Almost One Million! A Case of Shameless Self-Promotion
Published on - January 27th, 2009 (by J.D. Roth) While I’ve been coping with the recent drama in my personal life, Get Rich Slowly has quietly posted its best month ever. Roughly 850,000 visitors have dropped by to learn about personal finance. A quick calculation shows that I’ll finish the month with nearly 950,000 visitors.
So close to one million! And yet so far…
This leads me to a rare instance of shameless self-promotion. Many of you have asked what you can do to support this site. “Don’t click on the ads!” I always reply. “Instead, tell your friends. And link to your favorite articles.”
If you’d like to help me reach a million visits this month, please spread the word about Get Rich Slowly. If you have a blog or a Twitter account, link to your favorite posts. Link to articles about frugality or about investing or about gardening — I don’t care. Just link! Here are a few articles I’m particularly proud of:
- How to get out of debt
- How to start a Roth IRA (and where to do it)
- Which online high-yield savings account is best?
- The extraordinary power of compound interest
- My paperless personal finance system
- The psychology of happiness: 13 steps to a better life
- The power of “yes”: A simple way to get more out of life
- 27 money tips for college students
- 7 tips for starting your own vegetable garden
With your help, Get Rich Slowly just might see one million visitors in January. And then I won’t have to indulge in self-promotion until 2010…I hope.
One final note: I should be back here full-strength starting Friday! Thank you for your patience during this difficult time.
Update: I usually frown on people being self-promotional in the comments. Not today. Fair is fair, right? If I can do it, you can do it. In this thread, feel free to link to your site, and to describe what it’s about. I’m still going to put the kibosh on anything I consider spam (don’t link to your payday loan site!), but if you have a blog you want to share with GRS readers, post it here!
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Congrats J.D. Hopefully one day my blog will reach even half of what your’s has.
Check me out at http://www.wisemoneymatters.com
/end my own shameless self promotion
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You know what? I usually frown on people being self-promotional in the comments. Not today. Fair is fair, right? If I can do it, you can do it. In this thread, feel free to link to your site, and to describe what it’s about. I’m still going to put the kibosh on anything I consider spam (don’t link to your payday loan site!), but if you have a blog you want to share with GRS readers, post it here!
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I’m going to do you two better, and link to all three of my sites…
FiveCentNickel
Credit Addict
Money Tipper
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Hey JD. Thanks for the opportunity to promote my new blog — which I just started yesterday — which is all about soup. And I link to your site from my blog because I think there are lots of connections to be made between homemade soup and frugal, simple living. Connections I plan to make on my blog as I get it going. I do start it out with a fantastic roasted beet soup recipe… you really can’t get much cheaper than beets: http://mostlysoup.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/roasted-beet-soup/
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I’ve spread the word to all my facebook friends.
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Kimberly, I love it! A blog about soup.
At this moment, I’m writing an upcoming presentation for the local financial planners’ organization. I’m working on the section about “what a blog is”. I just made a list of niche blogs. Your blog about soup is definitely going to make the cut.
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JD: Congrats on the success. I will definitely be promoting your goal to 1,000,000 of Facebook and Twitter.
Meanwhile, your readers might be interested in the hard truth about personal finance I write at http://toughmoneylove.com and about retirement planning and retirement living for baby boomers at http://gotoretirement.com
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Congratulations! Kudos to you–sounds like a celebration is due when you reach that million!
And when you are not busy toasting with Champagne
please give me a virtual “hello” over at my Personal Finance Blog “Secrets For Money http://www.SecretsForMoney.info
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Congrats JD! That’s a great milestone.
Since you opened it up for self promotion, I’ll take the opportunity to point to NeoBudget (http://www.neobudget.com).
NeoBudget is an online envelope-based budget system that is designed to be simple and dirt cheap, while still being very powerful. Check out the video and read more about NeoBudget on our website.
Thanks JD!
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Congrats and good luck on reaching a million!! I’ve started a personal finance site with my fiance, a new MD, trying to teach physicians about personal finance! http://www.financeforphysicians.com
-Matt
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Just a quick note: As some of you have noticed, although I’m willing to let people link, my spamfilter is a little overzealous. No worries. I’ll be sure to yank the non-spam links out and publish them here. It may take me an hour or two to notice, but I’ll notice.
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Congrats on almost reaching 1 million.
Thanks for the chance to promote my website: Our Financial Planner
I just recently started it, but has some good content and adding more as fast as I can.
RJ
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A blog all about issues and current topics related to home wiring and electrical contracting in general:
Bowie Electric Blog
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JD: Congrats. I promoted your goal on Facebook and Twitter. Hope you get there.
