BFS is a member of the Yakezie Alexa Ranking Challenge! My ranking last week was 51,783 and is now 50,018!
The original goal was to be in the top 200,000 by July 4, 2010 and you helped me blow that out of the water in 2 months…a whole month early! Then we were shooting for 100,000 by July 4th and we hit that goal too!!! After that we started a new goal of 75,000 by the end of August, and I thought there was no way, but we hit that out of the park by August 15!!!
Most recently, we were shooting for 50,000 by Halloween! Thanks to all of you, we pretty much did it – 50,018 is a win in my book!!! THANK YOU!!! Oh, and Happy Halloween!!!
I’m using this coming week to decide on our next goal. I think it will be a combination of a target Alexa ranking and RSS subscribers, but we’ll see…maybe unique visitors…choices, choices. 
Please know that all of this only happens and continues because of you. Without my awesome readers, I’d never be able to keep this up. Thank you.
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 are a Yakezie member and don’t see yourself on my member list, please send me an email or leave a comment here to be added. I copied the list originally in early March and updated it in mid-June. Please let me know if you are still missing. Thanks!
If you are interested in seeing how I went from an 8 million plus Alexa rank to about 60,000 in less than 7 months, you can see My Blogging Schedule over at Crystal Clear Thoughts.
BTW, I am going to start posting blogging stat and income updates at the beginning of every month starting this Monday (11/1) since so many people, bloggers and non-bloggers alike, seem interested. This update will be posted on all 3 of my sites – Budgeting in the Fun Stuff, Crystal Clear Thoughts, and Dog’s Life For Me. Each site will have it’s own stats and income listed. We’ll see whether blogging full time by 2012 is nutty or not!
WTGo!
woo hoo. congrats.
Way to go! It’s still Sunday night and I see your ranking as 49,852 … so you really won! Great job!
Nice work! Just in time for a new fun Challenge this November!
@ODWO, thanks!
@First Gen American, I’m all smiles.
@Tim, thanks for the heads up! It is way better to actually hit the goal!!!
@Financial Samurai, yay for a new challenge!
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