Top 100 Personal Finance Blogs – Ranked By Traffic

March 4, 2010 by FIRE Finance

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Note: Please do not be misguided by this post's url date i.e. Sep 2007. We've published Feb 2010's rankings at the same url to keep it fresh with the latest rankings. Makes bookmarking easy :).

Updated on March 04, 2010: Welcome back to our rankings of personal finance (pf) blogs for Feb 2010 based on traffic data of Jan 2010. 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."

Before we move on to the rankings, we'd like to mention that we are running a giveaway for the book"Get Financially Naked - How to talk money with your honey." You simply need to leave a comment to enter the contest. Check it out.

Note: From now on this list will be updated quarterly. The next rankings will be published in May 2010.
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 (Jan 2010) 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

Methodology

Raw Traffic Data

Master List

Notes

INDIVIDUAL PF BLOGS - RANKED

Last updated on Sun Feb 21 2010 04:21 PM EST

FIRE RANK	BLOG	CHANGE	SITEMETER	QUANTCAST	COMPETE	SCORE	PAGE RANK
1	DealSeekingMom	↑1		2	1	1.5	6
2	MoneySavingMom	↓1		1	2	1.5	4
3	CommonSenseWithMoney	↑2		4	3	3.5	4
4	TheSimpleDollar	-	1	3	7	3.7	6
5	GetRichSlowly	↓2		10	4	7.0	5
6	MyMoneyBlog	-		8	6	7.0	3
6	SavingToInvest	↑12		6	8	7.0	3
7	MoneyBlueBook	↑2		7	10	8.5	5
8	CouponCravings	↓1		13	5	9.0	4
9	TheDigeratiLife	↑2		11	14	12.5	3

10	ChristianPF	↑2		15	11	13.0	3
11	MoneyNing	↓1		18	9	13.5	4
12	FiveCentNickel	↓4		16	12	14.0	3
13	BankDeals	-		5	25	15.0	4
14	CashMoneyLife	-		19	13	16.0	3
14	Moolanomy	↑2		12	20	16.0	3
15	FreeMoneyFinance	-		14	22	18.0	5
16	DepositAccounts	New		9	29	19.0	4
17	KeepingKingdomFirst	-	5	32	23	20.0	4
18	EngineerADebtFreeLife	↑1		22	21	21.5	0

19	MoneyUnder30	↑5		17	28	22.5	5
20	BargainBabe	↑11	7		38	22.5	3
21	AskMrCreditCard	-	3	46		24.5	4
21	DebtKid	↑2		31	18	24.5	4
22	FiscalGeek	↑24	9		42	25.5	4
23	MomAdvice	↓3		36	15	25.5	3
24	MyTwoDollars	↑8	6	34	37	25.7	2
25	TheSun'sFinancialDiary	-		25	27	26.0	5
26	NotMadeOfMoney	↑8		20	33	26.5	3
27	DontMessWithTaxes	↑23	10	28	46	28.0	5

28	GenerationXFinance	↑2		21	36	28.5	3
29	ManVsDebt	-	11	35	40	28.7	5
30	TheFinanceBuff	↑3		24	35	29.5	4
31	GatherLittleByLittle	↑13	8	42	39	29.7	3
32	GoodFinancialCents	↑6		43	17	30.0	5
33	BeingFrugal	↓7	4	54	32	30.0	3
34	MoneySmartLife	↑2		27	34	30.5	4
35	BudgetsAre$exy	↑13	12	40	43	31.7	3
36	ExperimentsInFinance	↓2	2		63	32.5	4
37	BibleMoneyMatters	-		41	26	33.5	3

37	TheDoughRoller	↓15		48	19	33.5	3
38	FrugalDad	↓10		45	24	34.5	3
38	MyDollarPlan	↓11		38	31	34.5	3
39	LazyManAndMoney	-		30	41	35.5	5
40	IWillTeachYouToBeRich	↓5		55	16	35.5	4
41	SteadfastFinances	↑31	13		58	35.5	2
42	NoCreditNeeded	↓2	15	44	49	36.0	3
43	DividendGrowthInvestor	-		23	52	37.5	3
44	CleverDude	↑3	14	60	44	39.3	3
45	MoneyCrashers	↑21		49	30	39.5	2

