Category: Blog Improvement

Another New StumbleUpon Tip; Who Is Thumbing Up Or Down Your Pages?

Do you ever get a random spurt of traffic that you see in your SiteMeter or Google Analytics hitting one page pretty hard? Where did that come from? How did all these people find me? If you don’t know where it came from, odds are you’re seeing it from StumbleUpon. Well how do you know [...]

The Winners Of Hanks Holiday Handout #2 Are…

The contest has officially come to a close with a grand total of 1332 entries in Hanks Holiday Handouts #2, I’d have to say it was a smashing success and I will be crafting up a 3rd handout soon after I wrap up a few details…

Reverse Engineering The Entrecard System

There is still 3 days 23 hours 44 mins and 01 seconds left to get entered for some great free stuff at Hanks Holiday Handout #2 giving away $200+ of prizes! Are you an “entrecard-preneur”? Entrecard has a pretty extensive list of possible Finance and Investing sites to advertise on. Some cost a lot, some [...]

Q2-2008 Magic Quadrant of Personal Finance Blogs

Q2-2008 Magic Quadrant of Personal Finance Blogs

It’s Q2 finally, and the long awaited MyInvestingBlog Magic Quadrant is back in business. The Q1-2008 MQ saw some good traffic and excitement and the idea has had a lot of publicity and interest generated with a healthy dose of new entries from folks wanting to get in. I figured out a more in depth [...]

Apparently The Post I Set To Publish Today Was Set To 2080; WordPress Tip o’ The Day…

Apparently The Post I Set To Publish Today Was Set To 2080; WordPress Tip o’ The Day…

I really love the “future post” ability of WordPress, I just need to watch the “fat-fingering” of the keyboard I guess! I don’t generally like posting things mid-day, but I thought this was worthy enough to mention how to do it, but not take up a lot of time. Charting out your week of posts [...]

A Personal Financers Review Of SubvertAndProfit.com

I’m all for passive income and when I initially saw this website I thought it was a good idea, and I signed up. They promise decent money ($0.50 to $1.00 per SU review) for a fairly easy task. It makes sense (cents) for them and pumps up the site that is purchasing those thumbs. However, [...]

When Are You Reading This?  A Trending Look At Reading Personal Finance Blogs

When Are You Reading This? A Trending Look At Reading Personal Finance Blogs

I myself open up my Google RSS reader probably every 2 days to take a look at the 93 feeds I’m subscribed to. Yes, 93 people have things to say that very much interest me. And in my scanning of everyones latest posts today, I got to thinking, I only seem to scan the first [...]

How Do I Publicize My Blog?  A Personal Finance Blog’s Lifeline From “Start-Up” To “Staple”

How Do I Publicize My Blog? A Personal Finance Blog’s Lifeline From “Start-Up” To “Staple”

I was contacted by a fellow Personal Financer this morning named Naveed from NaveedsMind who asked a question that got me going for 9 hours writing this one! Ever get on a kick like that? Grab a cup of coffee and sit down for this one, it’s a long, interesting, and informative story you will [...]

A Slick StumbleUpon Option You May Not Know About, But Will Continue To Use Going Forward!

A Slick StumbleUpon Option You May Not Know About, But Will Continue To Use Going Forward!

I’m always a big fan of helping people improve functionalities, and I’ve been a huge StumbleUpon user for a few months now. I find a lot of new sites with this tool that I would never have found otherwise. I have a pretty long list of things I enjoy; but often times when I’m crafting [...]

Are All The ‘Meme’s That People Are Tossing Around Really Doing Anything Useful For Their Blog?

So I jumped on the ‘meme’ bandwagon last week to give it a whirl to see if it indeed did bump up my PageRank and Technorati score. Well, let me first of all say that my Technorati score decreased nicely (lower is better) from 124,139 to 96,541. This is a 22.23% rate of improvement on [...]