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 the Canadian Capitalist, and he is a much higher ranked blogger than I am).  What’s funny is our friend over at Canadian Money Review is ranked 3/10 yet he hasn’t posted anything in months (busy with new baby and such). 

I think I am getting my ranks back because I have turned off the “Bots” on my left over sites over at Blogspot. At the end of the year, I am going to delete the Financial One, since it still seems to be creating “echos” throughout the Web, and the redirection from Blogspot does not seem to work that well these days either. 

Given I am using Chrome much more these days, I haven’t really been looking at my page rankings (haven’t got a chrome add in for this), so I only noticed that this site seems to have a page rank of 2/10 on Friday. I am not getting deluged with advertising opportunities here yet, and somehow I doubt that will happen, but then again, you never know either.

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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). This morning I found a post I had done about pay day loans places called Pay Day Loans: No, No, No!! and in it, I had a picture of a great white shark to show what I thought of the pay day loan industry (they are all blood thirsty sharks (worse than loan sharks)).

Pay Day Loans Just Like the Great White, A Perfect Eating Machine

My Broken Links plug in told me that this picture had disappeared, and I was looking around for a new picture of a shark, when it dawned on me that a very nice picture that shows what Pay Day Loan places are like is on the cover of Peter Benchley’s novel Jaws, so I decided to replace the picture, with an Amazon Associates picture ad for the novel Jaws, and if someone buys the novel I make money! I also get across the point about how I loath the Pay Day Loan industry (even though the advertise on my web site as well!).

Think I’ll do that a few more times now, see if I can get some love from Amazon.

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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 and I am not sure how that one works. My guess is this could happen if:

1. An article I write gets into DIGG and gets a big uptake (much like John Chow’s infamous underground urinal posting worked).
2. Get mentioned in the regular “print” media or electronic media which could make things better as well.

My opinion is that this may happen “by accident” somewhere along the way, but I am more curious to find someone who knows how to really make this one happen. Any readers?

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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 of Adsense ads on it, then this article doesn’t pertain to you, because you don’t care, you just want folks to stumble over your site.

You need to figure out how to make your posting interesting. A picture is always interesting, a video is even more interesting for a lot of folks, I really like this clip, of my daughter sinking a 3 pointer, which I then wrote an article around:

Ask yourself the question, “Would I want to read this”, every time you write and you won’t go wrong!

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Yes, that is another way to get folks to notice you on the Internet, is by sending articles to one of the many Carnivals that are posted on a regular basis on many different sites.

The first thing is to make sure you have some good content on your blog, that you figure might be carnival worthy. Then you go to this site, or one of the many other sites where lists of carnivals are kept. Using the simple on line forms submit your article and hopefully the editor of the carnival for the week will put you in.

This has worked quite nicely for me on my finance site to build up a readership of folks who seem to enjoy my odd viewpoint on finances in general. The next big step is to actually volunteer to host a Carnival. That will drive up your readership a TON, at least for that week and will also increase your in-link and out-link count, which will in turn help your Google Pagerank as well (as well as your Technorati and Alexa.com rank as well).

Links are really important (incoming more so, but outgoing is pretty important too). We’ll talk more about that soon.

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