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Big congrats, JD. That’s a lot of people that you’re helping
As for shameless self-promotion, my blog is http://www.sententia.net — I’m a “scanner” personality (also known as a Renaissance Soul, dilettante, jack-of-all-trades, etc.) and the blog is my exploration of that. I write about a variety of things like psychology, personal development, philosophy, etc.
If people feel like checking it out, I recommend the following post as a starting point: http://www.sententia.net/personal-development/general-pd/a-scanners-journey/
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Not sure if you’ve ever seen the show “Breaking Vegas” on the History channel… There’s one episode on blackjack card counters in which the Atlantic City casinos made card counting legal for about two weeks in the late 70′s. At which point every card counter shows up and counts cards in the open.
I feel like that kind of applies to this post and all the comments. With that in mind:
http://www.financialfellow.com
It’s full of original articles such as this one on employee stock purchase plans: http://financialfellow.com/2009/01/27/employee-stock-purchase-plans-great-investments/
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@Breanne (#15)
I’m a scanner, too!
One of my fellow scanner friends sent me this article a few weeks ago to celebrate our brotherhood. Before I started Get Rich Slowly, I had another site that was very much “jack of all trades, master of none”. That’s part of why GRS is so ironic to me and my friends. I’m not one to focus. Yet, here I am doing it.
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I wrote a little post just about your mission. Thanks for giving the little fish in the pond an opportunity to shamelessly plug. I must say this was one of the first blogs that got me inspired to write my own last June. So thanks for your hard and knowledgeable work. http://tinyurl.com/av8eqv . Iv been tweeting like crazy man. Good luck!
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Congrats!
I’ve never been one to click ads (whether I like them or not), but why would clicking on an ad do more harm than good?
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My blog is all about knitting. (Along with a few other things.)
http://sallycomesunraveled.blogpot.com
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Wow! Congrats and I will definitely spread the word to help you reach a million.
and also, self promotion…
http://savingcentsinthecity.blogspot.com/
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JD, pretty cool of you letting legitimate people throwin in a shameless promotion. What comes around, goes around.
I’ve done “a million” myself on more than one site, and it does indeed feel good.
Brent Riggs
http://www.brentriggs.com
Author of Life Without Debt
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Congrats JD, I hope you break the 1 million mark. You’ve shown us all what we can aspire to.
M is for Money
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Fun idea!
I run a website that links to 40+ DIY projects a day. I have gift ideas, DIY home projects, kids projects and more!
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Can y’all tell that I’m procrastinating the presentation I’m supposed to be writing?
@Chance (#19)
“Click-fraud” is a huge issue with pay-per-click advertising models, such as the one Google employs. Google ads are by far the most common type on blogs. When a user clicks on an ad, the blog owner gets a few pennies and Google gets a few pennies. In theory, the company that placed the ad gets an interested prospect.
This all works well when Jane Average sees an ad for garden seeds and so clicks through to look at the company’s catalog. Even if she doesn’t order, the system is working as intended. But problems occur when Joe Helpful clicks on a couple of his friend’s ads just to put a quarter in his friend’s pocket. Advertisers don’t like that, and Google doesn’t tolerate it. If they detect a pattern of “click-fraud”, they kick people out of their program, no questions asked. It’s happened to several bloggers I know.
Because of this, I’ve actually asked my direct family to never click ads on my sites. Better safe than sorry. I make sure that I never click on an ad “just to support” a colleague or friend. I click on ads that interest me. Does that make sense?
Besides, the not-so-dirty secret of blog revenue is that nearly all of the income comes from search engine visitors, not daily readers. The more pages you have, and the older they are, and the more they’ve been linked to, the more search engine visitors you’ll get, and the greater your revenue will be. Daily readers have nothing to do with it. That’s another reason I say that if you really want to support somebody, you should link to their site (especially to your favorite articles). Linking to my post on Roth IRAs, for example, will give me more income in the long run than just clicking on an ad.
End of blog school.
Time for me to go write my presentation.
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I promote you nearly every day to anyone with an interest in personal finance. You’re doing a great job, and I am excited for you to reach a million visitors!
As for shamelessly plugging my own blog — books that kids LOVE at incredible prices:
http://nlotinsky.blogspot.com/
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By the way, I love seeing all of your sites. I don’t have time right now to look at them in-depth, but I’m going to bookmark this page to visit them all over the next few months.
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Dear J.D.,
Congratulations on such a great site. I run a blog that helps people save hundreds of dollars off of their grocery bills each year. I will definitely link to a few of your articles in the coming weeks. Keep up the great work.
Charlie – http://www.paylessforfood.com
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I hope you break the 1 mill mark by tonight!
So my blog (jlisted.blogspot.com) is a chronicle of my time as I attempt to create a successful startup. It’s new, since this is a new business venture. But seeing as the readers here are pretty entrepreneurial, I think it will prove useful for everyone thinking about starting a small business.
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Congrats on the hugely successful month, JD! I sure hope you hit a million.
