The Yakezie Challenge Visits Planting Dollars

by Ryan on March 8, 2010

Welcome to the Samurai Alexa Rankings Challenge Rankings! If you’re unfamiliar with the challenge and what it’s all about check out this post at Financial Samurai to learn more.

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Kiesha @ WeBlogBetter March 8, 2010 at 3:25 am

This is truly impressive! I like the way you’ve been monitoring your progress. Sometimes it’s only the increase in Alexa ranking that keeps me pressing forward.
Congratulations on your continued success.
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Financial Samurai March 8, 2010 at 3:51 am

Woulda ya look at that! We’re traveling! Nice!
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Investing Newbie March 8, 2010 at 4:33 am

Look at you! Congrats on the Alexa increase!

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Moon Hussain March 8, 2010 at 5:07 am

Wow,

Looking at that is pretty neat. I wonder if you can create a page with a plug-in or something that does this in real time.
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Jeremy Johnson Reply:

I created a page that gets Alexa ranking in real time via a XML file, which contains the websites, I’d be more than happy to give you guys the code to play with. On my website, the I.P.W. tab.

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Daniel Reply:

This is in real time, and they change once a day. Your xml looks AWESOME. I’m not much of a coder..can you add in some calculations? One of the things we like is the week over week change. The only thing that isn’t automated is copying and pasting (special) today’s data so that tomorrow we can see what we did over the past day.
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Jeremy Johnson Reply:

Are you referring to the lists above being in real time, or the page I made being in real time? The week to week change is a great idea. I’d probably have to introduce some kind of storage mechanism (database) to keep track of historical data, or see if Alexa allows for querying that information - either way, I’m sure it can be done :)

Daniel Reply:

Yah Jeremy, I was referring to yours. It’s awesome.
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Jeremy Johnson Reply:

Hey Daniel thanks :) I sent Sam my files for doing the new Yakezie club using XML. The yesterday rank and Monday rank will still need to be hand changed. All the other numbers/percents are calculated. Basically you can edit the XML to your hearts content and I set it to cache every 6 hours so that Alexa was not hammered with requests every page load - however, anyone can change the file to their hearts content to tweak it :)
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Mrs. Accountability March 8, 2010 at 5:19 am

Hi! I joined on Friday - looking forward to seeing my stats listed. I am so impressed with the success so far!!
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innocriss March 8, 2010 at 8:17 am

hi Ryan,
Your list is really challenging. you had all to patience to monitor your rivals. Lisa said alot about you, but she didn’t couldn’t really express your true potentials. i like your progress.
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Forest March 8, 2010 at 8:25 am

Awesome stuff…. Looks like I have jumped over 20k in Alexa in less than a week!! That is brilliant… Yakezie rocks :)
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MyFinancialObjectives March 8, 2010 at 12:54 pm

Congrats on the success! I too have seen some success in my Alexa ranking… I went from non existent to 5,468,556 to 4,471,329!
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Money Funk March 8, 2010 at 5:11 pm

I’m soooo close to tip that 200K mark.

I have to say you’ve done quite a great job with your blog, Ryan! Keep it up!
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LeanLifeCoach March 8, 2010 at 5:37 pm

From small fish in a big pond to small fish in a smaller pond.

Ryan, in like 30 more seconds you are going to be top box too! You are flying brother! Way to go!

Look at some of our other notables too!
Money Reasons
CJ Bowker
Sweating the Big Stuff
151 Days Off
Downturn Living
Engineer Your Finances
Stay at Home Mom CFO - Just to name a few.

It is an honor and an inspiration to be challenged by and work with so much talent!
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Mrs. Money March 8, 2010 at 6:01 pm

WOW, Ryan! I am impressed too! Keep up the good work! And if you ever want to swap guest posts, let me know. That would be awesome :)
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Mike March 8, 2010 at 6:42 pm

Wow! Go Yakezie!!
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Little House March 9, 2010 at 4:42 am

Wow! It’s amazing how networking can really increase your traffic. Nice job, by the way, of transferring the spreadsheet to your site. Looks great!
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Evolution Of Wealth March 9, 2010 at 4:45 pm

The Yakezie are unstoppable. I love the traveling chart. I want in on this.
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youngandthrifty March 9, 2010 at 6:58 pm

Wow you’ve got mad google spreadsheet skillz!!

Thanks for posting this! Great to see it travel =)
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Monevator March 9, 2010 at 10:56 pm

It’s unbelievable how virtually nobody has ever gone down in the rankings. The day must be coming, but it’s great while it lasts. :)
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Saving Money Today March 10, 2010 at 10:44 am

Very impressive results so far! I just joined myself and I can’t wait to see how far we can all push each other.
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Lakita (PFJourney) March 10, 2010 at 11:52 am

Very impressive! I joined last week and can’t wait to be added to the numbers!
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The Rat March 10, 2010 at 6:16 pm

This is absolutely stunning! Way to track the rankings…ludicrously awesome.
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Forest March 11, 2010 at 1:44 am

Awesome, I love Yakezie :) ….. My Alexa is flying high!!
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Single Guy Money March 11, 2010 at 2:11 am

Looks like everyone is getting some awesome results. Thanks so much for your hard work on this.

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