OMG! Funny just made it onto the first page of WiseBread’s Top 100+ Personal Finance Blogs! Number 99 out of 100, with an Alexa ranking of 127,986.
This, thanks to Financial Samurai‘s Yakezie Challenge to bloggers who wanted to improve their traffic and various measures of popularity. The idea was, by July 4, to move your ranking from wherever it was up to the next rung. If, say, you were in the 200,000s (on a scale of 1 at the highest to a zillion at the leastest), you would vow to break into the 100,000s. If you were already there, you would try to get into the five digits. And so on. The theory behind Sam’s scheme: Power in numbers. Collaboration surely had to get us all somewhere.
Funny was a late-comer to this effort. Several friends urged me to join, but I was busy and came up with many excuses to drag my feet. Finally, a little more than a month ago, I downloaded the medallion, installed the Alexa toolbar, and announced FaM’s participation.
At the outset, FaM’s ranking was about 235,000. In just a week or two, this dropped to 199,463. It took 29 more days to arrive at today’s figure, which lifts the site into the Top 100.
So, who are these Yakezieites and what can they do? Just yesterday, Penny at The Saved Quarter published a really nice round-up of the some of the members’ best posts. This is a great place to go to find PF bloggers showing off their favorite work.
From the Yakezie site I found what appears to be the latest membership list and alphabetized it. There may be others who don’t appear on the list—I see a few names on Penny’s post that don’t seem to be here, while some here aren’t in hers. But it was the only membership list I could find. This, then, is my version:
• The Amateur Financier
• Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance
• Beating Broke
• Bible Debt
• Bucksome Boomer
• Budgeting in the Fun Stuff
• Canadian Finance Blog
• Car Negotiation Coach
• Chasing Prosperity
• The Centsible Life
• Christian Common Cents
• CJ Bowker
• Clarifinancial
• Consumer Boomer
• Cool to Be Frugal
• Couple Money
• Credit Card Chaser
• Dividend Monk
• Downturn Living
• Early Retirement Extreme
• Eliminate the Muda
• Ending the Rat Race
• Engineering Your Finances
• Evolution of Wealth
• Family Balance Sheet
• Financial Samurai
• Fiscal Fizzle
• Foreigner’s Finances
• Free from Broke
• Frugal Confessions
• Frugal Zeitgeist
• Funny about Money
• Girl with the Red Balloon
• Deliver Away Debt
• Invest It Wisely
• Joe Taxpayer
• Len Penzo dot Com
• Little House in the Valley
• Miss Thrifty
• Monevator
• Money Beagle
• Money Funk
• Money Reasons
• More Style than Cash
• My Financial Objectives
• My Journey to Millions
• The Millionaire Nurse
• My Money Minute
• Narrow Bridge Adventures
• Not Made of Money
• 151 Days Off
• One Money Design
• Out of Debt Again
• Peak Personal Finance
• Personal Finance by the Book
• Personal Finance Ninja
• PF Firewall
• Planting Dollars
• Punch Debt in the Face
• Rainy Day Saver
• Redeeming Riches
• The Saved Quarter
• Saving Money Today
• Simple Life in France
• Single Guy Money
• Single Mom, Rich Mom
• SmarterSpend.com
• Stay at Home Mom CFO
• Sweating the Big Stuff
• 20smoney
• Ultimate Money Blog
• Watson Inc.
• Wealth Pilgrim
• Well-heeled Blog
• Young and Thrifty
• Zach
Many of our doughty bloggers have reached the WiseBread Top 100. Some were already there at the time the Yakezie Challenge began. And others are closing in fast.
Bookmark Penny’s page and this page! Come back and check out each of these ambitious writers’ sites as you have time. You’ll find it’s very rewarding.
🙂