Nov 14 2008

Wikinvest Traffic Enhancer

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 [...]

Nov 11 2008

Traffic Up, and Lousy Pay Back

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 [...]

Oct 31 2008

Comments Update

Comment relish turned out to be a bit of a non-helpful plug in, as it continued to send thank you e-mails to folks it had already thanked, and I actually got a couple of complaints about it, so I have removed it from the Finance Site.
I have added Comment Luv to the systems to see [...]

Oct 15 2008

RSS Feeds?

Seems like the RSS feeds on Canadian Personal Finance Opinions has gone a bit squirrely lately, if my Adsense counters are to be belived. The Feedburner counter on the site continues to show very low-ish numbers but I am seeing over 350 RSS feed page displays on my Adsense counters, so this is quite intriguing [...]

Oct 1 2008

Advertising Rates too high?

So last week, I had an inquiry about putting a link on my web page, from a UK advertiser, I quoted my current rates, it was paid, no fuss, no muss, no bother, and the link is now on my Financial web site. 
Yesterday I got another e-mail asking about rates, I see it is a [...]

Sep 28 2008

Text Link Ads and Pay Per Post Oddities

Text Link Ads for some reason doesn’t seem to want to update their Alexa ranking for a site, but give you the option to hit a “refresh” button which resets the value to your latest Alexa ranking, which is interesting. I updated it, and got back another advertiser, so now 7/8 TLA slots are now [...]

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Sep 23 2008

More Income

Interesting, that I got an inquiry from the U.K. about a text ad for Canadian Personal Financial Opinions, and they were willing to pay for a 6 month contract. I don’t get a lot of traffic from the U.K., but that doesn’t seem to bother them, and the link seems to be to a genuine [...]

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Sep 19 2008

With Page Rank Comes Great Income

Since my Page Rank has stabilized around 2 I have been getting more advertising opportunities which is a good thing.
One from an insurance company that paid for a 6 month ad run, which is great, because the money goes straight in my pocket. I continue to get Text Link Ads income as well, and a [...]

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Aug 28 2008

Advertising Not Enough

Even with my Adsense numbers inching up day by day, I am not making enough blogging to justify the work I am doing for it, so I will now dedicate harder work and become much more ruthless in terms of advertising that is doing me no good, or making me no money.
I am being approached [...]

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Aug 15 2008

New Wordpress 2.6.1, but not yet

After living through the last upgrade of Wordpress and having it break this site and the advertising on my financial site, I figured I would wait a little while until I am sure all of my plug ins and themes are ok’ed on this “dot release” from our friends at Wordpress.
Income this week has been [...]