Who wants to be on my team? Part II | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

I keep seeing my Alexa ranking get better and better, so I figure some of that has to come from my fellow Group 2'ers.

I'm also trying to get better about Twitter and re-tweeting and such.  Somehow I've built up a pretty big following (800+) so it's time to invest more time in leveraging that.  What better way than to spread some Group II love? :)

We should definitely keep this going!  It has helped many of us tremendously.

While I am not seeing as many comments as I was in the summer, I still find this very valuable, and my Alexa ranking is definitely going down.

I have one problem, though, and I'm turning to the others in the groups for advice. One of the blogs in our group has in the past been financial with the occasional religious post. I'm good with that. I understand religion as a tool some people use to help with their personal finances. However, this evening when I opened all my group blogs, the financial blog no longer seems to exist. It goes straight to a purely religious blog.

I don't intend to remove the blog from my fall list, so I'll still click on it every day, but I am not going to comment, not even once a week, on religious postings. If there is a post about personal finance, I will do my best to comment on it, but I honestly have nothing useful to say on posts titled "Day Five – Seven Days of Worship" with nary a PF post to be seen. (Well, maybe I do have something useful to say, but I don't believe in pushing my spiritual beliefs on people who aren't asking for them, and I really don't believe that Yakezie is the proper forum for it.)

Does my plan seem reasonable to other people? Am I the only one flumoxxed by this?

shanendoah said:

While I am not seeing as many comments as I was in the summer, I still find this very valuable, and my Alexa ranking is definitely going down.

 

I have one problem, though, and I'm turning to the others in the groups for advice. One of the blogs in our group has in the past been financial with the occasional religious post. I'm good with that. I understand religion as a tool some people use to help with their personal finances. However, this evening when I opened all my group blogs, the financial blog no longer seems to exist. It goes straight to a purely religious blog.

I don't intend to remove the blog from my fall list, so I'll still click on it every day, but I am not going to comment, not even once a week, on religious postings. If there is a post about personal finance, I will do my best to comment on it, but I honestly have nothing useful to say on posts titled "Day Five – Seven Days of Worship" with nary a PF post to be seen. (Well, maybe I do have something useful to say, but I don't believe in pushing my spiritual beliefs on people who aren't asking for them, and I really don't believe that Yakezie is the proper forum for it.)

 

Does my plan seem reasonable to other people? Am I the only one flumoxxed by this?

 

I would suggest trying to contact the blog owner through e-mail or a contact form which most sites have.  Just explain that you've noticed that they seem to have moved focus away from the PF side of things, and is this the direction that they're taking?  If so, just let them know that you feel it's best to disengage, and wish them the best of luck.  If they do want to stay with their foot in the PF waters, maybe your note will remind them to put some focus back on that side.

The way I look at it is that we're sort of volunteering to help one another get exposure and better rankings, but we certainly don't have to do so at the expense of our comfort level or beliefs. Sounds like you're approaching it very respectfully, which is commendable.

I have to apologize to my Yakezie Fall team. Between FINCON and ad campaign time commitments, I've been a bad team member. I'm going to visit all of you today.

Are we going to get another list set up for october/november?

I think a lot of people wish they would have participated more in sept – I know i do.

I'm still seeing a benefit as far as my Alexa ranking. I haven't posted much on FGSW in the last 2 weeks (I didn't want to announce that I was at the conference until I got back), so I can't blame anyone for not commenting there.

I think we should keep the same teams until after Christmas – I'm sure things will get hectic with giveaways and vacations!

MoneyBeagle said:

shanendoah said:

While I am not seeing as many comments as I was in the summer, I still find this very valuable, and my Alexa ranking is definitely going down.

 

I have one problem, though, and I'm turning to the others in the groups for advice. One of the blogs in our group has in the past been financial with the occasional religious post. I'm good with that. I understand religion as a tool some people use to help with their personal finances. However, this evening when I opened all my group blogs, the financial blog no longer seems to exist. It goes straight to a purely religious blog.

I don't intend to remove the blog from my fall list, so I'll still click on it every day, but I am not going to comment, not even once a week, on religious postings. If there is a post about personal finance, I will do my best to comment on it, but I honestly have nothing useful to say on posts titled "Day Five – Seven Days of Worship" with nary a PF post to be seen. (Well, maybe I do have something useful to say, but I don't believe in pushing my spiritual beliefs on people who aren't asking for them, and I really don't believe that Yakezie is the proper forum for it.)

 

Does my plan seem reasonable to other people? Am I the only one flumoxxed by this?

 

I would suggest trying to contact the blog owner through e-mail or a contact form which most sites have.  Just explain that you've noticed that they seem to have moved focus away from the PF side of things, and is this the direction that they're taking?  If so, just let them know that you feel it's best to disengage, and wish them the best of luck.  If they do want to stay with their foot in the PF waters, maybe your note will remind them to put some focus back on that side.

The way I look at it is that we're sort of volunteering to help one another get exposure and better rankings, but we certainly don't have to do so at the expense of our comfort level or beliefs. Sounds like you're approaching it very respectfully, which is commendable.

I noticed this too, and was sort of wondering if maybe the site was hijacked, because I thought the url changed too. Have you contacted them? If not I'll give it a try.

BeatingBroke said:

I'm all for keeping the existing teams for now.  I know many of us got really busy in the last few weeks, and are only now getting back in the swing of things.  At the very least, maybe we hold off until early December, but my vote would be for January sometime.

I agree.  I'm catching up this week after vacation and fincon. 

Bumping this up to get a few views and serve as a reminder to help your groupmates out.

If you're part of a group, PLEASE remember to give some Alexa love to your teammates.  My ranking improved quite a bit when the new groups were announced, but I've been drifting down a bit over the last week.  I don't know if I'm the only one but I figure it's worth a reminder to all to make sure to give your teammates some help as better Alexa rankings for everybody help the entire group.  I have a Group2 folder that I open at least five times a week where I navigate to a few webpages for each of my teammates.  I'm going to keep doing that.  Hopefully that's helping!