I'd like to see a rankings by Compete score, which I think is better than Quantcast.

Boston Gal's Open Wallet probably does 5 times the amount of traffic that I do (easily), so I question how good these really are.

I've also never heard of SoundMoneyTips or StockGumShoe, so you can understand my surprise that they are in the top 10.

Lazy Man:
Here are the Compete scores for:

SoundMoneyTips: Monthly Traffic: 22844

StockGumShoe: Monthly Traffic: 11137

And since Boston Gal's Open Wallet does not have a domain name of its own Compete cannot generate its score!

Overall in our experience so far, Quantcast has been generating reliable data at par with Site Meter and Google Analytics.

Hope this information helps.
Cheers,
FIRE Finance

Nice list!

I'm pleasantly surprised to get some external objective feedback on how well I am doing and how well personal finance, as a sector, is generally doing.

However, as hinted at by Lazy Man, I think it will take time to discover all the sites that fit into your measured category. If you can do that - there will eventually be less "surprises" hiding out there.

Hi Fire Finance,

This is a fun list you've put together. I have noticed quite a few sites that are not mentioned. Blueprint for Financial Prosperity, All Financial Matters, Free Money Finance, and Wise Bread are all very popular blogs.

I wonder if Quantcast doesn't have familiarity with many sites? Still, this is a neat thing you've done, and as with any project of this magnitude, it will need a little tweaking.

Patrick

It looks like the SoundMoneyTips is really part of Seeking Alpha (http://soundmoneytips.com/page/about_us ), and I would claim that violates the "...strictly to personal finance blogs written and managed by a single owner sharing their personal life's experiences." clause.

As for StockGumShoe, I'm really quite surprised by their traffic, but I'm a little skeptical. Compare it with Jim's Bargaineering.com/articles (Blueprint for Financial Prosperity) - http://siteanalytics.compete.com/stockgumshoe.com+bargaineering.com?metric=uv

For my site, Quantcast explicitly says that it has sparse data, which sounds like it knows it has a problem. It also says my audience is heavily female, which would be a complete shock to me. They give a little more information on their data here: http://www.quantcast.com/interpreting-panels.jsp. I don't have Flash on the computer that I'm on so I can't see what heavily female means, but it would be interesting to compare it to iVillage.

I'd suggest using something similar to Text Link Ads Blog Juice Calculator, which factors in 4 or so factors (Technorati, Alexa (though I can replacing this), and some other things that I can't remember right now).

I understand the reasoning for not counting www.bargaineering.com/articles, but then you can't really count www.getrichslowly.org/blog (GRS). I realize that Quantcast failed for BPFFP and worked for GRS, but that just shows you Quantcast's limitations.

Why include Google PR and exclude Technorati? Google PR is like Technorati in that it measures links and link value and not necessarily traffic.

I'm not saying that Quantcast is particularly wrong about my site, just pointing the flaws in the measuring process.

I didn't mean any disrepect to you for creating this list - it is a very good list. I just want to be of service helping you best measure blogs - even though it's extremely difficult to impossible to do accurately.

Hi Fire Finance,

I guess I skimmed over All Financial Matters. It is tough to read them when they are not in alphabetical order. Free Money Finance is very popular, so it should definitely be in there.

Thanks,
Patrick

Thanks Patrick. We are working to include the following blogs:
- BluePrintForFinancialProsperity
- FreeMoneyFinance
- A Frugal Living Blog
- CashMoneyLife

The scripts are running, please check back soon to see the results.

Cheers,
FIRE Finance

Fire...
I have well over 17,000 uniques per month...
NCN

NCN Blog please provide us with your data's url and we will re-evaluate your rank.
Cheers,
FIRE Finance

Frugal Guy, we are going to include your blog in our new list. Thanks for letting us know :).
Cheers,
FIRE Finance

FIRE, I'm sure you spent a lot of time on this list but I agree with others that the traffic stats don't represent the actual number of visitors to these sites. I see you're making some revisions, looking forward to an updated list!

Hello,

Thank you very much for compiling this list, but I'm a little confused. You used Quantcast as your source for determining traffic, but this is a service that I've never heard of and does not have correct information about my site. My SiteMeter stats are, as always, at the bottom of the far right sidebar of PoorerThanYou.com. From your update I see that I'm not the only one coming to you with this concern - I hope that PTY will be included in your reevaluation of the list.

Thank you!
- Stephanie

Hey, I should be #27, but I'm not even on the list!

