Top Earning Blogs – Make Money Online Blogging

Superstar Bloggers Making Fortunes Online

Today I decided to research how much my favorite blog’s are earning every month and I wasn’t surprised to see some of them make over $100,000 per month.

These are blogs and success stories that have inspired me to become a blogger. These Superstar bloggers continue to inspire me to this day – and they have kept me motivated to not give up whenever it got tough, especially in the early days.

I hope this inspires you. If you think it’s time to start your own successful blog, then you absolutely must check out my post on how I create websites.

Special Notes:

1) To give you some idea of the potential available – top blogging network, Weblogs, Inc. is believed to earn about $30 million a month revenue from 13 million unique visitors.

2) And it is not just about making money monthly it is also about building a BUSINESS that can be sold, such as 22 year old Johns Wu did when he sold his blog for $15 Million.

Disclaimer:

Some of the website’s featured in this top list are only estimates and are not all 100% correct just a indication of how well they are doing regarding making money from their blog. If you would like to be featured in this list or know of any blogger’s that should, please comment below!

Check out the TOP EARNING BLOGS list below. I have already interviewed a number of these Superstar bloggers but hope to interview a lot more of them over the coming months – so watch out for that.

30 Blog’s That Make A Lot Of Money Online

Rank Website Owner Monthly Earnings Main Income
1 The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington $2,330,000 Pay Per Click
2 Techcrunch Michael Arrington $800,000 Advertising Banners
3 Mashable Pete Cashmore $600,000 Advertising Banners
4 Perez Hilton Mario Lavandeira $450,000 Advertising Banners
5 Noupe The Blonde Salad $200,000 Private Advertising
6 Smashing Magazine Vitaly Friedman $190,000 Advertising Banners
7 SmartPassiveIncome Pat Flynn $153,000 Affiliate Commissions
8 Timothy Sykes Timothy Sykes $150,000 Affiliate Sales
9 Tuts Plus Collis Ta’eed $120,000 Membership Area
10 Life Hacker Gina Trapani $110,000 Advertising Banners
11 Gothamist Jake Dobkin $110,000 Pay Per Click
12 Tuts Plus Collis Taeed $110,000 Membership Area
13 Venture Beat Matt Marshall $100,000 Pay Per Click
14 Slash Gear Ewdison Then $80,000 Pay Per Click
15 Car Advice Alborz Fallah $70,000 Advertising Banners
16 Life Hacker Nick Denton $60,000 Advertising Banners
17 Dooce Heather B. Armstrong $50,000 Pay Per Click
18 Steve Pavlina Steve Pavlina $45,000 Pay Per Click
19 Talking Point Memo Joshua Micah Marshall $45,000 Advertising Banners
20 Problogger Darren Rowse $40,000 Advertising Banners
21 Kotaku Nick Denton $32,000 Advertising Banners
22 Expert Photography Joshua Dunlop $30,000 Product Sales
23 Shoemoney Jeremy Schoemaker $30,000 Private Advertising
24 Coolest Gadgets Allan Carlton $30,000 Advertising Banners
25 1stWebDesigner Dainis Gr?veris $20,000 Product Sales
26 Joystiq AOL $18,000 CPM Advertising
27 PC Mech David Risley $16,000 Affiliate Sales
28 Abduzeedo Fabio Sasso $12,000 Advertising Banners
29 Sizlopedia Saad Hamid $11,000 Pay Per Click
30 Overhead in New York Michael Malice $9,000 Advertising Banners

How They Make Money From Blogging

There are over a dozen methods these top blogger’s are using to monetize their blog, different techniques for each niche. Some niche’s are easier to promote products to, some have high paying keywords and some are easy to drive millions of visitors every month! Below is a run down on some of the techniques used.

Advertising Banners

By far the most popular advertising method so far in 2009. Website owners love this because they know they are guaranteed the money, other techniques such as affiliate marketing can go up and down a lot depending on what you promote.

CPM Advertising

This method is really popular for the website’s that receive a huge amount of traffic, advertisers pay you for impressions rather than sales or clicks! As long as you can predict your impressions which is usually east to do, you know how much you will earn.

Affiliate Sales

Selling on commission depending on your niche can be a huge earner and is by far my biggest earner. You promote great products and then get great commissions.

Pay Per Click

By far the easiest way to earn money online from a website or blog is from Google Adsense and being paid per click. Can be very lucrative if done right!

The Longer You’re Not Taking Action, The More Money You’re Losing

The biggest difference between people who create successful websites and people who fail, is those who make it, didn’t give up.

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To Your Blogging Success,

Michael Dunlop


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