Oct 08 - Top 100 Personal Finance Blogs - Ranked By Traffic

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The LATEST RANKINGS are available HERE.

Updated on Nov 04, 2008: Welcome back to our rankings of personal finance (pf) blogs for October 2008 based on traffic data for September 2008. It requires a lot of dedicated hard and smart work to figure among the best personal finance blogs. Heartiest congratulations to all bloggers who made it to our list of top 100 personal finance blogs.

We've implemented a couple of new features in this month's rankings.

• The first one is the ability to track the change in a blog's FIRE RANK with respect to its position in the previous month's rankings. Blogs moving up are depicted by a green up arrow and those moving down are depicted by a red down arrow. The number beside the arrow tracks the change in the blog's rankings.
  
• The second feature announces new entrants into the top 100 rankings with the words "New" in red under it's CHANGE column :).
  

Hope these new features will help us to see how we're faring in comparison to other sites in the niche.

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). For example:

• The Wisdom Journal (FIRE RANK: 74) has a Compete Rank of 10 while a Quantcast rank of 116. If Quantcast's script is installed then this site can climb up into the top twenty slots.
  

It makes sense to go through with the implementations to make this game an even playing field. We also noticed a manipulative trend whereby site owners (with highest traffic rank via Compete) removed their quantcast trackers and made their sitemeter data private so that they are evaluated solely on their Compete ranks. This is an unfair practice. If we find many sites following suit we'll have to enforce the presence of a quantcast tracker as a necessary condition for a site to be ranked in this list. We appreciate your cooperation in keeping this ranking fair and clean.

The following tables show traffic rankings of individual and group personal finance blogs respectively based on monthly traffic data (Sep 2008) 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

Rankings	Methodology	Raw Traffic Data	Master List	Notes
INDIVIDUAL PF BLOGS - RANKED

