Working Hard On The Internet
Ever wonder why so many folks are trying to make extra money on the Internet and who is succeeding? This isn’t the site to learn from.

So I have started looking at the Yakezie challenge a lot closer and there does seem to be some merits in participating in that group, as well as the other group I have of fellow bloggers. The numbers seem to be doing OK, although my number of RSS readers has stalled and actually seems to [...]

So this week I had a sudden spike in the number of reads for THE Canadian Financial Blog (basically a quadrupling of my regular readers) for about 2 days, and it took me a while to figure out where the traffic was coming from. Two weeks ago I wrote a piece about Sunday Banking, that [...]

So my experiment in Social Media for THE Canadian Personal Finance Site continues, and it seems to be showing some promise in expanding my readership. Stumbleupon continues to be the site that is bringing the most traffic to my site, but to run down the sites that I am currently regularly using are: Twitter, which [...]

This is quite funny because now both my sites have this page rank, including this site. I am astounded to see that somehow this simple little “on line notebook” is actually ranked at 2/10, while my Canadian Personal Finance Blog which has thousands of links and such is also 2/10 (but then again, so is [...]

This morning while attempting to clean up the 90 still broken links on Canadian Personal Finance, I ended up having an interesting epipheny. In my early days I took pictures from all over the web to help push forward my points (not realizing that many times sites move pictures, or turn off access to them). [...]

That I think is my next goal is to have my RSS subscribers increase by 10x and the number of readers a day to get to 10x what they currently are. How can I do this? I think more pushing my content out to carnivals is helping, but there needs to be a “step” up [...]

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 [...]