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Most bloggers who make money on reviews are paid through PayPal. But of course, even though they are paid through this, it won’t make any sense if they won’t be able to get the actual money. FYI: Your money in PayPal is real. It is like your online bank account wherein people may easily deposit money in the quickest possible way. The question is, how will you be able to withdraw your money?

In this article, I’ll discuss to you, especially Filipino bloggers, how you may be able to withdraw your money from PayPal. A cheap and easy way is through applying for a Union Bank EON Account. An EON Cyber Account allows you both Debit Card and a Bank Account. Since a Debit / Credit Card is the requirement of PayPal for withdrawals of money, then you must have a valid Debit or Credit Card. Anyway, EON Cyber Account is also especially designed by Union Bank for PayPal withdrawals, so you would most likely experience less difficulties in a lot of transactions with them.

How to apply for an EON Card?

The application for EON Card is online. But first, you must prepare at least 2 Valid IDs. If possible, the most recent one. If you only have one ID, you may present your NSO Authenticated Birth Certificate. This will be required when you’ll be claiming the card later on. Of course, upon claiming, it should be well verified that you are the one who applied for the card. Also, they would ask for a fee of Php 350. Then, to begin with the application, follow this link » Apply for EON Card. If the link doesn’t work, then just visit www.UnionBankPh.com, and click on "Use you UnionBank Cards with PayPal now!". By then, you will be properly guided on what to do next.

Upon submission of your application form, you will have to wait at maximum of 5-7 days for you card to be sent at the Union Bank Branch you specified. By the way, be sure to select the nearest Union Bank Office upon application since you might have trouble claiming your card later. After a week, even without notification from Union Bank, proceed to the branch you specified then bring with you your Php 350 plus an extra Php 100. Also, do not forget your identification documents and cards. There is a desk inside the bank which accepts transactions for EON Cyber Account. Approach the personnel assigned there and explain to him/her that you’ll be claiming your EON Card. You’ll be given further instructions by then. Note that even right after you get your EON Card, it still has to be activated for 3-4 banking days or more. So while waiting for it to be activated, deposit at least Php 100 to your account. This money shall be used as your PayPal transaction fee upon claiming your Expanded Use Number (EUN) for your PayPal account. This Expanded Use Number is a requirement so that you may be able to lift your PayPal withdrawal limit. Don’t worry, the money you paid for EUN will be given back to you after several weeks.

After your card has been activated, then you may already use it personally. So, to completely use it for your PayPal account, go to your account then add new Debit/Credit Card. Fill in the required details. When you’ve successfully added your card, it will ask for the Expanded Use Number for verification. You will just have to wait another 3-4 business days since PayPal and Union Bank will be in the process of settling the transactions. After this, call the Union Bank Toll Free hotline. Note that there may be busy hours, so be patient enough to wait even up to more than 5 minutes before you’d receive a response from any representative. There you should ask for your Expanded Use Number. Explain to them that you’re expecting for your EUN. As soon as you already have your EUN, go back to your PayPal account and follow the link "Get Verified Now" or something which mentions about getting verified. Input your EUN then you’re already done.

You may already withdraw your money either through Withdrawals to Credit Card or Withdrawals to your Bank Account. At the same time, since you will be a verified PayPal member, you’re limit of sending and withdrawing money will be lifted. As a piece of advise, since Withdrawals to your Bank Account is a newly added feature from PayPal, it offers a lot of benefits. So better withdraw your money through this rather than withdrawing your money through Credit Card. This cost less, since you will only have to be charged Php 50 if you’ll withdraw money less than Php 7000 or otherwise, it’s free. While on the otherhand, if you withdraw your money through Credit Card, you will be charged $5 which is at an estimated peso value of Php 205. The money you’ll withdraw usually takes 5-7 business days before it’d reach to your bank account, so just be patient enough to wait. Anyway, these are just pretty rewarding especially when you already receive your money.

There is also an alternative and quicker way to get your money without having to wait for almost a week. You will be charged $4.50 though for every money sent, but it won’t take 2 days to get your money. Send your money from PayPal through Xoom. You may directly deposit the money to your bank account, or perhaps send the money right to your doorstep (costs usually upto 4 days), or rather in a faster way which is through Pick-Up. Anyway, I’ll discuss to you only the pick-up method. Create your account in Xoom.com by just clicking in the "Send Now" button, specifying the amount of US Dollars to send. Choose your recipient (of course, your own personal information), then click Continue. Choose the currency (it is much more preferrable if you choose Php) then specifiy a secret word. The secret word will be required for claiming the money at a specific pick-up location. You may specify the recipient’s email address for notification. Press Continue then choose PayPal as your payment method. Continue again and review your transactions. By going to the next procedure, you will be asked to login to your PayPal account. Then just follow the instructions and your money will be sent. Through Pick-Up method in Xoom, you may claim your cash at any location as in this link » Pick-Up Locations.

