It will surprise you to know that the most famous blogs do not necessarily make the richest or highest-earning blogs.
Blogging is one of the few online businesses that require little investment, all you require to start blogging initially is a laptop with an internet connection. When your blog grows to a certain point, you can now decide to invest in a better hosting service to accommodate the increasing audience base.
Most successful bloggers today with blogs earning thousands of dollars monthly started blogging as a hobby. After careful research and interview with the top successful bloggers, I’ve discovered that the main recipe for a successful blog is commitment, consistency, and passion.
The rest of the article reveals a list of the top 31 bloggers who makes a lot of money monetizing their blog highlighting their success story, net worth, and major sources of income. The list showcases superstar bloggers in various industries and niches from different places around the world. The purpose of this article is to inspire you during your blogging journey—whether you’re just starting or planning to—and keep you motivated.
Disclaimer: The amounts and figures featured in this article represent estimates of the real value and are not 100% proven. These numbers were deduced from the overall performance of the blogs and do not represent the exact figures.
Arianna Huffington
Website: https://www.huffpost.com/
Arianna Huffington is one of the top sensations in the blogging world and has been named by The Observer as the world's richest blogger in the world. The 71-year-old Greek-American blogger is the founder of The Huffington Post (which is now known as HuffPost), CEO of Thrive Global, and author of 15 books.
Her most successful blog, The Huffington Post, is one of the most authoritative content aggregators and news websites in the internet space. The blog, like most other successful blogs, was initially created as a hobby, but today is one of the most reliable and leading sources of original content that covers different topics like technology, comedy, world news, style, entertainment, international politics around the US.
Analytics report on the blog reveals the site has a domain authority of 93/100, ranks 734 on Alexa’s global website rankings, and commands massive traffic of over 90 million monthly unique visitors. The main source of income for this blog is pay-per-click and sponsored advertisement through banners and generates average monthly earnings of $250 million which contributes towards a massive earning of over $1 billion/year—making it the most successful blog in the world.
As impressive as the achievement of Arianna Huffington might seem today, know that it didn’t happen overnight. She claims that the reason for her success is a decade-worth of consistent efforts and dedication to building her passion into what most editors and advertisers would love to identify with today.
Darren Rowse
Website: www.problogger.net, www.digital-photography-school.com.
Darren Rowse is one of the major sensations in the blogging world, and has founded and co-founded different blogs and blog networks. His name and handprints can be seen on over 20 different blogs, although he has two main personal blogs including ProBlogger, which features blogging tips, and Digital Photography School that offers photography tips. Web analytics report shows that his two main blogs receive between 85k-100k unique visitors per day and makes $20,000+ from ad alone every month.
The Australian blogger has also contributed to some topic-specific blogs with other bloggers including the Michael Jackson court case, and the Athens Olympics. He is also a co-founder of the blog network, b5media, which he created with fellow bloggers Duncan Riley, Shai Coggins, and Jeremy Wright in September 2005. With over 300 blogs purported to be on the blog network, b5media was one of the largest media networks with an average of one million page views by 2006.
Michael Arrington
Website: https://techcrunch.com/
Michael Arrington is a blogging icon that dominates the tech niche. The 51-year-old United states entrepreneur and tech blogger is the founder of uncrunched.com and TechCrunch—both top blogs in the tech industry. Major magazines including TIME, Forbes, and Wired, recognize Arrington as the most powerful and influential figure online.
His most popular blog, TechCrunch, which was started in 2005, is a well-known tech news blog that covers a wide range of tech topics on mobile, gadgets, apps, etc. The blog was later purchased by AOL, an online service provider company. After retiring as the editor of the blog following the buyout by AOL, he later went to establish a venture capital platform called CrunchFund which was created to help technology startups.
The blog has an impressive stat with an estimated visit of about 17 million, a global Alexa ranking of 1476, and a domain authority of 94. Michael Arrington is reported to earn $750,000+ monthly from his blogs, 23 million dollars approximated yearly earning, and has a total net worth of 15 million dollars, making him an easy choice as one of the top earners in the blogging world. According to analytics reports, the main source of income from his blogs comes from advertising banners.
