Personal Dividends - Money and Lifestyle

As 2009 ended, Personal Dividends completed its first year of existence. It has been a very exciting and eventful year for the fledgling site and we are proud to have achieved what we have in the last year. None of this could have been possible without your readership and support and we would like to take this time to express our appreciation.

We finished the year with 20 registered contributors and 14 published authors on the site. A total of 151 articles were published in 2009 averaging a little less than 1 every 2 days. Personal Dividends has been featured in many blog carnivals around the interwebs, some of the articles have been picked up and referenced from popular sites such as USA Today, WSJ.com and NPR and has been successful in creating a small buzz on the popular social media sites in addition to breaking the Wisebread’s Top 100 Personal Finance blogs ranking and staying there.

We have been trying really hard to make Personal Dividends into a Personal Finance and Lifestyle site and avoid getting bucketed into a narrow niche. Looking back and reviewing the top 10 stories on Personal Dividends in terms of popularity (number of visits), it appears that we have been successful on this front. Out of the 10 most popular stories in 2009, only about 50% of the stories were related to money and finance and the remaining 50% were on various other topics.

Here are the top 10 stories on Personal Dividends in 2009 arranged in the order of increasing popularity:

Check these out to see how many you have read, go through the ones that you missed and let us know what you think about these. You can comment on a story or maybe even structure your thoughts in an article that we will consider publishing.

10. Investment Strategy for Recession: Capital Preservation with Safe Investments, by Miranda

Not surprisingly, recession and how to manage your money/investments during recession has been a popular concern for many of our readers.

9.  How to Payoff a Home Mortgage Early?, by Arohan

This has been a surprise given the number of people who are having trouble making their monthly mortgage payments. Although in a sense it is understandable that now everyone is becoming much more concerned about their debt levels and are trying to find ways of getting rid of their debt as quickly as possible. I also have a feeling that not so many now view a mortgage as a ‘good debt’ as they used to in the past.

8. Relax! 8 Things You can do to Unwind, by Miranda

An indicator of the stressful times we live in, perhaps!

7. Small Space Gardening: Growing Organic Vegetables in a City, by Arohan

I find it so very satisfying that so many are now exploring ways to be self sufficient and live a much healthier lifestyle.

6. 2009 World Wealth Report Finds Record Declines in the Ranks of Millionaires, by Arohan

We never tire of knowing more about wealthy, do we? 2009 was specially interesting as so much wealth was destroyed worldwide

5. 5 Excercise Myths Busted, by Miranda

4. 5 Easy Ways to Change Your Life and Be Happy, by navisam

3. Recession Stocks and Investing Strategy for the Coming Period of High Inflation, by Arohan

Many believe that high inflation is a necessary and most probable result of the deficits being run up by the administration today. We all want to know how to protect ourselves from the misdeeds of the government.

2. 10 Fun Things for Kids to do this Summer, by Miranda

And the most popular story by a wide margin was,

1. Credit Card Act of 2009: How it Affects You, by Miranda

This story benefited from mentions in USA Today, NPR and various popular TV station websites owned by Gannett. Apart from the mortgage and wall street meltdown (and perhaps, because of it), credit card reform probably has the most impact in the personal finances of regular people.

Do you have another favorite story that did not make the cut? Let us know

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