CleverDude:
Thanks for letting us know about your presence, we shall add your blog to the new list.
Cheers,
FIRE Finance

Stephanie, your need shall be addressed too. We shall check the sitemeter data too when we compile the sitemeter ranks.

Cheers,
FIRE Finance

quantcast isn't properly reporting for
Adventures In Money Making - http://moneyshaker.blogspot.com

I'm attaching a pdf of sitemeter stats.
Can I trouble you to add the site to your list?

regards
Nirav.

Nirav,
We shall include your data in our new list of rankings.
Cheers,
FIRE Finance

Sagar:
We are not including blogs in which the posts are written by a team of writers. This list of blogs represent single individuals writing on personal finance based on their experiences and study/research. We hope you understand that we have to stick to a theme for this listing.
Cheers,
FIRE Finance

I guess my site is too new to be added. Maybe within the next couple of months, I'll make it.
www.1guymoney.blogspot.com

I have never heard of Compete rankings but I am putting my site out here for y'all to check out too. Maybe I can be on your list quite soon.

Hey, I appreciate compiling this list. It's always great to see where you stand, and also get links to some new sites you haven't seen yet.

Thanks!
Mike

Hi Fire Finance,

Thanks for making this list and including all the updates. I know this was a lot of work on your end - especially with all the blogs that are not accurately measured. I think the problem is with the limitations of the sites you are using, which is not your fault of course. Still, I think this is a fun list and one that will spark many a conversation and debate. Again, thanks for your hard work.

Patrick

Hi!

What a huge project :)

My monthly traffic with sitemeter is higher than the blogs at the bottom of your list and your list goes up to 37 not 100 but I'm not on there lol.

Have a nice day :)

paidtwice

Hi,

Great job with the rankings! Will you please include my blog in your list too? I write for "Grad Money Matters" (gradmoneymatters.com). Here are the links for Quantcast and Compete for my blog. Sitemeter is currently not public.

Quantcast (Monthly uniques 3,814): http://www.quantcast.com/gradmoneymatters.com
Compete (Monthly traffic 15,067): http://siteanalytics.compete.com/gradmoneymatters.com?metric=uv

Thanks!
-ispf

Nice info. I used to use SiteMeter but I had to abandon it because my
usage kept going up and when I cracked 1 million page views in a month I had to stop with them because they were charging $30 a month. I prefer Google Analytics, which offers similar stats and is free.

Trent

Hi FIRE Finance,

Thanks for including Queercents on your list. May I ask you make one change?

Instead of TheQueerCents... can you list it as Queercents. (No "The" and lower case "c" - all one word)

Thanks much,
Nina

After reading your fresh comments (after re-compilation of the rankings), the responses are:
- we will add the sites (of those of you who mentioned an inclusion in the list) when we compile it again later.
- the sitemeter list has 37 sites since those were the only ones implementing sitemeter in our entire list of pf bloggers! As our database of sites grow the list will grow provided they have implemented sitemeter and made the data public.
- in future we will implement cut off limits for traffic for all the three rankings. The limits are dynamic and will depend on the no. of sites we are ranking.
- Spelling mistakes will be taken care of.
Thanks a lot for your feedback. Please leave more comments so that we may improve the rankings based on them.
Cheers,
FIRE Finance

Hi Fire Finance,

I notice Broke-Ass Student (http://www.brokeass-student.com) is included in your Top 100 list. Thank you for the incredible honour! However, the url listed for Broke-Ass Student in your listing is now an old, defunct link. Would it be possible to re-evaluate Broke-Ass Student based on its current home site and stats, at http://www.brokeass-student.com?

Thank you for reading,

Jennifer Lynn
Broke-Ass Student

What a great list! I can't even imagine the work that went into compiling it!

I would like ask that my blog, frugalupstate.blogspot.com be considered for inclusion. I blog strictly on Frugality, and I see you have included several other frugal blogs such as Frugal for Life, Frugal Living by a Frugal Guy etc etc.

My Sitemeter stats are open to the public, with my monthly visits running around 9,000 (I peaked at 12,151 last month due to inclusion in the Dollar Stretcher Newsletter).

Thank you

Hi,

Great post! Thanks for doing this.

I wanted to let you know that my blog, Around the Sun, has moved. At your convenience, please update your blogroll with our new address: http://aroundthesunblog.com/

Thanks so much!
Amy

My sitemeter is public and can be found here: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=s&s=s17flexo&r=33

Neat list!

Hi, could I please get my blog listed in there.

http://www.mrcheapstuff.com

Thank you,
Dean Takamine

Medicated Money ranked 74 a month in traffic, how is that in the top percentage?

