Advertising Income Not Great
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 and [...]
Long Time No Post
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 lead. [...]
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 [...]
Canadian Tire Added
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
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]



