Guest Posts: Please Stop the Madness
How many requests do I receive for folks who wish to add their content to THE Canadian Personal Finance Site? This week over 10, and most weeks at least 5 of them, and 99.9% of all of them are from folks who I do not read, nor do I know of them. If I ran [...]
RSS Feed Dies Here?!?
Yup, here I am resurrecting this site and posting about what I am learning about Social Media and such, and I have managed to kill the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) for this site, which is at least ironic, but very infuriating as well. I first noticed that my previous post Scrapers and How to Trap [...]
Exponential Growth of Spam Comment Numbers
As my site has drawn more readership lately, it has also drawn a great deal more SPAM comments. These comments are mostly crap, some are funny, but it is annoying too (since I have to at least look at the SPAM list to see if AKISMET has set some genuine comment as a SPAM). The [...]
Scrapers and How to Trap Them
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 [...]
Welcome WordPress 3.0
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Just installed 3.0, and we shall see what it does for me. Interesting video. Even more interesting
Blog Profit Camp
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I just read a new ebook by John Chow call The Ultimate Blog Profit Model and it’s awesome. I think you will really enjoying read it as well. Download the eBook here: http://www.blogprofitcamp.com/ListMachine2/?ref=ezrfnzq John Chow runs one of the biggest and most profitable blogs in the world. He makes over $40,000 a month just from [...]
Advertising Income Not Great
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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 [...]
iPhone and iPod Theme Added
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So I stumbled across a new plug in for WordPress which creates a Theme for iPhone, iPod and other handheld devices, and it seems pretty cute. WPTouch by Brave New Code is quite the plug in and I am testing it out on this site, with an eye towards putting it on Canadian Personal Finance [...]

