May 15 2009

Holy Cow RSS Readers

So my Adsense data has been showing a declining readership directly, but an exploding RSS readership, but this seems a little fishy to me. Page impressions Clicks Page CTR Page eCPM [?] Earnings AdSense for Content top channels 164 1 0.61% $6.70 $1.10     Queries Clicks CTR eCPM [?] Earnings AdSense for Search top channels 1 [...]

Apr 21 2009

Creepy Crawlers

So my Canadian Personal Finance site continues to be crawled by many different bots and such and it is making for some very interesting statistics.    What the heck is causing all this crawling around, I have no idea, but holy cow that is a lot of crawling that is for sure.

Jan 22 2009

Attack of the Bots

Something odd is going on at Canadian Personal Finance the past few weeks, the Bots are attacking. It seems that MSN and Yahoo’s Bots have both taken a big liking to my site, and have been inundating the site with crawlers. The past few days bot numbers are: January 21  MSN:  1713  Yahoo: 478  Google: 148 January [...]

Nov 17 2008

Book Review: SEO Search Engine Optimization Bible

SEO Bible by Jerri L. Ledford (ISBN: 978-0-470-17500-2) As usual I have not purchased this book, I have, however, borrowed it from the Ottawa Public Library. This is an excellent book for those who are beginners in the “Mug’s Game” of Search Engine Optimization.(SEO) It explains what the basic concepts of SEO are, and why [...]

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Jul 23 2008

WordPress: Two New Plug Ins and a Problem

So after completing the upgrade to WordPress 2.6 I had to clean up some things, so I decided to add some more affiliates to my UBD theme advertising rotor, unfortunately it now no longer seems to work. I have reported the issue to UBD, but for now, as you can see I have no ads [...]

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