Internet Media Research Supervisor Stone Hansard and Internet Media Researcher Brandon Harrod contributed to this post.
Mother’s Day is May 11! To celebrate moms everywhere (and assist with last-minute campaigns), Cision has compiled a list of the top 50 U.S. mom bloggers. Defining influence is tricky business no matter how you look at it, so I chose three concrete metrics as the basis for my list: Cision Digital Reach, Twitter followers and inbound links. Using Cision’s media database, I was able to find over 2,000 U.S. contacts covering motherhood or parenting, and from there, I winnowed it down to mom bloggers with data for my established criteria. Finally, I ranked the blogs by each metric and took the average of those ranks to calculate an overall rating. Congrats to the top bloggers!
- LaDonna Dennis – Mom Blog Society
- Liz Gumbinner – Cool Mom Picks
- Scarlet Paolicchi – Family Focus Blog
- Jacinda Boneau & Jaime Morrison Curtis – Pretty Prudent
- Jenn Worden – Jenn’s Blah Blah Blog
- Lenore Skenazy – Free Range Kids
- Lisa Leake – 100 Days of Real Food
- Janel C – A Mom’s Take
- Leah Segedie – Mamavation
- Kristen Howerton – Rage Against the Minivan
- Nicole Feliciano – MomTrends
- Heather Armstrong – Dooce
- Melissa Weintraub – The Mommyhood Chronicles
- Cher Kachelmuss – Mom and More
- Lisa Weidknecht – Planet Weidknecht
- Pamela Maynard – Mom Does Reviews
- Kate Marsh Lord – The Shopping Mama
- Louise Bishop – MomStart
- Liz Mays – A Nut in a Nutshell
- Colleen Shibley – Shibley Smiles
- Vera Sweeney – Lady and the Blog
- Anna Fader – Mommy Poppins
- Jennifer Gervens – Sweet T Makes Three
- Kimberly Vetrano – She Scribes
- Crissy Page – Dear Crissy
- Nicole Etolen – Pretty Opinionated
- Gabrielle Blair – Design Mom
- Jennifer Regan – Eighty MPH Mom
- Sadie Lankford – Slap Dash Mom
- Heather Smith – OurKidsMom
- Angela Roy – Mommy PR
- Kelle Hampton – Enjoying the Small Things
- Shannon Gosney – The Mommy Files
- Alicia Peiffer – Making Time For Mommy
- Valerie Gray – Mom Knows It All
- Holly Duce – Mommies With Cents
- Leticia Barr – Tech Savvy Mama
- Bridgette Duplantis – The Not-So-Blog’s Experimental Mommy
- Kim Delatorre – Shop With Me Mama
- Chrissy Taylor – The Taylor House
- Melissa Willms – Outnumbered 3 to 1
- Kristin Lesney-Ruiz – Our Ordinary Life
- Lauren – Crazy About My Baybah
- Janessa Solem – Thrifty Nifty Mom
- Trisha Novotny – 24/7 MOMS
- Jen Dotson – Thrifty NW Mom
- Beth Feldman – Role Mommy
- Virginia Higgins – That Bald Chick
- Danielle Simmons – Simmworks Family Blog
- Kat Bouska – Mama’s Losin’ It
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