25 Most Influential Personal Finance Bloggers (By the Numbers)
At Ask the Advisor, we enjoy keeping tabs on what other personal finance bloggers are saying. Recently, our interest in personal finance and blogging begged the question: which personal finance bloggers have the biggest reach? With nowhere to turn to answer this question definitively, we thought it would be an interesting exercise to rank all of the blogs in the personal finance blogosphere.
In ranking the most influential personal finance bloggers, our goal was to show — using objective data from reliable sources — which blogs about personal finance are the most popular. To this end, we used data for these four metrics to calculate the rankings:
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— Top 25 (see complete methodology below)
| Rank | Site |  |
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| 1 | BloggingStocks | 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 37 |
| 2 | Get Rich Slowly | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 36 |
| 3 | The Simple Dollar | 5 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 35 |
| 4 | My Money Blog | 5 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 35 |
| 5 | I Will Teach You To Be Rich | 6 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 35 |
| 6 | Blueprint for Financial Prosperity | 6 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 34 |
| 7 | Free Money Finance | 5 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 34 |
| 8 | Money, Matter, and More Musings | 5 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 33 |
| 9 | Consumerism Commentary | 5 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 33 |
| 10 | The Digerati Life | 5 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 33 |
| 11 | fivecentnickel.com | 5 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 32 |
| 12 | AllFinancialMatters | 5 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 32 |
| 13 | Personal Finance Advice | 4 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 31 |
| 14 | Generation X Finance | 5 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 31 |
| 15 | PFBlog | 5 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 31 |
| 16 | Mighty Bargain Hunter | 5 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 30 |
| 17 | No Credit Needed | 5 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 30 |
| 18 | Blogging Away Debt | 4 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 29 |
| 19 | My First Million at 33 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 29 |
| 20 | Boston Gal's Open Wallet | 5 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 29 |
| 21 | Getting Finances Done | 5 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 29 |
| 22 | Online Business - Inside and Out | 4 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 28 |
| 23 | My Two Dollars | 5 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 27 |
| 24 | Binary Dollar | 4 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 27 |
| 25 | Grad Money Matters | 4 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 27 |
Methodology
To begin, we found a set of Web sites that met a certain criteria. To become a member of the set of Web sites to be ranked, a Web site must, as of August 14, 2007:
- be listed on our previous post, Top 100 Personal Finance Blogs; or
- be ranked in the top 200 for the phrase finance blog on Google; and
- be primarily a blog about personal finance.
For each metric, a score was assigned on a 0–10 scale. For Google PageRank, raw PageRank data was scored. For Alexa Rank, Technorati Authority, and Bloglines Subscribers, the Web sites were broken up into deciles. If a Web site was in the 0>10% decile, a 1 was scored; for the 10>20% decile, a 2 was scored; and so on, up to a 10 being scored for the 90–100% decile. If no data was available, a 0 was scored.
The overall score for each Web site is the sum of the scores of the four metrics. In the event of a tie in overall score, the tie is broken according to the Alexa Rank raw data.