It's finally here: this years Top 50 Personal Development blogs of 2012.

As you know I tried to do it a little different from last year to try and whittle the numbers down a bit. Last year we had 200 nominees and this year we had 70 nominees. Upon reflection I will leave the voting open to 3 votes per person, as I did last year. It's more work, however we will get a more comprehensive listing of the personal development blogs out there.

How are the top 50 selected?

To make it as fair as possible I totally changed the way the top 50 was calculated from last year. Each blog was scored out of 100 using 5 areas.

The 5 main areas that I concentrated on, were weighted as follows:

Number of votes– 15% of total score

Klout Score– 15% of total score (if someone didn't have a Klout account they were given a Klout score of 30, however there were only 7 people who didn't have one)

Avg Number of posts per week– 15% of total score

Avg number of comments per post– 20% of total score

Quality score – 35% of total score. This was broken down into a further 3 areas: Blog design(10%), Navigation(10%). and content (15%)

So if someone received the most votes they would receive the highest score of 15 in 'the number of votes' category as was the case with Jeff Friend, and everyone else's score would be weighted. The person with the highest Klout score was Leo Babauta with 81, so he received 15 points for being top and everyone else received a score going down to 0 depending where they were on the table. The avg number of posts per week; 15 points was awarded to Ben Rolnik, however he didn't score high enough in the other areas for him to make it into the top 50.

Quality score was a mark out of 35: 10 for design, 10 for navigation and 15 for content. This is, of course, the subjective part of the contest, however I again had certain criteria to look for when I was marking. e.g. in the navigation area I was looking for: A good about page, a search function, a contact page, a subscribe area, an archives feature, and a social media subscribe area, this ruled out as much of the subjectivity as possible.

Content was not just about the writing, it was about the post structure, images in post, ability to share and most important the writing itself.

I hope you agree I couldn't make the marking any fairer than I have, so favouritism was taken out of the equation, and objectivity was the name of the game.

Anyways onto the winner of this years top 50.