Pete Cashmore
Website: https://mashable.com/
Internet and social media sensation, Pete Cashmore, is regarded as the most influential Twitter user and Briton according to INQ. He’s the founder and former owner of Mashable, a blog—that publishes articles and news on travel, science, culture, entertainment, technology, etc, with huge authority on the internet. The 26-year-old blogger is reported to earn over $600,000 monthly from his blog making it one of the top bloggers that makes a lot of money. His blog is reported to make money through advertisement banners—in different formats.
Website analytics of Mashable reveals a blog with a domain authority of 93, a global Alexa ranking of 1374, 14 million monthly visits, and making over 30 million dollars in revenue annually.
However, the blog was later acquired in 2017 by Ziff Davis for $50M.
Mario Armando Lavanderia Jr.
Website: https://perezhilton.com/
Mario Armand Lavanderia Jr., with the professional name of Perez Hilton, is the founder and CEO of a notorious gossip blog, Perez Hilton, which was originally known as Pagesixsixsix.com. The 43-year-old blogger is also YouTuber with two channels, and a writer with four published books.
Her blog, Perez Hilton, has a domain authority of 89, ranks 11,877 on Alexa global rankings, attracts over 2 million audiences monthly. The blog generates $450,000 in revenue every month which stacks up to $42 million every year. The main source of income is a direct advertisement at various places on the website. He has been reported to have made a net worth of $32 million.
Peter Rojas
Website: https://www.engadget.com/, https://gizmodo.com/
Peter Rojas is well-known as the founder of two popular blogs, Gizmodo and Engadget. Peter’s first blog was Engadget, which he started in 2004 as a hobby and has now grown to become a huge publishment site for articles related to tech products, gear, consumer electronics, entertainment, events and review, gaming, etc. The blog boasts a domain authority of 93 and ranks 1,130 on Alexa’s website global rankings. It has an estimated visit of over 31 million every month and generates up to 50M per year. A large part of Engadget’s revenue comes from direct advertising on the site.
Another successful blog created and managed by Peter Rojas is Gizmodo. The blog focuses mainly on the technology and design niche. Gizmodo has an amazing stat with a domain authority of 93, ranks 1,748 on Alexa’s global ranking, and command over 22 million worth of web traffic monthly. It has an annual revenue of over 5 million dollars. Peter Rojas makes a lot from Gizmodo from sponsor ads alone, and that’s why he’s one of the top bloggers that makes a lot of money.
Rand Fishkin
Website: https://moz.com/
Think Moz, Think Rand Fishkin. The blog “Moz” which was founded by Rand Fishkin started way back in 1998 and is popular today for its contribution towards the revolutionizing of search engine optimization. A lot of successful bloggers today appreciate the influence of Moz in helping them create great marketing articles for better blog performance and visibility.
The blog generates about 3 million dollars in revenue per year. And, it has an excellent stat including a domain authority of 91, a global Alexa rank of 3,139. Moz is home to over 3 million unique visitors every month. This blog not only generates huge incomes, but it’s also generating incomes for other bloggers—either directly or indirectly.
Brain Clark
Website: https://www.copyblogger.com/
Brain Clark is the brain behind what is probably the best blog that provides quality advice on content marketing—CopyBlogger. The blog he started as early as 2005, which he acclaimed to have started with an initial investment of $2000, has now developed into a 1-million-dollar money-making machine.
The analytics reports of CopyBlogger show some impressive stats such as a domain authority of 81, a global Alexa rank of 12,449, over 500,000 unique monthly visits, and a huge yearly income to rack up to 32 million dollars per year.
Neil Patel
Website: www.neilpatel.com
Neil Patel is very well-known on the internet. His name is almost synonymous with internet marketing terms like ‘SEO’, ‘PPC’, and ‘inbound marketing. The multimillionaire blogger, analytics expert, investor, and online entrepreneur is the founder of Hello Bar, KISSmetrics, and Crazy Egg.
He created his blog, Neilpatel.com, where he shares blogging and digital marketing tips and strategies with his audience. The blog is one of the must-read articles for aspiring bloggers and digital marketers. Neil focuses on helping beginners find their feet in the business and avoid making major mistakes he made before he became successful.
While there isn’t an official report about how much Neil makes from his blog, he claims he makes an average of $1,828 for every blog post he publishes. And, that coming from someone who has written over 5,000 blog posts, that’s a lot.
