Over the last few months I’ve been added several staff writers to the Bible Money Matters site. The reason? I want to vary the content, bring in some different viewpoints, and make things interesting for the readers. I have a vision of making this site one of the go-to places in the blogosphere for Christian financial wisdom, but I definitely want things to be interesting.  Read more... (591 words, 11 images, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

• How To Push Your Website To The Top Of A Web Search Keeping SEO in mind when you design your site can make it much easier for you to get a good page rank and more traffic from day one. Link Farms: Some search engines use a recommendation system as part of how they rank your web site. So webmasters will often......
• How Title And Meta Tags Are Used For Search Engine Optimization When it comes to title tags and search engine optimization there are a few question website owners typically ask. Does each individual web page need a different title? Is there a maximum length for title tags? Is there a title tag limit? Are title Meta tags a good idea?......

Over the past year I’ve watched as Baker over at ManVsDebt.com has had a meteoric launch to become one of the premier voices in the blogosphere in several different niches. He is a recognized personal finance writer, landing a staff writer position at one of the premier personal finance sites, GetRichSlowly.org. He writes about his family’s travels as they globe trot – from New Zealand to Australia to Thailand – in the past year. His writing has been inspired, and lots of people (myself included) have come to enjoy his writing immensely.  Read more... (883 words, 13 images, estimated 3:32 mins reading time)

• Contest Time! Win Ten Personal Finance Books! The contest is now over; the entries are being collected, and the choosing will commence soon. As you're probably aware if you've been reading The Amateur Financier for a while, I'm a big fan of books, in particular personal finance books.  Since last June when I started to do my......
• Your Post-Christmas To-Do List Christmas is over - now what do I do? The pre-Christmas chaos, adrenaline rush and maybe euphoria are now slipping into that post-Christmas "Now what do I do?" state of mind.  You've run out of safe-topic small talk to share with folks you see only once a year.  It's too soon......

As I’ve stated elsewhere on this site, one of my goals for Bible Money Matters has been to make it one of the go-to places on the internet for personal finance information from a Christian viewpoint. I want to provide great commentary on money topics, and make this site useful, entertaining and engaging.

One of the ways I’ve been trying to improve the site in the past year is by hosting some of the best Christian personal finance writers from all over web on this site. In the past year we’ve hired several talented staff writers to write for our site every week.  Read more... (609 words, 11 images, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

• Yes, You Can Still Retire Comfortably! - A Book Review I read a lot in the areas of personal finance.  As a baby boomer, I make sure to include large doses of reading in retirement planning.  Regardless of your age, you should do the same.  I recently finished reading "Yes, You Can Still Retire Comfortably!" which was authored by Ben......
• Advice for New Personal Finance Bloggers From time to time, a new blogger comes across Lazy Man and Money and sends me an e-mail. Typically they have only a handful of posts and are looking for is a link to their site. I like to see a plethora of posts before giving my stamp of approval.......

Within the past couple of days I was notified that Bible Money Matters was nominated and was one of the finalists in the “Best Religious Finance Blog” category of the Plutus Awards.  I’m humbled and gratified that someone enjoyed the site enough to nominate us. Before we get too far though, we should clarify – what on earth are the Plutus Awards? 

The Plutus Awards are like the Oscars of the personal finance blog world.  They honor the best and the brightest of the year in a variety of categories.   They have categories for everything from “Blog of the Year” to the “Lifetime Achievement Awards”.  Read more... (530 words, 12 images, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

• Save a Load on Metamucil (and Personal Finance Links) In keeping with the trend I started around a month ago, here are seven things I think this week: I think that I found a new product that's worth buying coupons on Ebay. I saw that the local military commissary has Metamucil's Clear and Natural Fiber Substitute available for $6.99......
• Monthly Review - January Edition January Blog Review... Top Articles Here are the top articles I wrote, voted on by... me. I wrote about the seven things you must do to prepare for an emergency I finished the month off with a detailed comparison of personal finance to football. I won a blogging award. I......

Last month I wrote a series of posts on this blog about how I had turned my blog into a nice secondary source of income for my family. I discussed all the things that I have done over the past 2 years in order to take a small unheard of blog, and turn it into an income producing asset. The series of posts was extremely popular, and I decided to write some more on the topic and create an expanded resource for new and intermediate bloggers alike.  Read more... (716 words, 12 images, estimated 2:52 mins reading time)

• Book Review – The Secret Language of Money The Secret Language of Money: How to Make Smarter Financial Decisions and Live a Richer Life, written by David Krueger and John David Mann, is as much a psychology book as it is about personal finance. I found this made for an interesting read, since behavioral finance plays a major......
• 3 SimpleWays To Make Cash When it comes to making money with the Internet, lots of people are unsure that it’s even possible. Not only is it doable, it is also uncomplicated to get involved (like, today) and depending on the effort you devote, capable of bringing in anywhere from $100 to $500+ per month.......

Over the last few weeks I’ve been making a lot of changes behind the scenes, things that most people probably wouldn’t notice.  In order to help make the articles here available for even more people I’ve been making Bible Money Matters compliant with several mobile platforms, in addition to launching an email newsletter just yesterday.

So without further ado, let’s take a look at some of the new options you have to keep in touch with Bible Money Matters!  Read more... (625 words, 14 images, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

• Corporate Blogs to Model Yourself After Forrester Research recently compiled a review of ninety different Fortune 500 blogs, and found most to be lacking the proper amount of stimulation. Sadly, two things of these corporate blogs barely ever received any comments, 70 % of them stuck completely to topics of their business without ever straying, and......
• Next Paypal iPhone App Allows Charity Donations and Check Deposits With the amount of users Paypal has, the Paypal iPhone app is very useful for making payments on the go.  Paypal has been continually adding some great innovations for both their iPhone and Android apps.  Recently, they added Bump technology where you can initiate money transactions by tapping the phones......