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 [...]
How Do I Know Social Media is Working?
That is an excellent question that I asked myself and then scribbled down on a piece of paper, which I finally have gone and looked at. The best tool that I have access to this type of data is Google Analytics (which is now hooked in with my Adsense account). Google Analytics gives lots of [...]
Slow and Steady
Work continues to create more readership with THE Canadian Personal Finance Site, but as with all things that are hard to get, it isn’t easy. Learning a great deal from Yakezie forums and such, but also have learned a few things that I may not have mentioned before, so here are a few important points [...]
Page Rank 5 Again?
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So somehow THE Canadian Personal Finance site is back to a Page Rank of 5 with Google. This has meant I am now inundated with requests for link exchanges (which I mostly ignore), SPAM comments by the tonne (somehow this has increased), and lots of requests for advertising on the site. I have no real [...]
Advertising Income Not Great
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Income Better But Not Great This seems to be a continuing complaint by me, that the income for Canadian Financial Opinions is really not what I was hoping it might be after 5 years of writing, but I continue to try new ideas to see if that might help push income to a less slave level [...]
Holy Cow RSS Readers
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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 [...]
Test of Adsense Video Player
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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 [...]
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 [...]

