Funny Joins the Yakezie Challenge

Lookit this spiffy golden clover! There’s one over on the right sidebar, too. Designed by Eliminate the Muda and CJ Bowker, that’s the badge of the  Yakezie Challenge, a network whose members try to break 100,000 in the Alexa rankings.

This scheme the brainchild of Financial Samurai, who promises that all proceeds generated by the group’s site will be donated to charity.

The goal is simple: build traffic. Says Sam:

If you’re outside of the top 200,000, get in the top 200,000 within 6 months. . . . If you’re already in the top 200,000, get in the top 100,000. And if you’re already in the top 100,000, get in the top 50,000.

Funny’s Alexa ranking is at 212,477 today. It’s been rising slowly since I signed up for Alexa about ten days ago, although it’s off from April, when a large spike in traffic pushed the ranking into the 100,000s. (The lower the number, the higher your ranking.) I’d like to keep traffic up at a constant level in the “spike” range—the site cranked money during the two or three days the spike lasted. And every dollah Funny cranks is a dollah closer to freedom from those de rigueur freshman comp courses! 😉

Several of my friends, most notably Crystal at Budgeting in the Fun Stuff, Mrs. Accountability, and Jackie at Money Crush, have urged me to quit dragging my feet and sign up. Apparently there are now around 80 members—to see who they are, check out this page.

So! I’m psyched! Can’t wait to see what happens next.