John Lee Dumas
Website: www.eofire.com
Entrepreneurs on fire, which is known by many as Eofire.com, is a blog created by John Lee Dumas that focuses on podcasting, online business, and entrepreneurship. The blog has been around since 2012 and has grown from making over $25k in its first year to a grossed revenue of over $13M.
The blog’s stats are impressive with over 4630 backlinks to the domain, an Alexa ranking of 39,159, plus a huge Twitter follower base that numbers about 59,000. John’s main income from his blog comes from his podcasts membership account, courses, and books. He also makes a decent earning promoting products on his blog with a larger percentage coming from his podcast sponsors. Some of the products John has promoted on his podcast or blog include big brands such as Podcasting Press, Audible, ConvertKit, BlueHost, and ClickFunnels.
Pat Flynn
Website: www.smartpassiveincome.com, www.SecurityGuardTrainingHQ.com, www.FoodTruckr.com, www.GreenExamAcademy.com.
Many aspiring bloggers see Pat Flynn as a role model because of his success story of how continuous dedication to your passion can turn you into a success. Pat Flynn has been in the business of writing for over a decade and he uses his blog smartpassiveincome.com as a medium to share his personal experience and ordeals in the blogging world. This blog, however, is not the only blog owned and managed by Pat, some of his other blogs include SecurityGuardTrainingHQ.com, FoodTruckr.com, and GreenExamAcademy.com.
His blog, Smartpassiveincome.com, focuses majorly on helping aspiring bloggers with simple, applicable tips and tricks to make earning passive income through online business seamless. He is a very influential figure in the blogging world. Aspiring bloggers look up to him for advice and strategies on how to successfully create and run a successful passive income blog.
Smartpassiveincome.com ranks 47,543 on Alexa rankings, has over 9000 backlinks, and has over 154,000 followers on its Twitter page.
The majority of Pat’s earning comes from his podcast sponsor, however, he also makes a decent income from Google ads and sales from his podcast training course “Power-Up Podcasting”.
Outside blogging Pat also has a YouTube channel and a Podcast, which he runs alongside his blogs.
Michelle Gardner
Website: www.MakingSenseOfCents.com
Michelle Gardner is another example of making money from your passion. She’s an advocate for frugal living and savings as a means of changing your life financially. Her blog, Making Senses of Cents helps her audience with tips, strategies, and hacks that encourage frugal living, making money from a side hustle, keeping emotional spending in check, and saving for a better life.
According to Michelle, the blog was born out of her desire to improve her condition in life financially, and she making efforts to record her progress with the hope of sharing it with others to help them do the same. Her online business has been the reason why she was able to complete her $38000 student loan payment in less than a year.
Michelle’s main source of income is affiliate marketing with brands such as BlueHost and Survey companies. She also monetized her blog through sponsored posts and ads. Her affiliate marketing course, “Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing” also accounts for a large percentage of her blog’s generated revenue.
Lindsay Ostrom
Website: www.PinchofYum.com
Talk recipes and cooking, PinchofYum.com is a popular cooking and food photography blog that’s a sanctuary to many tasty food lovers. Lindsay Ostrom extends her devotion to delicious foods to her audience by sharing the photos that are “food artwork”. She also includes easy-to-follow recipes for them to follow.
In contrast to popular misconceptions about food photography blogs being a low earning niche, this passion has earned her six figures. The numbers alone are an inspiring figure for aspiring food lovers who want to transfer their passion for food into a profitable online business.
PinchofYum.com ranks 20,961 on Alexa, has over 11k linking domains, and a huge social media presence with over 500k Instagram followers plus more than 14k Twitter followers.
Lindsay’s main source of income is from affiliate marketing and her prime affiliate income comes from Amazon, Elegant Themes, and Bluehost. She also makes a lot from advertising-sponsored content and products on her blog. In addition to these, she has a book, “Tasty Food Photography”, published in her name where she shares secrets to taking appetizing food photos.
