Best of Prime Time Money: April 2008

by PT on May 1, 2008

On the first day of every month I try and provide a summary of what happened here at Prime Time Money over the prior month.  Seeing this stuff encourages me to keep blogging and to keep trying to make Prime Time Money a better place for you.

There’s something for everyone here.  If you’re new to the site, you’ll get a quick view of what you missed.  If you’ve been reading all along, you can check out some of the stats to see our progress.  Let’s start with the 10 most popular posts (by visits) from April:

Top 10 Posts from April

  1. How to Prioritize Your Debts for Payoff
  2. Free Razor Sample Links
  3. Your Emergency Fund Is So Big…
  4. Prime Time Money Anniversary: $50 Giveaway
  5. Avoid these 5 Frugal Spending Traps
  6. Where Are They Now? Podcast Interview with a Millionaire in the Making: Todd French
  7. My Interview with United States Postal Inspector J. Krafels: All About Identity Theft 
  8. 3 Unstoppable Budget Busters
  9. Your Tax Rebate May Arrive Early 
  10. Current Checking and Savings Account Rates and More ING DIRECT Sign-Up Bonuses 

Top Referring Sites in April

Please visit these blogs and sites.  They were kind enough to send tons of traffic my way this past month.  Listed by number of referrals.

  1. beingfrugal.net
  2. gatherlittlebylittle.com
  3. ncnblog.com (my guest post at NCN: 5 Rules Of Spring Training (For Your Finances)) 
  4. moolanomy.com
  5. pfblogs.org
  6. creditaddict.com
  7. mytwodollars.com (my interview at MyTwoDollars: Meet The M-Network Friends: An Interview With PT From Prime Time Money)
  8. contestblogger.com
  9. thepennysaved.com
  10. snowflakerevolution.com
  11. stocktradingtogo.com
  12. mmhabits.com
  13. carnivalofpersonalfinance.com
  14. moneyning.com

Top 5 Commentors in April

  1. Shanti @ Antishay (11) from Antishay
  2. Jesse (8) from The Penny Saved
  3. Frugal Dad (6) from Frugal Dad
  4. Patrick (5) from Cash Money Life
  5. Christine (4)

Thanks to my top commentors.  Your contributions add so much to the content here.  Much appreciated.  Notice the ”meet the commentors” section has been reset.  Now it’s YOUR chance to see if you can be the top commentor for May.  Who will it be?

$50 Gift Card Giveaway

A quick reminder to enter the Prime Time Money Anniversary $50 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway.  All you must do to be entered is be a subscriber and email me the secret phrase which only appears at the footer of my posts that arrive via feed reader or email.  If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do so by rss reader feed or by email feed.  Enter today!

Another easy to enter contest: The Best Wedding Tips and Stories Giveaway.  My friend Pinyo from Moolanomy is giving away a $50 Amazon Gift Card OR a $50 from Revolution MoneyExchange.  All you have to do to be entered is leave a comment on his site with your Best Wedding Tip or Story.  Easy money!

Other Stats

Subscribers - Increased by 54%!  Awesome.  The current contest is responsible for half of this increase I suspect.  Still, that’s a great jump.  Thanks to all the new readers and to the old timers.  Haven’t subscribed yet?  It’s easy.  You can do so by rss reader feed or by email feed.

Traffic- The site had around 7,500 visits and 13,300 page views to the site this month.  That’s a bit down from last month (9,200 and 16,150), but that was due to lack of StumbleUpon traffic, which went from 3,500 in March to 1,500 in April.

Google Page Rank 4 – I don’t know much about this stat, but I know it just changed for me.  Since I’ve been blogging I’ve been stuck at a Page Rank of 0.  From what I can tell, I’m now a 4.

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Thanks again to everyone who contributed (subscribers, commentors, referrers, etc. ) to Prime Time Money this past month.

  1. Best of Prime Time Money: June 2008
  2. Prime Time Money Anniversary: $50 Giveaway
  3. Last Day to Win a $50 Amazon Gift Card
  4. Best of Prime Time Money: May 2008
  5. Best of Prime Time Money: August 2008

Tagged as: best-of, giveaway, stats, subscribers

{ 16 comments… read them below or add one }

Michael May 1, 2008 at 4:22 pm

How do you submit your site to stumbleupon?

PT May 1, 2008 at 4:40 pm

@Michael – You can use the “ShareThis” green button just above the related posts section on each post.

You can also download the SU toolbar and just do it (“thumb it up”) quickly from there.

Thanks for asking.

Pinyo May 1, 2008 at 5:08 pm

Hey PT, thank you for mentioning my giveaway — that would be the $50 gift card or $50 via RME though, not both. :-)

PT May 1, 2008 at 5:38 pm

@Pinyo – Thanks for picking up on that. I edited the post.

Mrs. PT May 1, 2008 at 5:39 pm

Good work, PT! :)

Pinyo May 1, 2008 at 5:51 pm

Your wife leaves comment? That’s so sweet. I wish mine does too. :-)

Lynnae May 1, 2008 at 5:56 pm

Way to go PT!!! And I’m always happy to refer!

PT May 1, 2008 at 6:01 pm

@ Pinyo – she IS cool about that. i’m trying to get her to guest post one day.

Pinyo May 1, 2008 at 7:35 pm

I’d love to see it. Let’s have it Mrs. PT. ;-)

Patrick May 1, 2008 at 7:47 pm

Congrats on the success and progress! :)

Shanti @ Antishay May 1, 2008 at 9:27 pm

Thanks, PT! Your site is awesome, which is why I keep coming back time and time again. Way to go with the progress! Congrats :)

Shanti @ Antishay May 1, 2008 at 9:28 pm

reading the comments…

We want Mrs. PT! Chant with me!

\:D/

PT May 2, 2008 at 9:51 am

@Mrs PT – Maybe you should guest post about your best wedding tips??? I know you’ve got plenty.

Jesse May 2, 2008 at 10:09 am

Thanks for the mention PT, you know I love you ;)

mymoneyadventure May 4, 2008 at 10:37 pm

Thanks for the help with stumbleupon!

PT May 14, 2008 at 11:08 pm

@Jesse – Oh, I know.
@mymoneyadventure – no problem…it’s a great tool…don’t overdose on it though. ;)

@everyone…I think Mrs. PT is close to “developing” her idea for a post.

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