Over 50,000 Web Pages Link to MsMoney.com

April 25, 2006
Can this really be correct? That there are 28,700 Pages on Google Linking to Ms.Money. I was doing a little research trying to figure out why our traffic jumped five-fold this last month to up to 160,000 visitors a week. That is a lot of traffic for our little ole site. Well little compared to the millions and millions of visitors Yahoo Finance gets every week. We have gotten millions since we started but certainly not every week. Though I do have my ambitious goals. Considering I haven't spent 5-6 figures on ads (or any ads for that matter) - a gal has to wonder where did all these folks come from.

Which takes me to Google and the fact that 28,700 web pages really do link to www.msmoney.com.

Yahoo's search engine lists over 50,000 web pages that link to MsMoney.com. Although you can only see the top 1,000. Afterall, who would really want to look at 38,000 links? Except me! (just kidding, even I get a bit cross-eyed after staring at the first few hundred).

Thanks to the thousands of websites out there that think so highly of us that they want to tell their community about us. And thank you to the readers who visit us!

All this great news inspired me to put out a Press Release today. Ok - so it is 1am, but that is what us entrepreneurs do. We really can't turn the brains off just because it is entering the middle of the night.

I still haven't figured out where the traffic came from, but I know the increase wasn't from the web. And because there was a huge jump spread out over a few weeks, I think it came from one of the magazines I was interviewed for. Maybe Cosmopolitan.

One of the favorite sites I ran across that sent almost a thousand folks over to Ms.Money is the Budgeting Babe Blogger. Nicole is from my hometown of Chicago. So hats off to her for having such a strong personal finance community that supports her writing.