Personal Finance Advice

While the number of personal finance journals continues to grow, it’s still a small enough group that you know most of those doing it. After several months Debt Free is calling it quits. Always sorry to see one go…

We now have the wordpress plugin available to add to your site if you’d like to encourage your visitors to leave comments to your posts: Show top Commentators WordPress Plugin. The plugin places a list of the people who leave the most comments on your website into your sidebar. Some of the features: Reset Period: [...]

With the first of the month I received my first payment from Chitika eMiniMalls and went through their audit for the first time. Here’s the experience from my perspective: The audit disallowed approximately 33% of the clicks which added up to about a 25% reduction in revenue from the unaudited reports I’d been receiving. That’s [...]

In my attempt to turn websites into my full time business, I’m finding that the “satellite sites” we’re building are becoming a more important factor into the equation that will ultimately determine whether we can make the jump. I mentioned in an earlier post that the 10 sites that we had up were bringing in [...]

The third in the series of sites I want to get up before the end of the year is about half way done and should be completed by tomorrow. This site was actually built off an article I wrote a couple of weeks ago and is called Cost of Smoking. The main reason that we [...]

The timeshare site is done for the most part. I actually have more sections to finish writing, but there are ten fairly good sections up now which makes the site at least presentable. Even if I don’t add the other pages for a few months, the site will survive. While I’m still not sure how [...]

Ahhhhhh, it’s been one of those days. I wasn’t able to get the site finished as planned. In fact, I took it all down and started again on each of the sections from scratch. For some reason it doesn’t seem to be flowing right and there is a lot of conflicting information that I need [...]

I’m not happy with the latest site I’ve been putting together: TimeshareTrap.com. Since I already had an article written, I thought it would be a fairly easy site to put together, but it has turned into being anything but that. I’ve added more pages that need to be rewritten and expanded and the site keeps [...]

I began working on site number 2 of the fifteen I need to complete by the end of the year. This one didn’t go nearly as smoothly as the first one. I had hoped to have it done before going to bed, but I have it only about 75% written. The basics are there, but [...]

I mentioned earlier that I needed to focus and build 15 new websites before the end of the year to help with my financial goals of making the websites my main income source. We purchased 10 of the 15 domains we want and have five more domain names we are considering purchasing, but want to [...]

Nate and I had a long talk about our sites and where we want them to go. After brainstorming for awhile, we came up with some great ideas that we feel would add a lot of value to the sites. The main problem is figuring out a way to double our current income so that [...]

I came across a site that is basically bribing their way to a better pagerank by giving away free samples of their tea depending on how high your site’s pagerank is where you place a link back to them. Pretty ingenious although I don’t know how proper it is with google’s search engine guidelines which [...]

It’s been a good week with securing advertising from other websites. I received a second supporting site for this journal this week which is a bit of a surprise. Usually it takes a bit longer to find advertisers that are interested in a site. I haven’t gone into a lot of detail of our overall [...]

I received my first advertiser for this site and have placed them under “Supporting Sites” – and they came through LinkWorth. We have used their services quite successfully for about a year now and we receive several hundred dollars a month from them for advertising we would not otherwise have. If you’re looking for another [...]

Finally corralled Nate for an evening and had him work on some of the things I wanted for this journal. You’ll notice that we now have a top 10 commenter list. Basically, it shows the people that have been commenting in the order of number of comments they have made each month from most on [...]

The dollar has hit a 2 year high against the Japanese Yen – while this may not affect the majority of you, it has profound consequences for my personal finances. It wasn’t too long ago that the yen was trading at 105 to the dollar. The rise is a 12% increase in about a year. [...]

I wrote last week about an Associated Press article that quoted me about Gift Cards and the holiday season. I have mixed feeling about the results of the article. First, I’ll take any free publicity that I can get so in that sense it was a winner from day one. Somehow I imagined that it [...]

I’ll be very interested to see how this equates to new traffic for my website. I mentioned earlier that I gave an interview to the Associated press for an article they were doing on gift cards. That article went live today and the first media to pick it up was msnbc. The links in the [...]

For those of you that have an online presence and are looking to earn a little extra money on top of google adsense revenue, you may want to check out Chikita eMiniMalls. Nate and I started using them a couple of weeks ago to compliment adsense (you can see how we placed them in the [...]

This post is inspired by a comment that Clint from Million Dollar Goal left regarding my post on Cinderella Investing. As he states: I completely agree with you. The problem with learning to save money is that it usually just isn’t much fun. Not to mention that many attempts to save money really don’t save [...]