That is a great job. I really appreciate the tremendous effort that went into compiling the list. Some observations of my own.

1. No one metric or system is perfect. Each site (Quantcast et al) has its own premises and definitions of traffic. Further they have their own way of measuring them. Let alone being perfect. I would rely only on their relative merits instead of absolute numbers.

2. It does not make sense to update the list sooner than a month.

3. A reasonable cutoff traffic is desirable for a blog to make it into the list.

4. How about consolidating the 3 tables into one? Do we really need data from all the three sites in the first place?

My 2 cents :)

Thanks for including me in the list. It must took you a lot of time to put together the ranking.

You missed my blog too:

http://enoughwealth.com

The sitemeter stats are public and on the site. I checked and wasn't listed by Quantcast so I've added in their javascript as well.

I was getting picked up by compete already and seem to be around 50ish based on the rankings you have listed for other sites.

Regard
EnoughWealth

It's a great job, but I also think three separate lists is a bit cumbersome. If you have the skills (or can get some help) a single list of:
blogname,
sitemeter rank & data,
Quantcast rank & data,
Compete rank & data

would be better - ideally with the applet letting you sort by blogname or any of the three rankings.

Regards
http://enoughwealth.com

Wow, I'm very impressed. I definitely like to be included in the next roundup, but I imagine I'd just appear in what will an inevitable, "all others" category.

Wooo.... I could never resist a great list. Nice job! This must've taken a lot of work.

I do have a tiny bit to add about Wise Bread:

"Wise Bread is a popular blog but is maintained by a group and is not strictly related to personal finance."

But isn't Queercents also a group blog?

Wise Bread's four topic areas are "personal finance," "frugal living," "career and income," "lifehacks," and "deals and coupons." With the exception of lifehacks, I think all our topics are traditional personal finance material.

Oh well, we are thrilled to be remembered by CashMoneyLife. =)

Keep up the great work!

Will (from Wise Bread)

Interesting list thanks for compiling it. I'm sad to see I'm not listed. Maybe next time.

One Frugal Girl, we have added you to our master list. You shall be considered for our next ranking to be published in October. Cheer up!

Logan we appreciate your honest feedback. We shall get back to you in a personal email.

might help, if you use debtfree4ever.net rather then the blogspot address

http://www.quantcast.com/debtfree4ever.net

still, I am impressed with the time you put in to try to research all these stats.

In addition, Sitemetter would place me at #28 right behind Frank
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s24debtfree4ever&r=36

The Prince of Thrift:
We have added you to our master list and your site shall be included in our next ranking. Thanks for leaving your site's info.

FIRE Finance,

Thank you - I look forward to receiving your personal email. FYI - my email address is logan dot flatt at powerwealth dot com.

Logan.

"In our next rankings we shall create a separate list of rankings for blogs run by a professional team of bloggers or staff writers."

Thanks Fire Finance, that will be awesome!

To clarify things, though, I want to add that while many of our writers are professionals (some have financial certifications, some are professional writers, etc), none of them are "staff writers" in the traditional sense.

They don't get paid a salary. Instead, they take home 100% of the advertising revenue generated by their articles. Which, if you think about it, is pretty much how it works for any blogger.

I look forward to the new list!

Will (from Wise Bread)

Hey that looks like my RSS icon. No really... I made that :-P

Glad you like it! lol

Logan:
We shall write to you at your email id. Currently we are so much swamped by work that we are not getting any breathing space!

Will (Wisebread):
Thanks for the info. We shall keep the difference between staff and pro writers in mind for our next set of rankings:-D.

Millionster:
You have created a wonderful icon! Thanks for it :).

I know you posted this a while ago, but I thought it was a great post.
That's a lot of work to compile this data. It's nice to see where
people stand.

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COMMENTS FOR OCT 2007 - PF RANKINGS
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Hi FIRE,
While you abbreviated the name "Everybody Loves Your Money", it appears that you abbreviated the actual URL as well so none of the links that refer to my site work.

Thanks for the inclusion!!
Hazzard

Hello again! I love this revised list since I'm on it! :-)

However, I do think you guys are overlooking Single Ma's Fabulous Financials. Her blog is great and definitely gets a lot more traffic than mine, per Feedburner.

Money and Values (http://moneyandvalues.blogspot.com)
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=s&s=s24moneyandvalues&r=0
PR4

Hazzard:
We are really sorry, thanks for pointing out the mistake. It has been fixed and your url is working fine!

