Top 50 U.S. Mom Bloggers

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!

1. LaDonna Dennis – Mom Blog Society
2. Liz Gumbinner – Cool Mom Picks
3. Scarlet Paolicchi – Family Focus Blog
4. Jacinda Boneau & Jaime Morrison Curtis – Pretty Prudent
5. Jenn Worden – Jenn’s Blah Blah Blog
6. Lenore Skenazy - Free Range Kids
7. Lisa Leake – 100 Days of Real Food
8. Janel C – A Mom’s Take
9. Leah Segedie – Mamavation
10. Kristen Howerton – Rage Against the Minivan
11. Nicole Feliciano – MomTrends
12. Heather Armstrong – Dooce
13. Melissa Weintraub – The Mommyhood Chronicles
14. Cher Kachelmuss – Mom and More
15. Lisa Weidknecht – Planet Weidknecht
16. Pamela Maynard – Mom Does Reviews
17. Kate Marsh Lord – The Shopping Mama
18. Louise Bishop – MomStart
19. Liz Mays – A Nut in a Nutshell
20. Colleen Shibley – Shibley Smiles
21. Vera Sweeney – Lady and the Blog
22. Anna Fader – Mommy Poppins
23. Jennifer Gervens – Sweet T Makes Three
24. Kimberly Vetrano – She Scribes
25. Crissy Page – Dear Crissy
26. Nicole Etolen – Pretty Opinionated
27. Gabrielle Blair – Design Mom
28. Jennifer Regan – Eighty MPH Mom
29. Sadie Lankford – Slap Dash Mom
30. Heather Smith – OurKidsMom
31. Angela Roy – Mommy PR
32. Kelle Hampton – Enjoying the Small Things
33. Shannon Gosney – The Mommy Files
34. Alicia Peiffer – Making Time For Mommy
35. Valerie Gray – Mom Knows It All
36. Holly Duce – Mommies With Cents
37. Leticia Barr – Tech Savvy Mama
38. Bridgette Duplantis – The Not-So-Blog’s Experimental Mommy
39. Kim Delatorre – Shop With Me Mama
40. Chrissy Taylor – The Taylor House
41. Melissa Willms – Outnumbered 3 to 1
42. Kristin Lesney-Ruiz – Our Ordinary Life
43. Lauren – Crazy About My Baybah
44. Janessa Solem – Thrifty Nifty Mom
45. Trisha Novotny – 24/7 MOMS
46. Jen Dotson – Thrifty NW Mom
47. Beth Feldman – Role Mommy
48. Virginia Higgins – That Bald Chick
49. Danielle Simmons – Simmworks Family Blog
50. Kat Bouska – Mama’s Losin’ It

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About Beth Blanchard

Beth Blanchard is an editor at Cision.com, overseeing daily media updates, and also works as manager of electronic media in Cision’s research department. She has the world's best dog and loves Bruce Springsteen. Find her on Twitter @eblanc2.