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- 8:26 AM 0

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Successful Blogs Earning Money Online

For today’s post, I wanted to look at some of the most successful and profitable blogs that are currently online.

For many people that are just starting blogging, it is hard to know how much you can potentially earn. In the initial stages of setting up a blog, it can be tough to keep motivated to keep going when you’re not making much money, but given time and lots of effort a blog can take off  in a big way. The best examples that you can look at are the blogs that are at the top. It certainly inspired me to learn just how much money some of the top blogs make on a daily basis.

The following list of 50 blogs are considered the best in the business. I often get inspired by these blogs, urging me on to put in the work to make my own site the best that it can be. I hope that this inspires you as well!


 Website Owner Daily Income Value Main Income
1 The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington $29,896 $21.82 Million Pay Per Click
2 Mashable Pete Cashmore $15,781 $11.52 Million Advertising Banners
3 Techcrunch Michael Arrington $14,816 $10.82 Million Advertising Banners
4 Engadget Peter Rojas $9,861 $7.2 Million Advertising Banners
5 Smashing Magazine Vitaly Friedman $6,382 $4.66 Million Advertising Banners
6 Tuts+ Collis Taeed $5,068 $3.7 Million Membership Area
7 Life Hacker Nick Denton $4,821 $3.52 Million Advertising Banners
8 Gizmodo Attila Talos $3,918 $2.86 Million Advertising Banners
9 Perez Hilton Mario Lavandeira $3,645 $2.66 Million Advertising Banners
10 Joystiq AOL $1,752 $1.28 Million CPM Advertising
11 Problogger Darren Rowse $1,751 $1.28 Million Advertising Banners
12 Kotaku Nick Denton $1,599 $1.17 Million Advertising Banners
13 Six Revisions Jacob Gube $1,587 $1.16 Million Advertising Banners
14 Noupe Noupe $1,400 $1.02 Million Advertising Banners
15 Venture Beat Matt Marshall $1,251 $913,721 Pay Per Click
16 CopyBlogger Brian Clark $1,184 $864,861 Affiliate Sales
17 Abduzeedo Fabio Sasso $983 $718,239 Advertising Banners
18 Talking Points Memo Joshua Marshall $887 $647,750 Advertising Banners
19 WPBeginner Syed Balkhi $692 $505,420 Affiliate Sales
20 Matt Cutts Matt Cutts $0* $488,944 Twitter
21 Steve Pavlina Steve Pavlina $664 $485,024 Pay Per Click
22 Slash Gear Ewdison Then $621 $453,999 Pay Per Click
23 Smart Passive Income Pat Flynn $607 $443,406 Affiliate Sales
24 John Chow John Chow $555 $405,242 Affiliate Sales
25 Freelance Switch Collis Ta’eed $533 $389,517 Membership Area
26 Shoemoney Jeremy Schoemaker $485 $354,112 Private Advertising
27 Gothamist Jake Dobkin $452 $330,022 Pay Per Click
28 Entrepreneurs Journey Yaro Starak $389 $284,170 Affiliate Sales
29 IncomeDiary Michael Dunlop $382 $279,505 Affiliate Sales
30 Chris Brogan Chris Brogan $371 $271,147 Affiliate Sales
31 Matts Marketing Blog Matt Carter $302 $220,834 Affiliate Sales
32 ClickNewz Lynn Terry $239 $174,873 Affiliate Sales
33 Dooce Heather B Armstrong $229 $167,580 Pay Per Click
34 Coolest Gadgets Allan Carlton $227 $166,069 Advertising Banners
35 Tony Robbins Tony Robbins $193 $141,526 Affiliate Sales
36 Just Creative Designs Jacob Cass $185 $135,497 Advertising Banners
37 David Risley David Risley $137 $100,588 Affiliate Sales
38 Car Advice Alborz Fallah $127 $92,886 Advertising Banners
39 Sizlopedia Saad Hamid $118 $86,842 Pay Per Click
40 Gary Vaynerchuk Gary Vaynerchuk $88 $64,744 Affiliate Sales
41 PC Mech David Risley $82 $59,955 Affiliate Sales
42 Timothy Sykes Timothy Sykes $81 $59,284 Affiliate Sales
43 Joel Comm Joel Comm $75 $55,408 Affiliate Sales
44 Tyler Cruz Tyler Cruz $74 $54,736 Affiliate Sales
45 Chris Garrett Chris Garrett $67 $49,327 Affiliate Sales
46 Money Dummy John Paul Aguiar $65 $48,093 Affiliate Sales
47 Retireat21 Michael Dunlop $65 $47,487 Affiliate Sales
48 Revenews ReveNews, LLC $64 $47,122 Affiliate Sales
49 StandOutBlogger Thomas Sinfield $59 $43,633 Affiliate Sales
50 BlogBareFoot Carrie Wilkerson $37 $27,390 Affiliate Sales

[* – Matt Cutts has stated (see comments section) that he doesn’t actually earn any money directly via his blog.  Instead he utilizes Twitter to promote various products and merchandise to his many followers.  Still a viable blog to feature on this list though, as it shows that other methods can be used to make money online.]

This list is only an estimate of the true worth of these sites. If anything, these are probably UNDERestimates, as many of these sites have many streams of income.  website.
It took me quite a bit of time to research this ‘Top 50 Earning Blogs‘ list. I learnt a lot from doing this and found loads of interesting sites and bloggers. I believe that this list helps to illustrate the ladder of success that we all strive to climb up.
seotips44you.blogspot.com doesn’t feature on the list YET, however I will strive to work hard to achieve a place amongst these outstanding names.  I hope you feel as inspired as I do!

