Hi,
I work with
Harriet at TotallyMoney. Harriet asked me to keep an eye on this post to see if
anybody was having any troubles with the list that I might be able to fix while
she is away. Looks like there have been more than a few issues :).
It isn’t really
my area of expertise, but I will see if I can address some of your concerns.
We wanted to
build an improved version of the Wisebread that could be a more useful list. I
really like what Wisebread’s list offered but I thought it could be improved as
I didn’t think it updated often enough or gave you enough searching options. I
thought that the list was very comprehensive, but it could be made more useful
by offering more searching options, so you could compare your site with other sites
writing about the same thing, from the same country or who started at the same
time.
About the time
we were ready to launch we joined the Yakezie challenge and thought that this
would be really useful for all of you, however we didn’t realise that you
already have your own list which is already very useful for you. We talked to
Sam about this and agreed that it was confusing to have both and changed the
way we talked about it. We still wanted it to be useful for you, so we added
the option of comparing yourself against Yakezie challengers. It is open to
everyone and I hope it is useful for everyone.
We hoped to use
this to both get links to our website and as a way of promoting our site to the
personal finance community. It would be great if you did link to us, but that
is only part of the reason. We link out several times to every website that is
listed and in the future we hope to be able to send lots of traffic as well.
The reason that
our list has been shoved at the bottom of the page is we are not completely happy
with it and was hoping to use this thread to iron out all the bugs that we had.
We don’t think that it is ready for a proper release yet. We still have lots of
issues with verification emails and minor bugs with updating, also we have no
idea if it will break as more people join up. Part of the idea of this post was
to get you all to help us improve what we have. A lot of things have been fixed
because of this thread and we hope to use your feedback to improve it further
and add better functionality, so that it stops being one list among many and becomes
the best one out there.
We need you to
register, because of the way it was built. It seemed to make sense to build it
within wordpress as that seemed the easier decision. It also means you can log
in to change your details if your site ever changes.
I agree with the
dilution of the Yakezie brand and we have changed things to make the difference
more clear. Seemed to make sense when we started, but looking at it now it just
made things more confusing. One problem we have is although being able to sort
between Yakezie Members, Challengers’ and other blogs is useful, but it doesn’t
require any verification. At the moment all blogs are checked by hand on
registration a checked against your list, but it isn’t a great solution. If
anyone has any suggestions on how to improve this then I would love to hear
them.
So to sum up. We are trying to build something useful for personal finance
bloggers and would like to use your feedback to improve it.
Let me know if
you have any questions or if you have any feedback about the list that could be
useful.
I will be popping into this thread fire fighting until Harriet gets back next
week. I will be better at answering technical questions, but I will try my best
at anything else you have got.
Henry.
P.S is it possible to change the name of this thread to remove the reference to Yakezie members. It will only get more confusing
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