6 Months In: What’s HOT & NEW on Living Frugal Tips

Today marks the six-month anniversary for Living Frugal Tips.

While a very brief period of time, it’s monumental in the web world as thousands of new blogs start daily and in mere weeks or months lay dormant with no new content, and then fall claim to the web wasteland for misfit sites. Blogging is a lot of work and takes time, energy and passion to keep it growing … keep it interesting … keep connecting … and keep people coming back.

With that said. Thank you!!! Thank you for finding Living Frugal Tips, thanks for commenting, contributing and coming back. My hope is that you find it useful and that I can continue to grow and evolve the site to keep it interesting and make some small impact that helps you — save money, save time, find balance, and ultimately help you create a rich life by living on less.

Highlights from the first 6-Months:

What’s HOT — Top 10 Most Popular Posts:

1. Save Calories with this Skinny Margarita Recipe
2. 7 Ways to Kick-Start Your Job Search
3. Lisa’s Nearly Famous Pulled Pork Recipe
4. 14 Fun Ways to Pass the Day Trapped Inside
5. Velveeta Rotel Chicken Pasta Casserole (a mouthful, oh my)
6. Purging Sucks: Purged Living Part 1
7. Target Wine Cube – Good Wine Great Price
8. How to Save Money When Filing Your Taxes
9. 50 Frugal Fun Ideas for a Bored-Silly Saturday
10. Five Alternatives to Deli Meat that Save You Money

What’s NEW:

Tip of the Day- Get a quick tip daily for how to save money. You’ll find this on the post-it-note stuck to the home page.

Live Streaming Money Saving Tips – Get real-time money saving tips from people around the world via the live Twitter stream, conveniently found on the home page.

Job Board – With the growing number of people that have had frugality forced upon them due to job loss, I’ve added a new page on Living Frugal Tips called “Job Board“. This is a direct connection to www.HotCareerSites.com which is another site/blog of mine. Here you will find the best job search sites conveniently organized by the type of job that you are looking for. you will also find career planning tools to help you with your job search and career growth. The goal is to have everything in one place so it’s faster, more efficient and makes the best use of your time as you look for a job.

Growth:

Fabulous Fans – New folks become fans daily. We’ve got 282 Facebook Fans that “like” Living Frugal Tips. If you’re not a fan … become one!

Growing Strong - More people continue to find Living Frugal Tips. Site traffic is up 42.8% from just the month prior.

Improving Popularity – Alexa Rank, a subsidiary company of Amazon.com, ranks all the websites in the world for popularity. When Living Frugal Tips first came on the scene our Alexa Rank was 13,134,689. In just six short months we’ve significantly moved up in popularity to # 530,125 globally and 63,064 in the U.S. When seemingly light-years away from the top 100,000 globally … we are headed in the right direction.

Some News:

Won New Writer Contest on HubPages.com for “20 Meatless Meals that Will Save Money on Groceries”

Living Frugal Tips is partnered with and featured on an exciting new site for women — WomenXchange.com.

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THANK YOU again. Here’s to exciting things in the next six months.