Smart Spending

Smart Spending combines the best money-saving tips from MSN Money and the rest of the Web. This blog is co-hosted by two experts on stretching dollars. Karen Datko is a veteran journalist based in Montana who finds the best tips from around the Web. Donna Freedman is a veteran journalist, student, and handywoman in Washington who also moderates the MSN Money Smart Spending message board. Smart Spending received the 2008 Clarion Award for best regular column in online journalism.

 

Stats Summary+/-

Smart Spending has a Wise Score of  89.66, which ranks it #0 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
2011-10-16089.664.9122,12948.887,3131183,865
2011-10-16089.664.9122,12948.887,3131183,865
2011-10-16089.664.9122,12948.887,3131183,865
2011-10-16089.664.9122,12948.887,3131183,865
2011-10-16089.664.9122,12948.887,3131183,865
 

Compete+/-

 
 

Twitter+/-

4,3646,2207,899
TweetsFollowingFollowers
Thought provoking ideas to help you save money from MSN Money Smart Spending.
Tweeting since 8 January 2009 (3 years 4 weeks)

  Recent Tweets from @SmartSpending

  1. Meet the man with 50 credit cards http://t.co/w6efjj09
    about 11 hours ago
  2. Banks agree to $26B foreclosure settlement http://t.co/dTTZnkPj
    about 15 hours ago
  3. Meet the man with 50 credit cards. http://t.co/gpwNN8lY ^KD
    about 19 hours ago
  4. 14 extraordinary tax deductions http://t.co/XYHJp691
    about 19 hours ago
  5. #Disneyland on the cheap #happiestplaceonearth http://t.co/u3pCgCuD
    about 21 hours ago
  6. Big news: States reach $26 billion foreclosure deal. http://t.co/UGChpMBL ^KD
    about 22 hours ago
  7. Should more homeowners walk away? http://t.co/k96nxJ9i ^KD
    about 23 hours ago
  8. How much should you borrow for college? Dough has an answer. http://t.co/X5z5Cni9 ^KD
    about 1 day ago
  9. Your coffee costs $50 a pound?! (Yikes) http://t.co/zUSGA9Tc ^KD
    about 1 day ago
  10. Prepaid cards need a makeover (here's a few suggestions). http://t.co/kSFzEeyp ^KD
    about 1 day ago

  Recent Tweets about @SmartSpending

  1. The Personal Finance Fix is out! http://t.co/mg0QBfX1 ▸ Top stories today via @dinks_finance @jjeffrose @smartspending @mygoodcents
    about 2 hours ago by masteryourcard (MasterYourCard.com)
  2. RT @SmartSpending: 14 extraordinary tax deductions http://t.co/XYHJp691
    about 17 hours ago by Budget50plus (Val Dee)
  3. RT @SmartSpending: Meet the man with 50 credit cards. http://t.co/gpwNN8lY ^KD
    about 19 hours ago by BankonCA (Bank on California)
  4. RT @SmartSpending: #Disneyland on the cheap #happiestplaceonearth http://t.co/u3pCgCuD
    about 21 hours ago by allantowns (Allan Townsend)
  5. RT @SmartSpending: #Disneyland on the cheap #happiestplaceonearth http://t.co/u3pCgCuD
    about 21 hours ago by drnewbold (Rich Newbold)
  6. RT @SmartSpending: Your coffee costs $50 a pound?! (Yikes) http://t.co/zUSGA9Tc ^KD
    about 1 day ago by joegullo (Joe Gullo)
  7. RT @SmartSpending: Your coffee costs $50 a pound?! (Yikes) http://t.co/zUSGA9Tc ^KD
    about 1 day ago by allantowns (Allan Townsend)
  8. RT @SmartSpending: 9 ways to get airline elite status faster. http://t.co/3gzuNEBb ^KD
    about 1 day ago by savingsmania (SavingsMania)
  9. The American Safe Retire Daily is out! http://t.co/M8C0CFB3 ▸ Top stories today via @amerishieldllc @kevinpaulcondon @smartspending
    about 2 days ago by ASRetirements (American Safe Retire)
  10. RT @SmartSpending: Delaying gratification seems to be the key to success in many pursuits. Including improving your #credit http://t.co/cS5Ubr90
    about 4 days ago by Debt_Princess (Jessica)
 