Justin Weinger
Website: www.SoOverThis.com
SoOverThis.com was not founded by Justin Weinger, it’s was an acquisition he bought from Andrea—the founder—in 2013. Andrea created the blog for people that want to conquer financial irresponsibility, debt, and want out of the financial rat race. The posts on the blog aren’t a substitute for professional financial advice as stated in the blog’s disclaimer. However, Justin is a preacher of drawing lessons from your mistakes and working on them, and he believes this should apply to every aspect of one’s life—not only financially. He also discusses his trip up the hill from the 9 to 5 full-time day job to attaining financial freedom in his blogs—something his readers can relate with.
SoOverThis.com is ranked 2,052,415 on Alexa’s rankings and has 987 linking domains. The blog’s main source of income is through private ad sales and google ads.
Jennifer Rauchet
Website: www.ShowMeTheYummy.com
Another food photography blogger that makes a lot of money blogging that made this list is Jennifer Rauchet. Jennifer Rauchet is the founder of “ShowMeTheYummy”, a food and recipe blog that she runs alongside her husband, Trevor, who happens to be a professional photographer. He was working full-time on videography, marketing, and websites before sh turned the blog into a full-time commitment with Jennifer.
Jennifer Rauchet shares her brilliant creative cooking skills with her audience and you can always find the recipes to the delicacies if you want to give it a try. She also posts tips, tricks, and strategies to monetize a blog on her website.
The blog has impressive stats and has shown incredible growth since being created. It has over 1.5k linking domains, 1.2k Twitter followers, and ranks 127,356 on Alexa ranking.
The revenue-generating capacity of the blog has increased tremendously compared to when it just started, from making an average of $28 a month to over $40,000 monthly. ShowMeTheYummy.com generates most of its revenue from sponsored content and ads. Another source of income to the blog is from Amazon affiliates and her video workshop—which she upsells on her blog.
Abby Lawson
Website: www.JustAGirlAndHerBlog.com
JustAGirlAndHerBlog.com is a popular home décor, DIY, and home organization blog that was created by Abby. Her blog is famous because of her eye for the teeny little things we think we don’t need to organize in our homes. Abby, through her blog, encourages her audience to embrace DIY for their home decoration projects.
Abby ensures that she posts at least twice every week on her blog. Although the topics she writes on are basic things, her blog posts are well-detailed and written. In an interview, she claims her husband supports and helps her out with her blog full time making the blog more than just a girl and her blog.
Analytics report of JustAGirlAndHerBlog.com shows that the blog has 3.65k linking domains, 8.5k Twitter followers, and ranks 130,671 on Alexa. The blog’s main source of income comes from multiple affiliate programs like ConvertKit, Amazon Affiliates, Flywheel for Hosting, Siteground, and Bluehost. There’s no form of sponsored content or ads on the blog, however, Abby upsells her courses and eBooks to a large reader base.
Harsh Agarwal
Website: www.ShoutMeLoud.com
ShoutMeLoud.com was created by Harsh Agarwal in 2008 as a hobby that he pursued passively and posts a few times in a month. After knowing the possibilities of monetizing his blog, he started going at it passionately which is reflected in the income report he posted showing he makes over $39,000 monthly.
Harsh’s blog is based on making money online, blogging, and tech tips. The blog commands a lot of traffic, which according to his traffic stats, gets over a million page views per post. It’s also survived the change in Google’s algorithm while most other blogs fell from its grace.
The blog ranks 8,460 on Alexa, has over 10,000 linking domains, and currently has more than 47,000 Twitter followers. Harsh make money from his blog through multiple affiliate programs and direct ad sales. Also, he upsells the eBooks he created on his blog and other platforms such as InstaMojo and Amazon.
Aside from blogging, Harsh runs a YouTube channel about blogging and blog creation where he shares video guides with his viewers.
Matthew Woodward
Website: www.MatthewWoodward.co.uk
Matthew Woodward is a pro blogger that creates fresh, up-to-date, high-quality content—case studies and articles—about SEO, traffic generation, link building, and internet marketing on his blog, MatthewWoodward.co.uk. He’s one of the early bloggers to blog about SEO and internet marketing. He started blogging in 2012, and he has in-depth knowledge about the niche.
According to his income report which he shared in his first year of blogging, he was only able to generate about $600 in the first year. Today, he makes over 25,000 dollars in revenue and claimed to have earned more than 1,000,000 dollars within 5 years.
