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.

For those who are not sure what I mean by a scraper, it is someone who steals your content without giving you credit for your work. They typically put Adsense all over their pages, and use your RSS feed as the mechanism to get your content. I have found many “mirror” sites of my content [...]

Work continues to create more readership with THE Canadian Personal Finance Site, but as with all things that are hard to get, it isn’t easy. Learning a great deal from Yakezie forums and such, but also have learned a few things that I may not have mentioned before, so here are a few important points [...]

So for the past two days my Feedburner RSS feed has been dead, which means I am missing my 1000 per day hits there for Google (so a very bad thing). I only realized that this was dead at the end of the first day, and then madly tried to figure out why there were [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]