Now that the TotallyMoney Top Blogs List has been up and running for a few months, we’re proud to start taking it on to the next level. Big thanks to all of you who signed up and helped us iron out some of those early teething problems that we had back at the start. Now that things are all polished up and good to go, we felt it was high time we started up our monthly awards, where we delve into the figures to celebrate the top performers in the TotallyMoney Top Finance Blogs List.

Social Butterflies

Our ‘Social Score’ aggregates Twitter Followers and Klout Score to see how extensive your social reach truly is. Taking Social Score figures from the start of this month and comparing them against stats from the beginning of August, we’ve whittled down the most socially influential members of the TotallyMoney Top Blogs List. They were…

1. Frugal Beautiful

2. Life and My Finances

3. Minting Nickels

4. Retire Happy

5. So Over Debt

Blogging Powerhouses

Our ‘Blog Influence Score’ aggregates feed subscribers and Technorati Authority to work out just how popular and influential your blog is. Once again we looked at Blog Influence Score at the start of September versus the same date in August to find the top blogging heavyweights. They were…

1. Frugal Beautiful

2. Mighty Bargain Hunter

3. Krant Cents

4. Life and My Finances

5. Beating Broke

Mighty Sites

We’ve aggregated SEOmoz Rank, Google Rank, Alexa Rank and SEOmoz Links to work out your Site Strength Score. Comparing Site Strength stats from September and August, we found the most popular within the TotallyMoney Top Blogs List. They were…

1. Penny Golightly

2. Shopping Detox

3. Super Frugalette

4. Afford Anything

5. A Thrifty Mrs

Crowd Drawers

We’ve incorporated Alexa Rank and Compete Rank to come up with an overall ‘Site Traffic Score’, to gauge the volume of traffic your blogs are drawing in. Comparing stats from September and August, we uncovered the greatest crowd drawers in our list. They were…

1. The Penny Hoarder

2. DollarVersity

3. Everything Finance

4. Frugal Beautiful

5. So Over Debt

Top Newcomers

By combining Social Reach Scores, Blog Influence Scores, Site Strength Scores and Site Traffic Scores, we’ve come up with an overall TotallyMoney Score. We looked at the most recent subscribers in our list to see who had the highest overall scores. They were…

1. Give Me Back My Five Bucks

2. Faith and Finance

3. The Credit Letter

4. Money Buddy

5. Diva In Debt

Ones to Watch

Taking TotallyMoney Scores across the board at the beginning of August against stats at the start of September, we uncovered the blogs who’d made the biggest improvements in their TotallyMoney scores. The fastest risers were…

1. Super Frugalette

2. Frugal Beautiful

3. Best Rates In

4. Money is the Root

5. So Over Debt

Massive congratulations to all of you who’ve performed so well over the past month! Particular congratulations go to Frugal Beautiful, So Over Debt, Super Frugalette and Life and My Finances who have all finished in the top five of more than one category!

We’ll be taking another look at the stats this time next month. Until then, remember to check into your dashboards to see how your blog is faring over time and against a peer group average.

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