Matthew’s major source of income from his blog is through affiliate marketing.
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Blogging is one of the few online businesses that require little investment, all you require to start blogging initially is a laptop with an internet connection. When your blog grows to a certain point, you can now decide to invest in a better hosting service to accommodate the increasing audience base.
Most successful bloggers today with blogs earning thousands of dollars monthly started blogging as a hobby. After careful research and interview with the top successful bloggers, I’ve discovered that the main recipe for a successful blog is commitment, consistency, and passion.
The rest of the article reveals a list of the top 31 bloggers who makes a lot of money monetizing their blog highlighting their success story, net worth, and major sources of income. The list showcases superstar bloggers in various industries and niches from different places around the world. The purpose of this article is to inspire you during your blogging journey—whether you’re just starting or planning to—and keep you motivated.
Disclaimer: The amounts and figures featured in this article represent estimates of the real value and are not 100% proven. These numbers were deduced from the overall performance of the blogs and do not represent the exact figures.
Arianna Huffington
Website: https://www.huffpost.com/
Arianna Huffington is one of the top sensations in the blogging world and has been named by The Observer as the world's richest blogger in the world. The 71-year-old Greek-American blogger is the founder of The Huffington Post (which is now known as HuffPost), CEO of Thrive Global, and author of 15 books.
Her most successful blog, The Huffington Post, is one of the most authoritative content aggregators and news websites in the internet space. The blog, like most other successful blogs, was initially created as a hobby, but today is one of the most reliable and leading sources of original content that covers different topics like technology, comedy, world news, style, entertainment, international politics around the US.
Analytics report on the blog reveals the site has a domain authority of 93/100, ranks 734 on Alexa’s global website rankings, and commands massive traffic of over 90 million monthly unique visitors. The main source of income for this blog is pay-per-click and sponsored advertisement through banners and generates average monthly earnings of $250 million which contributes towards a massive earning of over $1 billion/year—making it the most successful blog in the world.
As impressive as the achievement of Arianna Huffington might seem today, know that it didn’t happen overnight. She claims that the reason for her success is a decade-worth of consistent efforts and dedication to building her passion into what most editors and advertisers would love to identify with today.
Darren Rowse
Website: www.problogger.net, www.digital-photography-school.com.
Darren Rowse is one of the major sensations in the blogging world, and has founded and co-founded different blogs and blog networks. His name and handprints can be seen on over 20 different blogs, although he has two main personal blogs including ProBlogger, which features blogging tips, and Digital Photography School that offers photography tips. Web analytics report shows that his two main blogs receive between 85k-100k unique visitors per day and makes $20,000+ from ad alone every month.
The Australian blogger has also contributed to some topic-specific blogs with other bloggers including the Michael Jackson court case, and the Athens Olympics. He is also a co-founder of the blog network, b5media, which he created with fellow bloggers Duncan Riley, Shai Coggins, and Jeremy Wright in September 2005. With over 300 blogs purported to be on the blog network, b5media was one of the largest media networks with an average of one million page views by 2006.
Michael Arrington
Website: https://techcrunch.com/
Michael Arrington is a blogging icon that dominates the tech niche. The 51-year-old United states entrepreneur and tech blogger is the founder of uncrunched.com and TechCrunch—both top blogs in the tech industry. Major magazines including TIME, Forbes, and Wired, recognize Arrington as the most powerful and influential figure online.
His most popular blog, TechCrunch, which was started in 2005, is a well-known tech news blog that covers a wide range of tech topics on mobile, gadgets, apps, etc. The blog was later purchased by AOL, an online service provider company. After retiring as the editor of the blog following the buyout by AOL, he later went to establish a venture capital platform called CrunchFund which was created to help technology startups.
The blog has an impressive stat with an estimated visit of about 17 million, a global Alexa ranking of 1476, and a domain authority of 94. Michael Arrington is reported to earn $750,000+ monthly from his blogs, 23 million dollars approximated yearly earning, and has a total net worth of 15 million dollars, making him an easy choice as one of the top earners in the blogging world. According to analytics reports, the main source of income from his blogs comes from advertising banners.
