May 15 2009

Holy Cow RSS Readers

So my Adsense data has been showing a declining readership directly, but an exploding RSS readership, but this seems a little fishy to me.

Page impressions
Clicks
Page CTR
Page eCPM [?]
Earnings

AdSense for Content top channels
164
1
0.61%
$6.70
$1.10

 

 
Queries
Clicks
CTR
eCPM [?]
Earnings

AdSense for Search top channels
1
0
0.00%
$0.00
$0.00

 

 
 

 
Ad Impressions
Clicks
Ad CTR
Ad eCPM [?]
Earnings

AdSense for Feeds top channels
895
1
0.11%
$1.00
$0.89

 

Total Earnings
 
$1.99

Yes, I am not making much, but that is not the point, right [...]

Apr 30 2009

iPhone and iPod Theme Added

So I stumbled across a new plug in for Wordpress which creates a Theme for iPhone, iPod and other handheld devices, and it seems pretty cute.
WPTouch  by Brave New Code is quite the plug in and I am testing it out on this site, with an eye towards putting it on Canadian Personal Finance in [...]

Apr 29 2009

Carnival Whining an Epilogue

After the fiasco that was my attempt at hosting the Carnival of Personal Finance (although that post is one of the most popular I have ever had), I ran into yet another interesting whine from one of the many posters who I included in the overly long post (this was found in Stumbleupon):
Host left out [...]

Apr 27 2009

Test of Adsense Video Player

So I am really not sure what this will actually do, but here is an adsense video player test to see how it might work on my web site.
The important part of all of this would be to make sure that the video player appears stand a lone on the page.
I wonder what kind of [...]

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Apr 21 2009

Creepy Crawlers

So my Canadian Personal Finance site continues to be crawled by many different bots and such and it is making for some very interesting statistics. 
 
What the heck is causing all this crawling around, I have no idea, but holy cow that is a lot of crawling that is for sure.

Apr 16 2009

March Income Numbers

An update on my attempt to carve out a meager income with my blogging so here is an update for March from Canadian Personal Financial Opinions :

Adsense income $60.44 with about 16000 impressions (including RSS)
Kontera income $3.78 on 7,528 page impressions
TextLinkAds income $56.61 earn with 8 ads running out of a possible 8 (text [...]

Mar 17 2009

February Income Numbers

An update on  my attempt to carve out a meager income with my blogging so here is an update for December from Canadian Personal Financial Opinions :

Adsense income $66.17 with about 14000 impressions (including RSS)
Kontera income $5.90  on 7843 page impressions
TextLinkAds income $38.85 earn with 6 ads running out of a possible 8 (text link ads)
Performancing Ads $00.00 from 0 [...]

Feb 17 2009

Carnival Hosting a commentary

I had forgotten that I had volunteered to host the Carnival of Personal Finance, this past weekend, so when I got the e-mail from the Carnival owner I was surprised and a little panic’ed as well. 
I had written a posting already for Monday talking about Family Day in Ontario, and after taking a few minutes [...]

Feb 15 2009

New Advertisers and 2.7.1

Wordpress 2.7.1 is installed on both sites now although the automatic upgrade in Wordpress seems to have failed. I used Dreamhost’s 1 click upgrade instead, which seems to have worked no problem (which is a nice change too). The 1 click upgrade may be the way to go in the future, we shall see.
Advertising seems [...]

Feb 4 2009

January Income Numbers

An update on  my attempt to carve out a meager income with my blogging so here is an update for December from Canadian Personal Financial Opinions :

Adsense income $77.92 with about 13000 impressions (including RSS)
Kontera income $8.46  on 8735 page impressions
TextLinkAds income $37.06 earn with 5 ads running out of a possible 8 (text link ads)
Performancing Ads $39.00 from 2 [...]