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.

Twitter Tsunamis I am still learning how to use Social Media as a tool to drive more readers through Canadian Personal Finance (and thus hopefully create more income from the site) but I am starting to learn a few things about one of the major social media engines Twitter. Twitter Etiquette First thing is Twitter [...]

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 my experiment of trying to build my readership for Canadian Personal Finance with Social Media seems to be succeeding somewhat. My readership seems to be up about 10 since my excursion into trying to expand my Social Media presence. I was doing the following typically: Automatically put new posts on Twitter the moment they [...]

So my experiment in Social Media for THE Canadian Personal Finance Site continues, and it seems to be showing some promise in expanding my readership. Stumbleupon continues to be the site that is bringing the most traffic to my site, but to run down the sites that I am currently regularly using are: Twitter, which [...]

So I am now making an attempt to get more of my writing into the social media sites and see if this helps out any. I have found that Stumbleupon does actually bring a fairly regular number of readers according to google analytics, but I am not sure about the rest of the regular culprits: [...]

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 [...]