Scrapers and How to Trap Them
Tweet 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 [...]
Holy Cow RSS Readers
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Tweet 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 [...]
Creepy Crawlers
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Tweet So my Canadian Personal Finance site continues to be crawled by many different bots and such and it is making for some very interesting statistics. What the heck is causing all this crawling around, I have no idea, but holy cow that is a lot of crawling that is for sure.
Attack of the Bots
Tweet 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 [...]
WordPress: Two New Plug Ins and a Problem
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Tweet So after completing the upgrade to WordPress 2.6 I had to clean up some things, so I decided to add some more affiliates to my UBD theme advertising rotor, unfortunately it now no longer seems to work. I have reported the issue to UBD, but for now, as you can see I have no [...]
One Last Shot at Bannishing Blogspot
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Tweet I am attempting to banish my blogspot version of Canadian Financial Opinions from the Google Index. First I added the all important META tag into the header for the site meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, nofollow” That should stop the Googlebot from wandering through the site and getting any data on the content that is in [...]

