The Best Personal Development Blogs of 2013

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It’s that time of year where we announce the Best Personal Development Blogs for 2013…in fact, we bring you the Top 100!

With 2013 just kicking off, now is the time to start creating what your year is going to look like and ensure it is the most successful year you have ever had.

Every year is another opportunity that we have for progressing towards our goals and our ideal life. Each year progresses on the next. This year is set to be the best year yet!

Spending my life in the career and personal development industries, I’m constantly looking for the latest and greatest information on success, motivation, results and happiness. I regularly deal with people from within the industry as well as those looking to gain valuable insight and information.

One thing I’ve noticed is that there are so many people in this world that are after a full list of resources for helping them achieve what they want to achieve in life. The good thing is the internet has provided so much access to the information that previously only those attending $5,000 courses would be able to have.

The Best Personal Development Blogs of 2013

I’ve decided to put together a list of the best personal development blogs of 2013. In fact, this list represents the top 100 personal development blogs for 2013.

The tricky thing is these lists are always quite subjective. I’ve found that the longer the site has been around, the more visitors the site gets and therefore the more comments and more votes e.t.c. Although we had only been around for 4 months, The Start of Happiness was recently recognised as the 3rd best personal development blog for quality. To me, that’s what it’s all about.

However, because of the subjective nature of measuring quality, the top 100 personal development blogs for 2013 is different. What I have provided is a list of personal development blogs that rank from the ‘biggest’ with the most traffic to the ‘smallest’. This list will provide you a clear indicator of how large a website is and its relative importance.

One thing to keep in mind, however, is that the larger the site does not necessarily indicate that the site is of better quality. Generally, you will find that the larger sites have been around for longer and many of them have multiple contributors. In saying that, the top sites have lasted the test of time and continue to have strong readership so they must be doing something right.

How to Use This List

There are a tonne of awesome websites here, in fact, there are 100 of them. If they were not awesome, they wouldn’t be listed here.

If you’re looking to make 2013 your best year yet, you’re going to drown if you try to read all 100 of these blogs.

My suggestion is to go through them all at least once. Try finding 2 or 3 blogs that really resonate with you. Which blogs are most closely aligned to what you’re trying to achieve in your life? Which ones are providing you the right information to help you now and into the future?

Blogs and websites can change over time. If you feel you’re after something different, pop back to this list and check out a couple of others.

Over the past few months, I’ve got to know quite a few of the personal development bloggers on this list and I can say that I’m highly impressed with what they are doing and where they are going.

How The Top 100 Personal Development Blogs are Ranked

As I mentioned above, this list ranks the personal development blogs from the ‘biggest’ with the most traffic to the ‘smallest’.

There are two primary tools for doing this.

Firstly, you have Alexa rank of the website. Alexa provides a relative ranking of each website based on the number of visitors it receives. A rank of 1,000 would mean that the site is the 1,000th most visited site on the internet. Just so you know, Google’s rank is #1, Facebook is ranked #2 and YouTube is ranked #3. The Top 100 Personal Development Blogs are ranked by Alexa scores (as of January 2013).

Secondly, you have Google Page Rank. Google Page Rank is one of the tools Google uses to determine a sites relative importance. This is done primarily by how many quality backlinks the website has. Generally, a score of 4 or higher represents the site is of relative importance. The Top 100 Personal Development Blogs are not ranked by Google Page Rank, however I have included the PageRank of each for you to utilise if you wish (you can filter by this).

The accuracy of these tools has always been questionable when it comes to the detail, however when comparing more generally the relative size of a site they are very useful indicators.

Want to know what’s really cool? The Top 100 table is dynamic, meaning you can search for your favourite blog and see what it’s ranked and sort by any column, such as page rank or alphabetical order. This is your list. Make it so!

Without further ado, let me introduce you to the Best Personal Development Blogs for 2013!

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The Winners

If your blog is one of the Top 100, you have the honour of displaying one of the following badges on your site. This is the most comprehensive list of personal development blogs currently on the internet and I’m honoured to have you as part of this! Please pick a badge that suits your theme and simply use the code provided to add it to your site. (you may need to replace the inverted commas – “” on your own site for the image to work).

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The Top 100 Personal Development Blogs of 2013

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Do you know of a blog that you think should be on this list? Let me know!

• What’s your favourite blog?
• Which ones do you get the most value from?
• Where are you learning how to live a better life?

I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!

Here’s to making 2013 your best year yet!

Brendan

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