This week has been a week of many firsts:
- 1st page rank update for Pelican on Money
- 1st 1000 comments on this blog
- 1st challenge met – Yakezie goal of 200,000 Alexa (need your help below)
- 1st Mormon politician to run for president, to lose to first black president
- 1st election for me to vote in (I know – shame on me)
- 1st investing book I’m reading (The Intelligent Investor)
- 1st time I had to reject a handout to a woman with a baby strapped to her chest
- 1st post of this kind
What’s next? A week of seconds? We’ll see.
I need Your Help
I’m happy to admit that the goal of dropping to 200k Alexa ranking via Yakezie challenge has been met two weeks ago.
There’s just one problem: I’m not sure what to do now?
I guess I’m supposed to check in on the Yakezie forum (I’ve been too busy to hang out there too much), but I can’t seem to access it now. Tried initiating a password reset but it doesn’t do anything. Any ideas what to do about next?
Over the last two weeks with all the political stuff going on I came across many posts about the fiscal cliff. I thought it would be a good idea to see them all in one place to get a well-rounded understanding of what the heck it is (as if you don’t know by now!)
PF Bloggers on Fiscal Cliff
- Frugal Rules: Should we really be concerned about the fiscal cliff?
- Thirty Six Months: What is the fiscal cliff and why should Canada care?
- My Own Advisor: Weekend readings – Obama is back, fiscal cliffs and great blogs
- Club Thrifty: What is the fiscal cliff and why you should care?
- Five Cent Nickel: Cliff notes on the fiscal precipice
- Weakonomics: Two more years… so what now?
- Life and My Finances: Preparing for the fiscal cliff
- Edward Antrobus: Is the fiscal cliff really that bad?
- Free From Broke: Are you ready to fall off the fiscal cliff?
- Novel Investor: To the fiscal cliff…and beyond
- … and yours truly: What your loyalty means in light of the fiscal cliff
Which post if any did you like the most? Vote in comments!
Neat Blogs I Found:
- OneMint – by Manshu Verma (great financial posts and a bit of techy stuff)
- Money Q & A – by Hank Coleman (credit, savings – all the good stuff you need in your personal life)
- Novel Investor – by Jon Petersen (great investing blog I’m just now starting to get into)
- Dough Roller – by Rob Berger (great advice and an easy read)
- Monevator – great investing blog.
Thanks for the mention Veronica! Great work on many of your numbers. In regards to the forums, you might want to email the Samuri and ask him if he can be of any help.
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Thanks for your help John, I’ll send an email.
Hmm I think the next thing you should do is just continue to focus on gaining readership. I also think looking into monetization is a good thing to do once you have decent traffic (it’s one of the next steps for me). I’d say try to get under 100k? I also am too busy for the Yakezie forums, but I hope to get back on them in a couple months.
Anyway, congrats on all the growth with your blog!
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Under 100k it is!
Cool firsts! Man, I hope to be there some day! I’m getting close to the Yakezie 200K too, and you bring up a great question. What to do? Twitter or email Sam and ask I guess. Or go to his blog and contact him that way to figure out what to do (or get back your password to Yakezie)
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Thanks, I’ll try email. Twitter seems to be largely ignored and gets lost in the noise.
Under 200,000 is an amazing accomplishment. I am getting close and can really appreciate how much hard work and dedication it takes. Next step? Keep up the momentum! I would also echo the others and suggest contacting Sam. It would be great to see you around the forums!
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I’d love to hang around the forums, I’ve just been so short on time and this little problem has become a huge nuisance.
I like Alexa because it focuses bloggers on looking at metrics. After that, it’s pretty irrelevant.
I think the keys are to focus on your blogging stats: page views, time on site and bounce rates. Those three metrics are WAY more important than Alexa and will actually drive your blog higher and higher!
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Thanks, I appreciate your input. I’m just really happy it helped me stay on track of keeping on top of things. It’s a great motivator!
Great job Veronica, now under 100K! Remember Alexa is not accurate because it only shows traffic from people who have their toolbar installed, but it is a nice metric to keep motivated.
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Thanks Pauline! I’ve been working very hard, slaving day and night. Well, more like night and night, haha.
Great job. I just have not found the time to do much on Yakezie either, and maybe my password has been revoked as well. I’ll have to try it this weekend. I don’t know which fiscal cliff post I’d vote for. They all kind of give me a headache and I hope they decide something soon.
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Thanks for the mention. I think it’s pretty obvious which post I’d vote for.
Congrats on getting to 200k. My Alexa toolbar is actually showing you at 161k. That’s a pretty big jump if you just reached 200k. You’re on pace to pass me now!
I agree with TB about getting into contact with Sam.
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Thank you for the mention! I hope that you have a great weekend!
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Sometimes I feel like I’ve been lost in my little own world, that there is so much going on out there that I feel like I SHOULD know, but don’t. I’m about to explore this little world known as Alexa pretty soon, and I just recently heard about fiscal cliff and I still have no idea wtf it is!
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I guess I’m a little late to the party – my post on the fiscal cliff comes out on Monday.
I recommend setting a new goal, like 100k on Alexa now that you are past 200k.
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Don’t worry it’s not too late to write about the fiscal cliff, this issue will be a major talking point until it’s resolved.
Thanks for your recommendation. I’m taking all of this seriously and look to push the blog to under 100k. Half way there now!
Great job on your milestones. Perhaps your next goal could be to get on wisebread’s top 100 personal finance blog list, once it’s been revamped. I’ve heard good things happen to sites that make it high on the list.
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I tried submitting there but it says submissions are not allowed at this time. I’m guessing they’re working on something. I’m making my own top “chart” of sorts hehe. It should be pretty neat when done.
Great work on getting under 200K! I’m still in the 400′s so I have a fair way to go
As for what to do now – the obvious next goal would be under 150,000, however I get the feeling that will be very difficult. Perhaps you could consider writing an e-book or something?
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I’m actually just about under 150,000 now. I do plan on writing an ebook but I actually have something bigger in the works (sadly its going to take forever as I’m always out of time!) Thanks for your motivation!
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