in pakistan. and i want to now how can i apply and what will the systom of coming there and what is the ph noumber of that place. plese send me mail as soon as posible thanks alot.

To KO on Adsense: You might need to put your ads in a more visible place for better results. If you don’t need the money, give it to your maasi to send her kid to school. Or spend the money in Pakistan and I am sure it’ll end up in a place dearer to you than it would otherwise.

13. | KO at December 2, 2004 10:11 AM:

I’ve had adsense for about a year now, and have yet to see any money! I only make a few cents a week with it - so it’s really not worth it. At this speed, it’ll take me a few years for the first check! I did make the adds prominent for a while, but no one clicked on them anyways.

14. | Nabeel at April 8, 2005 12:59 PM:

You must not be getting lot visitors or your website may not have high bid keywords, My average CPC is
0.4 $ , My websie category is Web Publishing.

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