Below Your Means: Living well by living within and growing your means

Site Update and News

We’ve made an increase in the number of posts here at Below Your Means, and are looking to get on a regular schedule.  Our new schedule will be:

• Mondays & Wednesdays – Feature article tied to the month’s theme
• Tuesday – Research article
• Thursday – Frugal Fail
• Friday – Moment of Zen & Best of the Week

In addition, we will be making at least one additional news/opinion post per day.

A few other quick updates on the site:

• We have reached 26 Facebook friends and as such were able to secure a “username” for our site.  You can find us on Facebook at the new URL here: https://www.facebook.com/BelowYourMeans
• We had our first guest post over at The College Investor
• We want to give a special thanks to Financially Consumed and Financial Success for Young Adults, both of which have donated some ad space for our site.
• It has now been a month since we joined the Yakezie Challenge.  Since then, we have more than doubled our traffic and our Alexa score has dropped from 7 million to approximately under 400k!

  

  This is awesome and we want to thank both Yakezie and other Yakezie challengers for their support — including but not limited to:

  • The Saved Quarter
  • Retire by 40
  • The College Investor
  • Bucksome Boomer
  • Super Frugalette
  • Many others…

We certainly hope you enjoy the new content and changes.  We also welcome feedback.

Site Update – Facebook

Just a quick site update.  We are now on Facebook.  Since we are new to this, we are not sure what we will be doing on Facebook that is any different from the site, but we appreciate your support and hope you will “Like” us.

We have also added the Facebook web part to our home page and reduced the number of Google Ads on the site.

Cheers.

Joining the Yakezie Challenge

With our recent new focus on the blog, we have decided to enter the Yakezie Challenge.  Currently our Alexa ranking is #6,810,526; which isn’t that bad considering some personal financial blogs are down around #23,000,000, but it isn’t great and there is a lot of work to do to get into the Top 200k.

More about Yakezie:

The Yakezie is the web’s largest personal finance and lifestyle blog networks.  We strive to optimize reader’s personal finances and allow people to lead better lives.  We are over 60 Members strong who have gone through a 6 month Challenge to join the network.  Only the finest blogs are admitted to the Network.

 

Wish us luck!