Jul 31 2008

Carnivals of Sorts

Friday I will be publishing a Carnival of Catastrophic financial advice, where I asked fellow financial bloggers to send me in their worst financial advice story, the stories are interesting, but no one bares their souls as I did a few weeks back in Worst Financial Advice Given Ever . I guess that might be [...]

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Jul 30 2008

What is so Cool about Cuil?

Evidently there is a new exciting entry in the search engine world, CUIL. I have looked at it and found that it does have copies of my old Financial Web site, but does not have Canadian Financial Opinions hooked into it yet.  I sent them an e-mail with updated pointers and descriptions of both of [...]

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Jul 29 2008

Sometimes One Link is All It Takes

How To Build Traffic I have learned about the Digg Effect from John Chow and his initial success posting about pop up urinals in Vancouver (I am not making that story up), however in the Ottawa Financial Community there is one member who if he mentions you on his site, the traffic increase is amazing, [...]

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Jul 28 2008

Page Rank 2.0 Again

Page Rank Up Canadian Financial and Consumer Opinions page rank seems to have raised up to a 2/10 in Google’s eyes, which is a start given it was at 0/10 for a very long time (due to unknown reasons). What caused this? I have no idea, I have been cleaning up the mess of cross-links [...]

Jul 25 2008

Spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam and spam

Originally posted on my finance blog after a particularly vulgar weekend that I spent cleaning up hundreds of SPAM comments on my blogspot account. Spam, Spam, Spam….. I don’t like SPAM ! No that is not my breakfast, it is what I am now continually finding as “comments” on this page. I have turned off [...]

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