Just found out I’ve been ranked No. 2 in a list of the best 10 personal finance blogs you’ve never heard of. Pretty exciting.
The list comes from Viralogy.com, a social media ranking site. Viralogy’s post about the ranking says:
The personal finance blogging world is dominated by players like I Will Teach You to be Rich, Get Rich Slowly, and the Simple Dollar. Though these bloggers have extremely valuable content, we feel that there are other lesser known bloggers that write posts that are of equal quality. I scoured the internet to find the best personal finance bloggers that you’ve never heard of.
Viralogy looked at six key metrics. Here are the stats for Bargainbabe.com:
- Linkbacks: 852
- Average comments per post: 4
- Compete traffic: 20,075
- Twitter followers: 605
- Following/Followers ratio: 2.3
- Retweets in the past month: 52
I outranked the No. 1 pick in every criteria except Twitter followers (she has 800) and average comments per post (15!). Hmmm…how do I get more followers and get you guys to comment more?!
May 14th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Hey Julia,
You definitely have an amazing blog here. I’m really happy that we were able to feature it and I hope you receive a lot of new viewers.
Keep up the great work!
- Jun Loayza
May 14th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Congratulations!
May 14th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
dear bargain babe,
just for the record, i love to comment on your blog!
xoxoxo
your NY sis
May 14th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Just to keep your “average comments per post” on track, I’d like to say,
“GOOD JOB!”
May 14th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Great job Julia. In time, you should be able to eliminate that silly “you’ve never heard of” bit, and be on everybody’s list of best personal finance blogs.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Congratulations! I’ve only discovered your blog last week, but it has been a daily lunchtime read for me. It’s been a huge motivator during my transition to a more money conscious lifestyle.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Nice site and url, BDD! Interested in exchanging blogroll links?
May 14th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
By “followers,” do you mean Twitter followers?
Maybe you could do some quick hits/tips on Twitter and then collect them weekly for the blog. That way the people who get the Twitter feed can get those tips early, and that would be an incentive for the feed.
P.S. check out my Twitter feed:
http://twitter.com/for_django
It has quite a bit of non-blog content (and I have it displayed on the blog, too: http://insidesocal.com/click) … and you’re probably already feeding your Facebook with Twitter — you are, aren’t you? It’s way better than using Notes in Facebook.
May 15th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Work it, babe in blogging! Congrats!
May 18th, 2009 at 12:36 am
Cool!
Love reading and commenting.
Like other comment, you inspire me to be more frugal.
Thanks!