We added the 1,000th blog to the pfblogs.org aggregator today. Wow, the blogosphere, and the personal finance niche in particular, has certainly expanded in the past two years. There are some new features that I’ve been working on, and some already exist that you may not know about. For example, you can […]
pfblogs.org is supporting a new WordPress blog hosting service located at MyPFblogs.com. This will be a great way to start a new blog with reliable software or move a current blog from Blogger and BlogSpot. Here are some of the features.
MyPFblogs uses the popular WordPress blogging software.
The websites have excellent uptime, unlike other […]
If you’re interested in top ten blogs lists, then you should check these out. Flexo has posted the Top 10 Blogs by Total Clicks and Top 10 Blogs by Clicks per Post.
Here’s a little bit about what we have in store for 2007.
I’d like to focus on expanding the real estate and investing sections of pfblogs.org during the month of November. The real estate section can include blogs about the housing bubble, Realtors’ blogs, real estate investing, purchasing a home, etc.. In the investing section, we will include blogs about the stock market, other investments, […]
This will hopefully be the final change to the “pinging” process for a while. When a blog pings pfblogs.org to let us know that there is an update to be fetched — a feature available only to Friends of pfblogs.org — there is a two minute delay. If the blogger who owns the […]
Thanks to everyone who informed me of their interest in the pfblogs.org Advisory Panel. I’ll be contacting a bunch of you in the next few weeks to send you more information and get things started.
There’s now a simpler way to request listing on pfblogs.org. It’s as simple as filling out a form. […]
This should be a welcome update for those who like to see their blog entries make their way to pfblogs.org faster than the normal 30 minute fetching cycle. If your blog software supports it, you can now ping pfblogs.org’s server to fetch your feed.
Get your numerical blog ID by finding your blog on […]
A splog is a blog consisting of spam. It’s often hard to tell splogs from true blogs, but splogs will not be listed on pfblogs.org and any subscriptions for membership in the Friends of pfblogs.org initiated by owners of splogs will be refunded. Pfblogs.org exists to serve as a useful tool for the […]
If you happen to come across a blog listed on pfblogs.org that is inappropriate for listing based on the guidelines listed in the FAQ (spam, not personal finance, etc.), please let us know privately. With almost 600 blogs included and more than one third of those posting new entries regularly, it’s a little difficult […]
There have been some comments requesting the return of the alphabetical list of personal finance blogs on pfblogs.org. It’s here! If you notice, the sidebar above the standard blogs list now reads “Some active weblogs (all).” If you click on “all,” a list of all blogs will open in a sidebar (the […]
The benefit of using full feeds is this: All of the text in your post becomes searchable. People search pfblogs.org for topics bloggers cover in their writing. Web surfers also search for content on sites that carry the pfblogs.org aggregate RSS feed. The more text included in your feed, the more of […]
I mentioned yesterday that the “undocumented” popular filter (which can be combined with the personal finance filter, the real estate filter, or the investing filter) now only displays items from the past twenty-four hours.
There is a new method of counting clicks on entries and blogs that is much more tamper-proof. You’ll see how click […]
We’ve received a number of questions through email and through comments regarding the new ratings associated with each blog on pfblogs.org. The biggest question is regarding the method that determines the numbers. As of right now, it’s a very simple calculation, easily prone to tampering. A clever sleuth can expose the formula […]
Please show your love for your favorite topic by including the pfblogs.org Blogroll on your website. It’s fully configurable to match the style and layout of your website and it puts you in touch with 20 of the most recently updated blogs listed on the best ad-free personal finance blogs aggregator in the world.
Rather than completely randomized, the blog listing now is sorted (with Friends first) by update. The most recently updated blogs will appear at the top of the list. The list will also display only blogs updated in the last week or so, with a limit of 200.
I don’t like alphabetized lists […]