Apr 29 2009

Carnival Whining an Epilogue

After the fiasco that was my attempt at hosting the Carnival of Personal Finance (although that post is one of the most popular I have ever had), I ran into yet another interesting whine from one of the many posters who I included in the overly long post (this was found in Stumbleupon):
Host left out [...]

Feb 17 2009

Carnival Hosting a commentary

I had forgotten that I had volunteered to host the Carnival of Personal Finance, this past weekend, so when I got the e-mail from the Carnival owner I was surprised and a little panic’ed as well. 
I had written a posting already for Monday talking about Family Day in Ontario, and after taking a few minutes [...]

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 seems [...]

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 [...]

Nov 17 2008

Book Review: SEO Search Engine Optimization Bible

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 they are [...]

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Nov 14 2008

Wikinvest Traffic Enhancer

I got approached by the folks over at Wikinvest a while ago to add them to Canadian Personal Finance Opinions and I wasn’t sure it was a good fit, but I decided to go ahead with the system anyhow, and boy am I glad I did. The amount of new traffic and also new links [...]

Oct 22 2008

Wikinvest and Polls

Tried out a poll from the new Polldaddy plug in on my site on my post: Rates Are Down by 1/4% but haven’t had much interest in the poll.  Figured I would see if anyone is actually interested in that kind of interaction with the web site, it seems so far the answer is “No”, [...]

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Oct 9 2008

How to get more content working on my site

On Canadian Personal Finance Opinions yesterday I posted an article posted Posting Number 1000 which effectively was the Favorites page from my web site. What actually happened was I started with the Favorites web page, saw that it was woefully lacking in content, so I expanded it with my favorite Pillar Posts and then posted [...]

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Aug 4 2008

This is a Fake?

After attempting to expand this site and working on a few things, I decided to see if I could maybe add to the monetization by adding this fine site to ReviewMe (since ReviewMe has already accepted Canadian Financial Opinions as a valid site). To my surprise I was replied with the following statement from the [...]

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Aug 1 2008

Friday Funny: How to become a Six Figure Blogger

Not Mine But Very Funny
I guess I WAS a six figure blogger!

Harold is a Robot #3 – How to Earn a Six Figure Income From Blogging in Two Easy Steps

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