If you have questions or any clarifications, just leave ‘em all here. Thanks.

Regards,
Ronald Borla 

Just this morning, I’ve thought of a quick way of visiting random blogs all around the web through Blogspot. Blogspot comes up with a link on the upper-left corner of the page.

As you can see above, there is a link labeled "Next Blog»". This allows you to jump to a random blog which is currently being updated. Basically, this saves time for you to think whether what to visit next. And the biggest advantage of this is that, you get to meet lots of bloggers all around the world without having to click on links in blogrolls, at the same time, the privilege to leave a comment and loads of links to your own blogs. Try it, perhaps, if you do so, you can build more than 10 stable links in less than an hour.

Tip:

When leaving a comment and a link in a Blogspot page, you can actually include HTML anchor codes just like shown below:

 

Remember that when including an anchor text as a comment in a Blogspot blog, never add a "target". As they may be considered as a spam. To write an anchor text such as above, follow this format:

<a href="http://theURLofmyBLOG.com">The Name of My Blog</a>

Replace the text after the href inside the quotes with the URL of your blog. This serves as the link. While you can change the label of the anchor by replacing "The Name of My Blog", with the name of your blog.

Regards,
Ronald Borla 

P.S: Anchors are links in HTML. So you, you can always leave these codes when commenting to different blogs.

Jump links are those links which are not directly linked to the target. It works by setting the anchor’s target to a page within the website and later redirect it to the original target. This may be a great way of tracking down how many links have been clicked in your website but this comes up with a bad problem. In any way, this is not accepted by Google as a probable back link, therefore, it won’t be recognized by Google bots to be counted as a factor of increasing the website’s Page Rank. Also, if you’re doing paid reviews, some websites allowing bloggers to make money with sponsored reviews do not accept jump links. So, this means, you definitely have to get rid of it in any way you can.

By the way, jump links are features of some blog themes, especially in Blogsome. So, links made by using their default wordpress wysiwyg editor may result in to jumped links, such as the current theme I am using. Try to hover your mouse up in this link » As artists think alike…You will notice that in the status bar of your browser, it shows that the target website is "http://guidetoblogs.blogsome.com/go.php?http://ronaldborla.blogsome.com/". This proves that the website has to proceed first to a page called "go.php" then redirects to the original link. FYI: This anchor was not written to initially target "http://guidetoblogs.blogsome.com/go.php?http://ronaldborla.blogsome.com/" but only "http://ronaldborla.blogsome.com/". Because of the blog theme’s feature, all links done using the default editor will automatically be rewritten as the result above.

Guys, for you to get rid of this feature, all you have to do is to take the clue above. Since this is just the old editor’s fault, you would just have to deactivate the Wysi-WordPress Editor plugin before creating the links and publishing the post. But, this might become too uncomfortable in your part, so I would just have to introduce to you my cool way of fixing it.

A nasty solution would be "fooling the editor". Since the Wysi-WordPress Editor converts links to jump links, then why not add a decoy before every link that you have to create within the post. What I meant is, to add a decoy before every link.

A normal anchor html code would be like this:

<a href="http://ronaldborla.blogsome.com/">As artists think alike…</a>

Adding a decoy would look like this:

<a href="http://ronaldborla.blogsome.com/"></a><a href="http://ronaldborla.blogsome.com/">As artists think alike…</a>

Notice that there is a link having the same target as the next but does not have any anchor text. Quite inexplicable, but believe me, this works! Well, to do this, after you’ve created all the links required for the post, edit its html code by pressing the "HTML" button in one of the tools of the editor. Search out for every anchor within the post, and copy the whole code (from <a> up to </a>). Paste it right before the original anchor then remove the anchor text (text between ">" and "<"). Then finally, the post would be ready to be published.

After doing these steps, you will notice that by hovering your cursor to the link, your browser’s status bar would now directly point out the anchor to the right target. A completed link would look like this » As artists think alike… Try to place your mouse cursor over this link and notice the status bar.

But hey guys, if you think the solution above is a bit too difficult to follow (and too tasky, especially when there are loads of links within the post), then try this VB program I made to do this neat job for you. It doesn’t matter whether there’d be thousands of links in your article. Just copy your whole article’s HTML code to the clipboard, run this VB application, after a message saying "Jumplink Fixed" appears, then the code would automatically be converted fixing the jump links. Finally, just paste back the new code then publish. You can download the program through this link » Fixing Jumplinks and don’t forget to leave your comments. If you have questions on how to use the program, just leave ‘em all here.

