Yakezie Challenge and New Friends
Posted by michelle on Feb 11, 2012 in Site News | 17 comments
When we started this site a few weeks ago, we stumbled upon a fellow Personal Finance blogger’s site (http://smallbudgetbigdreams.com), where I first learned about the Yakezie challenge. Yakezie is a wonderful blogging community, which encourages bloggers to support each others’ efforts and provides a community for folks to ask questions and get feedback from others. Basically, the challenge is to drive your Alexa score below 200,000 within six months of joining. The Alexa score is how high search engines rank your page and is based on how much traffic your site generates and how many of your beautiful friends post links to your site. (For example, our page is currently ranked 932,954. This means there are 932,953 pages ranked higher, and are basically more popular and awesome than ours.) Since our blog is still in diapers, we don’t expect to be the most amazing site in the world obviously, but we are excited to maybe one day be in the top 200k. We will continue to do our best to entertain you, inform you of amazing deals and money-making how-to’s, and to keep you posted on our Debt Reduction Progress.
New Friends
One of the great things about joining the Yakezie Challenge, is the exposure that you get to many other great financial blogs that are out there. We have a number of these listed on our blogroll on the right of this page, and you should make it a point to check out each of these sites if you are like us and trying to get out of debt, looking for good financial advice, or are just wanting to read some entertaining articles and viewpoints.
Just to make sure that you don’t miss any must-read articles from any of these new friends, we plan to post links from time to time to some of our favorites. Here are a few from the past week that caught our attention:
- My Broken Coin (via Get Rich Slowly) – Why I lied about Money
- American Debt Project: Top 10 Posts That Changed my Views on Money, Debt, & LIfe
- So Over Debt — Pinterest: Harmless Fun or Enabler?
- Budgeting in the Fun Stuff: My Tax Return and Me
- Daily Money Shot: The Day My Kitchen Floor Melted
- Frugal Dad: The “No Spend Day” challenge
Thanks for reading. I must say that this blog is helping us out so much more than I ever could have hoped. Since we are posting all of our trials (and errors) for the world to see, it is making us think about each and every purchase. We also appreciate all of the kind words of encouragement thus far. Just today, a good friend called to let us know that she was so inspired by our blog that she went out and consolidated her credit cards, taking advantage of the current Discover Card promotion that Jeff recently wrote about. This is saving her hundreds in interest each month and I’m so happy for her!
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Thanks for the mention and welcome to Yakezie!!!
No problem, Jana! We are excited to be apart of it.
Welcome to Yakezie – Jump right in and you will be surprised at how fast you learn everything. Let me know if you have any questions. I joined Yakezie in the summer and I haven’t regretted it at all.
Welcome to Yakezie Michelle! Looking forward to watching you rocket up the rankings.
Welcome to the challenge! I just started myself on the challenge about 3 weeks ago, and have found great support and knowledge from everyone in the Yakezie community. Looks great and keep working hard!
Welcome to te Challenge! I recently joined as well! Wishing you the best!
Thanks for all the well wishes!!.. We are super excited to be among such a great group of writers
Thanks for the shout out. I know we’ll be able to help each other out and drive those Alexa scores down.
For sure, Kari! Everyone has been so helpful and nice (even though we probably have an annoying amount of questions.)
Welcome to the challenge!
Welcome to the Challenge. I started back at the beginning of January, so let me know if you have any questions. Glad to meet you!
Thanks, Andrew! Thanks, John! But are you sure you want to invite the questions? I have a lot…haha. I still don’t even know how to put my picture right there —–>
Thanks for the shout out! I’m so glad you decided to join the challenge!
Thanks, Andrea!
Welcome to the challenge! I joined a few weeks ago. I look forward to reading your posts!
Welcome to the challenge! I joined a little while ago myself, let me know if you need any help!
Excited to have partnered with you on Yakezie, looking forward to seeing our “Stragglers Team” progress over time!