Nov 17 2008

Book Review: SEO Search Engine Optimization Bible

SEO Bible by Jerri L. Ledford
(ISBN: 978-0-470-17500-2) As usual I have not purchased this book, I have, however, borrowed it from the Ottawa Public Library.
This is an excellent book for those who are beginners in the “Mug’s Game” of Search Engine Optimization.(SEO) It explains what the basic concepts of SEO are, and why they are [...]

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Oct 29 2008

Moving from Blogspot to Hosted Wordpress?

Simply use a 301 redirect with some devilishly ingenious code from TechCounter:
301 Permanent Redirect from Blogger Beta to WordPress
11. May 2007, 10:51 By Ryan Ferone
Most Bloggers start out with free blog hosting with the most popular of the free services being Google’s blogger where you get a yoursite.blogspot.com address. Now you want to move from Blogger [...]

Oct 22 2008

Wikinvest and Polls

Tried out a poll from the new Polldaddy plug in on my site on my post: Rates Are Down by 1/4% but haven’t had much interest in the poll.  Figured I would see if anyone is actually interested in that kind of interaction with the web site, it seems so far the answer is “No”, [...]

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Oct 9 2008

How to get more content working on my site

On Canadian Personal Finance Opinions yesterday I posted an article posted Posting Number 1000 which effectively was the Favorites page from my web site. What actually happened was I started with the Favorites web page, saw that it was woefully lacking in content, so I expanded it with my favorite Pillar Posts and then posted [...]

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Aug 4 2008

This is a Fake?

After attempting to expand this site and working on a few things, I decided to see if I could maybe add to the monetization by adding this fine site to ReviewMe (since ReviewMe has already accepted Canadian Financial Opinions as a valid site). To my surprise I was replied with the following statement from the [...]

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Aug 1 2008

Friday Funny: How to become a Six Figure Blogger

Not Mine But Very Funny
I guess I WAS a six figure blogger!

Harold is a Robot #3 – How to Earn a Six Figure Income From Blogging in Two Easy Steps

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Jul 31 2008

Carnivals of Sorts

Friday I will be publishing a Carnival of Catastrophic financial advice, where I asked fellow financial bloggers to send me in their worst financial advice story, the stories are interesting, but no one bares their souls as I did a few weeks back in Worst Financial Advice Given Ever .
I guess that might be a [...]

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Jul 17 2008

Book Review: Make Easy Money with Google

Got this book out of the Ottawa Public Library just to see what I might learn from it, in terms of making money with my sites.
“Make easy money with Google : using the AdSense advertising program” by Eric Giguere (the link is to the Ottawa Public Library) is a good book if you are [...]

Jul 16 2008

A Pillar Post

The fine folks over at Unique Blog Designs (the designers of the basic version of the Wordpress Theme you are looking at, and the producers of a really nifty Wordpress Advertisement Rotor plug in as well), sent me a newsletter about how to increase traffic to my web sites. I found the newsletter informative, but [...]

May 16 2007

Have Good Content and You Will Succeed

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 [...]

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