The Digerati Life

We were caught up in a lot of social events this Labor Day weekend, so I’ve been basking under the sun more often than I’ve been facing the computer, for a change. But now that August is over, let me take the chance to invite you to pick up our site’s content quickly and easily via RSS feed or through email. By doing so, you’ll get fresh daily updates from The Digerati Life automatically.

With the end of the month, more thanks are in order to those of you who visited our site and joined us in our discussions, as well as to our top commentators and traffic generators.

Speaking of which, I noticed something interesting about some commentators — I notice a lot more comments by the same people appearing towards the end of the month. Hmmm…. interesting tactic, if your goal is to make my top commentators list, which I absolutely encourage especially if you’re using your names (not key words) for the links you leave behind.

I’d also like to provide this gentle reminder about my comment policy: if you have a commercial site (or blog) and you are leaving comments while using competitive key words as your handle, I reserve the right to remove and disallow the use of certain key words while I keep your comments and links usually intact (subject to review). On the other hand, I’ve had the pleasure to read some great comments from those behind such sites, and I welcome your visits here. But in keeping with the spirit of the blogosphere, I’d like to keep our end-of-the-month acknowledgments to bloggers and readers.

Moving on to our site supporters this month…

Top Commentators For August, 2008

• annakat (reader)
• Blueprint for Financial Prosperity
• Kevin (reader)
• Steward
• The University Kid
• Fathersez
• Kevin Thompson
• Money and Such
• Sam
• Frugal Dad

Top Traffic Sources For August, 2008

• Frugal Dad
• The Simple Dollar
• Smart Spending
• Million Dollar Journey
• Wise Bread
• Wallet Pop
• Zen Habits
• iVillage
• Lazy Man and Money
• Gen X Finance

As always, I’m grateful to all of you who come here to visit, share your more than two cents and generous thoughts, and provide us your warm support. Here’s to another sunny month!

We’re at the start of a brand new month and I can hardly believe it’s August already. The week was extremely busy for me as I’ve been attending some summer activities with my kids which entail parental participation. So I’m glad it’s the weekend — maybe I’ll be able to catch up on some of the stuff on my “to do” queue. Maybe…

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As for the month that passed, it was a quieter one in the realm of blogging. Most of us are out and about enjoying the sunshine and finding ourselves preoccupied with more than just the internet . At any rate, we still had our share of noteworthy commentators:

Top Commentators

• RacerX
• MoneyNing
• Austin Real Estate Broker
• JP
• RC @ ThinkYourWayToWealth
• jim @ Blueprint For Financial Prosperity
• Frugal Dad

I was happy to receive such thoughtful discussion from these folks and from many more of you readers and commentators who took the time to stop by and “talk” about personal finance with us.

We also got wonderful traffic boosts from several sites. A huge thank you to those of you who linked to The Digerati Life last month!

Top Traffic Referrers

• MSN Smart Spending
• Get Rich Slowly
• The Simple Dollar
• Million Dollar Journey
• My Money Blog
• Zen Habits
• All Financial Matters
• I Will Teach You To Be Rich
• Lifehacker
• Lazy Man and Money

That’s all for now. Even with the vacation months in full swing, I hope you’ll be able to find the time to visit us this August. Thanks once more to all our readers, subscribers and blogger friends for keeping us alive!

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Thank you to all my readers and subscribers! Traffic and subscriptions are growing at a healthy clip and I’m just really glad there are people out there who are interested in what I talk about on a daily basis.

Also, a HUGE thanks to those who’ve been helping me out along the way… who else but all the other site publishers and bloggers who’ve sent traffic our way, and folks who have added to our discussions on this site.

Top Traffic Generators for the month of March (2008)!

• The Simple Dollar
• Free Money Finance
• MSN Money Smart Spending
• All Financial Matters
• Lifehacker
• Million Dollar Journey
• Lazy Man and Money
• No Credit Needed
• Get Rich Slowly
• Gen X Finance

And of course, thank you once more to my online colleagues who’ve shared their thoughts and comments with us. I have enjoyed all your comments and I’d like to recognize those who made our Top Commentators list for March 2008:

• Working Dollar @ The Working Dollar
• Mrs. Micah @ Mrs. Micah
• RacerX @ Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Money
• Jayson @ New Homes Section
• Ron @ The Wisdom Journal
• FIRE Finance @ FIRE Finance
• Saving Advice @ Saving Advice

Yay, we’re finally getting to Spring!

January was a roller coaster of a month and once more, we’re ending it with a few lists. FIRE Finance has produced their Top PF Bloggers list for December 2007, and things have shuffled about a little. We even made it to the list with a nice mention from the FIRE Finance team, along with a reminder that for you bloggers out there, it would be good for your traffic numbers if you take steps to get your stats counted by Quantcast and Compete (via tracking scripts and plugins) so that ranking exercises like those undertaken by FIRE Finance can reflect your numbers accurately.