Top 50 Personal Development Blogs of 2012

#50 – Jamie Flexman www.psycholocrazy.com/ Votes – 1 Klout Score – 26 No Posts p/w – 1.6 No Comments avg – 2.2 Quality Score – 24 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#49 – Roman Soluk www.oplife.org/ Votes – 1 Klout Score – 38 No Posts p/w – 1.7 No Comments avg – 1.8 Quality Score – 24 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#48 – Melissa Curran www.findyourparadigm.com/ Votes – 5 Klout Score – 50 No Posts p/w – 0.9 No Comments avg – 1.7 Quality Score – 23 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#47 – David Singer www.sixsimplerules.com/ Votes – 6 Klout Score – 40 No Posts p/w – 0.9 No Comments avg – 3.8 Quality Score – 22 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#46 – Jackie Walker jackiewalker.me/ Votes – 6 Klout Score – 48 No Posts p/w – 0.7 No Comments avg – 1.2 Quality Score – 23 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#45 – Jamie Alexander lucidability.com/ Votes – 11 Klout Score – 29 No Posts p/w – 0.6 No Comments avg – 5.5 Quality Score – 23 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#44 – Suzie Cheel suziecheel.com/ Votes – 3 Klout Score – 68 No Posts p/w – 0.6 No Comments avg – 5.2 Quality Score – 21 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#43 – Dennis Do selfexceed.com/ Votes – 5 Klout Score – 52 No Posts p/w – 0.6 No Comments avg – 4 Quality Score – 23 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#42 – Melissa Reyes mizmeliz.com/ Votes – 3 Klout Score – 62 No Posts p/w – 2.3 No Comments avg – 1.5 Quality Score – 17 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#41 "“ Dragos Roua www.dragosroua.com/ Votes – 3 Klout Score – 66 No Posts p/w – 0.9 No Comments avg – 0.3 Quality Score – 24 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#40 – Amit Sodha www.unlimitedchoice.org/blog Votes – 3 Klout Score – 47 No Posts p/w – 0.7 No Comments avg – 14 Quality Score – 22 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#39 – Stephanie Mulac infiniteevolutioncenter.com/ Votes – 22 Klout Score – 51 No Posts p/w – 0.7 No Comments avg – 0.2 Quality Score – 21 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#38 – Angela Goodeve lifeadvicethecoachingway.blogspot.co.uk/ Votes – 5 Klout Score – 61 No Posts p/w – 0.6 No Comments avg – 4.8 Quality Score – 21 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#37 – Sarupa Shah www.sarupashah.com/ Votes – 12 Klout Score – 29 No Posts p/w – 1.3 No Comments avg – 3.2 Quality Score – 23 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#36 – Tamarisk Saunders-Davies tamarisksd.com/ Votes – 25 Klout Score – 30 No Posts p/w – 1.4 No Comments avg – 2.7 Quality Score – 20 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#35 – Otiti www.otitijasmine.com/ Votes – 1 Klout Score – 46 No Posts p/w – 0.7 No Comments avg – 18.6 Quality Score – 21 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
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#33 – Holly Worton ready2bloom.com/ Votes – 5 Klout Score – 59 No Posts p/w – 1.4 No Comments avg – 0.8 Quality Score – 22 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#32 – Joe Wilner shakeoffthegrind.com/ Votes – 1 Klout Score – 51 No Posts p/w – 1.6 No Comments avg – 5.4 Quality Score – 24 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#31 – Evelyn Lym www.abundancetapestry.com/ Votes – 1 Klout Score – 47 No Posts p/w – 1.6 No Comments avg – 10.3 Quality Score – 24 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#30 – Brendan Baker www.startofhappiness.com/ Votes – 5 Klout Score – 53 No Posts p/w – 0.9 No Comments avg – 6.1 Quality Score – 27 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#29 – Arvind Devalia www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/ Votes – 20 Klout Score – 53 No Posts p/w – 0.3 No Comments avg – 7 Quality Score – 25 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#28 "“ Tess Marshall theboldlife.com/ Votes – 2 Klout Score – 54 No Posts p/w – 1 No Comments avg – 16.7 Quality Score – 22 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#27 – Galen Pearl 10stepstofindingyourhappyplace.blogspot.co.uk/ Votes – 1 Klout Score – 30 No Posts p/w – 1.4 No Comments avg – 46.7 Quality Score – 19 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#26 – Alex Blackwell www.thebridgemaker.com Votes – 2 Klout Score – 50 No Posts p/w – 1.3 No Comments avg – 15 Quality Score – 24 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#25 – Taslim Jaffer www.letmeoutcreative.com/blog/ Votes – 40 Klout Score – 45 No Posts p/w – 1.4 No Comments avg – 3.3 Quality Score – 20 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#24 – Anne-Sophie Reinhardt amindmedia.com/ Votes – 22 Klout Score – 30 No Posts p/w – 6 No Comments avg – 1.1 Quality Score – 24 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#23 – Victor Schueller www.victorschueller.com/ Votes – 5 Klout Score – 56 No Posts p/w – 2.1 No Comments avg – 4.2 Quality Score – 23 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#22 – Betsy Henry www.zen-mama.com/ Votes – 1 Klout Score – 60 No Posts p/w – 0.7 No Comments avg – 29.4 Quality Score – 20 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#21 "“ Justin Mazza www.mazzastick.com/ Votes – 6 Klout Score – 43 No Posts p/w – 1.1 No Comments avg – 18.5 Quality Score – 23 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#20 – Craig Morton www.ignitechange.net/ Votes – 32 Klout Score – 49 No Posts p/w – 2.4 No Comments avg – 1.4 Quality Score – 23 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#19 "“ Angela Artemis www.poweredbyintuition.com/ Votes – 6 Klout Score – 54 No Posts p/w – 1.1 No Comments avg – 15 Quality Score – 22 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#18 – Ken Wert meanttobehappy.com/ Votes – 2 Klout Score – 42 No Posts p/w – 1 No Comments avg – 25 Quality Score – 26 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#17 – Stephen Borgman www.personal-success-factors.com/ Votes – 5 Klout Score – 50 No Posts p/w – 0.9 No Comments avg – 22 Quality Score – 23 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#16 "“ Dani DiPirro www.positivelypresent.com/ Votes – 1 Klout Score – 55 No Posts p/w – 2.1 No Comments avg – 7.9 Quality Score – 20 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \| \|
#15 – Paige Burkes www.simplemindfulness.com/ Votes – 11 Klout Score – 62 No Posts p/w – 0.7 No Comments avg – 12.6 Quality Score – 24 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#14 – Arianna Merritt ariannasrandomthoughts.com/ Votes – 36 Klout Score – 47 No Posts p/w – 2.3 No Comments avg – 8.5 Quality Score – 22 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#13 – Zeenat Merchant-Syal positiveprovocations.com/ Votes – 13 Klout Score – 62 No Posts p/w – 0.7 No Comments avg – 13 Quality Score – 24 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#12 – Sandi Amorim www.devacoaching.com/blog/ Votes – 8 Klout Score – 64 No Posts p/w – 1.6 No Comments avg – 10.3 Quality Score – 24 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#11 – Leo Babauta zenhabits.net/ Votes – 1 Klout Score – 81 No Posts p/w – 2 No Comments avg – 10 Quality Score – 26 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#10 – Jeffrey Friend www.kaizenways.com Votes – 84 Klout Score – 63 No Posts p/w – 1.1 No Comments avg – 8.4 Quality Score – 23 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#9 – Elle Sommer www.reflectingalife.com/ Votes – 12 Klout Score – 48 No Posts p/w – 2.1 No Comments avg – 16.4 Quality Score – 26 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#8 – Tim Brownson www.adaringadventure.com/ Votes – 1 Klout Score – 65 No Posts p/w – 2.3 No Comments avg – 17.8 Quality Score – 28 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#7 – Vidya Sury vidyasury.com/ Votes – 2 Klout Score – 69 No Posts p/w – 2.7 No Comments avg – 23.5 Quality Score – 23 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#6 – Jodi Chapman www.jodichapman.com Votes – 12 Klout Score – 70 No Posts p/w – 2 No Comments avg – 14.1 Quality Score – 24 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#5 – Marquita Herald www.inspiredgiftgiving.com Votes – 12 Klout Score – 53 No Posts p/w – 2 No Comments avg – 21.7 Quality Score – 25 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#4 – Celestine Chua personalexcellence.co Votes – 11 Klout Score – 56 No Posts p/w – 4 No Comments avg – 33.7 Quality Score – 25 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|
#3 – Izmael Arkin (Izzy) 30yearoldninja.com/ Votes – 20 Klout Score – 47 No Posts p/w – 1.9 No Comments avg – 44.5 Quality Score – 25 Blog \| Facebook \| Twitter \|

