First of all, thank you to everyone who has joined the Friends of pfblogs.org so far. If you’ve been putting off your membership, don’t delay any further. Today is the final day for joining for $10 a year. Going forward, we will be moving to a small monthly subscription fee. (There […]
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 […]
Here is some good news. We are being assisted by a gracious friend who is allowing pfblogs.org use of one of his servers. This is currently just a testing arrangement, but it is allowing us to fetch all feeds every thirty minutes without the processes being killed automatically. It’s a little slower, […]
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On June 1, pfblogs.org will be switching to a new membership scheme for those who wish to be Friends of pfblogs.org and receive all the benefits that entails (and there are always more in store). Here are two deadlines for you to remember:
May 28: This is […]
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 […]
From Monday, May 22 through Sunday, May 28, any blog with the pfblogs.org Blogroll, whether it is added now or was added previously, will receive two months as a “Friend of pfblogs.org.” If you’re already a Friend, the two months will be added onto whatever term you already have. Leave a comment here […]
In order to lighten the load on the pfblogs.org hardware, there are now two separate fetching cycles. One runs every half hour. In this 30-minute update, only blogs whose authors have previously posted in the last 48 hours will be fetched. The other cycle runs six times each day, and during these […]
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 […]
Chances are that if you’re reading this, you’ve noticed that there is a new look to the aggregator pages at pfblogs.org. Blog entries written by those who are Friends of pfblogs.org are now highlighted in red in order to help them stand out among other articles. This has already helped drive more traffic […]
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 […]
The program that fetches feeds is very demanding of processing power. pfblogs.org, its engine, and its database are hosted with Dreamhost, a shared hosting provider. We’re now in need of something more robust — a dedicated server. I’m looking for low to no cost options. A no cost option means that the […]
Thank you to everyone who donated to pfblogs.org during the Annual Campaign throughout April. By adding a few donations at the end of March and a few at the beginning of May, we doubled the goal of $200 I set at the beginning of the campaign! What a great achievement, and what a […]