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.

It’s been a long time since I have posted here and sometimes I forget that I do have this blog to do experiments and just bluster about life in general. This post is allegedly testing the Postie Plug-in for allowing folks to post an entry from an e-mail account. We shall see where this might [...]

I am attempting to banish my blogspot version of Canadian Financial Opinions from the Google Index. First I added the all important META tag into the header for the site meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, nofollow” That should stop the Googlebot from wandering through the site and getting any data on the content that is in there. [...]

So I tried the “Buy Me a Beer” plug in which didn’t do any bloody good to me. I then had the bright idea, that I am begging with the wrong tag line, so I fiddled around with the plug in and came up with this instead: Help Send My Kids to University In 4 [...]

Fricking Google strikes again and Canadian Financial Opinions is back to Zero page ranking, yet Text Link Ads has sold 7 ads on the page and I keep getting nutty Pay Day Loan Ad requests as well. I have sent yet another request to be reconsidered, but that is a futile attempt. Traffic continues to [...]

So the Globe and Mail has a poll on about the Best Financial Bloggers in Canada (or Top 5) list and I note that I am not mentioned, yet again. Canadian Financial Opinions may not be a classic financial blog, but at least it is not some “get rich quick” stock picking web site or [...]

Looking for another source of income for the Canadian Financial Opinions, I have added PepperJam Network which seems to be much like Adsense, with a few twists on things. Not sure it will add a lot of income, but it is another source. TexlinkAds continues to be my major source of income for this year, [...]

So I guess my appeal to Google worked out, because now Canadian Financial Opinions Page Rank has returned to 3/10 (which is actually higher than it was before I moved the site to Dreamhost, so that is kind of cool too). With my current Alexa ranking this puts the web site back to where it [...]