Regards,
Ronald Borla 

Ever needed to post some YouTube videos or perhaps an IMEEM playlist in your Blogsome account? The problem is, you just can’t do it, for the reason that Blogsome unintentionally do not allow embedding of objects in your posts. Actually, this problem is not due to Blogsome’s restrictions. It just so happened that the WordPress Editor used as a plugin does not support embedding of objects. Which means, the editor would only allow tags which are recognized by it. In order to eliminate unintentional restrictions, all you have to do is to Deactivate your Blogsome account’s WYSIWYG Editor Plugin. It’s just that, you won’t be able to type your post the way to do it before. But since I’m here to guide you all the way how to do it much more effectively, here’s how:

1. First, with your WYSIWYG Editor still Activated (FYI: WYSIWYG Editor is activated by default), encode first everything you needed to appear in the post. I’m talking about the content of the post, so if ever you won’t need any text to appear in your article, then you can skip this step. After typing the necessary contents, then save your post as draft.
2. In your Blogsome admin, go to Plugins, then choose to Deactivate WSYI-Wordpress plugin.
3. Go back to your saved draft. As you notice, you won’t be able to edit your post the way you usually do it. If you are not familiar with HTML codes, then you only have to insert the code of your Embedded Object (code provided by YouTube or IMEEM), at the end of the post. By doing so, this would prevent mixing up the codes. But if you’re a bit knowledgable with HTML, then you can choose to insert in anywhere as long as you know what you are doing.
4. Now press Publish then presto! Your object will already appear by next time you view your post.
5. Finally, if you need to bring back your old editor, then just go to Plugins again, then activate WYSI-Wordpress plugin.

Did it help? Anyway, if you have questions or comments, just leave it right here. Thanks! And by the way, here’s a YouTube video my brother just posted, it’s about the ducks he fooled when we were in the province.

Regards,
Ronald Borla 

When we’re blogging, it doesn’t mean we just have to simply express what we feel or what we need to let our readers perceive. Since our blog posts would sometimes need to contain a definite substance, then we may make use of words which are rather deep and sensible, and which are just about of the same definition as the simplest words you knew.

That’s right! The solution is working on with synonymous words. In short, we look for synonyms through a reference called Thesaurus. Like for instance, notice the following statements:

My dad just bought me a new pair of shoes. When I was about to try them on with my feet, it didn’t fit. And because of this, I really scolded my dad because the shoes were not able to satisfy me. Dad should have told me that he was buying me a new pair of shoes so that before he’d pay for those, at least I could try them on.

Noticeably, the words used were a bit redundant. In most usual cases, though the readers might be interested on how you started your statement, but they’d definitely end up unimpressed.  Now in order to improve this, you just have to eliminate redundancy, or the so-called unwanted repition of words. Use synonyms. You might re-write the paragraph above as:

My dad just bought me a new pair of shoes. When I was about to try them on with my feet, I noticed that they were just too tight. And because of this, I really scolded him because the sneakers were not able to satisfy me. My father should have told me that he was buying me a new pair of those fancy foot wears so that before he’d pay for those, at least I could have checked them out myself.

As part of the "redundancy prevention", you would also have to consider repeating sounds. Rhymes aren’t best for essays especially on posts for your blog. They are just effective on poems or other literary pieces aside from essays. Above I replaced the word "fit" to "tight". Since "fit" sounds alike with "feet". Therefore, the awkwardness of the statement may also be removed.

For your reference needs especially Thesaurus, I would recommend you this website right in this link » http://thesaurus.reference.com/. Happy posting!

Regards,
Ronald Borla 

Have you noticed an Icon appearing right before where your blog’s complete URL is? See top of your browser which has something like this »

Well, in the above case is just my customized FavIcon here in my blog at GuideToBlogs. You can also change yours. There are two different ways: either plain icon (static) or an animated icon. Well here’s how you do it:

Plain icon

Animated Icon

Were you able to get it right? If you have comments or questions, just leave your message here. Also, you may leave your links here so that we may also be able to see your blog’s icon.

Regards,
Ronald Borla

Hi! This blog is a guide on how to blog and what those stuffs are related to blogging. Later, we shall be discussing about different guides, tips and tricks about blogs. Also, I shall post some topics about how to make money and earn real cash in blogging. There are topics about SEO techniques and on how to successfully build your own blogging career. As for now, thanks for visiting!