During the Yakezie Alexa Ranking Challenge, you helped BFS soar from an Alexa ranking of more than 8 million in March 2010 to 49,852 on October 31, 2010. Thank you!!!

Then, after seeing all the interest for my blog stats and income updates, I created a new challenge to complete by January 1st, 2011. You helped me get an Alexa ranking of 43,055, 28,687 total visits, 239 RSS Subscribers, and 228 Twitter Followers!!! WOOT!

Since I do plan on blogging full time by 2012, this is the year for a HUGE push. I have come up with new goals to keep us on the right track!

Here are my Goals for July 4th, 2011:

Here is what we are shooting for by the Fourth of July – July 4th, 2011:

Alexa – Maintain a Ranking at or around 37,500
Visits – 60,000 total visits (I started BFS on February 20th, 2010)
Feedburner Subscribers – 500
Twitter Followers – 500
MozRank – 5.5

Today’s Update

Alexa – 39,418  (We are getting so close!  This is the lowest Alexa ever!)
Visits – 31,921  (28,079 to go…we can do it!)
Feedburner Subscribers – 288 (212 to go)
Twitter Followers – 289 (211 to go)
MozRank – 5.02 (0.48 to go)

As always, thank you so much for being my supporters! Obviously, I could not do any of this without you and I never forget that!!!

The Saved Quarter Challenge Update

I joined The Saved Quarter Challenge this year and am aiming to save at least $21,000 by the end of 2011! That would be a tiny bit more than 25% of our GROSS pay from our two full time jobs.

Here’s how I’ve done this week for the Saved Quarter Challenge ($21,000 Goal):

I have better updates after the 13th of every month since that is when our billing periods end, but here is where we funnelled away money this past week:

• I made a few hundred dollars through blogging, but I am not counting it as saved until it is banked after February 13th.  So I have not technically saved away anything this week.
• Mr. BFS and I have also decided to stop buying expensive low point foods now that we are on Weight Watchers.  Instead, we are simply cutting back on our portions and adding healthier foods like more fruits and vegetables.  Hopefully this will get our grocery budget back on track…

Total This Week:  $0 until we see what’s left on February 13th.

Total to date: $1820 guaranteed, $19,180 to go.

Additonal Info

I will continue posting monthly and yearly blog statistics and income updates from here on out, so stay tuned at the beginning of every month!

In case you didn’t know, Alexa traffic rankings are determined by the numbers of hits a site gets by people with the Alexa toolbar. If you want to be part of this ranking community, you can download the Alexa toolbar here.

If you don’t already, you can follow me via RSS or Twitter by following those links.

To learn more about the Yakezie, check out my Yakezie page! Feel free to email me if you are a Yakezie member or challenger and don’t see yourself on the list!

If you are interested in seeing how I went from an 8 million plus Alexa rank to about 50,000 in less than 8 months, you can see My Blogging Schedule, which breaks down everything I do related to blogging.

THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING THE BEST READERS EVER!!!