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Personal Finance Blog Rankings

Educational publishing about saving, investing, debt, tax, financial planning, and financial independence.

Independent and company-owned publications are ranked separately. The complete Top 100 for each track is published in GitHub.

Personal Finance Blog Rankings showing the Top 3 publications in both ranking tracks.

Independent Blogs

Top 10 Independent Blogs

Ranks compare publications only inside this category and track.

Rank 1 laurel badge

JLCollinsnh

Best for: practical personal-finance decisions

JLCollinsnh concentrates on practical personal-finance decisions, with a discoverable feed, a visible article archive that makes its current publishing work easier to evaluate.

Limit: Its broad subject range can make depth and usefulness uneven across individual topics.

98.0score
Rank 2 laurel badge

Budgets Are Sexy

Best for: financial independence and early retirement

Budgets Are Sexy concentrates on financial independence and early retirement, with a discoverable feed, a visible article archive that makes its current publishing work easier to evaluate.

Limit: Its broad subject range can make depth and usefulness uneven across individual topics.

97.0score
Rank 3 laurel badge

Afford Anything

Best for: investing and long-term wealth decisions

Afford Anything concentrates on investing and long-term wealth decisions, with a discoverable feed, a visible article archive that makes its current publishing work easier to evaluate.

Limit: Its broad subject range can make depth and usefulness uneven across individual topics.

96.0score
  1. Financial Samurai

    investing and long-term wealth decisions

    95.0New
  2. Mr. Money Mustache

    practical personal-finance decisions

    94.0New
  3. A Wealth of Common Sense

    investing and long-term wealth decisions

    93.0New
  4. The Happy Saver

    investing and long-term wealth decisions

    92.0New
  5. Early Retirement Now

    investing and long-term wealth decisions

    91.0New
  6. Millennial Money

    investing and long-term wealth decisions

    90.0New
  7. Boomer & Echo

    financial independence and early retirement

    89.0New

See the complete Top 100 on GitHub

Publisher and Company Blogs

Top 10 Publisher and Company Blogs

Ranks compare publications only inside this category and track.

Rank 1 laurel badge

NerdWallet

Best for: investing and long-term wealth decisions

NerdWallet concentrates on investing and long-term wealth decisions, with a visible article archive, named authorship that makes its current publishing work easier to evaluate.

Limit: Publishing cadence is harder to verify because the site does not expose a discoverable RSS or Atom feed.

98.0score
Rank 2 laurel badge

Investopedia

Best for: investing and long-term wealth decisions

Investopedia concentrates on investing and long-term wealth decisions, with a discoverable feed, clear ownership context that makes its current publishing work easier to evaluate.

Limit: Its broad subject range can make depth and usefulness uneven across individual topics.

97.0score
Rank 3 laurel badge

Kiplinger

Best for: investing and long-term wealth decisions

Kiplinger concentrates on investing and long-term wealth decisions, with a discoverable feed, a visible article archive that makes its current publishing work easier to evaluate.

Limit: The homepage is heavier and more commercially layered than a focused reading experience.

96.0score
  1. Business Insider

    financial independence and early retirement

    95.0New
  2. CNBC

    debt, credit, and financial recovery

    94.0New
  3. The College Investor

    investing and long-term wealth decisions

    93.0New
  4. GOBankingRates

    budgeting, saving, and practical money habits

    92.0New
  5. Moneywise

    investing and long-term wealth decisions

    91.0New
  6. SmartAsset.com

    investing and long-term wealth decisions

    90.0New
  7. TurboTax Blog

    tax and retirement planning

    89.0New

See the complete Top 100 on GitHub

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