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OneCentAtATime – I can't see how to comment at your site. Is there a comment bar for your posts or am I missing it? Welcome to Yakezie. Jump in with both feet and do your best to selflessly promote others and you'll find this network to be fantastic, and the best thing you've done for your blog! You may be surprised at how quickly your Alexa rating falls if you get really involved.

One thing worth noting: you mentioned in your joining Yakezie post that your name isn't on the member list. You have to complete the challenge to be added to that list. Until then, you're a challenger. You can add yourself to the Challengers list in Blogger's Lair.

You have to click on the post header, on the post page you can add comments, this was another question I posted on help forum, as to how to show number of comments below each post header with a link to #comments section. My theme Magazine basic doesn't support showing off comments counts on home page.

And, about Yakezie list, now I got the clue. Thanks for clarifying! Pls any one can answer to my question above? If you can send me the php tags as well, I can update my loop.php accordingly.

Can someone explain this whole process in a nutshell to me? Sorry that I'm dense… I just want to make sure I understand what I need to do to participate. Thanks a bunch.

I mostly agree with Sam, but the member sites should minimally have the Yakezie badge.

It would be great if they help out the new members once in a while too.

I've had the Yakezie challenger badge on my site for some time, and have had link roundups just about every week, but my Alexa score has been heading in the wrong direction for some time, from 117K to now 159K. No doubt a function of decreased blogging and commenting activity, since I've been traveling quite a bit more in the last couple months.

101 Centavos said:

I've had the Yakezie challenger badge on my site for some time, and have had link roundups just about every week, but my Alexa score has been heading in the wrong direction for some time, from 117K to now 159K. No doubt a function of decreased blogging and commenting activity, since I've been traveling quite a bit more in the last couple months.

I definitely know what you mean! I went from 43k up to 69k over the past few months, because I have been so busy with life!

The Saved Quarter said:

The Financial Blogger said:

I do have a question regarding this:

If only 1 of my site is mentioned as a "member" (The Financial Blogger) but I have most of my site participating (e.g. having the badge and doing yakezie roundup) (Green Panda Treehouse & Do Not Wait for example), can I have them include as member? or should I take off the badge and use my roundup to promote other sites than the Yakezie?

Sorry I missed this earlier. Only The Financial Blogger is a member. The other sites would be considered challengers until they complete the challenge. It's by website, not by blogger. We have several bloggers here who have one on the member side and one or more on the challenger side.

You can put up a challenger badge and still do roundups on those sites as challengers; it would help them to meet the threshhold of becoming members.

I'm confused, can you tell me what my other sites didn't achieved while TFB did? If I have to break top 100K for all my sites, I'm sure going to drop them off the list take off the badges and the roundup. I think that the Yakezie members benefits from my network since I can multiply the number of links I can do each week and promote the Yakezie through different audience. But if my sites are not considered, I'll stop this and work on something else and just keep TFB which made the cut (I still don't get how one site is considered a member or not yet even if I'm a member myself….)

The rise and fall of Alexa rankings is normal. I think that all blogs see a rise at times.

Money Reasons – I don't think forum participation is necessary to be an active member, but it's more than just having a badge. If a blog has a badge but never does any promoting of others in the network, they're not doing the "selflessly helping others" part of the deal. Not everyone will participate at the same level, and that's okay, but SOME level of participation would be good for those who are gaining the benefit of participating in the group.

The Saved Quarter said:

Check with Sam, but my understanding is that each blog has to independently meet the challenge and apply to become a member on its own. It's not by blogger, but by blog.

If your blogs have all reached the criteria, contact Sam about writing a member post for them to become members too. Each blog is considered independently. That's why Suba has Wealth Informatics as a member and Broke Professionals as a challenger, and Khaleef has KNS Financial as a member and Fat Guy, Skinny Wallet as a challenger, and Melissa has Mom's Plan's as a member and Dining Out Challenge as a challenger.

Also, to become a member, they have to reach 200k, not 100k.

 

 

I actually wasn't "accepted" as a member until I broke the 100K for TFB (my blog is around since 2006 so I was already under 200K before the Yakezie existed).

I understand Sam's reasons (from his answer on this thread) but I don't think I'll multiply myself into 4,5,6 individuals because it would be very complicated for me. I understand the problem with shady network and "fake" blogs but my blogs are clearly producing great and unique content. For now, I'll only keep TFB as a member (and still continue to participate!) But I will concentrate the rest of my business on other matters. It will be much easier to manage this way. Thx for clarifying the vision with this thread!