Top 100 Personal Finance Blogs – Ranked By Traffic
December 31, 2009 by FIRE Finance
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Note: Please do not be misguided by this post's date i.e. Sep 2007. We've published Dec 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 Dec 31, 2009: Welcome back to our rankings of personal finance (pf) blogs for Dec 2009 based on traffic data of Nov 2009. It's the last ranking of this year. And it happens so that it's being presented on the last day of the year :).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."
New: We are also maintaining a list on twitter for the Top 100 Personal Finance Blogs by Traffic - http://twitter.com/FIREfinance/top100pfblogs. If you are on this list and not on our twitter list, give us a tweet and we will add you to the list.
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 (Nov 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
Last updated on Sat Dec 12 2009 05:29 PM EST
| Rankings | Methodology | Raw Traffic Data | Master List | Notes |
| INDIVIDUAL PF BLOGS - RANKED | ||||
| GROUP PF BLOGS - RANKED |
Last updated on Fri Dec 25 2009 12:48 PM EST
| FIRE RANK | BLOG | CHANGE | SITEMETER | QUANTCAST | COMPETE | SCORE | PAGE RANK |
| 1 | WiseBread | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1.3 | 4 |
| 2 | BluePrintForFinancialPros | - | 3 | 2 | 2.5 | 4 | |
| 3 | FourPillars | ↑1 | 1 | 5 | 3.0 | 3 | |
| 4 | AmericanBankingNews | ↑3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3.3 | 3 |
| 5 | ConsumerismCommentary | ↓2 | 5 | 3 | 4.0 | 6 | |
| 6 | DebtFree | ↓1 | 4 | 4.0 | 4 | ||
| 7 | AllFinancialMaters | ↓1 | 6 | 6.0 | 4 | ||
| 8 | AmericanConsumerNews | ↑3 | 6 | 7 | 6.5 | 3 | |
| 9 | Queercents | ↓1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 7.0 | 3 |
| 10 | CreditBloggers | ↓1 | 7 | 8 | 7.5 | 6 | |
| 11 | TheDiv-Net | ↓1 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 8.3 | 0 |
| 12 | FinancialSamurai | New | 10 | 10.0 | 0 | ||
| 13 | SmartMoneyDaily | ↓1 | 11 | 11.0 | 0 | ||
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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:
If you provide us with proper information, we will include your blog in our next publication of rankings. Provided that your blog's traffic data (Quantcast/Sitemeter/Compete) exists, and is 2000 or more. Please do not feel sad if your site did not make it to this month's rankings. This set of rankings will be updated regularly. So new blogs will get an opportunity to be ranked every month.
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We hope you enjoyed this post. Our heartfelt thanks to the pf blogosphere's active community for their honest feedback. We will continue to improve the rankings with your participation. This list belongs to the community and will help us all improve, one creative post at a time. So joyfully we bid adieu till the next update!
Previous Rankings:
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:
- blog url
- google page rank
- sitemeter traffic url (if any)
- your contact email id (so that we may notify you when this list is updated)
If you provide us with proper information, we will include your blog in our next publication of rankings. Provided that your blog's traffic data (Quantcast/Sitemeter/Compete) exists, and is 2000 or more. Please do not feel sad if your site did not make it to this month's rankings. This set of rankings will be updated regularly. So new blogs will get an opportunity to be ranked every month.
Already in the master list?
To help us serve you more efficiently, for those of you who are already in the master list please let us know if any of the following takes place:
- you have added a new tracker (Sitemeter/Quantcast/Compete)
- you have removed one of the trackers (Sitemeter/Quantcast/Compete)
- you have made your sitemeter data public (from private).
If our site interests you, please extend your support by subscribing to our feed. This will help us deliver our stories to your feed reader where you can read it with pleasure in your own sweet leisure.We hope you enjoyed this post. Our heartfelt thanks to the pf blogosphere's active community for their honest feedback. We will continue to improve the rankings with your participation. This list belongs to the community and will help us all improve, one creative post at a time. So joyfully we bid adieu till the next update!
Previous Rankings:
- 2009 - Sep, Aug, Apr, Mar, Feb, Jan
- 2008 - Oct, Sep, Jul, May, Apr, Mar , Feb , Jan
- 2007 - Nov, Oct, Sep
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