The List Of 30 Top Earning Blogs & How they Make Their Money
First let me start by saying that this is not a complete list. I have absolutely no doubt that there are blogs that were missed but the numbers support a underlying point. There is right now big money being made in blogging and it’s not going away. I will also tell you that there are literally tens of thousands of blogs that are making between $3,000-5,000 a month. The list of course doesn’t count the sales they make from emailing quality offers to their opt-in list which can be the largest income generator.
In fact there’s actually hundreds of blogs that make over 50K a month however because they are not personalized I did not include them. My entire point is to have you understand the type of money that is being generated out there right now.
It doesn’t matter if you are working full time, if you are looking for ways to market your “network marketing” products or looking to learn affiliate marketing. The rules to success in online marketing are all the same.
If you don’t start now your losing money. If you don’t learn how to do it right you’ll waste time, get frustrated and lose money. If you start where you are, right now, take time to learn that strategies that are proven to work, you can make an awesome living online with less effort on auto-pilot.
The key is learning how to quickly get organic search ranking that generates loads of free traffic for your niche keywords. You generate the content that draws the traffic and you’re done all the difficult stuff.
At that point everyone is knocking down your door to give you money to advertise on your site. Then just add the format in my Free business plan & case study using the “franchising model” and it’s basically a rinse & repeat process!
Now in my training I show you how to set up your blog so that you can even “automatically-pipe in” content your niche wants to read everyday without pressing a button. It’s one of the techniques I use for many of my sites and it’s really pretty cool.
Below is an (incomplete) list of blogs & their owners that I personally know of, who follow the blogging model. Many have multiple blogs in various niche’s that also generate great revenue.
My goal is to have you really get what type of money we’re talking about and how if you just set up 4-6 blog sites that auto-generate some or even all of your content and use the step-by-step strategies I teach, how you can easily pull in 2-4k from each of them every month on auto-pilot.
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 | Mashable | Pete Cashmore | $560,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 3 | Perez Hilton | Mario Lavandeira | $450,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 4 | Techcrunch | Michael Arrington | $400,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 5 | Smashing Magazine | Vitaly Friedman | $190,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 6 | Timothy Sykes | Timothy Sykes | $150,000 | Affiliate Sales |
| 7 | Gothamist | Jake Dobkin | $110,000 | Pay Per Click |
| 8 | Tuts Plus | Collis Taeed | $110,000 | Membership Area |
| 9 | Car Advice | Alborz Fallah | $70,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 10 | Venture Beat | Matt Marshall | $62,000 | Pay Per Click |
| 11 | Slash Gear | Ewdison Then | $60,000 | Pay Per Click |
| 12 | Life Hacker | Nick Denton | $60,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 13 | Dooce | Heather B. Armstrong | $50,000 | Pay Per Click |
| 14 | Steve Pavlina | Steve Pavlina | $45,000 | Pay Per Click |
| 15 | Talking Point Memo | Joshua Micah Marshall | $45,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 16 | Problogger | Darren Rowse | $40,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 17 | Kotaku | Nick Denton | $32,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 18 | Shoemoney | Jeremy Schoemaker | $30,000 | Private Advertising |
| 19 | Coolest Gadgets | Allan Carlton | $30,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 20 | JohnChow | John Chow | $29,000 | Affiliate Sales |
| 21 | SmartPassiveIncome | Pat Flynn | $21,500 | Affiliate Commissions |
| 22 | Joystiq | AOL | $18,000 | CPM Advertising |
| 23 | PC Mech | David Risley | $16,000 | Affiliate Sales |
| 24 | Freelance Switch | Collis Ta’eed | $15,000 | Membership Area |
| 25 | Abduzeedo | Fabio Sasso | $12,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 26 | Sizlopedia | Saad Hamid | $11,000 | Pay Per Click |
| 27 | Overhead in New York | Michael Malice | $9,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 28 | Six Revisions | Jacob Gube | $9,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 29 | Noupe | Noupe | $8,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 30 | Retire at 21 | Michael Dunlop | $5,000 | Affiliate Sales |
The financial rewards are out there and other people are experiencing them. Now its your turn. Learn how to earn it and create the life you want. The proven business plan & case study is Free, no strings attached. Whatever you do don’t stand still, get your life out of idle, slam it in gear and get what you want out of it!
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Patrick you share lots of great information here. I wish those starting out understood that even your top 30 blogs did not reap success overnight. It is a lot of hard work, starting with a plan and then sticking to it. Although, analyzing and making adjustments are also key in building more profit with any site.
I look foward to sharing this article with my fans, followers and clients. ‘Get out of idle’ is a great way to put it… take action, because nothing with happen if you don’t!
You’re exactly right Lynn! There is no magic button, magic software or cutting corners. People starting their business online, especially self-branding bloggers need to know that THEY are the “special sauce”. Their success will mirror the relationship that is built from being “radically authentic” and connecting with their target market.
That can take time but when you do it right, it wont go away because its not based on a gimmick. Its based on YOU.
As always Lynn – You ROCK!
Patrick
Thanks for sharing this. I’ve been building my blogs for some time now and this post helps me get motivated looking at the figures that other people are having monthly.
SWEET!! Love hearing that Loremi! Its my drug of choice and why I do what I do. Want to help as many as I can!!
Great headline and great info, Patrick.
It would be informative to see other metrics, such as their traffic, number of articles, etc, so we could get a sense of what it takes to generate, say, $15K/mo.
They all fallow a slightly different marketing/posting/traffic getting philosophy, especially now that that have a strong branded name recognition. Some just found outstanding products & services and appealed to that demographic which caught traction and exploded through referrals. Others outsource the postings to others, or to the public. I will say each got momentous name recognition and a cult like following from a long time of consistently identifying with their target market, increasing up the search ranking and being seen as an authority on the topic or niche they present.
Patrick thank you for this great post. I am very interested in developing my blog and making money from it.( heaps would be great)I’ve been plodding along not really getting anywhere but am beginning to find my focus.
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Very very interesting! I do understand content is king!
I recently started following ur twitter account, leading
Me here. Great info gonna give it a try
Great post Pat I have been following your tweets for sometime now visited here a few times and finally watched the video. I really liked this post and would like to share and re-post it on our blog which is coming together.
Thanks and as always following your tweets
Exceptionally educational appreciate it, I do think your trusty audience would probably want a lot more articles like that continue the excellent content.
Thanks for sharing this post! Definitely a great one! Pretty cool list there. Amazing how those blogs earn that much. Those sites definitely went through a lot to make it to that list. Amazing on how working hard on your blog can get you there. Thanks for all the valuable info here! Keep it up!
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Hi Patrick,
This is really great information. For me, one more push for writing blogs.
Thanks for sharing this.
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Thank you for this! I just attempted to answer this question articulately for a client the other day–I will definitely use this as a resource in the future!
Good selection of blogs.
This list has many names and titles that I already know well.
But there are others that I have heard nothing.
I agree with the opinion that blogging is a business that requires preparation and planning. Successful business is often the result of teamwork. Blogging is no exception, teamwork is very important.