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.

Another relatively successful year for THE Canadian Personal Finance site, however, not nearly as successful as I think it should be to justify the amount of time I spend on writing and developing the business. Some of the highlights of my successes (to be optimistic): My Alexa ranking has gone from off the face of [...]

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 [...]

I found an old post I had done last year (when I was in a particularly silly mood), called Men’s Health, which never really caused as much of a commotion as I had hoped, so I had forgotten about it. Tip of the Week As most of my Twitter followers know, I actually put 2 [...]

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 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 [...]

I have been trying out some new ideas, just to see if I can break out of the earning shell I seem to be in. While my readership is up, it still is not as high as I’d like, and my income level seems quite stagnant as well, so with that I have tried a [...]