Adventures with Solid State Drives
So after spending about 3 weeks futzing around with Solid State Drives, Vista and Windows 7, I think I have come to a set of truths that I have learned. First, upgrading your operating system is a mistake, you should always install a new clean version of your operating system no matter what. You can [...]
Guest Posts: Please Stop the Madness
How many requests do I receive for folks who wish to add their content to THE Canadian Personal Finance Site? This week over 10, and most weeks at least 5 of them, and 99.9% of all of them are from folks who I do not read, nor do I know of them. If I ran [...]
External Links and Carnivals
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Link Carpet Bombing After last week’s discussion of external linking, the search for links from the big boys, I didn’t really go into depth about the current methodology I have in place. I have been over doing the whole social media thing and plan on curtailing this activity for a while and see if it [...]
Link Building a Tutorial (External)
I have already given some ideas about creating internal links with Link Building a Tutorial (Internal), (see I just created an internal link right there), but now we need to do the important task of creating External Links (i.e. links from other sites, that hopefully have a higher Page Rank than you). External links (hopefully) [...]
Link Building a Tutorial (Internal)
So it has taken me about 6 years and a lot of mistakes to figure out how to slowly but surely build links into your site (and across your site) and thus build your Page Rank as well. I will describe the techniques and ideas that I have used with THE Canadian Personal Finance Site [...]
Twitter Etiquette
Twitter Tsunamis I am still learning how to use Social Media as a tool to drive more readers through Canadian Personal Finance (and thus hopefully create more income from the site) but I am starting to learn a few things about one of the major social media engines Twitter. Twitter Etiquette First thing is Twitter [...]
End of 2010 Personal Finance Biz Review
Another relatively successful year for THE Canadian Personal Finance site, however, not nearly as successful as I think it should be to justify the amount of time I spend on writing and developing the business. Some of the highlights of my successes (to be optimistic): My Alexa ranking has gone from off the face of [...]
Merry Christmas
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To my readers, and their families and anyone visiting here, I wish you a Merry Christmas and hope you enjoy the day and the season. Christmas day and the whole Advent and Christmas season is a time to enjoy Spouses, Family, Friends and the time to relax. And to you Scrapers, Spammers and SEO Spoofers, [...]

