Aug09 - Top 100 Personal Finance Blogs - Ranked By Traffic

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Updated on Aug 31, 2009: Welcome back to our rankings of personal finance (pf) blogs for Aug 2009 based on traffic data of July 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."

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Coming back to the rankings ....

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 (Jul 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

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

Last updated on Sat Aug 22 2009 09:08 PM EDT

FIRE RANK	BLOG	CHANGE	SITEMETER	QUANTCAST	COMPETE	SCORE	PAGE RANK
1	MoneySavingMom	-	1	1	2	1.3	5
2	GetRichSlowly	-		2	4	3.0	5
3	TheSimpleDollar	-	2	3	5	3.3	6
4	DealSeekingMom	-		4	3	3.5	5
5	CommonSenseWithMoney	↑1	3	6	7	5.3	4
6	CouponCravings	↑2		10	1	5.5	5
7	MyMoneyBlog	↓1		8	8	8.0	5
8	FiveCentNickel	↓1		7	9	8.0	3
9	BluePrintForFinancialPros	↓4		11	6	8.5	3
10	FrugalDad	↑7	4	13	11	9.3	3
11	BankDeals	↓1		5	14	9.5	4
12	MoneyBlueBook	↓3		9	13	11.0	5
13	TheDigeratiLife	↓1		12	12	12.0	2
14	MomAdvice	-		20	10	15.0	2
15	FreeMoneyFinance	↓4		14	17	15.5	5
16	CashMoneyLife	↓3		16	16	16.0	3
17	BeingFrugal	↑1	7	22	22	17.0	3
17	ChristianPF	↓1		15	19	17.0	3
18	Moolanomy	↑12		17	21	19.0	3
19	AskMrCreditCard	↑3	6	35		20.5	4
20	TheDoughRoller	↑6		18	23	20.5	3
21	EngineerADebtFreeLife	↑18		19	24	21.5	2
22	KeepingKingdomFirst	↑15	11	31	25	22.3	5
23	SavingToInvest	↓8		21	26	23.5	4
24	MyTwoDollars	↓1	8	33	31	24.0	2
25	DebtKid	↑4		32	18	25.0	4
26	TheSun'sFinancialDiary	↓7		23	28	25.5	3
27	GenerationXFinance	↓7		26	30	28.0	3
28	LazyManAndMoney	-		28	29	28.5	3
29	BeingFrugalIsFabulous	↓2	13	37	37	29.0	1
30	MyDollarPlan	↓5		29	33	31.0	3
31	MoneySmartLife	↓7		30	32	31.0	2
32	PunnyMoney	↑17	17	41	39	32.3	2
33	BibleMoneyMatters	↑8		38	27	32.5	3
34	NoCreditNeeded	↓2	14	39	45	32.7	3
35	BargainBabe	↑17	10	56	34	33.3	5
36	GatherLittleByLittle	↓2	9	51	40	33.3	3
37	MoneyNing	↓16		49	20	34.5	4
38	IWillTeachYouToBeRich	↓2		54	15	34.5	3
39	ManVsDebt	↑25	22	42	41	35.0	5
40	BudgetsAre$exy	↑33	21		49	35.0	3
40	MillionDollarJourney	-		24	46	35.0	3
41	TheFinanceBuff	↓8	12	34	62	36.0	3
42	MoneyMatter&MoreMusings	↓12		25	48	36.5	3
43	MoneyUnder30	↓5		43	35	39.0	5
44	PTMoney	↓2		36	42	39.0	3
45	FreeFromBroke	↓1	18	53	47	39.3	3
46	DividendGrowthInvestor	↓15		27	53	40.0	3
47	StopBuyingCrap	↑3		46	36	41.0	4
48	NotMadeOfMoney	↓18		47	38	42.5	3
49	MyOpenWallet	↓3	16	44	69	43.0	3