Last updated on Sat Oct 25 2008 03:32 PM EDT

FIRE RANK	BLOG	CHANGE	SITEMETER	QUANTCAST	COMPETE	SCORE	PAGE RANK
1	GetRichSlowly	-	2	1	1	1.3	5
2	MyMoneyBlog	↑3		3	2	2.5	5
3	TheSimpleDollar	↓1	3	2	3	2.7	6
4	MoneySavingMom	↓1	1	6	4	3.7	4
5	BluePrintForFinancialPros	↑2		4		4.0	3
6	FiveCentNickel	-		5	5	5.0	5
7	MomAdvice	↑6		10	6	8.0	4
7	MoneyBlueBook	↑9		7	9	8.0	4
8	TheDigeratiLife	↑2		8	8	8.0	2
9	FreeMoneyFinance	↓1		11	7	9.0	5
10	CashMoneyLife	↓1	6	16	11	11.0	2
11	Moolanomy	↑12		14	12	13.0	3
12	GenerationXFinance	↑8	7	9	25	13.7	3
13	MyTwoDollars	↑5	8	18	17	14.3	4
14	LazyManAndMoney	↓2	12	15	19	15.3	3
15	FrugalDad	↓1	4	29	15	16.0	3
16	NoCreditNeeded	↑3	14	21	23	19.3	5
17	MyDollarPlan	↑13		25	14	19.5	3
18	BeingFrugal	↓3	10	22	27	19.7	3
19	BankDeals	↓15		20		20.0	3
19	TheSun'sFinancialDiary	↑7		19	21	20.0	3
20	ItsJustMoney	↓3	21			21.0	3
21	ChristianPF	↑1		23	22	22.5	4
22	GatherLittleByLittle	↑11	15	30	24	23.0	3
22	TheDoughRoller	↑14		13	33	23.0	3
23	CommonSenseWithMoney	New		32	16	24.0	2
23	MoneySmartLife	↑1	19	24	29	24.0	2
24	MoneyMatter&MoreMusings	↑41		17	35	26.0	3
25	SavingToInvest	↑32	22	26	31	26.3	4
26	AskMrCreditCard	↑8	18	36		27.0	4
27	MillionDollarJourney	↑20		12	42	27.0	3
27	PaidTwice	↓2	13	31	37	27.0	3
28	CouponCravings	↓7	5	59	18	27.3	4
29	BloggingAwayDebt	↓6		28	30	29.0	3
30	NotMadeOfMoney	↑2	25	27	36	29.3	3
31	DebtKid	↑61		34	26	30.0	4
32	FrugalUpstate	↑7	24	40		32.0	4
33	CleverDude	↑21	16	44	39	33.0	3
34	DividendGrowthInvestor	↑14	31	38		34.5	0
35	MrsMicah	↑3		39	32	35.5	4
36	FrugalLawStudent	↓9	23	48	38	36.3	3
37	MoneyMusings	↑41		41	34	37.5	0
38	SingleGuyMoney	↑8	39			39.0	4
39	FIREFinance	↓4	37	42		39.5	4
40	MightyBargainHunter	↓12		52	28	40.0	5
41	ExperimentsInFinance	↑22	9	66	46	40.3	2
42	MyOpenWallet	↓17	20	51	51	40.7	3
43	MyPersonalFinanceJourney	↑30	27	53	44	41.3	3
44	MillionaireMommyNextDoor	↓15	29	54		41.5	4
44	MoneyUnder30	↓1		33	50	41.5	4
45	SenseToSave	-	32	50	43	41.7	0
46	MoneyNing	↑22	11	95	20	42.0	4
47	IWillTeachYouToBeRich	↓10		73	13	43.0	5
48	FrugalForLife	↑1		35	54	44.5	4
49	FreeFromBroke	↑13	42		47	44.5	3
50	BibleMoneyMatters	↓10	26	61	48	45.0	4
51	EverydayFinance	↑9		46		46.0	3
52	PTMoney	↑25	34	43	62	46.3	4
53	MoneyCrashers	↓1		37	56	46.5	4
54	ADashOfInsight	↓1		47		47.0	6
55	DinksFinance	↑6		55	40	47.5	6
56	TheHappyRock	↓6	35	49	60	48.0	4
57	PunnyMoney	↓15	28	64	52	48.0	3
58	TheBaglady	↓14	49			49.0	3
59	DontMessWithTaxes	↓4	40	60		50.0	5
60	DebtFree	↑14	33	71		52.0	4
61	HowISaveMoney	↑8		45	59	52.0	2
62	PoorerThanYou	↑4	41		65	53.0	2
63	MyInvestingBlog	↓5		58	49	53.5	2
64	Neville'sFinancialBlog	↑8		57	55	56.0	3
65	TiredButHappy	↑6	57			57.0	4
66	KeepingKingdomFirst	↓35	17	110	45	57.3	3
67	TheFrugalDuchess	↑14	36	80		58.0	5
67	ZenPersonalFinance	↑30	43	68	63	58.0	5
68	TheWanderingTaxPro	↑8	58			58.0	4
69	AlmostFrugal	↓28		77	41	59.0	4
70	StopBuyingCrap	↓6		56	64	60.0	5
71	BluntMoney	↓12		67	53	60.0	3
72	TheFinancialBlogger	↑28			61	61.0	4
73	NoDebtPlan	↓6	51	63	72	62.0	2
74	TheWisdomJournal	New		116	10	63.0	4
75	GiveMeBackMyFiveBucks	↓45	30	99		64.5	3
76	ThePiggyBanker	New		62	68	65.0	4
77	Jim'sFinanceandInvestment	New	67			67.0	3
78	DebtFreeRevolution	New		65	70	67.5	4
79	PlonkeeMoney	↑3	45	72	86	67.7	2
80	YetAnotherBlogAboutMoney	↑1	68			68.0	4
81	GettingFinancesDone	↑15	52		85	68.5	0
82	AFrugalLivingBlog	New		69		69.0	4
83	PennyFoolish	New	69			69.0	3
84	MyFinancialJourney	New	44	84	79	69.0	0
85	EnglishMajorMoney	↓22	47	92		69.5	3
85	MoneyAndValues	↑3	61	78		69.5	3
86	AskDong	New	70			70.0	3
87	2millionBlog	↓12		85	57	71.0	3
88	Mapgirl’sFiscalChallenge	↓5	50	90	73	71.0	2
89	OnlineSavingsBlog	New			71	71.0	0
90	Caveman'sFinJourney	↓6	55	81	78	71.3	3
91	MakeLoveNotDebt	↓5		79	66	72.5	5
92	DividendMoney	New		70	76	73.0	3
93	GradMoneyMatters	New			74	74.0	3
94	BankBonuses	↓5	54	89	81	74.7	2
95	BudgetsAre$exy	New	48	109	69	75.3	3
96	CanadianDreamFreeAt45	↓45	46		107	76.5	3
97	EverybodyLovesYourMoney	New			77	77.0	3
97	My1stMillionAt33	New		87	67	77.0	3
98	MoneyAndSuch	↑1	59	98		78.5	3
99	OneFrugalGirl	↓19	62	96		79.0	3
100	FinanceViewPoint	↓10	56	75	110	80.3	0

GROUP PF BLOGS - RANKED

Last updated on Sat Oct 25 2008 05:09 PM EDT

FIRE RANK	BLOG	CHANGE	SITEMETER	QUANTCAST	COMPETE	SCORE	PAGE RANK
1	WiseBread	-	1	1	1	1.0	3
2	PersonalFinanceAdvice	New		2		2.0	3
3	ConsumerismCommentary	↓1	2	3	4	3.0	5
4	AllFinancialMaters	↓1		4	2	3.0	3
5	SmartMoneyDaily	-		6	3	4.5	0
6	Queercents	↓2	4	5	6	5.0	5
7	SoundMoneyTips	↑4		7	5	6.0	4
8	QuestForFourPillars	↓2	3		9	6.0	2
9	AmericanConsumerNews	↓2		8	7	7.5	3
10	TheDiv-Net	↓1	5		10	7.5	2
11	CreditBloggers	↓3		9	8	8.5	4

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