30May/090
Top 100 Personal Finance Blogs – Ranked By Traffic
[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]
Note: Please do not be misguided by this post's date i.e. Sep 2007. We've published May 2009's rankings at the same url as Sep 2007's rankings. This will benefit those who had linked to this post since fresh monthly rankings will be available at the same url. Unfortunately Blogger does not allow static pages, so the past date (url) of this post will stay. But the content will be updated every month.
Updated on May 29, 2009: Welcome back to our rankings of personal finance (pf) blogs for May 2009 based on traffic data of April 2009. It requires a lot of hard and smart work to figure among the best personal finance blogs. Heartiest congratulations to all those who made it to our list of "Top 100 Personal Finance Blogs." Our next ranking of PF Blogs will be released in August 2009.
As you may have noticed, there are some discrepancies in Quantcast and Compete's results. This may be due to the fact that many sites have not implemented requisite trackers and plugins (details are here). It makes sense to go through with the implementations to make this game an even playing field.
The following tables show traffic rankings of individual and group personal finance blogs respectively based on monthly traffic data (Apr 2009) from corresponding sources.
TABLE's LEGEND
» FIRE RANK: Overall Traffic Rank of a site
» BLOG: Name of the blog being ranked
» CHANGE: Change in FIRE RANK of a blog wrt previous month's position
» SITEMETER: Traffic rank based on Sitemeter's data
» QUANTCAST: Traffic rank based on Quantcast's data
» COMPETE: Traffic rank based on Compete's data
» SCORE: Average Traffic rank (Sitemeter, Quantcast, Compete)
» PAGE RANK: Google's page rank for the blog
» FIRE RANK: Overall Traffic Rank of a site
» BLOG: Name of the blog being ranked
» CHANGE: Change in FIRE RANK of a blog wrt previous month's position
» SITEMETER: Traffic rank based on Sitemeter's data
» QUANTCAST: Traffic rank based on Quantcast's data
» COMPETE: Traffic rank based on Compete's data
» SCORE: Average Traffic rank (Sitemeter, Quantcast, Compete)
» PAGE RANK: Google's page rank for the blog
| Rankings | Methodology | Raw Traffic Data | Master List | Notes |
| INDIVIDUAL PF BLOGS - RANKED | ||||
Last updated on Sun May 17 2009 05:49 PM EDT
| FIRE RANK | BLOG | CHANGE | SITEMETER | QUANTCAST | COMPETE | SCORE | PAGE RANK |
| 1 | MoneySavingMom | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 5 |
| 2 | GetRichSlowly | - | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2.3 | 6 |
| 3 | TheSimpleDollar | - | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2.7 | 6 |
| 4 | DealSeekingMom | New | 4 | 4 | 4.0 | 4 | |
| 5 | BluePrintForFinancialPros | ↓1 | 6 | 5 | 5.5 | 3 | |
| 6 | CommonSenseWithMoney | ↑6 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 7.0 | 5 |
| 6 | MyMoneyBlog | ↑2 | 8 | 6 | 7.0 | 5 | |
| 7 | FiveCentNickel | ↓2 | 9 | 8 | 8.5 | 3 | |
| 8 | CouponCravings | ↑4 | 4 | 16 | 7 | 9.0 | 5 |
| 9 | MoneyBlueBook | ↓3 | 10 | 10 | 10.0 | 5 | |
| 10 | BankDeals | ↑3 | 5 | 17 | 11.0 | 3 | |
| 11 | FreeMoneyFinance | ↓1 | 11 | 15 | 13.0 | 6 | |
| 12 | TheDigeratiLife | ↓1 | 14 | 12 | 13.0 | 2 | |
| 13 | CashMoneyLife | ↓4 | 13 | 14 | 13.5 | 3 | |
