Advertising Income Not Great
Income Better But Not Great
This seems to be a continuing complaint by me, that the income for Canadian Financial Opinions is really not what I was hoping it might be after 5 years of writing, but I continue to try new ideas to see if that might help push income to a less slave level and [...]
Long Time No Post
It’s been a long time since I have posted here and sometimes I forget that I do have this blog to do experiments and just bluster about life in general.
This post is allegedly testing the Postie Plug-in for allowing folks to post an entry from an e-mail account. We shall see where this might lead. [...]
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 [...]
March Income Numbers
An update on my attempt to carve out a meager income with my blogging so here is an update for March from Canadian Personal Financial Opinions :
Adsense income $60.44 with about 16000 impressions (including RSS)
Kontera income $3.78 on 7,528 page impressions
TextLinkAds income $56.61 earn with 8 ads running out of a possible 8 (text [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Attack of the Bots
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
