Aug 6 2010

Twitter as a Readership Building Tool?

So I have been doing a bit of experimenting with Canadian Personal Finance a bit more, attempting to drive more traffic, interest and possibly more income using some Social Media Sites. Readership has been going up slowly, with occasional spikes, like when I was mentioned in the Globe & Mail’s Personal Finance Blog contest, but [...]

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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 [...]

Feb 15 2009

New Advertisers and 2.7.1

WordPress 2.7.1 is installed on both sites now although the automatic upgrade in WordPress seems to have failed. I used Dreamhost’s 1 click upgrade instead, which seems to have worked no problem (which is a nice change too). The 1 click upgrade may be the way to go in the future, we shall see. Advertising [...]

Jan 8 2009

December 2008 Income

An update on  my attempt to carve out a meager income with my blogging so here is an update for December from Canadian Personal Finance Opinions : Adsense income $51.54 with about 5000 impressions Kontera income $7.84  on 4400 page impressions Text Link Ads income $38.09 earn with 5 ads running out of a possible [...]

Nov 27 2008

Dead RSS Feeds

More strangeness with the Financial Site with my RSS feed from feedburner dieing off.  It is not just feedburner but the feed check utility also times out on my server, so I have sent yet another support request to my friends at Dreamhost. Meanwhile my Feedburner subscriber count drops like a stone thanks to my [...]