Monroe on a Budget

Site: http://www.blogsmonroe.com/budget

Twitter: @MonroeOnABudget

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MonroeOnABudget

Monroe on a Budget is written by Paula Wethington in Monroe County MI, which is in the metro Detroit area. It is has been described as a coupon blog, and also a personal finance blog, although “frugal living” better fits the range of topics that have been covered since the site launched in January 2007. The target audience is the families in southeast Michigan, specifically the median income and food stamp demographics, who want or need to stretch their household budgets. Monroe on a Budget is the most popular blog sponsored by The Monroe Evening News in Monroe MI, where Paula's print reporting duties are on the community news / social desk.

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Monroe on a Budget has a Wise Score of 66.40, which ranks it #198 among personal finance blogs.

Wise Score is an average of six statistics: MozRank, Number of Links to Domain, Klout Score, Twitter Followers, Alexa Rank, and Compete Rank. A Wise Score of 90 means the blog is better than 90% of its peers "on average". Learn more.

Date	Rank	Wise Score	MozRank	Linking Domains	Klout Score	Twitter Followers	Alexa Rank	Facebook Likes
2013-5-5	198	66.40	4.23	12,627	52.04	5,425	729,908	1,189
2013-5-5	198	66.40	4.23	12,627	52.04	5,425	729,908	1,189
2013-4-28	197	66.19	4.22	12,627	52.04	5,398	717,037	1,190
2013-4-21	193	66.52	4.22	12,627	52.04	5,255	703,656	1,191
2013-4-14	193	66.52	4.14	12,627	52.04	5,255	644,084	1,182

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@MonroeOnABudget

Family finance columnist, reporter, and social media team member for @monroenews. Lots of topics on this feed - find Monroe MI news at @WethingtonPaula

Tweeting since 14 January 2009 (4 years 17 weeks)

Recent Tweets from @MonroeOnABudget

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about 13 hours ago
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about 21 hours ago
@JonMonk_News awesome
about 1 day ago
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about 1 day ago
RT @jiltedjournos: @wjchat A6 Must be careful; if employed in news org you may face conflict of interest and other ethics challenges #wjchat
about 2 days ago
A3b #wjchat "one man show" aka multitasker is nothing new - many of us saw that in our rookie years esp. in small newsrooms
about 2 days ago
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@ivanlajara #wjchat and I had perfectly straight copy blocks :)
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Recent Tweets about @MonroeOnABudget

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about 43 min ago by THEnininsky (Nina Terrero)
@MonroeOnABudget Hi there, thanks for the follow!
about 12 hours ago by NickBlackhall (Nick Blackhall)
@PHXJourno @Martha_Kang @bestbooks2read @MonroeOnABudget @writerly_dee @myers_mel welcome, and say hi to @randomjodie et al deskers
about 19 hours ago by jiltedjournos (Jilted Journalists)
My pleasure. RT @PHXJourno: Thanks for following me, @Martha_Kang @bestbooks2read @MonroeOnABudget @writerly_dee @myers_mel
about 1 day ago by myers_mel (Mel Myers)
RT @PHXJourno: Great #wjchat, and thanks for following me, @Martha_Kang @bestbooks2read @MonroeOnABudget @writerly_dee @myers_mel and @jil…
about 1 day ago by MonroeOnABudget (Paula Wethington)
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about 1 day ago by PHXJourno (Julie Dart)
RT @MonroeOnABudget: A3b #wjchat "one man show" aka multitasker is nothing new - many of us saw that in our rookie years esp. in small news…
about 2 days ago by naomiprioleau (Naomi Prioleau)
RT @MonroeOnABudget: A3b #wjchat "one man show" aka multitasker is nothing new - many of us saw that in our rookie years esp. in small news…
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Stat Name	Value	Stat Explanation
Klout Score	52.04	The Klout Score is a 0-100 rating of @MonroeOnABudget's overall influence on Twitter.
True Reach	237	True Reach is the size of @MonroeOnABudget's engaged audience. Klout eliminates inactive and spam accounts, and only include accounts that @MonroeOnABudget actually influences.
Network Score	16.22	0-100 rating of the influence level of @MonroeOnABudget's engaged audience.
Amplification Score	8.00	0-100 score of the likelihood that @MonroeOnABudget's tweets will be acted upon by their followers.

Klout Description of @MonroeOnABudget

@MonroeOnABudget creates content that is spread throughout their network and drives discussions

Klout Classification of @MonroeOnABudget

Specialist

You may not be a celebrity, but within your area of expertise your opinion is second to none. Your content is likely focused around a specific topic or industry with a focused, highly-engaged audience.

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Personal Finance Michigan Facebook Community Social Media	@Lavrusik (78.05) @wisebread (70.19) @muckrack (69) @jspepper (67.04) @MikeDriehorst (65.24)	@monroenews (58.42) @MIBloggers (51.91) @PatrickInNC (48.11) @mdrabek1 (45.21) @danielle_hatch (44.66)

Google Search Rankings (by SEMRush)+/-

SEMRush finds the Google keywords where blogsmonroe.com ranks in the top 20 search results.

