Jul 4 2010

Lots of Stuff to Try

I have been trying out some new ideas, just to see if I can break out of the earning shell I seem to be in. While my readership is up, it still is not as high as I’d like, and my income level seems quite stagnant as well, so with that I have tried a few things and we shall see how it goes:

  1. Using Twitter as a way to steer readers to my site. Every new post is associated with a tweet now using Wordtwit, and that seems to help send folks to my site a bit more (for some odd reason I have over 150 followers).
  2. I have added a ReTweet badge on all my posts, which is from TweetMeMe, and that is interesting, but has not caused to many retweets as of yet.
  3. Found SocialOomph, which allows me to set up timed Tweets, which then allows me to post a lot of my older content, and see if I can drive some traffic to some of those old Dogs as well. Haven’t seen too much reaction here either, but it is early in the game.
  4. Turned commenting back on, for these older sites to see if we can start up some discussions there. Just means I have more Spam to watch for, Akismet should catch most of that.
  5. Put Amazon back on the web site to see if we can figure out how to make some extra cash there. Seem to have enough traffic now that Amazon gives me some extra money every month.
  6. Bought WPTouch Pro, very worthwhile, need to figure out how to drive iPod/iPhone traffic, but I really like that interface.

Finally need to find, build, or buy a new Theme for the site. It really does look dingy.

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Jun 17 2010

Welcome WordPress 3.0

Just installed 3.0, and we shall see what it does for me.

Interesting video.

Even more interesting

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Jun 8 2010

Blog Profit Camp

I just read a new ebook by John Chow call The Ultimate Blog Profit Model and
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May 22 2010

Mention you in the Globe and Mail and Boom

Yes, it seems that a mention in the Globe and Mail in their Vote: The Best Financial Blogs, survey and my stats went sky high. I keep mentioning it like in Vote For Me and I’ll Set You Free, and posts like that.

Because of this increase (over 1100 for Wednesday last week), I have folks asking me to link to them, and even more interesting, I am getting inquiries about advertising which makes me a happy blogger too.

I have made more this past week than I did the past month, which is great.

Feb 25 2010

Advertising Income Not Great

Income Better But Not Great

This seems to be a continuing complaint by me, that the income for Canadian Financial Opinions is really not what I was hoping it might be after 5 years of writing, but I continue to try new ideas to see if that might help push income to a less slave level and more to a not bad paying hobby level.

Text Link Ads Rules

At the end of it my TextLinkAds income seems to be the most reliable, with Adsense about 1/2 of that income and then no real income from any other sites, although Amazon does create a little income here and there.

I am also continuing to test posting by e-mail as well, which works OK, but it does have a few interesting issues, that I am learning about.