An update on my attempt to carve out a meager income with my blogging so here is an update for March from Canadian Personal Financial Opinions :

• Adsense income $60.44 with about 16000 impressions (including RSS)
• Kontera income $3.78 on 7,528 page impressions
• TextLinkAds income $56.61 earn with 8 ads running out of a possible 8 (text link ads)
• Performancing Ads $00.00 from 0 advertiser
• Pepper Jam Ads income $0.00
• NeverBlueAds income $0.00
• TTZ Media income $0.00
• Marketleverage income $0.00
• ReviewMe review income $0.00
• Pay Per Post income $0.00
• Privately arranged ads income $20.00

Total income for the month of February 2009: $140 (up a little)

Page rank for the site from Google: 3/10

Page rank for site from Alexa #677381 (down)

Number of RSSReaders from Feedburner: 470 (avg) (same) but this number is complete fiction as well, since I can see more readers, yet my numbers remain down.

Text Link Ads return as pretty much my major income earner, my guess is this month I will revamp the web site and I will be remedying some of these situations. 

Still working for slave wages.

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Haven’t been updated my readers with my attempt to carve out a meager income with my blogging so here is an update for November from Canadian Personal Finance Opinions : 

• Adsense income $39.32 with about 11,000 impressions 
• Kontera income $6.79 on 7000 page impressions
• Text Link Ads income $28.47 earn with 4 ads running out of a possible 8 (text link ads)
• Performancing Ads $?.??  I think I made some, but the site is down
• Pepper Jam Ads income $0.00
• NeverBlueAds income $0.00
• TTZ Media income $0.00
• Marketleverage income $0.00
• ReviewMe review income $0.00
• Pay Per Post income $0.00
• Privately arranged ads income $20.00

Total income for the month of July 2008: $94.58 

Page rank for the site from Google: 2/10 

Page rank for site from Alexa #563390

Number of RSS Readers from Feedburner: 420 (avg)

Approaching only slave wages again of $100 a month, might pay for my coffee

I note none of NeverBlueAds, TTZ, PepperJam and MarketLeverage have made me any money, and they are “on the roof” in the new year in terms of space on my site. Performancing is doing OK, but I still haven’t seen any real cash from them or Kontera, so I will believe that when the money appears.

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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 has given me 20% growth in my readership and it continues to grow. I have also been able to integrate their embedded graphics stuff to show off financial numbers as well, so it is very useful to me, and I would highly recommend using them if you are a Financial site.

I have been having a great deal of problems with Dreamhost this week , my server crashed twice and put my site(s) off line for over 6 hours during peek times for me. I have complained to Dreamhost, but I think I will be more formal when (and if) I decide to re-subscribed with them for the new year.

I have also been fiddling with my side advertising blocks to see if I can generate any kind of income from them, because right now, I have made Zero from them, and am starting to think that this is just a “fool’s game” when it comes to this kind of advertising.

Finally Kontera really upset me when I saw that their links are appearing on this site, however, they are not giving me any credit for it I have sent them a fairly nasty note asking what the problem is, since I have copied their code into this site’s template, and since the links are showing up the problem is most likely at their end (and they are not counting). Stay tuned, those links may disappear soon as well (since I am making pretty much nothing from them as well).

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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 debt place in the states, so I send the exact same rates to this guy, and I get back a scathing commentary of “how dare I charge so much for advertising”? Um, I didn’t call you, you called me, and commenting that my rates are too high is fine, simply don’t pay them, since I have 1 advertiser, I guess my rates are competitive?

Kontera Income

Had a query about how much I make with Kontera, and for me I actually make about 5% of what I make with Adsense with Kontera on all my web sites. I must say I have never seen ANY income from Kontera as of yet, whereas I have seen cheques from: Adsense, TextLinkAds and ReviewMe. I also have income from direct advertisers as well. I will publish a report soon on how much I make on which advertisers.

