Aug 12 2008

Links Repaired

So after spending most of my spare time this past weekend, repairing any links on my web site that pointed at it’s old Blogspot address, I am now attempting to tackle all of the rest of the broken links on Canadian Personal Finance blog, and it is turning out to be another behemoth of a [...]

Aug 11 2008

First Advertising Campaign Tried

I have tried building a strong link base for Canadian Personal Finance Opinions over the past while and I think I have succeeded, however, I have not been able to build the readership other than being in the hundreds and the RSS readership to about 400 readers.
Using PerformancingAds as my basis for this I found [...]

Jul 18 2008

How to: Move from Blogspot to Hosted Wordpress — Internal Links

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I have to learn, is sort of how my week has been going for this blog.
After realizing that there must be BLOGSPOT based internal links in the content on this web page that points to my old Not How To Do It blog, I wondered [...]

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Jun 5 2007

Take That Scrapers

So there are a bunch of sites that I keep finding that enjoy scraping content from Canadian Financial Rants, which is flattering in 1 way, but very annoying in other ways. None of these sites seem to monetize too much, so I will let them be for now, but I am also including more and [...]

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Feb 16 2007

Check your links

So after doing Canadian Financial Opinions, I inserted a whole bunch of Amazon links in it to different books and such, but completely bollocks’ed up the links so that anyone who clicked on them got an HTTP 404 message asking them if they are smoking the crack.
Checking your links work correctly is like making sure [...]

Dec 1 2006

Useful HTTP Trick

So once you have folks reading your site, you don’t really want them wandering away, without looking at your advertisers, or better still looking at other things on your site.
The problem being, if you simply put HTTP links for other sites (which you need to do, to help your rankings), then usually your page disappears [...]

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Nov 28 2006

Why Would I Want To Read This?

This is the question your readers and potential readers have every time they come to your site. If the content of your site is boring, or doesn’t catch the readers eye or fancy, then you are going to lose readers, and potential income.
Now if your site is a simple set of links with a bunch [...]

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