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 [...]
Taboo Subjects and Blogging
I found an old post I had done last year (when I was in a particularly silly mood), called Men’s Health, which never really caused as much of a commotion as I had hoped, so I had forgotten about it. Tip of the Week As most of my Twitter followers know, I actually put 2 [...]
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 [...]
Long Time No Post
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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 [...]
New Advertisers and 2.7.1
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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 [...]
Canadian Tire Added
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I got approached by yet another advertising firm to add Canadian Tire Mastercards to my financial web site, and I thought that might be a very good fit. I use Canadian Tire and their Mastercard does offer an attractive “loyalty” program, so I have added them to the site. We’ll see if we can make [...]
Wikinvest Traffic Enhancer
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I got approached by the folks over at Wikinvest a while ago to add them to Canadian Personal Finance Opinions and I wasn’t sure it was a good fit, but I decided to go ahead with the system anyhow, and boy am I glad I did. The amount of new traffic and also new links [...]
Traffic Up, and Lousy Pay Back
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This site has had a busy week with a tremendous day of over 300 hits on Sunday for no apparent reason, which is interesting, if not confusing. If I am to believe the statistics I have seen this is an interesting trend, but more likely than not an attack from a “scraper” or something like [...]