#50 – Jamie Flexman
www.psycholocrazy.com/

Votes – 1
Klout Score – 26
No Posts p/w – 1.6
No Comments avg – 2.2
Quality Score – 24

How are the top 50 selected?

Top 50 Personal Development Blogs of 2012

#50 – Jamie Flexman www.psycholocrazy.com/

#49 – Roman Soluk www.oplife.org/

#48 – Melissa Curran www.findyourparadigm.com/

#47 – David Singer www.sixsimplerules.com/

#46 – Jackie Walker jackiewalker.me/

#45 – Jamie Alexander lucidability.com/

#44 – Suzie Cheel suziecheel.com/

#43 – Dennis Do selfexceed.com/

#42 – Melissa Reyes mizmeliz.com/

#41 "“ Dragos Roua www.dragosroua.com/

#40 – Amit Sodha www.unlimitedchoice.org/blog

#39 – Stephanie Mulac infiniteevolutioncenter.com/

#38 – Angela Goodeve lifeadvicethecoachingway.blogspot.co.uk/

#37 – Sarupa Shah www.sarupashah.com/

#36 – Tamarisk Saunders-Davies tamarisksd.com/

#35 – Otiti www.otitijasmine.com/

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#33 – Holly Worton ready2bloom.com/

#32 – Joe Wilner shakeoffthegrind.com/

#31 – Evelyn Lym www.abundancetapestry.com/

#30 – Brendan Baker www.startofhappiness.com/

#29 – Arvind Devalia www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/

#28 "“ Tess Marshall theboldlife.com/

#27 – Galen Pearl 10stepstofindingyourhappyplace.blogspot.co.uk/

#26 – Alex Blackwell www.thebridgemaker.com

#25 – Taslim Jaffer www.letmeoutcreative.com/blog/

#24 – Anne-Sophie Reinhardt amindmedia.com/

#23 – Victor Schueller www.victorschueller.com/

#22 – Betsy Henry www.zen-mama.com/

#21 "“ Justin Mazza www.mazzastick.com/

#20 – Craig Morton www.ignitechange.net/

#19 "“ Angela Artemis www.poweredbyintuition.com/

#18 – Ken Wert meanttobehappy.com/

#17 – Stephen Borgman www.personal-success-factors.com/

#16 "“ Dani DiPirro www.positivelypresent.com/

#15 – Paige Burkes www.simplemindfulness.com/

#14 – Arianna Merritt ariannasrandomthoughts.com/

#13 – Zeenat Merchant-Syal positiveprovocations.com/

#12 – Sandi Amorim www.devacoaching.com/blog/

#11 – Leo Babauta zenhabits.net/

#10 – Jeffrey Friend www.kaizenways.com

#9 – Elle Sommer www.reflectingalife.com/

#8 – Tim Brownson www.adaringadventure.com/

#7 – Vidya Sury vidyasury.com/

#6 – Jodi Chapman www.jodichapman.com

#5 – Marquita Herald www.inspiredgiftgiving.com

#4 – Celestine Chua personalexcellence.co

#3 – Izmael Arkin (Izzy) 30yearoldninja.com/

We have joint winners this year.

