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 61.95, which ranks it #181 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
2012-5-20	181	61.95	4.02	11,743	33.12	4,410	530,221	897
2012-5-13	181	62.04	4.02	11,743	34.41	4,380	541,709	900
2012-5-6	179	62.16	4.02	11,743	36.00	4,366	545,299	892
2012-4-29	187	60.76	3.96	11,743	36.00	4,344	559,912	892
2012-4-22	195	60.11	3.96	11,743	33.50	4,330	547,100	887

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@MonroeOnABudget

Frugal blogger & local news reporter for @monroenews in southeast Michigan. Random tweeting on sports, holidays, Barbie dolls, weather and journalism.

Tweeting since 14 January 2009 (3 years 18 weeks)

Recent Tweets from @MonroeOnABudget

RT @monroenews: Paula gives tips on a successful Memorial Day weekend, without breaking your wallet! Take our Memorial Day poll,... http://t.co/4m7RbmAD
about 6 hours ago
Coupon and grocery class for River Park Plaza May 23 http://t.co/MLjZuHUq #monroemi #frugal #bridgecard
about 1 day ago
RT @monroenews: 270+ "likes" on our FB page and 770 website "recommends" for this update on Nevaeh Buchanan case #monroemi http://t.co/iC7qIYir
about 1 day ago
@careyfuller great find!
about 2 days ago
yay! #indians
about 2 days ago
Yes Detroit friends, I will root for local teams. Exception: when Cleveland is involved. Family ties. #clevelandrocks
about 2 days ago
Cleveland Rocks. #indians
about 2 days ago
we never watched #dwts until this season, very entertaining especially with DH being a Green Bay fan #dwts
about 2 days ago
amazing Donald #dwts
about 2 days ago
@znmeb hahaha #journchat
about 2 days ago

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Social Media Reach & Influence (by Klout)+/-

Twitter influence stats by Klout. To get more in-depth Klout analysis of @MonroeOnABudget, visit klout.com/MonroeOnABudget.

Stat Name	Value	Stat Explanation
Klout Score	33.12	The Klout Score is a 0-100 rating of @MonroeOnABudget's overall influence on Twitter.
True Reach	142	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	10.60	0-100 rating of the influence level of @MonroeOnABudget's engaged audience.
Amplification Score	5.00	0-100 score of the likelihood that @MonroeOnABudget's tweets will be acted upon by their followers.

Klout Description of @MonroeOnABudget

@MonroeOnABudget is effectively using social media to influence their network across a variety of topics

Klout Classification of @MonroeOnABudget

Socializer

You are the hub of social scenes and people count on you to find out what's happening. You are quick to connect people and readily share your social savvy. Your followers appreciate your network and generosity.

Influential Topics	Influenced By	Influencer Of
personal finance journalism finance blogging social media	@wxbrad (66.61) @grsblog (53.96) @frugalista (49.75) @edwardhumes (44.58) @chryspeterson (43.96)	@bargainshopmom (55.19) @mibloggers (40.05) @monroenews (39.24) @relishmagazine (36.29) @kaleyatchaching (31.41)

Google Search Rankings (by SEMRush)+/-

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

SEMRush Rank	217,903	Rating of sites by the number of visitors coming from the first 20 Google search results.
SE Keywords	866	Number of keywords (search queries) the domain ranks in the top 20 Google (US) search results.
SE Traffic	2,162	Estimated number of visitors coming from the first 20 Google search results (per month).
SE Traffic Price	$1,186	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	1,390,000	5,400	$0.48	www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/category/assistance-programs/michigan-bridge-card/
2	michigan bridge card	10	1,390,000	5,400	$0.48	www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/category/michigan-bridge-card/
3	michigan dnr fishing report	11	223,000	1,600	$0.43	www.blogsmonroe.com/fishing/2011/03/michigan-dnr-fishing-report-3242011/
4	bridge card michigan	9	1,060,000	1,900	$0.46	www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/2011/01/michigan-bridge-cards-2011-food-stamp-dates/
5	michigan dnr fishing report	10	223,000	1,600	$0.43	www.blogsmonroe.com/fishing/2012/03/michigan-dnr-fishing-report-3222012/
6	michigan bridge card schedule	1	139,000	91	$0.10	www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/2011/01/michigan-bridge-cards-2011-food-stamp-dates/
7	food stamp schedule	1	2,120,000	73	$0.10	www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/2011/01/michigan-bridge-cards-2011-food-stamp-dates/
8	mi bridge card	9	2,500,000	1,000	$0.34	www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/category/michigan-bridge-card/
9	bargins to bounty	5	1,250,000	590	$0.95	www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/2012/03/coupon-database-launches-at-bargains-to-bounty/
10	bargins to bounty	6	1,250,000	590	$0.95	www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/2012/02/bargains-to-bounty-offers-advanced-coupon-class-march-7-in-warren/

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	michigan.gov	422	115,896	1,871,961	$2,512,661	0
2	facebook.com	321	8,312,528	304,780,488	$266,088,018	40,947
3	yahoo.com	303	12,955,962	194,959,591	$160,585,773	473,890
4	wikipedia.org	264	17,242,179	906,039,296	$1,008,079,406	187
5	mlive.com	213	140,021	1,021,637	$825,739	1,132
6	youtube.com	190	8,435,960	120,121,931	$87,379,001	151,529
7	amazon.com	134	12,150,667	122,023,365	$105,684,767	3,049,061
8	yelp.com	128	4,453,711	41,297,075	$47,796,846	1,087
9	about.com	127	6,433,925	57,404,498	$72,681,506	178
10	yellowpages.com	111	2,761,519	10,369,569	$12,100,460	141,735

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	228	6,491,930	10,515,491	$7,448,599	2,673,033
2	buycheapr.com	72	2,734,989	1,769,659	$1,059,183	1
3	ebay.com	53	2,072,625	3,406,763	$1,245,761	4,126,426
4	tu.org	50	11,507	21,989	$18,147	441
5	amazon.com	36	3,049,061	4,626,205	$3,561,314	12,150,667
6	shopzilla.com	33	1,370,962	587,745	$432,109	541,917
7	nextag.com	24	788,740	368,860	$342,394	1,701,981
8	best-deal.com	22	433,850	213,713	$178,434	0
9	bizrate.com	22	1,239,281	633,442	$570,884	235,352
10	info.com	22	855,813	272,687	$702,554	10,428

Majestic SEO Stats+/-

Stat Name	Value	Stat Explanation
Referring Domains	11,743	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	6,297	Number of referring IP addresses.
External Backlinks	1,102,866	Number of external backlinks for this item.
Indexed URLs	127,271	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.