The following is a test of the new Video Tag for HTML 5, we shall see what happens with it:

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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:

1. Using Twitter as a way to steer readers to my site. Every new post is associated with a tweet now using Wordtwit, and that seems to help send folks to my site a bit more (for some odd reason I have over 150 followers).
2. I have added a ReTweet badge on all my posts, which is from TweetMeMe, and that is interesting, but has not caused to many retweets as of yet.
3. Found SocialOomph, which allows me to set up timed Tweets, which then allows me to post a lot of my older content, and see if I can drive some traffic to some of those old Dogs as well. Haven’t seen too much reaction here either, but it is early in the game.
4. Turned commenting back on, for these older sites to see if we can start up some discussions there. Just means I have more Spam to watch for, Akismet should catch most of that.
5. Put Amazon back on the web site to see if we can figure out how to make some extra cash there. Seem to have enough traffic now that Amazon gives me some extra money every month.
6. Bought WPTouch Pro, very worthwhile, need to figure out how to drive iPod/iPhone traffic, but I really like that interface.

Finally need to find, build, or buy a new Theme for the site. It really does look dingy.

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Just installed 3.0, and we shall see what it does for me.

Interesting video.

Even more interesting

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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.

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Here’s the download link again:
http://www.blogprofitcamp.com/ListMachine2/?ref=ezrfnzq

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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 to link to them, and even more interesting, I am getting inquiries about advertising which makes me a happy blogger too.

I have made more this past week than I did the past month, which is 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 and more to a not bad paying hobby level.

Text Link Ads Rules

At the end of it my TextLinkAds income seems to be the most reliable, with Adsense about 1/2 of that income and then no real income from any other sites, although Amazon does create a little income here and there.

I am also continuing to test posting by e-mail as well, which works OK, but it does have a few interesting issues, that I am learning about.

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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. I tried the default wordpress version and it is woefully lacking so far.

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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	1	0	0.00%	$0.00	$0.00
	Ad Impressions	Clicks	Ad CTR	Ad eCPM [?]	Earnings
AdSense for Feeds top channels	895	1	0.11%	$1.00	$0.89
Total Earnings					$1.99

Yes, I am not making much, but that is not the point, right now I am getting HUGE RSS readership and I think I need to find out exactly what this is.

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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 in the future (after all one of the functions of this site is as a test site for new ideas and concepts). The theme is Adsense ready so that is mighty cool as well, but right now I haven’t tried to customize it very much either, so I have much to read and learn about using this cool new plug in.

So far, I rate it as a Must Get if you are using WordPress and you want more iPod and iPhone readers. Not sure how I advertise this capability yet, but we shall see, stay tuned.

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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 a large number of articles from a large number of excellent personal finance bloggers for no apparent reason. Not good carnival etiquette.

This is what I really have problems with in the whole Carnival world, just because you send in a post, why do you think it should be included? Especially if there are over 100 posts to choose from? Most of the larger carnivals I have seen (and stopped reading) are just so bloody long, I gave up reading them (unless they had an “editors choice” at the starting, where I read those 5 and ignored the rest). Witness this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance #202, at least it has an Editor’s choice box so I can ignore the rest of the over 100 entries.

This is why writers ridicule bloggers so much, the whole “… we should be inclusive…” mentality of, just because I wrote it someone must want to read it (this post included) is lazy, and will never make you a better writer.

I had 1 or two queries which were by normal writers who simply asked why, so that they could hone their skills, but the deluge of whining and complaining drowned out these writers. Why anyone wants to host a Carnival these days is beyond me.

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