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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