My site about living simply and frugally is
http://www.remodelingthislife.com
I sent a link your way over the weekend and will do so again this week to try to help out.
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So my blog has nothing to do with personal finance but I’ve definitely used advice/ideas from GRS to help me run it! It’s a site for queer south asians:
queeristan.blogspot.com
Good Luck J.D.!!
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Wow a million! That is amazing. And to think it happened on a month you were off a bit-imagine what next month will look like!
Thanks for the blogging 101 lesson above, super helpful for a newbie like me.
As for my shameless self promotion-
http://www.thecentsiblelife.com
I consider myself a family life/finance blogger, but I have yet to cover some of my fav topics, and I’m still figuring out how to fit them all in.
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Shameless self-promotion:
My blog: http://lookingintothelifeofadeafperson.wordpress.com
My vlog:
http://www.youtube.com/user/deafkyleb
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Thanks for the opportunity:
frugality, cooking, family, college savings, creativity, literature, travel, gardening…and more
frugalscholar.blogspot.com
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Great blog! Just thought you’d be interested in my payday loan site…
Nah, just kidding!
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J.D.- Congrats! Your site is one of my favorites and I check it every day!
My blog is called Practicing Thrift @ http://practicingthrift.blogspot.com/
I focus on personal finance and thrifty living for moms.
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Congrats on your huge success J.D.
For your readers who like to cook, I post a fast, easy, and (mostly) frugal recipe everyday. I include detailed photographs to help explain how to prepare each meal.
ZestyCook.com
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a million visitors! wow, amazing! i hope you reach the goal! i’ve been a little behind on my blogs recently- it’s not you, it’s me
i’m this close to finishing my experiments…
i blog about my adventures trying to finish my phd, talk about popular science topics in plain language, and discuss some generalities of going through the process of “growing up” as a scientist at my blog, the path forward.
http://www.lalaleigha.wordpress.com
i do have a couple of PF posts too!
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Congratulations! What an incredible accomplishment!
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Congrats, J.D.! I’m a long time reader of your Get Rich and Fit Slowly blogs.
I’m also the founder and an editor of a hyperlocal news and opinion blog in Chattanooga called Chattarati: http://chattarati.com
We recently launched a Google Maps mashup site to track campaign contributions for our upcoming municiapl elections: http://cashmap.chattarati.com
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Congrats on closing in on the 1 million mark, that is truly amazing and a great testament to the solid content you put out on a weekly basis!
And since we’re all promoting ourselves, check out:
http://www.independentminded.org
It’s my personal finance blog focused on helping folks achieve financial independence.
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Congrats JD!
My Global Greenie blog about eco-living in Portland Oregon could use some traffic (and ideas from readers). Thanks for letting me mention it.
http://globalgreenie.org/
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Congratulations on 950k – that’s great.
I’m relatively new to Get Rich Slowly, but really enjoy & have a link to it on my blog. I’m a professional organizer by trade but I find that so much of my work with clients centers around the “why” behind all of
their stuff vs. where to put it all.
Thanks so much for the opporutnity for a shameless plug – I love it!
Blog: http://www.pointbandbeyond.blogspot.com
website: http://www.reallyneatsolutions.com
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Congrats J.D. You are really an inspiration and your writing is stellar!
I just recently started me own blog:
http://www.onefrugalwife.wordpress.com
I’m actually having fun exploring the eclectic sampling of your readers’ blogs posted in the comments!
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Here’s hoping you hit a million.
Dyslexia and cognition difficulties deserve one-to-one clinical therapy:
http://www.northwestreadingclinic.com
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I really enjoy your blog and am glad you are doing so well.
I tried starting my own blog recently and I can’t seem to keep posting regularly. I have a bunch of posts started but not finished and I haven’t been regular on posting. Anyone have any suggestions?
I write about everything that interests me– books, writing, Verne, whatever (I just can’t seem to post 3 times a week like I think I should).
http://blogging-bard.blogspot.com
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Now I’ve got all these neat sites to look at! Mine is a site selling vintage and interesting stuff. It also has cool mules!
http://www.mulewagon.com
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I hope you make it JD. Definitely a good goal in terms of growth.
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With my finances in better order I’ve had time to start a project I’m really interested in (I hate dealing with money!).
http://bookscanned.com is a place you can upload scans of your families genealogy books. The text is digitized from the scan and made searchable by Google. It’s supposed to help make sharing genealogy work easier.
It does have a blog, but the site itself is the main attraction.
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Hi JD, Good to hear your stats. I’ve only just started reading your blog over the last couple of months now, and it’s great stuff.
I’m at University studying a Bachelor of Business and Commerce. In my spare time I write my own blog on music and albums. Feel free to check it out if you’re interested.
http://notallthatoriginal.blogspot.com
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