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Hi everyone!  I just decided to join the Yakezie Challenge and installed my Alexa toolbar today.  My current rank is 3,721,125.  My husband and I launched our blog last November and I'm already enjoying posting and interacting with other bloggers.

We chose our blog name, evolvingPF, to reflect that we expect to go through many financial transitions in the next few years as we get our PhDs, leave North Carolina, and possibly procreate.  On the blog we discuss money-related topics as they relate to our family.  We are, I've observed, rather low-income-earners among PF bloggers so our writing is definitely colored by that perspective!

I'm looking forward to getting to know you all!

Welcome aboard! 

welcome to the community, I'm sure you will find Yakezie very helpful to growing your blog

Welcome Addie! I also love your domain name. Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks Financial Samurai for initiating the Yakezie challenge. I just added the badge to my site and I'm ready to role.

Last year I started a finance blog at SharedFinancialSuccess.com and saw some success. Then I spent the next 8 months working overtime non stop (at a car rental company) and lost the energy to keep posting. 

With my work schedule back within reasonable hours I am rededicating myself to blog consistently and get within the top 200,000 of Alexa within 6 months. 

Right now my blogs is ranked just under six million, which sounds awful but I'm not too worried. When I was writing consistently last year I saw my ranking drop quickly. In fact, recently I made a few SEO changes and without writing any new content dropped two million spots in Alexa in two weeks.

Alexa is over rated (and not a reliable ranking system, certainly not what mega sites and advertisers use) but this community seems to be where the value is really at.  

I look forward to getting to know all of you and reading your blogs. 

Hi Everyone.

We joined the challenge a few weeks ago, and have been really reading and enjoying many of the new and existing blogs that are out there.  We moved from Blogger to Wordpress, and have been seeing our Alexa ranking steadily dropping (we're almost below 1 million.. Wooo!)

Is there a list of challengers that is posted somewhere on the site?  I would really like to look through some of the other sites that are just getting started, much like ours, to see if we can help each other out with guest posts and/or blogroll link exchanges.

Keep up the great work everyone! .. We have a bunch of article ideas floating around, so if anyone would be willing to let us guest post.. Please let me know :)

Jefferson

Good luck Ray. That's an excellent rank to begin with. 

Hey all.

A few years ago, I had a few relatively decent personal finance and investing sites. Since I worked at a Big Four accounting firm, I spent a number of nights each week in hotels rooms hundreds of miles from home. As such, writing content was a great way to blow off some steam after a long day of looking at financial statements.

Once I left that job, I found another 4 miles from my house. After a few months of working 'human hours', I rediscovered that I married perhaps the coolest girl on the planet. How she put up with me being away so much is still a mystery to me. In an effort to focus on my family, I pretty much let all of my sites die a slow painful death. Even though they were small (PR 3 or less) they developed a relatively decent following.

Fast forward six years…..my oldest son is now 5, we were blessed with another son 10 months ago, and I am still married to the hottest, most loving woman on the planet. The only problem is that I do not have anyone to talk to about personal finance. I know that sounds strange but I love this stuff. My wife, on the other hand, simply could not care less.

With that being said, I have decided to join the challenge in order to network with other similarly minded bloggers. My Alexa ranking is a staggering 15,395,344. I have not found any site that had a higher starting rank so I certainly have my work cut out for me.

Over the next few weeks, my goal is to establish a healthy publishing schedule and create a bunch of guest posts to get the ball rolling. I am not sure if I will be able to get my ranking below 200,000 in six months but I am going to have fun trying

Dustin

http://financialknowledgeonline.com

My initial rank started at 20 million.  It is down to 2 million now.  It happened in 3 days after joining the Yakezie network. I want to thank everyone that goes to my site and drops me a line.  And if you havent been there take a look!