MapGirl:
We did consider Single Ma's Fabulous Financials.
1. This site's data for sitemeter is private.
2. Since it is hosted on blogspot and has .blogspot in its url, so compete cannot generate its data.
3. Quantcast says that it has sparse data for this url and its < 2000.
So we could not rank it.

Great job! I know this took a lot of work, but I think it is a good thing to do. :)

I tried leaving a comment a couple times, but I was brought to a proxy site run by Google. I have noticed similar rediredcts lately. I think Google is doing something behind the scenes. I will try to visit again later.

Thanks for including my blog!

Patrick

Wow, this looks like a lot of work! Thanks for including my blog!

-ispf

Once more, a huge effort. Thank you for this, though I have a question and comment.

I'm wondering if you will be doing this on a monthly basis? That seems like a really big effort if you do.

Secondly, I find it very strange that some *really* big sites are ranking lower relative to others as per the Compete and Quantcast scores.

You left off my blog (again!). My sitemeter monthly visitor count has exceeded the 2,000 cutoff for the past several months.

http://enoughwealth.com

http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s15enoughwealth&r=36

I love your rankings. Why when I look at your latest rankings link it is dated September 4, 2007 and only has 75 listings. keep up the good work.

In our previous note to TheDigeratiLife, we meant that we intend to update the list on a monthly basis and NOT weekly :-D !

Nice compilation of personal finance sites.

Seems like different sites use different methodology for their rankings.

I'm surprised that certain sites made it on the list.

Hi Fire finance,

I would like my site to be considered for inclusion into the list. Here are my stats:

blog url: http://www.thedividendguyblog.com

sitemeter traffic url: none

google page rank: 5

your contact email id: info@thedividendguyblog.com

Let me know if you need anything else.

Thanks,

Jeremy

The Dividend Guy & Money BlueBook, thanks for your feedback. TDG, you have been added to our list.

Great list!
I'd like to submit my blog for inclusion.

Name: Debt Free
URL:http://www.opportunitiesaplenty.com/Debt_Blog/
PR: 4
SitemeterURL:http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s11debtfree
Sitemeter Stats (since 10-08-07 only) Visits - 4,365 Views - 5,499

I hope this is enough to make the cut.
Thanks,
Steve

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COMMENTS FOR NOV 2007 - PF RANKINGS
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You've compiled an amazing amount of data! Thanks for including my blog this month.

I am pleasantly surprised to find mine ranks in the top 10 already!

I'm curious, has anyone considered ranking by Technorati or Feed subscriber counts? Wow, my mind boggles at the variety of combinations that can be used.

Does anyone have any idea what affects google search result traffic most?

Yikes. It took me two minutes to figure out where the "post a comment" links was...

You're missing data for GRS on two of the sites. My Quantcast reach is 54,253. My Compete number is 136,217.

Well Fire Finance, You've certainly established yourselves as one of the definitive sources on personal finance blog rankings.

Nice job!

-Raymond

I always love to see the list! Thanks for including my blog this month!

Once again, awesome list. I can only hope to be included next go around. Sitemeter stats avg 277 page views per day.
Thanks for your consideration.
Sitemeter:
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s11debtfree
Blog:
http://opportunitiesaplenty.com/Debt_Blog/

Debt Free

@debtfree

We shall certainly consider in our next update to rankings. Thank you for your interest.

Hey, I made a list. Cool.

It's too bad all the links are no followed! You'd see happier bloggers if the links had some juice to them! Just my two cents.

DebtKid

Oh, no making the list for NoLimitsLadies (there's just me now so it is really a NoLimitLady).

http://www.nolimitsladies.com/

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COMMENTS FOR JAN 2008 - PF RANKINGS
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I think you missed me. I sent an email back in November that we added the plug-ins. Hopefully you can add us next month.

Great list otherwise;)

Thanks for the new rankings!

FYI - I have a Quantcast ranking now, but I don't think it appears on your list.

I actually only got it because you guys were using it! LOL.

Cheers!

Thanks again for doing this. PS. I guess you skipped on November right? I had an aberrantly good month then. no longer... things have normalized now... :)

Take it easy and thanks for doing this service.
-SVB

Hey,

Thanks for including Mrs. Micah in the roundup. I also think I should add the Compete plugin, I hadn't thought of that before. :)

MM

@MapGirl, @MyTwoDollar:
We will regenerate the lists with your data.

@SVB
Thanks for your wishes. We missed out Nov 07. We had an automobile accident and our energies were directed towards our recovery :(.

