Working Hard On The Internet
Ever wonder why so many folks are trying to make extra money on the Internet and who is succeeding? This isn’t the site to learn from.

Even with my Adsense numbers inching up day by day, I am not making enough blogging to justify the work I am doing for it, so I will now dedicate harder work and become much more ruthless in terms of advertising that is doing me no good, or making me no money.

I am being approached by more folks looking for link exchanges, however, I will not do any more without any compensation or value to me. No more Mr. Nice Guy, I guess is what I am saying as well.

My financial site has become a bit Topsy turvey in terms of look, so that will get cleaned up this weekend, and I may move to a different theme even, if it makes it look cleaner.

Stay tuned.

Thanks to moving over from Feedburner to Google Feedburner, my adsense impressions effectively doubled on the first day, which is a very good thing, I think. More impressions means more possible money to be made, which is a very good thing these days.

A few bumps along the road, the number of subscribers “chiclet” went to ZERO this morning, but that was because it was reading from the Feedburner side, which had been turned off, so after replacing that, it now is back to within 10% of my RSS readership from last week, which is great.

Now I don’t feel like I am losing money having an RSS feed, which is just great!

So for both sites the RSS Feeds have now both been moved, and I will be deleting the interim feed set up for this site.

Working Hard on The Internet RSS Feed is now on this link. Canadian Personal Finance Opinions RSS feed is over here.

Feedburner is now gone, but still here and my readership drops a TONNE again, oh well, if I can make money on a smaller number, so be it!

Need to change the FeedFlare set ups and the Readership Icons again, lots of nit picky little changes to be made, but again, for more money, that is just fine!

Not a lot done on the web sites this week in terms of changes. Wordpress 2.6.1 is running on both sites, and nothing untoward seems to be happening. The RSS adsense feed is interesting, but doesn’t seem to be changing much right now either.  Lots of ideas for topics are coming from my severance training, which makes life a little easier too. No readership increases lately, and the advertising campaign seems to have done a little good, but paying $18 for 1 week of advertising seems a bit steep to me.

More changes might be coming soon.

So I ended up going and setting up a NEW feed for this site which you can link to Working Hard on the Internet or via the subscribe RSS button on the right hand margin. I have redirected Feedburner to use this as it’s feed, but it will now be interesting to see what happens when the Google folks get around to moving my feed as well? Oh well, I was never one to be very patient, that is for sure.

Wordpress 2.6.1 has now been installed on all sites as well, we shall see whether it changes anything or breaks anything as the last upgrade did (let’s hope not).

Turned off the SEO optimizer for this site, as it doesn’t seem to actually do me any good for now either.

The upgrade to Wordpress 2.6.1 seems to have gone ok for Canadian Personal Finance Opinions, and is running ok.

John Chow dot Com comes through again with Google Offers Adsense for RSS Feeds, which is great. I hadn’t noticed it on my Adsense page, but I am now signing up for it and hopefully this will add to my adsense revenues (wow if it doubles it, I’ll be working for Cerfs wages and not just slave wages). Haven’t been ok’ed for it yet, but this might be a very good thing.

Have not upgraded this site to 2.6.1 yet, as I am not sure the Theme can withstand changes right now.

After living through the last upgrade of Wordpress and having it break this site and the advertising on my financial site, I figured I would wait a little while until I am sure all of my plug ins and themes are ok’ed on this “dot release” from our friends at Wordpress.

Income this week has been steady, but RSS feeds have dropped sharply on the financial site, and I am just not too sure why. It is August and vacations, but I am hoping it is not a real trend, and instead just a blip. Mentioned in the Canadian Capitalist today, so should have a good “bump” from that link (remember the Canadian Capitalist Effect ).

Readership on this site increases slowly but surely as well, which is interesting too, not sure who(m) is reading, but remember I don’t post every day here (but I sometimes end up  writing a lot at once).

This morning while attempting to clean up the 90 still broken links on Canadian Personal Finance, I ended up having an interesting epipheny. In my early days I took pictures from all over the web to help push forward my points (not realizing that many times sites move pictures, or turn off access to them). This morning I found a post I had done about pay day loans places called Pay Day Loans: No, No, No!! and in it, I had a picture of a great white shark to show what I thought of the pay day loan industry (they are all blood thirsty sharks (worse than loan sharks)).

Pay Day Loans Just Like the Great White, A Perfect Eating Machine

My Broken Links plug in told me that this picture had disappeared, and I was looking around for a new picture of a shark, when it dawned on me that a very nice picture that shows what Pay Day Loan places are like is on the cover of Peter Benchley’s novel Jaws, so I decided to replace the picture, with an Amazon Associates picture ad for the novel Jaws, and if someone buys the novel I make money! I also get across the point about how I loath the Pay Day Loan industry (even though the advertise on my web site as well!).

Think I’ll do that a few more times now, see if I can get some love from Amazon.

So after spending most of my spare time this past weekend, repairing any links on my web site that pointed at it’s old Blogspot address, I am now attempting to tackle all of the rest of the broken links on Canadian Personal Finance blog, and it is turning out to be another behemoth of a task.

Using the Wordpress Broken Link Plug In, I found that along with the hundreds of links to my old web site I had over 160 broken links on my site pointing to various non-existant sites or posts on the Web, Oh Joy!

The interface for the Plug In is very straight forward, so that is good, but I am also cleaning up the postings as well (deleting some posts, that I must have written while asleep, or when I was in a particularly lazy mood, that is for sure). You can simply discard the bad link and that speeds things up a lot, but I have many images that I have linked to that are no longer there, which I want to clean up (the post looks stupid without them).

This site only has 1 broken link, so that is kind of cool too.