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”, but maybe the question was not interesting enough. May be a more controversial or interesting question might evoke more interest.

Added the Blog to Wikinvest as well.  Saw it on Michael James on Money, and thought it couldn’t hurt adding content that might also cause my content to get pointed at as well. So far so good, haven’t noticed much impact but it is very early days yet.

I attempted to volunteer at DMOZ.org to see if I could become an editor, but was given a polite “No” message. Too bad, I was hoping that might get me added to their directory, oh well, might try again later too.

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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 way to draw more traffic is to create a real Carnival and then use that to draw more traffic to the web site? Another thing on the TO DO list for the web page.

Friday or Monday I will publish my monthly income statement, such as it is.

Still no fixes for this theme or the UBD advert rotator.

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As a service to the folks reading, I figured I’d show just how little I make on this “business” that I am currently running. I will attempt to be as honest as possible about all the income from my site Canadian Financial and Consumer Opinions and the income sources that I run on this. Not as much as John Chow, but it’s a start.

Total Income Statement for June 2008

• Adsense income  $19.44  with about 8600 impressions over two different channels from the page
• Kontera income $2.63  on 3200 page impressions
• Text Link Ads income $43.85  earn with 7 ads running out of a possible 8
• Pepper Jam Ads income $0.00
• NeverBlueAds income $0.00
• TTZ Media income $0.00
• ReviewMe review income $0.00
• Privately arranged ads income $0.00

Total income for the month of June 2008: $65.92

Page rank for the site from Google: 0/10

Page rank for site from Alexa #657179

Number of RSS Readers from Feedburner:  344 (avg)

Not a stellar month for income, no private sales is hurting, and adsense income continues to snail along. Readership is not growing either. Working for slave wages still, need to improve this situation.

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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 some crap like that. I looked at the list and there are some good ones, but to exclude some of the sites seems a bit short sited by them, but I guess it is their poll, so I guess they get to make the rules too (I am glad I don’t subscribe to their paper).

This weekend will be spent trying to clean up the Financial site and figure out whether this site might do better over with the Financial Blog on it’s own Domain. The current set up is a bit arbitrary and I think I can learn a lot if I take this site to a private site and then get to screw around more with the Style and Theme. Stay tuned, we shall see.

Also, investigating new advertising schemes as well, because right now, this “business” is not going the way I want it to (the Financial Blog) so I need to start really thinking about this one.

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Yes, I know that fame is fleeting, but for some odd reason both my Canadian Personal Finance blog and this blog about being an Internet Whore are still increasing their Feeburner RSS readership, which is mighty cool by me (and I am even seeing a pick up in their monetary value as well, which makes me happy).

Got an e-mail from a site asking for me to join their ad program, except it was for on line gambling and such, and I can’t do it. I have problems with gambling sites, because I know I have a gambling problem (luckily it has never harmed me in any distinct way, I have only lost hundreds of dollars, not my life savings). Just like I can’t with good conscience advertise pay cheque advance sites on my finance site, I can’t do Gambling sites either. Don’t get me wrong, Internet gambling sites have got to be some of the most lucrative sites out there, and I am sure I could make some good coin whore’ing for them, but I just can’t do it (when did I get a conscience?).

I continue to experiment with Video on my private blog, and am having a lot of success getting my family readers to check things out, so I am now investigating what I can do for my other blogs to attract more attention (no, not that, I don’t think I can do on line porn either).

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