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 20 MSN: 509 Yahoo: 484 Google: [...]
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, since [...]
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 8 (text link [...]
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 more investigations of [...]
