More strangeness with the Financial Site with my RSS feed from feedburner dieing off.  It is not just feedburner but the feed check utility also times out on my server, so I have sent yet another support request to my friends at Dreamhost. Meanwhile my Feedburner subscriber count drops like a stone thanks to my feed looking dead. This site’s RSS seems to be fine, so I am starting to wonder if maybe my WordPress has been hacked or the like, so there may be a new Theme on the Financial Site as well.

Happy Thanksgiving to my American Brother(s) (I actually have a brother who got his green card, and is now as American as it gets). Enjoy your Tur-Duck-En and your football (I will be).

WordPress 2.6.5 has been upgraded on both sites as well.

Epilogue

I must now apologize to Dreamhost since the problem seems to have been I had too many articles in my feed (20) and too much content and Feedburner says specifically that too big a feed is a problem too. I seem to have remedied this with the Most Humblest of Apologies to my friends at Dreamhost.

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Thanks to moving over from Feedburner to Google Feedburner, my adsense impressions effectively doubled on the first day, which is a very good thing, I think. More impressions means more possible money to be made, which is a very good thing these days.

A few bumps along the road, the number of subscribers “chiclet” went to ZERO this morning, but that was because it was reading from the Feedburner side, which had been turned off, so after replacing that, it now is back to within 10% of my RSS readership from last week, which is great.

Now I don’t feel like I am losing money having an RSS feed, which is just great!

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So for both sites the RSS Feeds have now both been moved, and I will be deleting the interim feed set up for this site.

Working Hard on The Internet RSS Feed is now on this link. Canadian Personal Finance Opinions RSS feed is over here.

Feedburner is now gone, but still here and my readership drops a TONNE again, oh well, if I can make money on a smaller number, so be it!

Need to change the FeedFlare set ups and the Readership Icons again, lots of nit picky little changes to be made, but again, for more money, that is just fine!

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The upgrade to WordPress 2.6.1 seems to have gone ok for Canadian Personal Finance Opinions, and is running ok.

John Chow dot Com comes through again with Google Offers Adsense for RSS Feeds, which is great. I hadn’t noticed it on my Adsense page, but I am now signing up for it and hopefully this will add to my adsense revenues (wow if it doubles it, I’ll be working for Cerfs wages and not just slave wages). Haven’t been ok’ed for it yet, but this might be a very good thing.

Have not upgraded this site to 2.6.1 yet, as I am not sure the Theme can withstand changes right now.

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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 steady, but RSS feeds have dropped sharply on the financial site, and I am just not too sure why. It is August and vacations, but I am hoping it is not a real trend, and instead just a blip. Mentioned in the Canadian Capitalist today, so should have a good “bump” from that link (remember the Canadian Capitalist Effect ).

Readership on this site increases slowly but surely as well, which is interesting too, not sure who(m) is reading, but remember I don’t post every day here (but I sometimes end up  writing a lot at once).

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Getting back near 300 for RSS feed readers at Canadian Financial Opinions, which is good to see. No real sign of the page rank changing, but I did send in an appeal e-mail asking for them to reconsider or re-look at what my rank actually is.

Given I am now running WordPress 2.5, I am starting to think about changing the theme on the site, since it looks kind of drab, and doesn’t really entice readership (in my opinion). Guess I can window shop this weekend, and see what 3 column formats might be best to change to. Given I now have an icon I should think about creating a real banner as well.

WordPress 2.5 seems to have fixed the ability to input tables into the “visual” editor, as I was able to import the Inflation Table for March and it worked just fine this time. That is cool, because I always like putting tables in my posts.

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That is the sound of me blowing my foot off, but I learned something new today.

My RSS feed is now from my new Canadian Financial Opinions site, however, I set up my feedburner feed to use the RSS feed and not the straight feed. This meant all feeds were then cut to only TWO lines, and then users had to click to read the rest and it took them to the web site. Now this might be good, I don’t know, however I have had more than 1 unhappy reader complain, so I think I have remedied the situation, I hope.

Still lots to learn here, but I have a viable site map on my site and Google seems to traverse the site well, and as a bonus Yahoo and MSN are also wandering through it too!

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Well, Feedburner seems to imply that should be the case some time real soon, which is cool by me for either of my sites.

To do this, you simply go to the Feedburner site and go to the monetize tab and away you go. We shall see if this ads any sheckles to my pocketbook.

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The numbers keep coming, which is interesting, since I really have no idea as to why I have such a surge in RSS readers, but let’s just keep hoping and praying for a breakthrough again.

Was contacted by someone in the legitimate media asking for some information, which also made my day, since it seems I am now a “resource” to speak to about financial issues (well someone thinks that, whether that is the case).

Best way to end a week, learning how to Video Podcast from some French Maids!!

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Yesterday I checked Canadian Financial Discussions and found, I had my normal 70 readers, and I was happy enough to see that, since it has gone up and down a little over the past few weeks, this morning, I checked and I am now at 190 Feedburner readers? Ur, WTF?!?!?!? Well, that was interesting, and confusing, and I am not sure what caused it either, maybe Google burped and there was a problem? This might be a blip and it may be that it drops back down, but it is an interesting number to see on a Wednesday morning. Wonder if this means they are going to start advertising on the RSS feed now? Hmmm….

No French Maids today, but maybe now let me see what my Google Analytics show.

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