Working Hard On The Internet
Ever wonder why so many folks are trying to make extra money on the Internet and who is succeeding? This isn’t the site to learn from.

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 [...]

I took this book out of the Ottawa Public library just to see what interesting tid bits I might pick up, as I usually find all books by O’Reilly and Associates very informative.
The book itself is an excellent resource for beginner bloggers who want to start out and figure out how to set up their [...]

So the Globe and Mail has a poll on about the Best Financial Bloggers in Canada (or Top 5) list and I note that I am not mentioned, yet again. Canadian Financial Opinions may not be a classic financial blog, but at least it is not some “get rich quick” stock picking web site or [...]

So more and more I am getting SPAM comments being sent to my blogs, which is really annoying. What is funny is that the Wordpress version of my financial blog, which really only got created as a mid-step for backing up my entire Blogspot account, is getting more and more of these SPAM comments from [...]

This piece of advice was given out, by none other than Tucker Max who’s book “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell“, a New York Times best seller came from his on line ramblings.
“The most important thing is having good content,” Max said, during a panel session here. “All these people write to me and [...]

So currently all my blogs and such are hosted on BLOGGER, mostly because I am cheap, and also didn’t know whether I was going to keep doing this (I ask that question most every day, am I going to stop blogging today?). The cost of having my blogs and sites hosted externally is relatively [...]

Yes, there are a couple of ways to tell whether you are being read or not (and we’ll delve into that later), but one of the most tangible ones is through comments. If people are leaving comments about your posts you know that:

Someone IS reading this, not just your Mom or Dad
Someone cares enough about [...]

This is continuing on with yesterday’s discussion of how to get traffic to your site.
The ways to get HUGE throughput into your site, is to get noticed by the “regular” media. If you are mentioned in Print, On TV or on Radio, your site will get INUNDATED with traffic, no matter what the topic is [...]

That’s a very good question. Now that you have set up your advertising campaigns, by using Adsense (or one of the many other Blog Advertisers out there), you now need people to come and look at your advertising content and hopefully click through.
How do I get more traffic? Well, when I first started, I used [...]