Pete Cashmore
Website: https://mashable.com/
Internet and social media sensation, Pete Cashmore, is regarded as the most influential Twitter user and Briton according to INQ. He’s the founder and former owner of Mashable, a blog—that publishes articles and news on travel, science, culture, entertainment, technology, etc, with huge authority on the internet. The 26-year-old blogger is reported to earn over $600,000 monthly from his blog making it one of the top bloggers that makes a lot of money. His blog is reported to make money through advertisement banners—in different formats.
Website analytics of Mashable reveals a blog with a domain authority of 93, a global Alexa ranking of 1374, 14 million monthly visits, and making over 30 million dollars in revenue annually.
However, the blog was later acquired in 2017 by Ziff Davis for $50M.
Mario Armando Lavanderia Jr.
Website: https://perezhilton.com/
Mario Armand Lavanderia Jr., with the professional name of Perez Hilton, is the founder and CEO of a notorious gossip blog, Perez Hilton, which was originally known as Pagesixsixsix.com. The 43-year-old blogger is also YouTuber with two channels, and a writer with four published books.
Her blog, Perez Hilton, has a domain authority of 89, ranks 11,877 on Alexa global rankings, attracts over 2 million audiences monthly. The blog generates $450,000 in revenue every month which stacks up to $42 million every year. The main source of income is a direct advertisement at various places on the website. He has been reported to have made a net worth of $32 million.
Peter Rojas
Website: https://www.engadget.com/, https://gizmodo.com/
Peter Rojas is well-known as the founder of two popular blogs, Gizmodo and Engadget. Peter’s first blog was Engadget, which he started in 2004 as a hobby and has now grown to become a huge publishment site for articles related to tech products, gear, consumer electronics, entertainment, events and review, gaming, etc. The blog boasts a domain authority of 93 and ranks 1,130 on Alexa’s website global rankings. It has an estimated visit of over 31 million every month and generates up to 50M per year. A large part of Engadget’s revenue comes from direct advertising on the site.
Another successful blog created and managed by Peter Rojas is Gizmodo. The blog focuses mainly on the technology and design niche. Gizmodo has an amazing stat with a domain authority of 93, ranks 1,748 on Alexa’s global ranking, and command over 22 million worth of web traffic monthly. It has an annual revenue of over 5 million dollars. Peter Rojas makes a lot from Gizmodo from sponsor ads alone, and that’s why he’s one of the top bloggers that makes a lot of money.
Rand Fishkin
Website: https://moz.com/
Think Moz, Think Rand Fishkin. The blog “Moz” which was founded by Rand Fishkin started way back in 1998 and is popular today for its contribution towards the revolutionizing of search engine optimization. A lot of successful bloggers today appreciate the influence of Moz in helping them create great marketing articles for better blog performance and visibility.
The blog generates about 3 million dollars in revenue per year. And, it has an excellent stat including a domain authority of 91, a global Alexa rank of 3,139. Moz is home to over 3 million unique visitors every month. This blog not only generates huge incomes, but it’s also generating incomes for other bloggers—either directly or indirectly.
Brain Clark
Website: https://www.copyblogger.com/
Brain Clark is the brain behind what is probably the best blog that provides quality advice on content marketing—CopyBlogger. The blog he started as early as 2005, which he acclaimed to have started with an initial investment of $2000, has now developed into a 1-million-dollar money-making machine.
The analytics reports of CopyBlogger show some impressive stats such as a domain authority of 81, a global Alexa rank of 12,449, over 500,000 unique monthly visits, and a huge yearly income to rack up to 32 million dollars per year.
Neil Patel
Website: www.neilpatel.com
Neil Patel is very well-known on the internet. His name is almost synonymous with internet marketing terms like ‘SEO’, ‘PPC’, and ‘inbound marketing. The multimillionaire blogger, analytics expert, investor, and online entrepreneur is the founder of Hello Bar, KISSmetrics, and Crazy Egg.
He created his blog, Neilpatel.com, where he shares blogging and digital marketing tips and strategies with his audience. The blog is one of the must-read articles for aspiring bloggers and digital marketers. Neil focuses on helping beginners find their feet in the business and avoid making major mistakes he made before he became successful.
While there isn’t an official report about how much Neil makes from his blog, he claims he makes an average of $1,828 for every blog post he publishes. And, that coming from someone who has written over 5,000 blog posts, that’s a lot.
