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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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I am attempting to banish my blogspot version of Canadian Financial Opinions from the Google Index. First I added the all important META tag into the header for the site meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, nofollow” That should stop the Googlebot from wandering through the site and getting any data on the content that is in there. [...]

Project: Canadian Financial Rants —————————————- URL: http://canajunfinances.com/2007_02_01_archive.html Error: HTTP-Error 999 Page too large, check settings Linked from: http://www.canajunfinances.com/2007/03/18/sunday-lent-continued/ My tool is now telling me that my archive for February is too large? Hmmm… More stuff to look into, along with that whole “back log thang” as well. Subscribe to my RSS feed here Help the [...]

So I think my site is actually being checked by the Google “bots” now, and when I look at the indexed pages, I see most entries, but what is interesting is that only some of my postings are individual, most are lumped into the Blogspot archive for that month. Is that a bad thing? I [...]