Top Earning Blogs and How they Make Money Blogging

Top Earning Blogs and How they Make Money Blogging

The top earning blogs in the world are generating millions of dollars every month. However, blogging is not just about million dollar blogs… actually the majority of blogs on the internet don’t make more than $2,000 per year.

Understanding how these blogs make money, what the end goal for their sites are and how they turn their content into a business is what’s most important for bloggers of all niches and sizes to understand.

That is exactly what we are going to be covering in this post — and even more exciting, we have an infographic to break down the key points as well!

Breaking Down the Different Types of Bloggers in the Blogosphere

There are well over 100 million blogs in the world today and thousands of new content pieces and articles are going live every hour. This means you are up against a world of competition when you start a blog, so it’s extremely important for you to quickly discover what type of blogger you are going to be and where you would like to be six months to a year from now.

Which of these blogger types would you fall into?

The Part-Time Professional
The Hobbyist
The Full-Time Professional
The Corporate
The Entrepreneur


Let’s take a look at this breakdown of how much bloggers are actually earning with their blogs:
$24,086 is the average annual earnings
$33,557 average annual earnings for corporate bloggers
$1,000/year is what the average blogger earns when they are getting paid to post content to their site.

Top Earning Blogs on the Internet

Huffington Post $2,300,000
Mashable $560,000
Perez Hilton $450,000
TechCrunch $400,000
Smashing Magazine $190,000
Timothy Sykes $150,000
Gothamist $110,000
Tuts Plus $110,000
Car Advice $70,000
Venture Beat $62,000

How to Start a Successful Blog & Make Money in the Process

Now that you’ve seen the money being made by some of the top bloggers in the world today, I’m sure you are now more excited than ever to get things moving in the right direction!


Here’s a quick breakdown of everything you will need to consider when getting started and planning for your longterm blogging success.

• Pick a great domain name for your blog. Stay away from numbers, hyphens and non-.com/.net/.org TLDs.
• Always go with a quality web hosting company. Web hosting is cheap, so there is no need to go with an unknown company.
• When you start to monetize your blog content, don’t sacrifice your user experience for a few dollars. It will hurt your blog in the long run.
• Affiliate programs are a great way to monetize your audience, as you will earn commission on products and services that you may actually be using.
• At the end of the day, the success of your blog comes down to your content, audience and brand. Niche down, create killer content and build a brand that people can trust.