| 14 | MomAdvice | - | 19 | 11 | 15.0 | 3 | |
| 15 | SavingToInvest | ↓8 | 15 | 16 | 15.5 | 4 | |
| 16 | ChristianPF | ↑4 | 12 | 19 | 15.5 | 3 | |
| 17 | FrugalDad | - | 6 | 23 | 18 | 15.7 | 3 |
| 18 | BeingFrugal | - | 7 | 21 | 22 | 16.7 | 3 |
| 19 | TheSun'sFinancialDiary | ↓3 | 17 | 20 | 18.5 | 3 | |
| 20 | GenerationXFinance | ↑3 | 18 | 21 | 19.5 | 3 | |
| 21 | MoneyNing | ↑5 | 12 | 30 | 26 | 22.7 | 4 |
| 22 | AskMrCreditCard | ↑6 | 10 | 39 | 24.5 | 4 | |
| 23 | MyTwoDollars | ↑2 | 11 | 31 | 33 | 25.0 | 2 |
| 24 | MoneySmartLife | ↓9 | 24 | 28 | 26.0 | 2 | |
| 25 | MyDollarPlan | ↓4 | 29 | 25 | 27.0 | 3 | |
| 26 | TheDoughRoller | ↑3 | 26 | 29 | 27.5 | 3 | |
| 27 | BeingFrugalIsFabulous | ↑11 | 15 | 32 | 37 | 28.0 | 3 |
| 28 | LazyManAndMoney | ↓6 | 25 | 34 | 29.5 | 3 | |
| 29 | DebtKid | ↓3 | 37 | 23 | 30.0 | 4 | |
| 30 | MoneyMatter&MoreMusings | - | 20 | 40 | 30.0 | 3 | |
| 30 | Moolanomy | ↓11 | 33 | 27 | 30.0 | 3 | |
| 30 | NotMadeOfMoney | ↑10 | 28 | 32 | 30.0 | 3 | |
| 30 | PaidTwice | ↑3 | 14 | 38 | 38 | 30.0 | 3 |
| 31 | DividendGrowthInvestor | ↑16 | 22 | 39 | 30.5 | 3 | |
| 32 | NoCreditNeeded | ↓8 | 18 | 35 | 44 | 32.3 | 5 |
| 33 | TheFinanceBuff | ↓2 | 9 | 36 | 52 | 32.3 | 3 |
| 34 | GatherLittleByLittle | ↓7 | 16 | 46 | 42 | 34.7 | 3 |
| 35 | FrugalUpstate | ↑11 | 21 | 44 | 41 | 35.3 | 4 |
| 36 | IWillTeachYouToBeRich | ↑3 | 58 | 13 | 35.5 | 3 | |
| 37 | KeepingKingdomFirst | ↑18 | 13 | 74 | 24 | 37.0 | 4 |
| 38 | MoneyUnder30 | ↑3 | 41 | 35 | 38.0 | 5 | |
| 39 | EngineerADebtFreeLife | ↑20 | 40 | 36 | 38.0 | 0 | |
| 40 | BloggingAwayDebt | ↑8 | 34 | 43 | 38.5 | 3 | |
| 40 | MillionDollarJourney | ↓3 | 27 | 50 | 38.5 | 3 | |
| 41 | BibleMoneyMatters | ↓7 | 48 | 30 | 39.0 | 3 | |
| 42 | PTMoney | ↓19 | 23 | 45 | 49 | 39.0 | 2 |
| 43 | SingleGuyMoney | - | 41 | 41.0 | 4 | ||
| 44 | FreeFromBroke | ↓8 | 29 | 52 | 45 | 42.0 | 3 |
| 45 | DontMessWithTaxes | - | 25 | 60 | 51 | 45.3 | 6 |
| 46 | MyOpenWallet | ↑3 | 24 | 43 | 70 | 45.7 | 3 |
| 47 | LittlePeopleWealth | ↑11 | 33 | 53 | 54 | 46.7 | 3 |
| 48 | CleverDude | ↓4 | 20 | 64 | 57 | 47.0 | 3 |
| 48 | FrugalLawStudent | ↓6 | 17 | 66 | 58 | 47.0 | 3 |
| 49 | PunnyMoney | ↑14 | 27 | 55 | 59 | 47.0 | 0 |
| 50 | StopBuyingCrap | ↑2 | 49 | 46 | 47.5 | 5 | |
| 51 | TheHappyRock | ↑6 | 32 | 54 | 65 | 50.3 | 0 |
| 52 | BargainBabe | New | 19 | 78 | 56 | 51.0 | 4 |
| 53 | MrsMicah | ↑7 | 50 | 55 | 52.5 | 2 | |
| 54 | SenseToSave | ↓3 | 35 | 59 | 66 | 53.3 | 2 |
| 55 | ThePiggyBanker | ↑24 | 47 | 60 | 53.5 | 4 | |
| 56 | GiveMeBackMyFiveBucks | ↑5 | 26 | 42 | 93 | 53.7 | 3 |
| 57 | TheFrugalDuchess | ↓22 | 37 | 72 | 54.5 | 5 | |
| 58 | ItsJustMoney | ↑11 | 28 | 82 | 55.0 | 0 | |
| 59 | FIREFinance | ↓6 | 34 | 65 | 67 | 55.3 | 3 |
| 59 | GoodFinancialCents | ↑6 | 22 | 81 | 63 | 55.3 | 3 |
| 60 | PoorerThanYou | ↑14 | 39 | 73 | 56.0 | 2 | |
| 61 | NoDebtPlan | ↓3 | 30 | 62 | 77 | 56.3 | 2 |
| 62 | MightyBargainHunter | - | 69 | 47 | 58.0 | 3 | |
| 62 | MyPersonalFinanceJourney | ↑16 | 45 | 71 | 58.0 | 3 | |
| 63 | ExperimentsInFinance | ↑5 | 8 | 108 | 64 | 60.0 | 3 |
| 64 | ManVsDebt | New | 48 | 56 | 76 | 60.0 | 0 |
| 65 | MoneyMusings | ↓11 | 76 | 48 | 62.0 | 0 | |
| 66 | WellHeeled | ↑6 | 63 | 63.0 | 5 | ||
| 67 | HowISaveMoney | ↓1 | 61 | 69 | 65.0 | 2 | |