John Lee Dumas
Website: www.eofire.com
Entrepreneurs on fire, which is known by many as Eofire.com, is a blog created by John Lee Dumas that focuses on podcasting, online business, and entrepreneurship. The blog has been around since 2012 and has grown from making over $25k in its first year to a grossed revenue of over $13M.
The blog’s stats are impressive with over 4630 backlinks to the domain, an Alexa ranking of 39,159, plus a huge Twitter follower base that numbers about 59,000. John’s main income from his blog comes from his podcasts membership account, courses, and books. He also makes a decent earning promoting products on his blog with a larger percentage coming from his podcast sponsors. Some of the products John has promoted on his podcast or blog include big brands such as Podcasting Press, Audible, ConvertKit, BlueHost, and ClickFunnels.
Pat Flynn
Website: www.smartpassiveincome.com, www.SecurityGuardTrainingHQ.com, www.FoodTruckr.com, www.GreenExamAcademy.com.
Many aspiring bloggers see Pat Flynn as a role model because of his success story of how continuous dedication to your passion can turn you into a success. Pat Flynn has been in the business of writing for over a decade and he uses his blog smartpassiveincome.com as a medium to share his personal experience and ordeals in the blogging world. This blog, however, is not the only blog owned and managed by Pat, some of his other blogs include SecurityGuardTrainingHQ.com, FoodTruckr.com, and GreenExamAcademy.com.
His blog, Smartpassiveincome.com, focuses majorly on helping aspiring bloggers with simple, applicable tips and tricks to make earning passive income through online business seamless. He is a very influential figure in the blogging world. Aspiring bloggers look up to him for advice and strategies on how to successfully create and run a successful passive income blog.
Smartpassiveincome.com ranks 47,543 on Alexa rankings, has over 9000 backlinks, and has over 154,000 followers on its Twitter page.
The majority of Pat’s earning comes from his podcast sponsor, however, he also makes a decent income from Google ads and sales from his podcast training course “Power-Up Podcasting”.
Outside blogging Pat also has a YouTube channel and a Podcast, which he runs alongside his blogs.
Michelle Gardner
Website: www.MakingSenseOfCents.com
Michelle Gardner is another example of making money from your passion. She’s an advocate for frugal living and savings as a means of changing your life financially. Her blog, Making Senses of Cents helps her audience with tips, strategies, and hacks that encourage frugal living, making money from a side hustle, keeping emotional spending in check, and saving for a better life.
According to Michelle, the blog was born out of her desire to improve her condition in life financially, and she making efforts to record her progress with the hope of sharing it with others to help them do the same. Her online business has been the reason why she was able to complete her $38000 student loan payment in less than a year.
Michelle’s main source of income is affiliate marketing with brands such as BlueHost and Survey companies. She also monetized her blog through sponsored posts and ads. Her affiliate marketing course, “Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing” also accounts for a large percentage of her blog’s generated revenue.
Lindsay Ostrom
Website: www.PinchofYum.com
Talk recipes and cooking, PinchofYum.com is a popular cooking and food photography blog that’s a sanctuary to many tasty food lovers. Lindsay Ostrom extends her devotion to delicious foods to her audience by sharing the photos that are “food artwork”. She also includes easy-to-follow recipes for them to follow.
In contrast to popular misconceptions about food photography blogs being a low earning niche, this passion has earned her six figures. The numbers alone are an inspiring figure for aspiring food lovers who want to transfer their passion for food into a profitable online business.
PinchofYum.com ranks 20,961 on Alexa, has over 11k linking domains, and a huge social media presence with over 500k Instagram followers plus more than 14k Twitter followers.
Lindsay’s main source of income is from affiliate marketing and her prime affiliate income comes from Amazon, Elegant Themes, and Bluehost. She also makes a lot from advertising-sponsored content and products on her blog. In addition to these, she has a book, “Tasty Food Photography”, published in her name where she shares secrets to taking appetizing food photos.