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

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

Stat NameValueStat Explanation
Klout Score39.92The Klout Score is a 0-100 rating of @SmartSpending's overall influence on Twitter.
True Reach457True Reach is the size of @SmartSpending's engaged audience. Klout eliminates inactive and spam accounts, and only include accounts that @SmartSpending actually influences.
Network Score17.290-100 rating of the influence level of @SmartSpending's engaged audience.
Amplification Score6.00 0-100 score of the likelihood that @SmartSpending's tweets will be acted upon by their followers.
Klout Description of @SmartSpending
@SmartSpending is effectively using social media to influence their network across a variety of topics
Klout Classification of @SmartSpending
Networker You know how to connect to the right people and share what's important to your audience. You generously share your network to help your followers. You have a high level of engagement and an influential audience.
Influential Topics Influenced By Influencer Of
  • personal finance
  • finance
  • business
  • journalism
  • deals
 

Google Search Rankings (by SEMRush)+/-

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

SEMRush Rank23Rating of sites by the number of visitors coming from the first 20 Google search results.
SE Keywords767,445Number of keywords (search queries) the domain ranks in the top 20 Google (US) search results.
SE Traffic24,728,281Estimated number of visitors coming from the first 20 Google search results (per month).
SE Traffic Price$31,189,509Estimated 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.

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2msn.com1122,000,0003,350,000$1.92www.msn.com/
3msnbc166,400,0002,740,000$0.35www.msnbc.msn.com/
4hotmail6854,000,00024,900,000$0.12www.msn.com/
5hotmail.com3899,000,0007,480,000$0.11www.msn.com/
6weather81,250,000,00016,600,000$0.27local.msn.com/weather.aspx
7msnbc266,400,0002,740,000$0.35news.mobile.msn.com/
8hotmail.com11899,000,0007,480,000$0.11latino.msn.com/
9weather.com41,190,000,0004,090,000$0.23local.msn.com/weather.aspx
10www.msn.com199,200,000550,000$1.62www.msn.com/

Top Competitors in Search Results

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

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1wikipedia.org442,18517,685,654805,842,038$817,644,714117
2yahoo.com328,4429,810,537180,131,202$141,752,1531,637,687
3about.com213,6257,128,38260,406,412$77,545,3530
4edmunds.com154,228496,6097,059,398$13,221,633453,879
5amazon.com134,91112,011,888128,054,133$112,842,6533,282,990
6youtube.com127,4717,100,123114,884,749$72,402,08636,582
7cnn.com114,249736,32622,828,219$21,926,020525
8nytimes.com102,7901,320,68454,153,350$27,227,2871,867
9huffingtonpost.com96,397826,31915,970,934$12,085,9731,724
10facebook.com78,7428,101,341252,711,209$104,730,38771,911

Potential Ad/Traffic Buyers

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

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3kbb.com63,058294,591642,638$880,222105,582
4ebay.com51,2663,967,1345,887,469$3,004,5334,769,003
5yahoo.com41,7181,637,6871,248,655$1,229,3789,810,537
6cargurus.com28,01897,248126,920$252,55053,384
7autotrader.com26,057145,242201,321$398,209137,208
8cars.com25,59599,626480,438$1,034,915236,737
9amazon.com24,6073,282,9905,108,454$4,033,63312,011,888
10buycheapr.com21,9322,632,4801,764,929$1,141,8800
 

Majestic SEO Stats+/-

Majestic SEO

Stat NameValueStat Explanation
Referring Domains2,670,354Number of referring domains known for this item. If -1 then this number is not yet known.
Referring .EDU Domains3,064Number of referring domains from EDUcational sites (only exact .edu TLD included; no regional domains).
Referring .GOV Domains675Number of referring domains from GOVernment sites (only exact .gov TLD included; no regional domains).
Referring IPs683,981Number of referring IP addresses.
External Backlinks3,298,854,670Number of external backlinks for this item.
Indexed URLs143,624,092Number 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.