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So let’s see if I have moved the yard sticks in terms of income on Canadian Financial Opinions

Total Blog Income Statement for July 2008

• Adsense income $18.70 with about 11,000 impressions (income down from June)
• Kontera income $1.72 on 3200 page impressions
• Text Link Ads income $45.05 earn with 7 ads running out of a possible 8 (text link ads)
• Pepper Jam Ads income $0.00
• NeverBlueAds income $0.00
• TTZ Media income $0.00
• ReviewMe review income $0.00
• Pay Per Post income $0.00
• Privately arranged ads income $0.00

Total income for the month of July 2008: $65.47 (down about 20 cents from last month)

Page rank for the site from Google: 2/10   Up from ZERO last month

Page rank for site from Alexa #5261455  (up a great deal)

Number of RSS Readers from Feedburner: 350 (avg)

The number of SPAM comments has increased tremendously and this month alone I must have over 500 of them, thank you AKISMET plug in for WordPress!

A non-productive 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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The numbers for Day One on the new site was quite interesting. Lots more readers, biggest day for this site ever, howver, remember, my posting here is going to be at best spotty, so come back oftern .

I got accepted in Yahoo Buzz, have no idea what the heck that means, it has been so long since I signed up for that.

Google’s crawl of my sites continues to be at best spotty, we shall see if my Page Rank ever returns, hope it does, it means much better chances for advertisting. TextLinkAds claims this site isn’t interesting enough to advertise on yet, hope that changes too.

Turned on some new WordPress Plug Ins here:

• Crawl Rate monitor tool, to watch if and when this site ever gets crawled
• WordPress statistic monitoring
• I have turned ON the plug in for SEO Optimization, but have not turned on the feature yet, not sure if it is of any good.
• Word Press cache’ing Plug In is turned on as well, this site seems to get quite good throughput
• Kontera is now turned on as well.

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I keep forgetting when the inflation numbers are coming in, and when the interest rates announcements are going to be. These are typically at least 2 of my posts out of every month, and I comment on them, but they keep catching me unawares (like today), where I write an entry and then realize I need to do one on Inflation as well (it’s hard enough figuring out topics, but wasting one is silly).

Kontera now allows for payment via Paypal which is nice. It would be even nicer if I made enough to get paid by them as well!

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What an egregious title that is, no, I am not posting crap about Paris Hilton, but I figured I’d mention her just in case it might help (I am going to blog hell for that one, I can guess).

Haven’t heard BOO back from any carnivals, but my readership stays steady these days, with Kontera kind of not working, and Adsense trudging along at a very slow pace, but steady as well. Some good articles out there about if you don’t really care you can whore yourself and make a descent income without doing much work, but I don’t think that is my goal (I like money, but know that to make BIG money, something different has to happen).

May try to go to a private hosting site this weekend, we shall see, my buddy over at Canadian Capitalist claims he can “hook me up” so I await information from him on that.

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So Kontera is now turned on for this specific blog, which is cool by me. Kontera may not make me tons of money, but it seems quite steady income, which is ok by me as well. I had just put the same code on this page as with the Financial web site, but I guess they just ignored that, which is unfortunate, so now I can make money here as well.

Overall, not a bad week for adsense income. I found an interesting web site called TED which is sort of an intellectual site, and found a very interesting video about how too many choices stifle our collective ability to think and choose, so I posted it on the finance site under Final Financial Decisions , and will see whether it is enjoyed or not. I liked it, but then again, I am a bit of an egg head when it comes to those kind of talks too.

Can I keep up the pace for posting over the summer is my next question. Maybe I need to plan out July and August’s postings and then my job is that much easier. I think this is the same problem cartoonists have, and every time I have seen one of them talk, they talk about the value of getting ahead of yourself, but that is kind of hard when it comes to financial discussions. Also need to see how I can automate postings, just in case I do figure out how to do this. Any ideas would be appreciated.

As usual the Family Guy always puts things in the correct context.

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