With so many personal finance and investing blogs on the web, it is real easy to miss a few of the really good ones. With that being said, I wanted to spend a few minutes talking about the first personal finance blog that I ever followed consistently Passive Family Income.
One of the first friends I made online was a guy named John. Together we started publishing content on sites such as ehow, infobarrel, and even xomba. As we learned our way around the net, we would often share post ideas, leave each other comments, and help other bloggers find us in any number of creative ways. We would even challenge each other to create 100 articles in a month, or something equality tiresome. Fun times for sure!
Once I passed the CPA exam, and had to start working a billion hours a day, I simply quit. For some reason (read – laziness), I could not fit in even a few minutes a week for my blog. Between eating out at Carabbas every night, and having to get back to the office by 7:30 the next morning, I simply did not have the time.
I am ashamed to admit it, but I let a nice PR3 site, with more than 4,000 links, die a painfully slow death.
As time moved on, however, John continued to work diligently on his flagship site by consistency producing high quality content that personal finance readers are actually interested in. I am really proud of his progress; not that I had anything to do with it at all.
His current stats prove just how much work and effort he has produced over the past 24 months:
- Google PR of 3
- Alexa Rank of 188,499
It is his writing and content that keeps me coming back every day. As such, here are a few of my favorite posts from PFI over the past few months.
My Weight Loss Program – Update #1 For some reason medical expenses start to creep up on us as we get older.
Eliminating Soft Drinks I am struggling with this bad boy. I currently drink at least 12-12 ounce cans of diet soda each and every day; sometimes more. I understand this is bad for me but what can I say, I am an addict.
Find Money to Snowflake Your Debt As we are beginning to rebuild our emergency fund, it is so tempting to throw a few snow pebbles at a credit card or two. Fortunately, we wrote our budget down on paper, so the emergency fund is getting all of our snowflakes.
Fix Your Credit Card Recently my wife and I have been making the last few payments outstanding on one of her medical bills. After making a number of consecutive payments (as agreed), the hospital decided to turn our account over to collections. Of course, when the collectors tried to call me to collect that money (which was less than $100), I told them to shove it and drove down to the hospital to pay the bill instead. Did I mention I hate debt collectors?
Take a few minutes and check out a few of these articles. I certainly enjoyed them a lot!