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