@MM
Thanks and get the Compete plugin. You are doing really well.

I'd love it if you could include me! I'd e-mail you my info (but I can't seem to find your e-mail address on here). My e-mail is sensetosave@gmail.com, and my url is www.sensetosave.com.

I'm mostly a frugal living blogger, but sometimes delve into more personal finance issues.

We would love to be included the next time around:

MomAdvice.com or MomAdvice.com/blog for direct blog linking

My stats are not public

Google Page Rank: 4

Amy@momadvice.com

Thank you!

FF - Great list. I show up in the master list but not in the raw traffic list. Why is that? Thanks. PT from Prime Time Money (ptmoney.com)

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COMMENTS FOR FEB 2008 - PF RANKINGS
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My sitemeter data is public (bottom of my home page) and would put me at #12. Thanks for compiling the list, it's interesting to see how things stack up!

LOVE this post. It's so informative... Looks like I've made this list this time... Moving up quick! :)

I'd love to have my frugality blog included in your list. I write about living well on one income.

I'd love to be added to the list of Personal Finance blogs.

This is a great list you put together.

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COMMENTS FOR MAR 2008 - PF RANKINGS
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This is an awesome list, and I'd love to be included going forward! Here's my info:

http://FrugalDad.com
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s34frugaldad
PR 0
jason@frugaldad.com

Thanks for consideration!

@Frugal Dad + all others who had sent email queries:
We've regenerated the rankings with your updated info.
Thanks a lot for your feedback. Enjoy!

Thank you for including How I Save Money in your roundup. I am happy to be included here and I hope I can move up in the rankings next month.

In fact I implemented a few changes so I should see an improvement next round.

Great list! I won't question the accuracy, but I found a few new PF blogs!

Please include my blog on your personal finance blog ranking. Thanks!

Blog URL: http://personal-finance-management.blogspot.com/

Google Pagerank: 3/10

Sitemeter Traffic URL (newly installed): http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s47zeny888

Quantcast recently added

Contact eMail: marieclaire.cooper (at) Yahoo DOT Com

Can you add my site for consideration:

http://www.savingtoinvest.com

I started this pf blog a few months ago and a target of mine is to get into your list by year end. You can access both my Quantcast and sitemeter ratings

Hey there, great list, thanks for compiling! I've signed up for feed. My sitemeter count's much bigger than that quant thing, never heard of it. I was at 11,000 page views for last month. If I email the screen shot, able to update ranking? Thanks and you rock.
Dan at Everydayfinance

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Hi, can you guys include my blog next time? There are two writers, so it should be in the group blog section.

Mike

Mapgirl you need an attitude check. You are obviously an average PF Blogger to not have been included in their list as you would have liked to be. Be happy that you were even mentioned as such a nasty attitude as I have seen displayed elsewhere will get you nowhere.

How are the authors of this site supposed to know what ISP issues you're having which would interfere with your page rank? How about you inform them prior to the posting? Your attitude is such a turn off because I was witness to your incessant whining on one the previous ranking posts. Get it together and perhaps you'll be noticed as you hoped you'd be.

This is a really great list guys I can some pf bloggers are moving on up!

I would like to be considered for next time. We are a husband/wife blogging team.


http://bethriftylikeus.blogspot.com/
3 out of 10 google page rank
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s31saral137

Thanks!

S.B.

Here's my public sitemeter:

http://www.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=sm8xynny

blog name: The Baglady
blog url: http://baglady.dreamhosters.com

Thanks!

# blog url:
www.davidmakescents.com

# google page rank:
3

# sitemeter traffic url (if any)
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s48davidmakescents

# your contact email id (so that we may notify you when this list is updated)
dmcarte2@ncsu.edu

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COMMENTS FOR MAY 2008 - PF RANKINGS
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Hey, what about "Money and Such"? I've been around for a while: www.moneyandsuch.blogspot.com.

Thanks!

I would like to be included in the master list.

Blog URL: http://www.thatonecaveman.com

Google PR: 2

Sitemeter URL: http://www.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=s31caveman

Email: caveman@thatonecaveman.com

Finance is useful in business.

Thanks for the great information, will come to good use! Will come back and check out your site soon!

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COMMENTS FOR JUL 2008 - PF RANKINGS
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Hi there,

I'm not able to leave a comment on the master lists post, so I'm leaving it here. Could you include my blog Almost Frugal? http://almostfrugal.com
google PR 0
kllycat@yahoo.com
sitemeter traffic average 9000/month

Thanks again for doing this. Looks like I'm moving up in the rankings!

