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I used to write a personal finance blog that ran from feb 08 til may 09.  At that time I was able to follow pretty much all the active pf blogs that were running.  I came back to "the scene" about 4 months ago and now there are so many I couldn't possibly follow them all.  No way.  Every single day I find more without even trying.  I couldn't tell you number wise how it's grown but I'm amazed.

AshleyB said:

I used to write a personal finance blog that ran from feb 08 til may 09.  At that time I was able to follow pretty much all the active pf blogs that were running.  I came back to "the scene" about 4 months ago and now there are so many I couldn't possibly follow them all.  No way.  Every single day I find more without even trying.  I couldn't tell you number wise how it's grown but I'm amazed.

 

 

retireby40 said:

The WiseBread list has around 700 PF sites listed. I'm sure there are upward of PF 1,000 sites on the internet and more everyday. pretty crazy..

I guess wordpress made blogging so easy that everyone who wants to can start a blog.

@AshleyB Wow! that is a really overwhelming! The time frame reference is really helpful :). I'll dig around for a numberwise statistic and post it here if I indeed find one. 

@retireby40 Thanks a lot for the lead on WiseBread! The VC's who funded Automattic (The company behind WordPress) must be very happy :)

With regards to the Yakezie, we don't really compete.  We are a collaborative effort to raise the quality of the content o our blogs, grow our readership while promoting OTHER quality blogs and to "give back" a little to the community with our writing contest. The Yakezie is unique in that way.

Besides Wisebread you might want to Google "Money Crashers Top 100" and "FIRE Finance top 100"

Post edited 7:32 am – July 12, 2011 by Harri @ TotallyMoney

Whilst there are potentially thousands of PF blogs today, the spread and rise of PF blogs varies enormously by country. There are very very few PF blogs in the UK for example. By my reckoning there are about 40 in total, some of which haven't been updated this year. The PF blogging scene is much bigger, closer knit and more influential in the States and Canada. 

Hi guys!

Again, I'm trying to gather material for the blog post regarding growth of PF blogs.

Just a few questions: Have any of you read Personal Finance blogs since 2005? If so, do you see a difference in content between PF blogs that were popular back then vs. now? Also, What motivated you to start your personal finance blog?

Thanks so much!

Here, I used the "Wayback machine" at archive.org to find a historical cache of the top 100 pf blogs at Wisebread.

In November 2009 (the only date they have) there were only 381 blogs listed: http://web.archive.org/web/200…..nce-blogs/

Granted, there were probably more, some of which existed but weren't yet on the list.  Even still, there are 683 now.

@Buy Like Buffett - 

At least people are getting smarter, right?  :)

My University Money said:

I've found that per capita, my fellow Canucks must be near the top of the personal finance charts!

Yeah, Canucks Power!

There are some important Canadian players in the PF world!

2 very successful Canadian Blogs were created a while back ago:

Canadian Capitalist

Million Dollar Journey

I started back in 2006 and I can tell you that there was less competition on the market (for keywords for example). some of the oldest blogs still "own" their shares of high ranking and it's hard to get in front of them.