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Hello all fellow Yakezie challengers. I am planning to start weekly round up with best posts from the challenger network of blogs. If you want to be included , please send me email with your blog name. I will subscribe to each of yours feed and prepare the weekly round up.

Sorry this time it's exclusively for challengers, not for members. I hope this doesn't break Yakezie spirit.

see thats why I said it's against spirit. another comment favoring your sentiment and I am taking back my idea!!

OneCentAtatime said:

you make perfect sense to me. But if I go on writing weekly round up, won't that defeat the purpose of carnivals?

What do you mean?  I write weekly roundups AND participate in carnivals.  It's a great idea to spread your name even faster and help others.  Am I misunderstanding the question?

And no, I do not think this is against the spirit of the Yakezie.  It is very helpful to new Yakezie members, which is great!  I think the spirit of the offer is awesome! 

I was simply pointing out that it is funny that when I was a challenger, we were trying like nuts to promote bigger blogs so they would notice us.  Now it's a little more big fish vs little fish.  I was just wondering if there was a benefit to this that I was missing?

OneCentAtatime said:

No special benefit, just an interesting twist with exclusive posts from challenger world

 

Cool beans.  Hopefully our conversation has bumped this enough to be seen and responded too, lol.

OneCentAtatime said:

no people seems just waiting and watching 

Well that's silly.  I didn't mean to put a pause on anything, sorry.  Come on challengers, sign up so I don't look like a big bully!  I was honestly just asking a question I had on my mind for a while, lol.

I think it's a good idea.   It's easy for challengers to feel left out.   It's why I made the Beta Challenger search last year.

I do not feel the need to have a special "challenger" post round up. I do not do round ups on my blog. My blog is just different. However, I do give love. I just wrote an Ikea post and highlighted 11 different bloggers with links to their respective blogs. I love having guest posts and feature bloggers that way as well.

I blog on elegance and personal finance so not every post is going to be of interest to all personal finance bloggers. (I was floored that I received comments from PFB on my "unmentionables" post.)Thus, I am not usually mentioned in round ups. I am fine with that.

I will say that if you a) post in the forums b) frequent other Yakezie blogs c) write good content, you will get traffic.

My slight frustration with some of the blogs is that either a) I am completely unfamiliar with the subject and cannot post an appropriate comment or b) the post is SO long I think I have developed ADD and cannot focus long enough to read enough of the posts or c) there is so much stuff (ads, etc.) on the blog that it is visually difficult for me to focus

Budgeting in the Fun Stuff said:

It is 1:30am here, but I'm still tuned in, lol.  I just hope there are some signups so I don't feel like I hijacked the thread.

@Super Frugalette, would you like to guest post at BFS?  That would probably help expose your writing to at least my group of readers.  Just so you know, I do truly appreciate your comments on my site!

If this doesn't work out for you One Cent, let me know.  Sorry.

 Crystal…I would give you some of my great coffee if you were here. I sent you a guest post last week regarding my update from Maryland. Perhaps you did not realized it was attached.

Super Frugalette

OK woke up in the morning and saw opinion both ways. new entrants please come forward

FamilyMoneyValues said:

I sent you an email!

Got it, and added