50	PaidTwice	↓20	20	48	72	46.7	3
51	TheHappyRock	-	23	59	58	46.7	2
52	ThePiggyBanker	↑3		45	50	47.5	4
53	NoDebtPlan	↑8	29	52	66	49.0	0
54	BloggingAwayDebt	↓14		40	59	49.5	3
55	PoorerThanYou	↑5	24	68	57	49.7	3
56	MrsMicah	↓3		50	51	50.5	3
57	MoneyMusings	↑8		58	43	50.5	0
58	TheFrugalDuchess	↓1	19	73	61	51.0	5
59	FrugalUpstate	↓24	27		77	52.0	4
60	DontMessWithTaxes	↓15	26	57	75	52.7	5
61	ExperimentsInFinance	↑2	5	100	54	53.0	3
62	TightFistedMiser	↑12	36	55	70	53.7	0
63	FrugalLawStudent	↓15	42		67	54.5	3
64	CleverDude	↓16	15	86	63	54.7	3
65	TheWisdomJournal	↑16			55	55.0	3
66	LittlePeopleWealth	↓19	37	65	68	56.7	4
67	FIREFinance	↓8	31	66	73	56.7	3
68	GoodFinancialCents	↓9		70	44	57.0	4
69	ItsJustMoney	↓11	25	62	85	57.3	0
70	MyPersonalFinanceJourney	↓8	33		88	60.5	3
71	ThriftyFloridaMama	↓1	28	98	56	60.7	3
72	WellHeeled	↓6		63		63.0	0
73	MightyBargainHunter	↓11		75	52	63.5	3
74	Neville'sFinancialBlog	↑2		69	60	64.5	3
75	MoneyCrashers	↑9		67	64	65.5	2
76	Fine-TunedFinances	New	32	89	76	65.7	2
77	Pecuniarities	↓5	34	82	83	66.3	2
78	2millionBlog	↓10		72	65	68.5	3
79	SenseToSave	↓25	30	80	96	68.7	2
80	Caveman'sFinJourney	↑16	35	76	98	69.7	2
81	BloggingBanks	New	46	74	90	70.0	0
82	MoneyEnergy	↑6			71	71.0	0
82	UltimateMoneyBlog	↓13	40		102	71.0	0
83	Mapgirl’sFiscalChallenge	-	39	81	94	71.3	5
84	AroundTheSun	New			74	74.0	5
85	HowISaveMoney	↓18		61	91	76.0	2
86	RichCreditDebtLoan	New	45	85	100	76.7	0
87	MoneyAndSuch	New	54	101		77.5	3
88	LiveLearnInvest	New			78	78.0	0
89	MillionaireMommyNextDoor	↓9		79	79	79.0	4
90	Studenomics	New		60	99	79.5	4
91	DinksFinance	↓5		78	82	80.0	4
92	AlmostFrugal	↓14			81	81.0	3
93	TheFinancialBlogger	↑4		87	80	83.5	3
94	SavingsToolbox	↓12	53		115	84.0	3
95	FreetheDronesPFBlog	New		84		84.0	0
96	TheFinanceJourney	↓17	52	97	107	85.3	0
97	MyFinancialJourney	↓10	38		133	85.5	0
98	JosephSangl	New		64	111	87.5	3
99	My1stMillionAt33	↑1			89	89.0	3
100	LearnFinancialPlanning	New		95	84	89.5	2

GROUP PF BLOGS - RANKED

Last updated on Sat Aug 22 2009 05:37 PM EDT

FIRE RANK	BLOG	CHANGE	SITEMETER	QUANTCAST	COMPETE	SCORE	PAGE RANK
1	WiseBread	-	1	1	1	1.0	4
2	ConsumerismCommentary	↑1		2	2	2.0	5
3	AllFinancialMaters	↑2			3	3.0	5
4	DebtFree	↑4	3			3.0	4
5	CreditBloggers	↑5			4	4.0	6
6	Queercents	-	2	3	8	4.3	3
7	FourPillars	↓5			5	5.0	3
8	TheDiv-Net	↑3	4	4	9	5.7	0
9	AmericanConsumerNews	↓1			6	6.0	3
10	SmartMoneyDaily	↓1			7	7.0	0

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