Happy Father’s Day Giveaway, We Hit A Million!

Happy Father’s Day to all of you daddies out there — hope all your festivities are going well! As for us, we’d like to share an exciting milestone with everyone. We finally made it to a million! And though it would be great to say we made our way to a million bucks, that’s not really quite what happened. Instead, I’d like to thank all the readers, subscribers and bloggers who’ve made their way here over the last year and a half to help us garner a million unique visitors for this site.

To all of you who have supported The Digerati Life, a huge, heartfelt thank you.

Free Financial Books To Give Away!

To mark this occasion, I’d like to give away one copy each of my favorite books below, so if you’re interested in any of these freebies, please drop me a comment. I’ll be choosing some random recipients from among the commentators. This offering will be open for a few days to a week, depending on interest.

• Personal Finance: Smart Couples Finish Rich by David Bach
• Debt Management: How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt, and Live Prosperously by Jerrold Mundis
• Investing: The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing by Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Michael LeBoeuf

Fun Stats

Not long ago (in October), I celebrated a similar milestone with the first year anniversary of The Digerati Life and looked into how this place had grown over the span of a year. Now that a little over half a year has passed since that event, our checkpoint yields us these encouraging stats:

Number of visitors thus far: 1,000,000
Number of feed readers: 3,000
Number of posts: 573
Number of comments: 6,546
Number of spam comments caught: 192,000 (yikes!)

I’m very happy that we’re moving along so well here, with these indicators inspiring me to continue along the path of problogging. I’m hoping that the healthy pace in growth continues and that we’re able to snark about personal finance for a long time to come!

Older, Favorite Posts That Helped Us Hit A Million

I thought it would be fun to highlight some posts that generated some great traffic for this site. There were a few that resonated well with readers and some more that have brought up some active discussion:

• 8 Lessons I Learned From The Cheapest Family In The Nation
• How Credit Scores Affect Your Loan Rates Or Why All Spending Is Not Equal
• Does Size Matter: How Small A House Are You Willing To Live In?
• Curb Appeal: One Of My Best Investments Yet Or How I Turned $80 Into $5,000 With Minimal Risk
• Become A Millionaire In 10 Steps Flat
• Do You Really Know How Much It Costs To Own Your Car?
• How To Kill Your Credit Instantly With Mortgage Fraud And Subprime Borrowing
• How To Throw A Kid’s Birthday Party Without Spending A Fortune
• Stop Overspending Now! 14 Ways To Conquer Binge Buying
• Don’t Let Real Estate Clean You Out
• 6 Financial Cliches That Can Make You Rich

And here were some posts of a quirkier nature. I may have toned it down as this place grew older. Hmmm… on second thought… maybe not. :

• Stock Market Technical Analysis Versus Fundamental Analysis, In Pictures
• The Economics of Cosmetics: Should You Invest In Your Looks Or Skimp On Makeup?
• Outsourcing Romance For $100,000 A Year: Love And Matchmaking 2.0
• Top 20 Dumbest Business Ideas That Made Millions…Or Not!
• Of Loan Refinancing, Debt Consolidation And LowerMyBills’ Dancing Cowboys
• Can Google Lead Us To Danger?
• How Rich Neighborhoods Can Be Deadly
• The End Of The California Housing Bubble
• The Billion Dollar Club
• Hans Reiser: I Can’t Believe That Linux Guy Did It
• The Web’s Fatal Transactions

If you’re so inclined, you can check out more articles of this kind over at our ARCHIVES and TOP POSTS section.

There’s a saying in my native language that goes like this: “He who does not look back will never reach his destination.” I like looking back to see how this place has evolved, to discover how much I’ve learned about personal finance and to marvel at how many fantastic bloggers and readers I’ve met (on and off line) so far. I’m excited about what else we’ll be encountering on this blogging adventure going forward.

• Stock trades: Free stock trades from Zecco, Cheap stock trades from TradeKing, Stock news and Investment info at INO TV Free, No cost Trend Analysis for stocks
• Earn top returns: FNBO Direct [1.90%], HSBC Direct [1.65%], WTDirect [1.76%], E*Trade Bank [0.95%], ING Direct [.25% to 1.65%]
• Cash bonus: Discover More [$50], American Express [$25], Lending Club [$25]

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