SEMRush Rank	298,459	Rating of sites by the number of visitors coming from the first 20 Google search results.
SE Keywords	620	Number of keywords (search queries) the domain ranks in the top 20 Google (US) search results.
SE Traffic	1,152	Estimated number of visitors coming from the first 20 Google search results (per month).
SE Traffic Price	$762	Estimated cost of purchasing the same number of visitors.

Top 10 Most Valuable Search Rankings

The domain's best rankings; considering their position, other competition, demand for the keyword, and cost to purchase an AdWords ad for the keyword.

#	Keyword	Position	Search Results	Search Volume	CPC	URL
1	michigan bridge card	11	1,660,000	4,400	$0.38	www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/category/michigan-bridge-card/
2	zillow mi	11	13,300,000	1,600	$0.73	www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/2012/08/zillow-says-40-percent-of-mortgages-in-monroe-mi-are-underwater/
3	michigan bridge card schedule	1	163,000	73	$0.14	www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/2011/01/michigan-bridge-cards-2011-food-stamp-dates/
4	what stores double coupons	12	12,100,000	2,400	$0.37	www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/2011/01/couponing-101-what-stores-double-coupons/
5	saving money in toledo	4	699,000	390	$0.10	www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/2009/11/another-regional-blog-saving-money-in-toledo/
6	free money finance	9	433,000,000	880	$2.11	www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/2012/09/free-money-finance-when-it-comes-to-college-begin-with-the-end-in-mind/
7	citibank n.a. one penn s way	1	49,000	46	$0.92	www.blogsmonroe.com/consumer/2009/05/bogus-bank-checks-used-in-lottery-scams/
8	bridge card schedule	1	3,530,000	46	$0.10	www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/2011/01/michigan-bridge-cards-2011-food-stamp-dates/
9	the monroe evening news	7	4,420,000	480	$0.10	www.blogsmonroe.com/
10	mi bridge card schedule	1	1,150,000	28	$0.10	www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/2011/01/michigan-bridge-cards-2011-food-stamp-dates/

Top Competitors in Search Results

Domains that frequently appear in the same search results as this domain.

#	Domain	Common Keywords	SE Keywords	SE Traffic	SE Traffic Price	AdWords Keywords
1	youtube.com	333	31,967,192	335,966,073	$242,567,467	96,576
2	michigan.gov	257	109,731	1,759,369	$2,544,935	17
3	yahoo.com	203	12,063,386	169,486,900	$156,321,945	254,327
4	mlive.com	185	141,115	932,267	$784,944	1,193
5	wikipedia.org	162	18,709,543	832,640,994	$993,330,660	244
6	facebook.com	158	7,870,130	376,065,598	$871,774,075	43,468
7	ehow.com	131	4,206,624	12,077,583	$19,693,239	14,199
8	about.com	123	7,172,232	65,289,579	$83,047,098	0
9	yellowpages.com	116	3,452,897	14,257,091	$19,328,525	200,828
10	ask.com	109	2,683,938	9,339,969	$7,048,799	8,896,559

Potential Ad/Traffic Buyers

AdWords buyers next to this domain's Google search results.

#	Domain	Common Keywords	AdWords Keywords	AdWords Traffic	AdWords Traffic Price	SE Keywords
1	ask.com	252	8,896,559	17,114,511	$14,368,215	2,683,938
2	buycheapr.com	48	2,814,414	1,678,599	$1,109,760	4
3	webcrawler.com	42	618,215	965,333	$668,709	0
4	amazon.com	34	3,907,643	6,414,927	$4,999,718	12,828,796
5	cabelas.com	34	216,476	374,988	$228,248	152,298
6	info.com	34	1,150,439	427,451	$872,245	13,533
7	ebay.com	31	2,330,960	3,703,756	$1,589,601	7,064,122
8	local.com	30	889,659	939,142	$1,552,081	166,174
9	takemefishing.org	29	20,933	57,616	$41,815	5,001
10	tu.org	23	5,645	5,938	$5,358	428

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Stat Name	Value	Stat Explanation
Referring Domains	14,060	Number of referring domains known for this item. If -1 then this number is not yet known.
Referring .EDU Domains	9	Number of referring domains from EDUcational sites (only exact .edu TLD included; no regional domains).
Referring .GOV Domains	1	Number of referring domains from GOVernment sites (only exact .gov TLD included; no regional domains).
Referring IPs	7,306	Number of referring IP addresses.
External Backlinks	1,286,068	Number of external backlinks for this item.
Indexed URLs	148,423	Number of URLs for given item type present in index - these are NOT backlinks, but rather URLs belonging to given domain or subdomain: this metric is useful as an indication of domain content size.