Jan 22 2009

Attack of the Bots

Something odd is going on at Canadian Personal Finance the past few weeks, the Bots are attacking. It seems that MSN and Yahoo’s Bots have both taken a big liking to my site, and have been inundating the site with crawlers. The past few days bot numbers are: January 21  MSN:  1713  Yahoo: 478  Google: 148 January [...]

Jan 14 2009

Too Many Plug Ins Spoil WordPress

Canadian Personal Financehas been up and down a lot in the past week or so, which is annoying and not very good for business either. The servers were visible but WordPress was misbehaving (mostly a couple of SQL issues too). The Dreamhost folks suggested trimming down the number of plug ins I run in WordPress, [...]

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Jan 8 2009

December 2008 Income

An update on  my attempt to carve out a meager income with my blogging so here is an update for December from Canadian Personal Finance Opinions : Adsense income $51.54 with about 5000 impressions Kontera income $7.84  on 4400 page impressions Text Link Ads income $38.09 earn with 5 ads running out of a possible [...]

Jan 1 2009

Merry New Year

Hope all my readers have a Happy and Prosperous New Year.  I promise to post more in the new year and have some plans for the Financial Blog including: Revamp the theme, it really does suck and is quite cluttered, but not sure which way I want to go with it right now.  Do some [...]