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Jan 18, 2012, 5:30 am
So after spending about 3 weeks futzing around with Solid State Drives, Vista and Windows 7, I think I have come to a set of truths that I have learned.
First, upgrading your operating system is a mistake, you should always install a new clean version of your operating system no matter what. You ca... Comment - Like
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Apr 17, 2011, 7:06 am
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 a corner store, and someone who I did not kno... Comment - Like
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Mar 26, 2011, 8:18 am
Link Carpet Bombing
After last week’s discussion of external linking, the search for links from the big boys, I didn’t really go into depth about the current methodology I have in place.
I have been over doing the whole social media thing and plan on curtailing this activity for a while and se... Comment - Like
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Mar 19, 2011, 8:30 am
I have already given some ideas about creating internal links with Link Building a Tutorial (Internal), (see I just created an internal link right there), but now we need to do the important task of creating External Links (i.e. links from other sites, that hopefully have a higher Page Rank than you... Comment - Like
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Mar 12, 2011, 8:44 am
So it has taken me about 6 years and a lot of mistakes to figure out how to slowly but surely build links into your site (and across your site) and thus build your Page Rank as well. I will describe the techniques and ideas that I have used with THE Canadian Personal Finance Site .
Old “Dead” C... Comment - Like
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Feb 5, 2011, 3:10 am
Twitter Tsunamis
I am still learning how to use Social Media as a tool to drive more readers through Canadian Personal Finance (and thus hopefully create more income from the site) but I am starting to learn a few things about one of the major social media engines Twitter.
Twitter Etiquette
First... Comment - Like
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Jan 2, 2011, 10:45 am
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 fr... Comment - Like
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Dec 25, 2010, 8:25 am
To my readers, and their families and anyone visiting here, I wish you a Merry Christmas and hope you enjoy the day and the season.
Christmas day and the whole Advent and Christmas season is a time to enjoy Spouses, Family, Friends and the time to relax.
And to you Scrapers, Spammers and SEO Spoof... Comment - Like
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Dec 18, 2010, 11:06 am
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 Tra... Comment - Like
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Dec 15, 2010, 11:45 am
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 graphic from AKISMET ... Comment - Like
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Dec 11, 2010, 11:33 am
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 all over... Comment - Like
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Dec 8, 2010, 2:45 pm
That is an excellent question that I asked myself and then scribbled down on a piece of paper, which I finally have gone and looked at.
The best tool that I have access to this type of data is Google Analytics (which is now hooked in with my Adsense account). Google Analytics gives lots of interest... Comment - Like
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Dec 4, 2010, 5:35 am
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 original posts up a day, d... Comment - Like
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Nov 27, 2010, 10:29 am
Work continues to create more readership with THE Canadian Personal Finance Site, but as with all things that are hard to get, it isn’t easy.
Learning a great deal from Yakezie forums and such, but also have learned a few things that I may not have mentioned before, so here are a few important po... Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2010, 8:38 am
So for the past two days my Feedburner RSS feed has been dead, which means I am missing my 1000 per day hits there for Google (so a very bad thing). I only realized that this was dead at the end of the first day, and then madly tried to figure out why there were no hits.
At first I thought it was d... Comment - Like
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Nov 13, 2010, 9:18 pm
So I have started looking at the Yakezie challenge a lot closer and there does seem to be some merits in participating in that group, as well as the other group I have of fellow bloggers.
The numbers seem to be doing OK, although my number of RSS readers has stalled and actually seems to be droppin... Comment - Like
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Nov 7, 2010, 6:57 pm
So this week I had a sudden spike in the number of reads for THE Canadian Financial Blog (basically a quadrupling of my regular readers) for about 2 days, and it took me a while to figure out where the traffic was coming from. Two weeks ago I wrote a piece about Sunday Banking, that I didn’t think... Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2010, 11:40 am
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 pos... Comment - Like
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Oct 17, 2010, 8:25 am
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... Comment - Like
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Oct 9, 2010, 6:50 pm
So I am now making an attempt to get more of my writing into the social media sites and see if this helps out any.
I have found that Stumbleupon does actually bring a fairly regular number of readers according to google analytics, but I am not sure about the rest of the regular culprits:
Digg seem... Comment - Like
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Oct 2, 2010, 6:11 pm
So somehow THE Canadian Personal Finance site is back to a Page Rank of 5 with Google. This has meant I am now inundated with requests for link exchanges (which I mostly ignore), SPAM comments by the tonne (somehow this has increased), and lots of requests for advertising on the site.
I have no rea... Comment - Like
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Aug 6, 2010, 9:02 pm
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 Pe... Comment - Like
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Jul 20, 2010, 6:41 pm
The following is a test of the new Video Tag for HTML 5, we shall see what happens with it:
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Jun 17, 2010, 9:39 pm
Just installed 3.0, and we shall see what it does for me.
Interesting video.
Even more interesting
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Jun 8, 2010, 8:45 am
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.... Comment - Like
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May 22, 2010, 7:38 pm
Yes, it seems that a mention in the Globe and Mail in their Vote: The Best Financial Blogs, survey and my stats went sky high. I keep mentioning it like in Vote For Me and I’ll Set You Free, and posts like that.
Because of this increase (over 1100 for Wednesday last week), I have folks asking me ... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
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 ... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
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 more to a... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
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 few things and we shall see how it goes:
Using ... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
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 in the fut... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
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 o... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
So I am really not sure what this will actually do, but here is an adsense video player test to see how it might work on my web site.
The important part of all of this would be to make sure that the video player appears stand a lone on the page.
I wonder what kind of content I might get from it?
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
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
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