Again, despite a horrible start for stocks and continuing malaise in the economy, real estate and credit markets, we’re seeing brighter days for our blog thanks to our traffic sources, and awesome readers and subscribers! Speaking of which, if you haven’t had a chance yet, this is a great time to subscribe to our automatic updates using this link.

Here were those who drove the most traffic to our site last month:

Top Traffic Generators

• The Simple Dollar
• I Will Teach You To Be Rich
• Lifehacker
• Gen X Finance
• Lazy Man and Money
• My Money Blog
• No Credit Needed
• My Open Wallet
• Zen Habits
• Free Money Finance

Special mention to a couple of ladies who’ve referred a good number of readers over here as well: Mrs. Micah and Millionaire Mommy Next Door.

While here are our most active commentators:

Top Commentators

• Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Money (aka RacerX)
• Mrs. Micah
• The Wild Investor (aka thewild1)
• Frugal Dad
• Fathersez
• Early Retirement Extreme
• The Financial Blogger

Before I close, I’d like to take RacerX’s lead and acknowledge the MVP for January as Mrs. Micah, who is someone who has been both a top source of both traffic and interesting discussion.

Thanks to all of you readers and bloggers who’ve shared their thoughts here and for making this a great month for us!

Photo by Pentoon

That says it all!

As we’ve reached a new milestone with the arrival of 2008, I’m happy to report that we’ve also passed our own milestone — the 600,000 visitors mark. I owe it all to you out there who stop by this site to read, comment, subscribe and link away. As always, I’m very grateful for your support and encouragement as goodness knows how blogging can be a time-consuming and work-intensive activity. A lot of the fun we derive from it is not just from the fulfillment we receive from baring our thoughts to the world but also from the interaction we get from our wonderful readers.

If you’d like to catch more updates from here automatically, you can do so by subscribing to my feed or by signing up for email updates. By doing so, you’ll be sure not to miss an iota of my long-winded chatter.

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The month of November was an unprecedented one at The Digerati Life as traffic doubled for us in a span of a month. This was largely due to some posts that were picked up by larger sites, the catalyst of which is the support we receive from other personal finance and money bloggers.

To all readers, new and old, a warm welcome to our site! If you haven’t had a chance to subscribe to The Digerati Life yet, you can do so through email or RSS feed, to receive automatic updates.

Acknowledgments

I’d like to acknowledge our Guest Bloggers who have contributed their posts here in the last couple of months — their articles were extremely well-received by our readers and have encouraged some really good discussions.

• The Financial Blogger (for 3 Great Money Lessons from My Old Man)
• I’ve Paid For This Twice Already (for Stop Worrying About How You Got Into Debt and Start Focusing On How To Get Out)
• Plonkee Money (for Credit Is King In An Emergency)

If anyone else would like to guest post, please drop me a line. The door here is open to anyone who’d like to talk about the subject of money.

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Thanks to everyone who’ve made the past month a good one for us here! It’s the first month I’ve installed the Top Commentators plugin so I thought I’d capture the September stats here since the numbers reset. My gratitude to all those in the blog community who keep helping us along week after week with your generous comments and links!

Top Commenters for September (2007)

David @ Marketing Deviant
Brip Blap @ Brip Blap
Pinyo @ Moolanomy
Patrick @ Cash Money Life
The Financial Blogger @ The Financial Blogger (wow, new look!)
Brian @ Financial Dominance (another impressive redesign!)
Annie @ The In-Debt Net
David @ My Two Dollars
Paid Twice @ I’ve Paid For This Twice Already

As per Google Analytics, here were the top referrering sites who sent traffic our way:

Top 10 Referring Sites for September (2007)

Trent @ The Simple Dollar
The Consumerist
Lazy Man @ Lazy Man and Money
Jonathan @ My Money Blog
Golbguru @ Money, Matter and More Musings
Jeremy @ Gen X Finance
Jim @ Blueprint For Financial Prosperity
Madame X @ My Open Wallet
Sun @ The Sun’s Financial Diary
Leo @ Zen Habits

And of course, a big THANK YOU to all our readers! I truly appreciate your support and readership.

Where do my visitors come from? I check on this every so often to analyze what people are interested in reading and for the purposes of improving this weblog. I was a bit disheartened to see that I am still not receiving much traffic from the search engines. Virtually none from Yahoo or MSN and a very minimal number from Google. Funny because there’s this other blog I maintain with much less traffic but with most of it coming from the search engines. I’ve checked whether my pages are indexed and though they don’t appear so, for some key word searches, they do.

Is it because I have a new domain, which I changed twice and whose title remained static till a couple of weeks ago? Thanks to Kevin from Free The Drones, who pointed out this major gaffe, I was able to fix my page titles for more dynamic display, which will enable the pages to become search engine friendly.

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