Disclaimer:- The website’s featured in this top 50 list are only estimates and are not 100% accurate! This is just an indication of how well they are doing regarding making money from their blog. All of the ‘Daily Income’ & ‘Value’ statistics were calculated using the free tool ‘SiteWorthChecher.com’  which can be used to estimate the worth of a website.

If you believe that you deserve a place on the ‘top 50 earning blogs’ list, or know of any blogs that should, please comment below!
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- 8:20 AM 0

Whether you want to build a professional multi-million dollar blog, or an amateur hobby site, to make it successful you need to build a community based around it.
Blogs are exactly that, a community of people that get together to talk about a certain subject. Now that subject could be anything from; baking recipes to wildlife photos, your local news to the latest cinema reviews, etc. the list is literally endless. The point is that there is an audience for what you are writing about!

Make Sure There Is A Community To Blog For

Now if you are wanting to start a blog, it’s important that you take the time to consider which niche topic you want to write about. This initial decision can determine whether your site has any chance of getting off the ground at all. You need to consider your target audience. Is there enough people interested in the topic that you what you want to write about? If the answer is no, then you may want to think about another niche topic to write about. Here are some examples to think about;
  • Example #1 – You may want to start a blog about your annual local farmers market. It could be a really big event once a year in your village or town, but is there really enough interest to write a blog about it? Well, probably not. Not only because it happens once a year, but because it’s a local event so many non-local people won’t be interested. Picking a subject like this to blog about instantly limits the amount of people who may visit your site. It’s much better to think a little bigger.
  • Example #2 – You may have a burning passion to write about your hobby. This could be; painting, cooking, hiking, traveling, video games, etc. The good thing about hobbies is that there is already a community based around them Take something like stamp collecting, a hobby famed for being quite dull. There are literally hundreds of thousands (if not millions!) of people around the world that collect stamps. Instantly you can see that there is a potential market for a blog about collecting stamps, or any other hobby that has a mass following. You only have to attract a small fraction of people to begin building a community around your blog. But of course you could take it one step further…
  • Example #3 – You could combine related subjects into a bigger website covering a larger range of topics. So instead of focusing on just baking or just vegan recipes, you could write about cooking in general. These types of sites attract many different types of community together, so keen bakers, practicing vegans, meat eaters, etc. can all meet in one place. It’s not hard to see that this type of site has the biggest potential target audience and you will certainly have a multitude of different things to write about. HOWEVER… you stand relatively no chance of becoming successful if you start out trying to appeal to everyone at once. Most likely your site will seem to publish posts erratically on different subjects, which may alienate your audience as they try to understand what your site is about.
Now if you want to build a top earning blog, you should probably aim for a site like Example #3, but you are much better off starting out as either an Example #1 or Example #2 based site and building your community up.

How Do You Build A Community Around Your Blog?

Well there are many ways to do this, but all of them are related to communicating with your visitors/readers. Here are a few ways to engage with your blogging community.

Social Media


Social Networking

Everyone is on social media these days, be it; Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, etc. Obviously, due to the ‘Social’ aspect of ‘Social Media’, these are great places to interact with your website visitors. You should have your own account on all of the major networks to promote your blog on and by doing this you are able to talk with your own community.
Ask questions, answer questions, help people out, build relationships with people, etc. It all helps to show that you care about the people who have spent the time reading your articles. If it appears that you are only interested in getting them to your website to push advertisements, then they will go elsewhere.

Blog Comments

When people spend the time to comment after one of your posts, comment back. Again; answer peoples questions, help them out if they need it, ask questions back, etc. Ideally you want to post helpful replies to people, but sometimes just a “Thank you for the comment” helps to show that you appreciate their feedback. People will always be more likely to revisit your site if they feel that they are being helped by you, not just being talked at.

Your Site Content

The way in which you produce your content can have an impact on your community. Write helpful posts or make videos that people actually find useful. Ask questions within your content to your readers, such as; What do you think?, Do you agree with…?, Do you think it’s right to…?, etc.
Run competitions, conduct surveys, run your own forum, run polls, quizzes, questionnaires, news letters, etc. The list is endless. Basically anything that gets your blog visitors to interact with either you or the other visitors on your site.

Other Bloggers

It sounds counter-intuitive, but you can help to build a community around your own site by being active yourself on other peoples blogs. Now I don’t mean blatantly plugging your own website because that is just spam (I get enough people doing that on this site!), but instead help people out. Yet again, answer their questions, be helpful, ask your own questions, etc. People will begin to see that you are helpful and you know what you are talking about, so they will be more inclined to visit your site.
Try to build relationships with other bloggers within the same niche as yourself. One good way to do this is to write a guest post for them, but you could also tweet a link to their latest post, or recommend them to your readers. You will probably find that they will do the same back to you.

Community & Traffic Are Different Things!

I’d just like to state that I believe that there is a difference between building traffic TO your site and building a community AROUND your site. Many of these methods can be used to drive traffic to your website, but by trying to build a community, that traffic is more likely to keep coming back for more!
But what do you think? Do you agree that it’s important to try and build a community around your site? Do you have any other ways of building a community?  Please leave your comments below.
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