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Post edited 10:27 am – August 13, 2011 by Buck Inspire

Hi all,

I am sometimes overwhelmed by the 100s of great personal finance blogs.  Granted there are distinct niches like going green, retirement, and investing, I was thinking of taking down my outdated blogroll and making two new blogrolls, focused on writing style, to help me catch up during the week.  Borrowing what Andrea said from Chipotle vs Qboda, is your blog "personal stories with personal finance sprinkled inside" or are you the opposite?  So where does your blog fall?

Personal Stories or Research

Thanks!  As an added incentive, even if you don't think this new category system holds any water, people who reply will be added into my new blogrolls first.  Have a good weekend.

Update:  Catching up on some blogs and actually most personal finance blogs are personal, duh!  I initally thought it would be a 50/50 split, personal and research.  Maybe that is too broad. 

How about this one, if you could choose a tent pole topic for your personal finance blog, what would it be?  Things that come to my mind is debt, retirement, investing, how to, green, passive income, frugality.  Perhaps this is futile since we all like to jump into different topics.  I think I'm just hung up on catching up on 100s of PF blogs.  I could take it in smaller chunks.  Today I feel like going green.  Tomorrow I want to learn about investing.  Monday I want to learn about retiring.  Is this just me?   

Good questions there. I had the same thoughts on one of my blog posts. I like to think (in my rather limited blog post history) that I fall more into the "research" side than the "personal stories" side, but that would be if you have a nice broad view of what "research" is. I'm less technical at this point, and tend to think more introspectively about personal finance.

If you reach any definitive conclusion on the topic, be sure and share!

I am like most of other blogs, 40% -40% split between research and Personal stories and 20 is round up. So in a week, 2 personal stories, 2 research articles and 1 round up, 5 posts in all.

Hi mbhunter,

I'm more of a personal stories and opinions blog, too.  Thanks!

Hi Mark,

I kinda figured that, haha.  Guess I'm trying to figure where other more broad personal finance blogs stand.  Thanks!

Hey Justin,

I totally respect research blogs.  There is a lot of work involved.  I'm a bum, too.  Since I know I'm not a good researcher, I go the other route, personal stories, experiences, and opinions.

Hey LaTisha,

Thanks for chiming in.  Great point about evergreen posts.  I may need to think longer about they way I tackle posts from my personal stories angle.  Will it stand the test of time?

I try to have a limited amount of topics but also a variety within each of them. I would say my blog focuses mostly on good money management and being green. I often tie the two together. 60 percent or so would fall here. There other 40 is split between health tips, productivity, gardening, career, and frugality. 

Hi Miss T,

I like how you clearly define your topics and you seem to be following it to a T!  I think I throw out these questions because I am trying to get a clearer picture for myself.  I seem to be going 40% personal finance topics, 40% personal development, and 20% entertainment.  Let's see if I stick with this or take a radical turn at the end of the year.

mbhunter said:

Mine have recently been personal finance stories for the most part: my own experiences related to personal finance and making money.  Or my opinions on stuff.

I feel mine is the same (although some people would say my tent pole is retirement).  Retirement is my goal but I write about money management I guess.