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
0
0.00%
$0.00
$0.00

 

 
 

 
Ad Impressions
Clicks
Ad CTR
Ad eCPM [?]
Earnings

AdSense for Feeds top channels
895
1
0.11%
$1.00
$0.89

 

Total Earnings
 
$1.99

Yes, I am not making much, but that is not the point, right [...]

Apr 30 2009

iPhone and iPod Theme Added

So I stumbled across a new plug in for Wordpress which creates a Theme for iPhone, iPod and other handheld devices, and it seems pretty cute.
WPTouch  by Brave New Code is quite the plug in and I am testing it out on this site, with an eye towards putting it on Canadian Personal Finance in [...]

Apr 27 2009

Test of Adsense Video Player

So I am really not sure what this will actually do, but here is an adsense video player test to see how it might work on my web site.
The important part of all of this would be to make sure that the video player appears stand a lone on the page.
I wonder what kind of [...]

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Mar 17 2009

February Income Numbers

An update on  my attempt to carve out a meager income with my blogging so here is an update for December from Canadian Personal Financial Opinions :

Adsense income $66.17 with about 14000 impressions (including RSS)
Kontera income $5.90  on 7843 page impressions
TextLinkAds income $38.85 earn with 6 ads running out of a possible 8 (text link ads)
Performancing Ads $00.00 from 0 [...]

Feb 4 2009

January Income Numbers

An update on  my attempt to carve out a meager income with my blogging so here is an update for December from Canadian Personal Financial Opinions :

Adsense income $77.92 with about 13000 impressions (including RSS)
Kontera income $8.46  on 8735 page impressions
TextLinkAds income $37.06 earn with 5 ads running out of a possible 8 (text link ads)
Performancing Ads $39.00 from 2 [...]

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 8 (text link [...]

Jan 1 2009

Merry New Year

Hope all my readers have a Happy and Prosperous New Year. 
I promise to post more in the new year and have some plans for the Financial Blog including:

Revamp the theme, it really does suck and is quite cluttered, but not sure which way I want to go with it right now. 
Do some more investigations of [...]

Dec 4 2008

November 2008 Income Numbers

Haven’t been updated my readers with my attempt to carve out a meager income with my blogging so here is an update for November from Canadian Personal Finance Opinions : 

Adsense income $39.32 with about 11,000 impressions 
Kontera income $6.79 on 7000 page impressions
Text Link Ads income $28.47 earn with 4 ads running out of a possible [...]

Nov 11 2008

Traffic Up, and Lousy Pay Back

This site has had a busy week with a tremendous day of over 300 hits on Sunday for no apparent reason, which is interesting, if not confusing. If I am to believe the statistics I have seen this is an interesting trend, but more likely than not an attack from a “scraper” or something like [...]

Oct 15 2008

RSS Feeds?

Seems like the RSS feeds on Canadian Personal Finance Opinions has gone a bit squirrely lately, if my Adsense counters are to be belived. The Feedburner counter on the site continues to show very low-ish numbers but I am seeing over 350 RSS feed page displays on my Adsense counters, so this is quite intriguing [...]