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Add pfblogs.org Popular Feed to Your Blog’s Sidebar

For a limited time, pfblogs.org is offering free membership in the Friends of pfblogs.org for six months. In order to qualify, a blog should include the pfblogs.org popular articles feed in a prominent location on the page’s sidebar. For blogs … Continue reading

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Follow pfblogs.org on Twitter for Popular Links

We’ve created an account on twitter, pfblogs_pop, that will provide you with an occasional link to a personal finance article on pfblogs.org that readers have visited often. As you already know, you can view a rundown of the most popular … Continue reading

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Our Policy Against Spam

If your blog contains anything that the pfblogs.org Advisory Panel believes is spam, a blog will not be eligible for membership in the Friends of pfblogs.org. If the spam is not removed or resolved, the offending blog will be removed … Continue reading

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Technical Difficulties Resolved

For those who noticed that over the last day or so, only Friends of pfblogs.org were listed on the front page, please be assured that this was not intentional. It was a result of a programming mistake. The problem has … Continue reading

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pfblogs.org Now Indexes 1,000 Blogs

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 … Continue reading

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Moving to a New Server

Increased instability at DreamHost, even after upgrading hardware, has forced us to move pfblogs.org to a virtual dedicated server elsewhere. You should no longer have any problems accessing the website once the changes have fully propagated throughout the Internet. This … Continue reading

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pfblogs.org Financial Literacy Challenge at DonorsChoose

You may have noticed a conspicuous thermometer gracing the pages of pfblogs.org and a number of personal finance blogs. This thermometer is measuring donations within a campaign to fund personal finance lessons in public schools. HC at One Big Mortarboard … Continue reading

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Install the pfblogs.org Blogroll

One of the best ways for Friends of pfblogs.org to share links and ensure they are getting the most out of their small membership fee is to install the pfblogs.org Blogroll on their blog and encourage others to do the … Continue reading

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Further Improvements

In the last week, I’ve made some programming improvements to pfblogs.org which should improve speed when viewing the site directly. I’m still looking for a MySQL “expert” to assist. If you know of anyone, please send her my way. More … Continue reading

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Server Stability

This weekend, our web host, DreamHost, moved pfblogs.org as well as a number of other servers to a new location. Since that move, the fetching software has become unreliable. I’ve devised a temporary work-around until it is feasible to move … Continue reading

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