Thanks for including me and I am glad I am still visible to your readers.

Very cool, always look forward to these lists!

Could you also include TheDiv-Net,in your GROUP PF BLOGS - RANKINGS?

DIV-Net is a network of investors focused on dividend investing, value investing and a long-term buy and hold philosophy.

http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s46thediv-net

Thanks!

The Div-Net

Love the List. Unfortunately, I was too lazy to sign up for all the measurement tools again last month.

I had over 22,000 visitors last month and I showed as 2K at Quant. So, I finally got around to signing up for all 3 this month.

Hopefully I'll make the rankings this time around for August's results.

Wonderful list! I would love to be included next time.

http://www.kingdomfirstmom.com

Site Meter:

http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s45proverbs31

Thank you for your consideration!

I'd like to be added to the master list, please...

http://www.uncommon-cents.net/
Pagerank of 4
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s28spcbrtry
rsuenaga@apple2.org

Thanks!

Love the new averages!!

This was such as great and informative list.
I would like to submit my Personal Finance Blog http://distilledrose.blogspot.com for inclusion on the master list.
Thanks for keeping all of this up to date!

Hi. I'm registered in PF Buzz. I'd like to know how I can be listed in the Master List. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing

Just wanted to let you know that my site BankBonuses.info does have a Sitemeter tracker and the data is public. It is located in the footer. Thanks.

That's a great list. Unfortunately I cannot make it yet.. I only get 20 visitors/day..

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This is a master list.This is wonderful.Thanks for the great information.Thanks for including me.It is really a great personal finance ranking.I really thanks for its sharing.


Thank u

This is really great fire finance!
Thanks for this. Its really great!

Cheers,
Dana

AHHH! Got me again. I had updated my template to a nifty new one and forgot to reinstall the quantcast tag. So, got caught short. 22K views, but I guess you can't take me word for it :>
However, I am PR 3 if you'd kindly move me up a slot for that one.
Thanks!

Hard work can be focused on anything — at this time, I choose to focus it on my own personal projects and endeavors. I’m retiring from corporate life but not from work.I am eager to try this out so that I have a more flexible schedule as a mother of two young kids. I will be juggling this role with income generating work I will perform on my own terms.
I hope you are satisfied with my answer. I believe I’ll be working harder than ever after I quit my job.

Hello! just came across the list, pretty freakin' cool :) Here are my stats if you're interested in including:

Budgets are Sexy
www.budgetsaresexy.com
j@budgetsaresexy.com
google pr: 3
sitemeter: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s44budgetsaresexy

I'd love to be added!

http://www.ultimatemoneyblog.com
google page rank: 2/10
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s40ultimatemoneyblog
ultimatemoneyblogATgmail.com

Thank you!!

Added back sitemeter to my site, so hopefully I'll be on the list (again) next month

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I think you should just average in a penalty for the sites that don't make the information available. Just take what their overall score is and add three for each piece of information that's missing. You can even keep track of real score and adjusted for penalties score.

Note: We republished the rankings once again. There were some sites whose sitemeter data had been made public but we had not been notified. Once we manually checked the sites and updated the data, the rankings changed so we redid the list :). Thanks for your patience & cooperation.

@Lazy Man and Money
That is a neat tip. If the sites comply, penalties would not be necessary. But in the worst case scenario, your advice might work wonders to make the playing field an uniform one.

Ooo interesting...

I'd love to be included for your next ranking.

URL: www.realmofprosperity.com
PR: 1
Sitemeter: http://www.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=s41millionsrus
Contact: admin@realmofprosperity.com

Thanksss!

My sitemeter data is now public- I would appreciate it if you could include it in the ranking process- thanks!

http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s46almostfrugal

Great list. I'd love to figure out how to get my blog higher up in the rankings and break into the top 100! It's fun to see who did make the top 100... some really great blogs are up there. My compete score has been way down lately because I've run out of time to update my blog, but I'm going to focus on updating it now that I've gone through a complete redesign.

Same here - I love this list. In fact I included it in one of my posts here:

http://www.onemillionbucks.net/search?q=fire+finance

Anyone have any advice on how to increase traffic?

Thanks

I stumbled on your site. As a financial journalist and blogger it's a really useful addition to my "bookmarks" list.

Keep up the good work and all the bestg for 2009!

@ Fire Finance

Like to see if I could be added to the group. Blog Title is "Good Financial Cents" and the url is http://www.goodfinancialcents.com.

