Simple Pound

I can proudly announce that I have worked on my top 5 blogging mistakes (as mentioned here) and as of yesterday all of them have vanished.

There is now an easy way to contact me by using the contact form, which can be found here or simply by clicking on “Contact” in the menu above. I strongly encourage you to make use of it and email all your requests, suggestions and general feedback so I can improve the site and make it as useful as possible for a wide group of readers.

Secondly, I have created a short “About the Author” page which is also accessible directly from the menu and contains some basic information about me, the site and its purpose. I have included a reference to the “Simple Pound Network”, so if you have a financial goal of any sort that you want to track here, give me a shout!

The third mistake of not utilising the blog’s trackback capabilities wasn’t actually a mistake since I was already making use of this. Trackback essentially “informs” other bloggers when you are linking back to their site or a particular post and thus builds, maintains and extends the community (not to mention the extra traffic you’re getting…). The reason I included this mistake was to double-check whether it was activated and to randomly check a couple of sites to see whether the ping-backs show. They did .

To stronger publicise my best posts and hence work on blogging mistake number 4, I have also created a “Best Of…” page, which highlights the top 10 posts written here since the site’s inauguration as well as the month’s top 5. The monthly list will always refer back to last month’s posts (i.e. in June we’ll see a list of the top 5 May posts) because the month obviously has to finish before I can proclaim any “winners”. Thus the “Best Of…” page will get updated along with my financial end of the month review. Since the latter usually attract some good traffic, I have also included an overview of the monthly progress reports for your convenience. Go and check it out!

And finally, I am now proclaiming ownership of this blog by including a link to SimplePound in all my email signatures. I’m quite proud of this site, so it was about time to celebrate it in public…

If you are reading this through a feed reader (the number of subscriptions is growing!), make sure you head over to the site to check out the new pages and let me know what you think!

On a slightly unrelated note: Accelerated by a lot of traffic through the Carnival of Personal Finance, SimplePound has now had over 1,000 visits (1,079 as of 5am this morning) from 566 unique visitors within two and a half months of its existence. I am aware that many bloggers achieve numbers like these within a day or two, but since the personal finance topic is much less popular in the UK than it is in the States, I am nevertheless proud and happy about this achievement.

Special thanks to |[P]| at meewella.com and Rob at money-watch.co.uk for their links to this site, which has generated some decent amounts of traffic over the last weeks.

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