Top 5: March 2010

March was a great month for Canadian Finance Blog. Traffic was once again a new record, thanks in part to Money Sense and The Globe and Mail. Of course the top referring blogs you see below had a great part in it as well as some social media help from Craig at Free From Broke.

I noticed this site is now in the top 50 of Wise Bread’s Top 100+ Personal Finance Blogs, which currently tracks 501 financial blogs. This makes Canadian Finance Blog the top rated Canadian site in that list!

RSS readers may have noticed that the bottom of the feed now includes a copyright notice with a link to the site and a digital fingerprint. This was added due to too many sites pulling the feed and posting it as their own content. I hope you don’t find the notice too distracting, I’ve written it to display in a small font but some reader software may not adhere to that.

Speaking of RSS, the amount of readers has gained by another 100 for the 3rd month in a row. We’ve passed the 700 mark now but I’m really hoping to make the 1000 milestone as soon as possible!

One more milestone was achieved. There are now over 3000 people following @Canadian Finance on Twitter. Thanks to all those that are following and I hope you are enjoying the tweets!

Stay tuned as there are a couple things I’m working on that should be announced soon!

Top 5 Articles

  1. How I Got $8 Glasses – Alan’s story of how he was able to get eye glasses online for only $8.00!
  2. What is Financial Literacy? – The Financial Literacy series that Jim wrote looks in depth at the topics highlighted by the Task Force on Financial Literacy.
  3. Tax Software Review – StudioTax 2009 – StudioTax continues to gain a following as the best free tax preparation software available to Canadians.
  4. Passive Income – How to Supplement Your Retirement – With retirement income depleted over the last couple years, here are some ideas on what you can do to earn a little extra money.
  5. A Quick QuickTax Online Review – A look at the online version of the top selling tax software, QuickTax.

Top 5 Referring Blogs

  1. Million Dollar Journey
  2. Free Money Finance
  3. Wise Bread
  4. Get Rich Slowly
  5. The Financial Blogger
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2 Responses to Top 5: March 2010
  1. Tom,
    Congrats on being in the top 50 on Wise Bread’s rankings page! Also for being the top Canadian site on the list.
    .-= Joe Plemon´s last blog ..Airstream Saga Continues: Jan and I Second Guess Our Decision =-.

  2. That is the best blog for anybody who wants to search out out about this topic. You realize so much its almost laborious to argue with you (not that I actually would want…HaHa). You undoubtedly put a new spin on a topic thats been written about for years. Great stuff, simply great!

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