Thanks for the chance!

This is a really interesting article - thanks for posting it. It is amazing how bloggers can help people deal with their finances through offering tips of their own.

I am going to check some of these sites, thanks so much for the post.

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There have been some minor updates and corrections. So we are going to republish the ranking in a couple of hours.

@Mercedes of CommonSenseMoney,

Thanks for notifying us with your sitemeter info. Yes it is a lot of hard manual effort to collect data and do the rankings. We appreciate your patience. Sorry!

@Finance Junkie of PluggedInFinance,

It is very difficult to keep track of all those who are moving their blogs or changing their trackers etc. Even though we try but there are some occasional misses. Our apologies for overlooking your site. We have noted that your blog has moved to its own domain as well. Good luck!

I'd love to have SavvyFrugality.com considered on future lists. I don't run Sitemeter, however. The site is listed under savvyfrugality.blogspot.com. For some reason I can't get Quantcast to use my regular domain name. I have worked my way up to about 3,500 visitors a month, and roughly 5,000 page views, according to both Quantcast and Statcounter. Those figures should put me somewhere in the Top 100. Thanks!

Hi there, thanks for including my blog.

Just wanted to let you know that "Quest For Four Pillars" is now "Four Pillars".

thanks!

I'd like to be included. Out of Debt Again. www.outofdebtagain.com Sitemeter stats: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s27outofdebtagain

Hiya, I'd love it if you would consider adding Master Your Card (http://www.masteryourcard.com/blog) to the list. Last month (december) we got nearly 15k unique visits.

I'd love to be included:
www.myjourneytomillions.com
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s33myjourney

THanks!

I'd like to request that my site be added.

URL: http://www.beatingbroke.com
Pagerank: 1
You can use admin@ [URL] to contact me.

Thanks!

Could you add my blog to the master list?

http:://www.artofthecoupon.com

Google pagerank is 3.

Contact info is frugalife @ artofthecoupon . com (remove the spaces)

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@Four Pillars,

We have made the requested change. Thank you for being proactive.

@SavvyFrugality,
@Mrs. Accountability of OutOfDebtAgain,
@Jonathan of Master Your Card,
@My Journey of MyJourneyToMillions,
@BeatingBroke,
@Coupon Artist of ArtOfTheCoupon,

Warm welcome to all new entrants and sincere thanks for your interest. Your sites have been added to our database and they will be automatically considered for all future rankings. Wish you the very best :-)

Cheers.

Hey FIRE Finance,

Would you please consider adding my blog to your list?

* Blog Name: Pecuniarities

* Blog URL: http://pecuniarities.com

* Google PR: 3

* SiteMeter Profile: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s45ourfourpenceworth

* Quantcast Profile (I just signed up): http://www.quantcast.com/pecuniarities.com

* Compete Profile: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/pecuniarities.com

Thanks for your time!
Penelope
penny.pince at gmail dot com

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@Penelope
Your site Pecuniarities is in :)

Thanks again for doing this ranking every month.

@Sun
You are welcome :)

Thanks so much for including me in your top 100. It's such a great motivator to have something like this to refer to my status and progress as a blogger. I know you must spend hours and hours on this, so it is much appreciated. I'll be sure to share this.

Cheers,
Penelope

I wonder if Quantcast doesn't have familiarity with many sites? Still, this is a neat thing you've done, and as with any project of this magnitude, it will need a little tweaking.
love your Blog.

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.


Alanna

Awesome list,

Please consider adding ManVsDebt.com to the master list of blogs.

http://manvsdebt.com
PR: 0
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s11manvsdebt
Baker(at)ManVsDebt(dot)com

Thank you so much!

Please add my PF blog:
True Adventures in Money Hacking.

It's new, but not that new (Nov. '08)

http://www.trueadventuresinmoneyhacking.blogspot.com/

email: wren@tiredofbeingpoor.net

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Dear Fire Finance,

I would like to add my site to the rankings:

www.bloggingbanks.com

Here's my sitemeter:

http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s40banks

I also just signed up for quantcast, so I guess it won't be showing any data for now.

Hi there,

Wasn't aware of the existence of this list until now, would like to be added to the master list (as I don't think I'll be on the rankings anytime soon). Just Quantified my site.

Debt Sucks - http://debtsucksblog.com
Google PR: 3 - sad, it used to be 5 :-(

redphoenixgroup [] gmail

I would love to be included as well :)

Jessie's Money
http://jessiesmoney.blogspot.com/

Hi, can you add me to master list? I am still just Google 1.

www.joetaxpayer.com

Thanks for all your hard work on this massive project! We (well, it's just me!) at Don't Mess With Taxes appreciate it.

