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.

Something odd is going on at Canadian Personal Finance the past few weeks, the Bots are attacking. It seems that MSN and Yahoo’s Bots have both taken a big liking to my site, and have been inundating the site with crawlers.
The past few days bot numbers are:

January 21  MSN:  1713  Yahoo: 478  Google: 148
January 20 MSN:  509 Yahoo:  484  Google:  [...]

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 [...]

I have been trying to find a smart way to clean up my old blog on blog spot Canadian Financial Rants, but I finally bit the bullet and deleted it and then recreated it.  That purged all of the entries on the site, and now it has a single entry telling whoever trips over the [...]

I stumbled onto another very useful tool, which is Smart Page Rank a tool which will find back links to any site and tell you the page rank of the linking sites, and can tell you what the linking text from the site was as well. At first I didn’t think the tool was that [...]

This is quite funny because now both my sites have this page rank, including this site. I am astounded to see that somehow this simple little “on line notebook” is actually ranked at 2/10, while my Canadian Personal Finance Blog which has thousands of links and such is also 2/10 (but then again, so is [...]

So after spending most of my spare time this past weekend, repairing any links on my web site that pointed at it’s old Blogspot address, I am now attempting to tackle all of the rest of the broken links on Canadian Personal Finance blog, and it is turning out to be another behemoth of a [...]

Page Rank Up
Canadian Financial and Consumer Opinions page rank seems to have raised up to a 2/10 in Google’s eyes, which is a start given it was at 0/10 for a very long time (due to unknown reasons). What caused this? I have no idea, I have been cleaning up the mess of cross-links (over [...]

After writing about watching Joel Comm’s videos about making money with Adsense I then noticed that I had in fact not followed one of the Cardinal rules of the Adsense game, which is making your ads blend in with the surrounding text. I had headers that were different colours and links in the wrong colours [...]

I am never sure whether my Alexa rating actually translates into anything of value these days, but it has risen from 1,400,000 to now being around 648,000, meteoric, however still a very long way until I am up in the “noticeable” part of their spectrum.
My RSS feed numbers on Canadian Financial Opinions have flattened at [...]