Justin Weinger
Website: www.SoOverThis.com
SoOverThis.com was not founded by Justin Weinger, it’s was an acquisition he bought from Andrea—the founder—in 2013. Andrea created the blog for people that want to conquer financial irresponsibility, debt, and want out of the financial rat race. The posts on the blog aren’t a substitute for professional financial advice as stated in the blog’s disclaimer. However, Justin is a preacher of drawing lessons from your mistakes and working on them, and he believes this should apply to every aspect of one’s life—not only financially. He also discusses his trip up the hill from the 9 to 5 full-time day job to attaining financial freedom in his blogs—something his readers can relate with.
SoOverThis.com is ranked 2,052,415 on Alexa’s rankings and has 987 linking domains. The blog’s main source of income is through private ad sales and google ads.
Jennifer Rauchet
Website: www.ShowMeTheYummy.com
Another food photography blogger that makes a lot of money blogging that made this list is Jennifer Rauchet. Jennifer Rauchet is the founder of “ShowMeTheYummy”, a food and recipe blog that she runs alongside her husband, Trevor, who happens to be a professional photographer. He was working full-time on videography, marketing, and websites before sh turned the blog into a full-time commitment with Jennifer.
Jennifer Rauchet shares her brilliant creative cooking skills with her audience and you can always find the recipes to the delicacies if you want to give it a try. She also posts tips, tricks, and strategies to monetize a blog on her website.
The blog has impressive stats and has shown incredible growth since being created. It has over 1.5k linking domains, 1.2k Twitter followers, and ranks 127,356 on Alexa ranking.
The revenue-generating capacity of the blog has increased tremendously compared to when it just started, from making an average of $28 a month to over $40,000 monthly. ShowMeTheYummy.com generates most of its revenue from sponsored content and ads. Another source of income to the blog is from Amazon affiliates and her video workshop—which she upsells on her blog.
Abby Lawson
Website: www.JustAGirlAndHerBlog.com
JustAGirlAndHerBlog.com is a popular home décor, DIY, and home organization blog that was created by Abby. Her blog is famous because of her eye for the teeny little things we think we don’t need to organize in our homes. Abby, through her blog, encourages her audience to embrace DIY for their home decoration projects.
Abby ensures that she posts at least twice every week on her blog. Although the topics she writes on are basic things, her blog posts are well-detailed and written. In an interview, she claims her husband supports and helps her out with her blog full time making the blog more than just a girl and her blog.
Analytics report of JustAGirlAndHerBlog.com shows that the blog has 3.65k linking domains, 8.5k Twitter followers, and ranks 130,671 on Alexa. The blog’s main source of income comes from multiple affiliate programs like ConvertKit, Amazon Affiliates, Flywheel for Hosting, Siteground, and Bluehost. There’s no form of sponsored content or ads on the blog, however, Abby upsells her courses and eBooks to a large reader base.
Harsh Agarwal
Website: www.ShoutMeLoud.com
ShoutMeLoud.com was created by Harsh Agarwal in 2008 as a hobby that he pursued passively and posts a few times in a month. After knowing the possibilities of monetizing his blog, he started going at it passionately which is reflected in the income report he posted showing he makes over $39,000 monthly.
Harsh’s blog is based on making money online, blogging, and tech tips. The blog commands a lot of traffic, which according to his traffic stats, gets over a million page views per post. It’s also survived the change in Google’s algorithm while most other blogs fell from its grace.
The blog ranks 8,460 on Alexa, has over 10,000 linking domains, and currently has more than 47,000 Twitter followers. Harsh make money from his blog through multiple affiliate programs and direct ad sales. Also, he upsells the eBooks he created on his blog and other platforms such as InstaMojo and Amazon.
Aside from blogging, Harsh runs a YouTube channel about blogging and blog creation where he shares video guides with his viewers.
Matthew Woodward
Website: www.MatthewWoodward.co.uk
Matthew Woodward is a pro blogger that creates fresh, up-to-date, high-quality content—case studies and articles—about SEO, traffic generation, link building, and internet marketing on his blog, MatthewWoodward.co.uk. He’s one of the early bloggers to blog about SEO and internet marketing. He started blogging in 2012, and he has in-depth knowledge about the niche.
According to his income report which he shared in his first year of blogging, he was only able to generate about $600 in the first year. Today, he makes over 25,000 dollars in revenue and claimed to have earned more than 1,000,000 dollars within 5 years.
Matthew’s major source of income from his blog is through affiliate marketing.
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