Category Archive for Featured | Yakezie.com - Part 20

Systematize Your Website For Better Performance

by in Lifestyle on Nov 29th, 2012

Blog building and website creation can be a time consuming and somewhat lonely task. There are so many things to handle, from site design to backup and recovery to obtaining or developing fresh content and more. If you are suffering burnout – wondering how you can possibly attend to everything for daily operations and still […]

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Beware Of “Guest Blogging” That Can And Will Ruin Your Site

by in Lifestyle on Nov 26th, 2012

Given the huge Google Penguin update in the Spring of 2012 and the rolling Panda updates that occur once a month, guest blogging has become the #1 way for people to acquire backlinks to their sites. The SEO industry has gone into overdrive to ping all bloggers whether they can guest post their “free and […]

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Happy Thanksgiving Yakezie Network!

by in Lifestyle on Nov 21st, 2012

Aaah, Thanksgiving is in the air! This is such a happy and exciting time of year. Black Friday’s coming, the snow has started to fall in the mountains, ski lifts are opening, persimmons are all over the farmers markets (YUM), and people are headed home to spend time with their extended families. It’s also the time […]

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Surviving Google Updates: Thin Content Is Out, Thick Content Is In

by in Lifestyle on Nov 15th, 2012

Finally, a part of life where being thin isn’t better anymore! I’ve been spending some time reading about the interesting world of niche and “authority” sites lately. I never would have delved so deep if Google had never laid the smackdown. Everybody kept talking about the latest carnage, so I just had to pay attention. […]

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How To Increase Traffic To Your Site

by in Lifestyle on Nov 12th, 2012

As the Yakezie Network is a network of personal finance bloggers, it’s easy to get lost in our bubble, especially when we first go on our journey. The first people we reach out to are bloggers in our genre who hopefully reciprocate. Other bloggers are going to be the ones who help get your name […]

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The Yakezie Network Is Open For Business

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The Yakezie Network was created in December 2009 as a way to help new and old bloggers alike grow their platforms, connect with others, and become the best bloggers possible. Over the years, the Yakezie has become the largest, most collaborative personal finance network on the web. It takes eight months on average to get […]

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To Grow Your Blog Beware Of Groupthink

by in Lifestyle on Nov 1st, 2012

I’d like everybody to take a look at their most frequent commenters and ask yourselves some questions: * What is the gender makeup split? * What is the gender split who comment? * What is their socioeconomic background? * What percentage are bloggers vs. non bloggers? * Do they always agree with what you are […]

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I’m Not Supposed To Be Here…

by in Featured on Oct 25th, 2012

Hi, my name is Dominique, and this member post is severely late. I narrowly missed my chance at being a Yakezie member in the last class, and now I almost blew my shot for the Epsilon class. I need to get my life together. Let’s start this post over… Hi, everyone my name is Dominique, […]

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  • Untemplater: Congrats on getting so many consecutive features on Google News! That’s phenomenal! Writing on...
  • Untemplater: You nailed it. I also believe great marketing is very helpful in the beginning but it’s really...
  • Jamie: Awesome insights thanks! I’ve been a big fan of Sam’s for years. Really exciting that he’s...
  • Untemplater: There are so many overpriced ecourses online it’s crazy. They use very aggressive marketing tactics to...
  • Andy: Thousand-dollar e-courses are a total scam. You can learn everything online for free. Shame on people who sell...
  • Untemplater: There are a lot of bloggers out there who focus on small stuff like should you or should you not spend...
  • Derek: It’s fascinating how some bloggers continue to just mindlessly pump out affiliate content. It’s clear they are...
  • Untemplater: Lots of valid points! So true that bloggers are a minority of overall readership, so blogging to much...
  • Bingo: You are spot on. Most of our bloggers are white people living on the coasts, where half the population of...
  • Financial Samurai: Hi Jim – Nice to hear from you. It was too much work running Yakezie. Too many people wanted...

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