| 68 | 2millionBlog | ↓12 | 70 | 62 | 66.0 | 3 | |
| 69 | UltimateMoneyBlog | New | 44 | 88 | 66.0 | 0 | |
| 70 | ThriftyFloridaMama | ↑6 | 36 | 99 | 68 | 67.7 | 3 |
| 71 | YetAnotherBlogAboutMoney | ↑4 | 68 | 68.0 | 4 | ||
| 72 | Pecuniarities | ↑4 | 43 | 71 | 90 | 68.0 | 3 |
| 73 | BudgetsAre$exy | ↓23 | 31 | 113 | 61 | 68.3 | 4 |
| 74 | TightFistedMiser | ↑7 | 50 | 72 | 85 | 69.0 | 0 |
| 75 | TheWanderingTaxPro | ↓8 | 38 | 101 | 69.5 | 5 | |
| 76 | Neville'sFinancialBlog | ↓5 | 67 | 75 | 71.0 | 3 | |
| 77 | Jim'sFinanceandInvestment | ↑3 | 71 | 71.0 | 0 | ||
| 78 | AlmostFrugal | ↓8 | 90 | 53 | 71.5 | 3 | |
| 79 | TheFinanceJourney | ↓15 | 42 | 75 | 100 | 72.3 | 0 |
| 80 | MillionaireMommyNextDoor | New | 73 | 74 | 73.5 | 4 | |
| 81 | TheWisdomJournal | ↑9 | 116 | 31 | 73.5 | 3 | |
| 82 | SavingsToolbox | ↑12 | 58 | 91 | 83 | 77.3 | 3 |
| 83 | Mapgirl’sFiscalChallenge | ↑3 | 52 | 85 | 96 | 77.7 | 2 |
| 84 | MoneyCrashers | ↓52 | 78 | 78.0 | 3 | ||
| 85 | BankBonuses | ↓1 | 53 | 88 | 94 | 78.3 | 0 |
| 86 | DinksFinance | ↓13 | 68 | 89 | 78.5 | 6 | |
| 87 | MyFinancialJourney | ↑6 | 40 | 118 | 79.0 | 0 | |
| 88 | MoneyEnergy | New | 80 | 80.0 | 2 | ||
| 89 | ERollOver | New | 80 | 81 | 80.5 | 4 | |
| 90 | FinallyFrugal | ↑4 | 61 | 100 | 80.5 | 3 | |
| 91 | AFrugalLivingBlog | - | 83 | 83.0 | 4 | ||
| 92 | GettingFinancesDone | - | 59 | 107 | 83.0 | 0 | |
| 93 | TheBaglady | ↓8 | 55 | 112 | 83.5 | 0 | |
| 94 | OneFrugalGirl | ↑4 | 56 | 92 | 103 | 83.7 | 0 |
| 95 | MakeLoveNotDebt | ↑4 | 84 | 84 | 84.0 | 3 | |
| 96 | Caveman'sFinJourney | New | 54 | 57 | 142 | 84.3 | 0 |
| 97 | TheFinancialBlogger | ↓9 | 93 | 79 | 86.0 | 3 | |
| 98 | RetirementThink | New | 86 | 86.0 | -1 | ||
| 99 | FrugalHomemakerPlus | ↓12 | 87 | 87.0 | 4 | ||
| 100 | My1stMillionAt33 | New | 87 | 87.0 | 3 | ||
| GROUP PF BLOGS - RANKED |
Last updated on Sun May 17 2009 12:28 PM EDT
| FIRE RANK | BLOG | CHANGE | SITEMETER | QUANTCAST | COMPETE | SCORE | PAGE RANK |
| 1 | WiseBread | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4 |
| 2 | FourPillars | ↑2 | 2 | 3 | 2.5 | 2 | |
| 3 | ConsumerismCommentary | - | 4 | 2 | 3.0 | 5 | |
| 4 | PersonalFinanceAdvice | ↓2 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | ||
| 5 | AllFinancialMaters | - | 5 | 4 | 4.5 | 5 | |
| 6 | Queercents | - | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5.3 | 3 |
| 7 | SoundMoneyTips | ↑4 | 8 | 6 | 7.0 | 5 | |
| 8 | AmericanConsumerNews | - | 9 | 5 | 7.0 | 3 | |
| 8 | DebtFree | ↓1 | 3 | 11 | 7.0 | 3 | |
| 9 | SmartMoneyDaily | ↑1 | 7 | 9 | 8.0 | 0 | |
| 10 | CreditBloggers | ↓1 | 10 | 7 | 8.5 | 5 | |
| 11 | TheDiv-Net | ↑1 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 8.7 | 3 |
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If your blog is not listed, please check if it's in the master list of all PF blogs. Your site's presence in the master list means that it has been considered for the rankings. However if your blog pertains solely to investing then it will be listed in a separate set of rankings for investing blogs. Else, please leave a comment or email us with the following:
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Previous Rankings:
- 2009 - Mar, Feb, Jan
- 2008 - Oct, Sep, Jul, May, Apr, Mar , Feb , Jan
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