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kara said:

Hello Everyone. Happy New Year. I am the Frugal Feminista http://www.thefrugalfeminista.com. My current Alexa rating is: 1,419,854.  I have a ways to go but I think joining forces and helping each other out will make all of us stronger. 

Hey Kara, great looking blog!  Good luck on the challenge.  I joined in early December and have seen my Alexa rank decline quickly.  Keep on keeping on with great content and trying new things.  It's just a  matter of time and effort.  

kara said:

Hello Everyone. Happy New Year. I am the Frugal Feminista http://www.thefrugalfeminista.com. My current Alexa rating is: 1,419,854.  I have a ways to go but I think joining forces and helping each other out will make all of us stronger. 

Welcome Kara! Helping each other out is what it's all about. I just checked out your site and followed you on Twitter. Good luck!

kara said:

Hello Everyone. Happy New Year. I am the Frugal Feminista http://www.thefrugalfeminista.com. My current Alexa rating is: 1,419,854.  I have a ways to go but I think joining forces and helping each other out will make all of us stronger. 

Welcome aboard

I'm just under 500k on the challenge.  It's been great so far…the Alexa tool is a great measuring stick.  I have no idea exactly how it works but it does make me feel good to see that number getting smaller and smaller.  

I have a question for my fellow Challengers- what do you think or what have you seen as a better method of socializing on other blogs: constantly picking new blogs to comment on and making a point of going out to comment on new blogs every week OR selecting a limited amount of fellow blogs to comment on, and keep commenting on these select blogs?  Or is it a combination of both although at a certain point, it becomes physically impossible to post on your blog, comment on friend's blogs, and constantly find new blogs to comment on…and raise a family, go to work, and eat, etc.  

I'd like to make a plan when it comes to posting on other's blogs but I'm not sure where my time would be best spent.  I'd appreciate any comments/ideas/experiences.  Thanks in advance!

Welcome aboaed

Small Business Billionaire said:

I'm just under 500k on the challenge.  It's been great so far…the Alexa tool is a great measuring stick.  I have no idea exactly how it works but it does make me feel good to see that number getting smaller and smaller.  

I have a question for my fellow Challengers- what do you think or what have you seen as a better method of socializing on other blogs: constantly picking new blogs to comment on and making a point of going out to comment on new blogs every week OR selecting a limited amount of fellow blogs to comment on, and keep commenting on these select blogs?  Or is it a combination of both although at a certain point, it becomes physically impossible to post on your blog, comment on friend's blogs, and constantly find new blogs to comment on…and raise a family, go to work, and eat, etc.  

I'd like to make a plan when it comes to posting on other's blogs but I'm not sure where my time would be best spent.  I'd appreciate any comments/ideas/experiences.  Thanks in advance!

Welcome to all the new challengers!

I second the question posed here by Small Business Billionaire. What is the best way to keep track of the blogs that you want to visit? And how much time should you spend networking vs. creating content? I'm starting to feel like a juggler with too many balls in the air.

Welcome aboard

BudgetingforMore said:

Hi Guys-

 

My name is Liz and I blog at http://Budgetingformore.com 

 

I joined the challenge TODAY {January 4, 2014} and my Alexa score 703,628! 

 

I started this blog to pursue my passion of writing and personal finance. I started out studying journalism in college as this was my passion however, the recession was in full swing and I got scared. I didn't think I could find a good job in journalism and I was craving stability. So I doubled in accounting as this seemed to have much better job prospects and pursued that career after college. I now work at a large publicly traded company as a tax accountant. I don't regret this choice necessarily, but I do feel that writing is my passion.

 

Hubby and I graduated from school with a lot of student loan debt. We are working really hard to pay down these loans so that we can move on to the next exciting chapter of our lives- starting a family : ) I will be blogging about the financial decisions we are making in our mid-twenties and our journey towards debt freedom. Seems like there is so much to learn and so many choices to make. I am learning about frugal living habits and am an avid crocheter/crafter.

 

I'm really excited to be joining the Yakezie challenge :) 

Welcome Liz!

Wow, exciting to see so many newcomers to the challenge since I last checked in! Best wishes SBB, AAI, and Liz. I've followed and subscribed and will be visiting your blogs regularly. Hope I haven't missed any new challenger!

Small Business Billionaire said:

I'm just under 500k on the challenge.  It's been great so far…the Alexa tool is a great measuring stick.  I have no idea exactly how it works but it does make me feel good to see that number getting smaller and smaller.  

I have a question for my fellow Challengers- what do you think or what have you seen as a better method of socializing on other blogs: constantly picking new blogs to comment on and making a point of going out to comment on new blogs every week OR selecting a limited amount of fellow blogs to comment on, and keep commenting on these select blogs?  Or is it a combination of both although at a certain point, it becomes physically impossible to post on your blog, comment on friend's blogs, and constantly find new blogs to comment on…and raise a family, go to work, and eat, etc.  

I'd like to make a plan when it comes to posting on other's blogs but I'm not sure where my time would be best spent.  I'd appreciate any comments/ideas/experiences.  Thanks in advance!

My advice is not to over think it. When I was in the challenge I thought I needed to keep a spreadsheet to track which blogs I commented on and such, and quickly learned trying to track that level of detail was a waste of time. It's encouraging to find fellow challengers blogs that you like as well as Member blogs that you enjoy reading and build relationships. After several visits you'll start to figure out which sites you enjoy reading the most and thus will have the most fun commenting on. 

Using the Yakezie network page http://yakezie.com/personal-fi…..nce-blogs/ is a really helpful way to see what current Members have published too, so you can find articles you're interested in and get to know some of the Members.