Money Making Bloggers

Who makes money blogging?

A valid question that is often asked. Those bloggers that are making money will often tell you it is not easy to blog and make money, and it does take a long time before you start to see any form of money what so ever. But the fact remains, there are many bloggers making a living and making extreme amounts of money, from Blogging!

Many of these A list bloggers started off, as a hobby or part time. And some, quickly learned how to put everything together to create some pretty amazing sites. But the main theme to all these success stories is, they are doing something that they love.
It is something that they can actually earn money from while affording them the ability to set their own hours, as well as work on their own terms. Quite the nice job eh?

If blogging is something you are interested I, why not give it a go. But don't start off thinking you will be the next "A list" blogger, just enjoy the whole blogging aspect, put in the work and who knows maybe you will find that right formula for success too. In fact you can start blogging and perhaps blogging for money within minutes. Just grab yourself a Google Blogger account which is free and give it a test run. If that goes well, then think of getting your own Domain name and host your own wordpress blog.

So who are these folks that are blogging and making money?

Top Money Making Bloggers

This list is not all inclusive, but these are some of the big bloggers out there who are making big money.

BoingBoing.Net

Launched: January, 2000
Stats: 2.6 million unique visitors and 22 million page views in one month
Advertising Rates:
* $350 for a small ad button for one week
* $2,000 to $3,000 for banner ads sold through the Federated Media ad network

Posting Frequency: 4 authors who post 20 to 40 times a day
Revenue: Over $1 million per year

They post some interesting, sometimes odd, wacky or weird news from all around the world. As well as interesting facts. Definitely some good entertainment and fun reading.

I Can Has Cheezburger

Launched: January, 2007
Stats: 500,000 to 1.5 million page views a day
Advertising Rates:

• $500 to $5,400 a week through BlogAds
• Unknown earnings from Google AdSense and Adbrite

Revenue: $5,600 per month

This blog is rather amusing and entertaining. It allows readers to submit pictures of furry animals, rodents and other critters, with fun captions. According to some sources, some investors acquired this site for $2 million a little over a year ago.

Shoemoney

Anyone in the make money online niche knows who Jeremy is. He owns quite a rather well known internet marketing franchise and blogging is only a small part of his income. Even at that, its a rather nice income.
His blog:
Launched: October, 2005
Stats: 20,000 unique visitors a day
Revenue: $12,000 a month


Kottke

Kottke is a weblog about the liberal arts 2.0 edited by Jason Kottke himself since March 1998

Launched: March, 1998
Stats: 250,000 to 300,000 unique visitors a month
Revenue: $5,300 a month from a single, exclusive ad

Problogger

Darren Rowse’s blog is one more of those well known make money online niche blogs. Darren offers a lot of advice and information on how to make money online.


Launched: November, 2004
Revenue: Over $100,000 a year







Go Fug Yourself

A weblog that deals with fashion and entertainment. Want the scoop on a favorite celebrity or want to know what they were caught wearing? Try this site out. Ran by two very successful women in the blogging industry.

Launched: July, 2004
Stats: 3.5 million unique visitors a month

Ad Rates:

• $60 for a simple text ad
• $3,000 for fancier banners

Revenue: $6,240 a month

Not a bad chunk of change eh? Just check out the traffic this site brings in and you quickly see why this is a rising star among blogs.

TechCrunch

This is another one of those blog that most people reading this article already know about. Techcrunch is dedicated to profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new companies, TechCrunch profiles existing companies that are making an impact on the new web space.

TechCrunch is co-edited by Michael Arrington and Erick Schonfeld.

Launched: June, 2005
Stats: 5 million page views a month
Ad Rates:

• $300 per week, for a small text ad
• “Thousands” for banner ads

Revenue: $200,000 to $240,000 a month

Perez Hilton

Straight from his own blog, I couldn't have said it better:

Cubano and Miami native Perez Hilton is the internet's most notorious gossip columnist. He currently resides in Hollywood with his precious mini-Goldendoodle, Teddy Hilton.

The traffic this blog generates is unbelievable, as of this post, Alexa has the blog ranked 518th. Not a bad stat to have for one's blog, no?

Launched: September, 2004
Stats: 4 million unique visitors a day
Post Frequency: 24 posts on an average day, 40 posts on a very active day
Revenue: $111,000 a month based on ad rates

John Chow
John Chow is another one of those make money online niche bloggers. This is a personal blog. How did he make his money online? In his own words;

I make money online, telling others how I make money online

John runs many other online business ventures besides his blog. One of those ventures being a program to help other bloggers and publishers make money by monetizing their site. Selling products on a PPC basis. TTZ Media

Launched : March 2000
Stats: 25,000 visitors per month
Post Frequency: Posts daily
Revenue: $40,000 plus a month blogging
Employee's: 25-100 (Alexa stat)

How about the kids who are making money online?

Carl Ocab

Kidblogger! He is 15 years old, from the Philipines and teaches others how to make their money online. He started when he was younger and really started making a name for himself at the age of 13! Anyone in the make money online niche knows how he had snatched those same keywords in the Google search pages in a very short time! A rising star, rising blogger and rising bank account!

Jon Gales who runs Mobile Tracker
He averages over 200,000 unique visitors per month and is only 19.
He runs a single Adsense banner at the bottom of his page and brings in about $5,000 a month.
His blog has been around since February of 2003.

Now this is only a handful, or sample of the many bloggers who are making money, and making some serious amounts at that. One thing they all have in common is creativity, a passion for what they are doing, and thinking out of the box. If working long busy hours doesn't bother you, and you have the drive and determination to make it happen, then perhaps you may be a top blogger just like these fine folks. Want to make extra income? Perhaps just some side money or funding for those toys? Blogging just may be for you.