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I have just added myself to Quantcst as well as Sitemeter so I don't have any statistics yet.

Website Name: Jessie's Money
Site:jessiesmoney.blogspot.com

Thanks!
Jessie

Good post... it's very motivating to see how many ppl are interested in blogs.

Great post, it will surely help many people who want such great list of finance blogs.

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Darn! I'm not part of the top 100 anymore... better start working on SEO! geeeeez!

Hello,

I would love to be considered for ranking as well.

FiscalGeek
URL: http://www.fiscalgeek.com

Sitemeter: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s23fiscalgeek

Google PageRank: 2

Contact: paul at fiscalgeek dot com

Hello, I'd like to have my blog considered for the top 100. It's relatively new, but 100% awesome!

Blog Name: The Tight Fist, Lessons in Frugality from a Real Jew

URL: http://www.thetightfist.com

PageRank: 0

No sitemeter traffic URL

I hope all of you love it.

I'm surprised Financial Samurai (http://www.financialsamurai.com) is not on the list. It's probably one of the best, fastest growing, straight from the gut PF site out there.

The writers are not broke students, or writers who are trying to pay off debt. They are actually doing well and have insightful expertise in the field.

Hi There Guys!

Please include my blog to the list: http://www.financialsamurai.com

It's growing quit rapidly and is in the Top 600K for Alexa at the moment and rising.

Thnx!

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Dec 23, 2009
Hello, I'm somewhat new to the personal finance blog world. I'm hoping you can include (or consider) my personal finance blog when you do your next update. Thanks!

http://financedad.com

2:10 PM, January 01, 2010
I'm part of a sponsored blog network; and therefore you might run into some of the same issues tracking site data that you saw at other blogs.

But if you can pull the data (Wisebread has some) Monroe on a Budget is at http://www.blogsmonroe.com/budget

We'd like to be considered for this list as well.

http://www.personalfinanceanalyst.com

Thanks
Anthony

3:44 PM, January 05, 2010

Thanks for the inclusion! I like being on the PF Group list. Less people to compete with, and I can say I'm in the Top 15! lol

Best, Sam

Oh yeah, looks like my Google PR is 3.

9:36 AM, January 10, 2010

This is Ken from Bank Deals Blog. I just wanted to let you know that
I've changed my blog location from bankdeals.blogspot.com to
depositaccounts.com/blog

Was wondering if you'd include my other blog thesmarterwallet.com in your list. I think it has some pretty decent numbers.

Thanks!
-SVB

You need to get us back in there!
http://www.erollover.com/blog

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@TheSmarterWallet
Apologies, we missed your site since the request first came in an email. We'll include it in our next set of rankings.

Consider Personal Dividends (http://personaldividends.com) for the next ranking. Should easily be in top 100. PR 3, with Quantcast tracker installed. It is a group blog.

I wanted to see about getting listed on you Top 100 list. I noticed my blog SuburbanDollar.com doesn't seem to be in your master list for potential inclusion.

I have provided the requested details below:

URL: http://www.suburbandollar.com
Page Rank: 5
Sitemeter: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=sm2lkcenterprises

Hi,
Please add me to the Top PF Blog List. Blog = Debt Free Adventure | URL = http://www.DebtFreeAdventure.com
Thanks,

I wanted to request to be included in the Master List of PF Blogs on your site. I've been regularly blog over at Couple Money since September 2009. My information on the site:


blog url : http://couplemoney.com/
google page rank: 2
sitemeter traffic url (if any): around 5,000 pv

Hello,

I am now blogging at a new site (MoneyCrush) which is not in your master list. The information is:

http://www.moneycrush.com
PR3
http://s28.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=s28moneycrush
comments@moneycrush.com
twitter id: @moneycrush

I have added Quantcast to the site, but can't seem to figure out how to be included in Compete. Maybe I'm missing something there. Can you let me know if there is a step for doing that?

Great list...will definitely visit some including those added by your followers. Thanks.

We'd love to be considered for your next list of the Top 100 Finance Blogs.

http://thekrazycouponlady.com/
google page rank: 4
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s23thekrazycouponlady
email: krazycouponlady@gmail.com

Nice thread! Looking forward to the next results in May!

Wow! This is a total package list. For a new blogger like me in the personal finance niche, this will help me surely. Further, this list and their rankings will serve as my inspirations. Thank you for your great effort.