46	MoneyMatter&MoreMusings	↓4		26	54	40.0	4
47	PoorerThanYou	↑7	18		62	40.0	3
48	MillionDollarJourney	↑10		29	55	42.0	4
49	FreeFromBroke	↓8	17	50	61	42.7	2
50	PTMoney	↓5		39	48	43.5	3
51	PunnyMoney	↑2	16	59	57	44.0	3
52	TheFinanceJourney	New	22	33	80	45.0	3
53	BloggingAwayDebt	↓1		37	56	46.5	3
54	LittlePeopleWealth	↓7	24	71	45	46.7	3
55	StopBuyingCrap	↑5		52	47	49.5	5

56	Fine-TunedFinances	↑17	20		81	50.5	0
57	UltimateMoneyBlog	↑23	27		77	52.0	0
58	FIREFinance	↑12	26	63	68	52.3	3
59	TheWisdomJournal	↓10			53	53.0	3
60	ThePiggyBanker	↓3		57	51	54.0	4
61	MightyBargainHunter	-		58	50	54.0	3
62	NoDebtPlan	↓11	23	81	59	54.3	2
63	TheHappyRock	↑5	29	64	71	54.7	0
64	PaidTwice	↓5	32	68	72	57.3	3
65	MyOpenWallet	↓9	19	56	99	58.0	5

66	TightFistedMiser	↑26	36	65	74	58.3	4
67	FrugalLawStudent	↓12	39		79	59.0	4
68	MyPersonalFinanceJourney	↑13	33		85	59.0	2
69	TheFrugalDuchess	-	34		86	60.0	5
70	AlmostFrugal	↓7			60	60.0	3
71	HowISaveMoney	↑8		61	64	62.5	4
72	MrsMicah	↓8		62	65	63.5	0
73	Pecuniarities	↓6	35	70	91	65.3	2
74	LiveLearnInvest	↑9			66	66.0	3
75	TheWanderingTaxPro	↑25	30		104	67.0	5

76	MoneyEnergy	-			67	67.0	2
77	BeingFrugalIsFabulous	↓15	37	75	90	67.3	3
78	MyFinancialJourney	↓4	25		110	67.5	3
79	Neville'sFinancialBlog	↑6		66	70	68.0	3
80	OutOfDebtAgain	↓3	40	77	88	68.3	3
81	MyJourneyToMillions	New		69	69	69.0	3
82	Jessie'sMoney	↓3	49	90		69.5	3
83	MillionaireMommyNextDoor	New			73	73.0	4
84	MoneyAndSuch	↑5	51	95		73.0	0
85	FrugalUpstate	↓7	21		126	73.5	4

86	TheCanadianFinanceBlog	↓8		53	97	75.0	5
87	JoeTaxPayer	↑10			75	75.0	4
88	GiveMeBackMyFiveBucks	↓1		47	103	75.0	0
89	OneFrugalGirl	New	42	76	108	75.3	2
90	TheFinancialBlogger	↑1			76	76.0	3
91	MoneyFunk	↑8	47	83	102	77.3	4
92	RichCreditDebtLoan	New		72	83	77.5	2
93	DinksFinance	↓11		67	89	78.0	3
94	GeneralFinance	New			78	78.0	0
95	RealmOfProsperity	New	38		119	78.5	3

96	2millionBlog	New		73	84	78.5	2
97	GettingFinancesDone	New	44	78	116	79.3	3
98	BloggingBanks	New	45	86	107	79.3	0
99	ThriftyFloridaMama	↓24	58		101	79.5	3
100	ItsJustMoney	↓2	28		133	80.5	0

GROUP PF BLOGS - RANKED

Last updated on Sat Feb 27 2010 12:34 PM EST

FIRE RANK	BLOG	CHANGE	SITEMETER	QUANTCAST	COMPETE	SCORE	PAGE RANK
1	WiseBread	-	1	3	1	1.7	4
2	BluePrintForFinancialPros	-		2	2	2.0	5
3	FourPillars	-		1	4	2.5	3
4	DebtFree	↑2	3			3.0	4
5	ConsumerismCommentary	-		4	3	3.5	6
6	AmericanBankingNews	↓2	2	5	7	4.7	4
7	MaximizingMoney	New		6	5	5.5	3
8	AllFinancialMaters	↓1		7	6	6.5	5
9	AmericanConsumerNews	↓1		8	8	8.0	3
10	TheDiv-Net	↑1	4	9	14	9.0	0

11	PersonalFinanceAnalyst	New		10	9	9.5	3
12	Queercents	↓3	5	11	13	9.7	2
13	FinancialSamurai	↓1			10	10.0	3
14	CreditBloggers	↓4			11	11.0	6
15	SmartMoneyDaily	↓2			12	12.0	0

Request
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).

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!

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