January Blog Review…
Top Articles
Here are the top articles I wrote, voted on by… me.
- I wrote about the seven things you must do to prepare for an emergency
- I finished the month off with a detailed comparison of personal finance to football.
- I won a blogging award.
- I detailed my 2008 goals
- I wrote why I chose Netflix over Blockbuster.
- My article about Fuddrucker frugality garnered 35 comments.
- I did an online chat which was extremely fun, even if only a few people showed up.
- I wrote about how I might have negatively impacted Erin Burnett’s career at CNBC.
- I wrote why I bought some private stock
- I covered Lending Club’s makeover.
- The housing downturn hasn’t hit my county.
Top Referring Blogs
Here are the top blogs that referred traffic to me in January.
1. The Simple Dollar
2. My Money Blog
3. The Digerati Life
4. Generation X Finance
5. Performancing’s Best Money blog contest for 2007
6. No Credit Needed
7. PFBlogs.org Aggregator
8. Free Money Finance
9. Five Cent Nickel
10. Mighty Bargain Hunter
Top Advertisers
I like to give a little thanks to advertisers when I can. They make this site possible. I would like to remind everyone that I do not necessarily endorse the product(s) offered by the advertisers.
Congrats on pulling bronze for the blogging award! This is my first time checking out your site (i’m a newbie), and it’s pretty tight.
I only hope to be one of those top 10 referring blogs in the near future. A guy’s gotta start somewhere, right? Congrats again.
What is with the reverse funnel stuff?
“I would like to remind everyone that I do not necessarily endorse the product(s) offered by the advertisers.”
I think I know where you are going. I understand you wanting to monitize your blog, but this particular nod to a scam site is a bit obnoxious.
DoU
I haven’t the time or desire to investigate the “reverse funnel stuff” in detail. I know that it’s topical, i.e. finance-related. In general, I don’t vet advertisers. I believe that my readers understand what financial choices are good and bad for them. I would even take it a step further and say that it would hypocritical of me to write about saving money and making money and then passing up advertising because I don’t understand it enough.
Lazy, nice way to look at it. selling ads is selling ads, not endorsing products.