congratulations to:

#1 – Melody Fletcher www.deliberateblog.com/

Votes – 1Klout Score – 62No Posts p/w – 2.1No Comments avg – 56.1Quality Score – 28

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#1 – Michael Hyatt michaelhyatt.com/

Votes – 1Klout Score – 80No Posts p/w – 2.7No Comments avg – 75.3Quality Score – 26

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A huge thank you to everyone who voted, all 1,200 of you 🙂 We'll do it

all again next year

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#50 – Jamie Flexman
www.psycholocrazy.com/

#49 – Roman Soluk
www.oplife.org/

#48 – Melissa Curran
www.findyourparadigm.com/

#47 – David Singer
www.sixsimplerules.com/

#46 – Jackie Walker
jackiewalker.me/

#45 – Jamie Alexander
lucidability.com/

#44 – Suzie Cheel
suziecheel.com/

#43 – Dennis Do
selfexceed.com/

#42 – Melissa Reyes
mizmeliz.com/

#41 "“ Dragos Roua
www.dragosroua.com/

#40 – Amit Sodha
www.unlimitedchoice.org/blog

#39 – Stephanie Mulac
infiniteevolutioncenter.com/

#38 – Angela Goodeve
lifeadvicethecoachingway.blogspot.co.uk/

#37 – Sarupa Shah
www.sarupashah.com/

#36 – Tamarisk Saunders-Davies
tamarisksd.com/

#35 – Otiti
www.otitijasmine.com/

#33 – Holly Worton
ready2bloom.com/

#32 – Joe Wilner
shakeoffthegrind.com/

#31 – Evelyn Lym
www.abundancetapestry.com/

#30 – Brendan Baker
www.startofhappiness.com/

#29 – Arvind Devalia
www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/

#28 "“ Tess Marshall
theboldlife.com/

#27 – Galen Pearl
10stepstofindingyourhappyplace.blogspot.co.uk/

#26 – Alex Blackwell
www.thebridgemaker.com

#25 – Taslim Jaffer
www.letmeoutcreative.com/blog/

#24 – Anne-Sophie Reinhardt
amindmedia.com/

#23 – Victor Schueller
www.victorschueller.com/

#22 – Betsy Henry
www.zen-mama.com/

#21 "“ Justin Mazza
www.mazzastick.com/

#20 – Craig Morton
www.ignitechange.net/

#19 "“ Angela Artemis
www.poweredbyintuition.com/

#18 – Ken Wert
meanttobehappy.com/

#17 – Stephen Borgman
www.personal-success-factors.com/

#16 "“ Dani DiPirro
www.positivelypresent.com/

#15 – Paige Burkes
www.simplemindfulness.com/

#14 – Arianna Merritt
ariannasrandomthoughts.com/

#13 – Zeenat Merchant-Syal
positiveprovocations.com/

#12 – Sandi Amorim
www.devacoaching.com/blog/

#11 – Leo Babauta
zenhabits.net/

#10 – Jeffrey Friend
www.kaizenways.com

#9 – Elle Sommer
www.reflectingalife.com/

#8 – Tim Brownson
www.adaringadventure.com/

#7 – Vidya Sury
vidyasury.com/

#6 – Jodi Chapman
www.jodichapman.com

#5 – Marquita Herald
www.inspiredgiftgiving.com

#4 – Celestine Chua
personalexcellence.co

#3 – Izmael Arkin (Izzy)
30yearoldninja.com/

#1 – Melody Fletcher
www.deliberateblog.com/

Votes – 1
Klout Score – 62
No Posts p/w – 2.1
No Comments avg – 56.1
Quality Score – 28

#1 – Michael Hyatt
michaelhyatt.com/

Votes – 1
Klout Score – 80
No Posts p/w – 2.7
No Comments avg – 75.3
Quality Score – 26