Tops Earning Blogs- How They Make Money Online

Today I decided to research how much my favorite blog’s are earning every month and I wasn’t surprised to see some of them make over $100000 per month.

These are blogs and success stories that have inspired me to become a blogger. These Superstar bloggers continue to inspire me to this day – and they have kept me motivated to not give up whenever it got tough, especially in the early days.

If I have not already done so I hope that with this list you can see just how powerful and rewarding blogging can be and inspire you to FOLLOW THE DREAM and create a blog of your own.

Special Notes:

1) To give you some idea of the potential available – top blogging network, Weblogs, Inc. is believed to earn about $30 million a month revenue from 13 million unique visitors.

2) And it is not just about making money monthly it is also about building a BUSINESS that can be sold, such as 22 year old Johns Wu did when he sold his blog for $15 Million.

Disclaimer:

Some of the website’s featured in this top list are only estimates and are not all 100% correct just a indication of how well they are doing regarding making money from their blog. If you would like to be featured in this list or know of any blogger’s that should, please comment below!

Check out the TOP EARNING BLOGS list below. I have already interviewed a number of these Superstar bloggers but hope to interview a lot more of them over the coming months – so watch out for that.

To Our Blogging Success

Michael

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

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The Longer You’re Not Taking Action, The More Money Your Losing

I have helped tens of thousands of people start to make money online from blogging. The biggest issue I see across all my students is consistency and procrastination, if you want to make it in any business you got to actually start and then keep at it. Although I have had several websites that have made me a lot of money over night, this is not always the case, in fact quite the opposite with some blogs, so remember don’t give up to soon.

The first thing you need to do after visiting this page is to sign up for my FREE 7 day eCourse to making money online, this basically teaches you how I created MoneyMakersDiary and how you can do it yourself to make a full time income (and more) from your own blog. If you haven’t yet started your blog, I recommend getting my web designer to put your site online, he has a special offer, check out our site Blog Creation Domination for more information. If your site is already online and what you now want to focus on is making money from it, check out Site Profit Domination for all the latest and best information!

How They Make Money From Blogging

Their is over a dozen methods these top blogger’s are using to monetize their blog, different techniques for each niche. Some niche’s are easier to promote products to, some have high paying keywords and some are easy to drive millions of visitors easy month! Bellow is a run down on some of the techniques used.

Advertising Banners By far the most popular advertising method so far in 2009. Website owners love this because they know they are guaranteed the money, other techniques such as affiliate marketing can go up and down a lot depending on what you promote.
CPM Advertising This method is really popular for the website’s that receive a huge amount of traffic, advertisers pay you for impressions rather than sales or clicks! As long as you can predict your impressions which is usually east to do, you know how much you will earn.
Affiliate Sales Selling on commission depending on your niche can be a huge earner and is by far my biggest earner. You promote great products and then get great commissions.
Pay Per Click By far the easiest way to earn money online from a website or blog is from Google Adsense and being paid per click. Can be very lucrative if done right!

To Your Blogging Success,

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Uploading Your Blog Design and Plugins- DAY-2

Hopefully by now you have bought your domain, hosted it and installed Wordpress! Today I will share with you how I made MoneyMakersDiary look so good and user friendly!

Finding a Premium Design For Your Blog

When you saw MONEYMAKERSDiary you probably smiled and thought, WOW and then thought to yourself, just if I could create a blog like that! Well I have to be honest with you, they have dozens, which have lots of great features to personalize it yourself! The huge benefit of buying a premium theme is that you don't have to spend 100's of hours and thousands of dollars to get the same results as the professionals!
So where did I get my Wordpress Theme? Woothemes of course!
Once you have purchased your theme, uploading is simple. Login to your Wordpress Admin and click Appearance, followed by Add New Themes and then at the top of the page click Add New. Search for your theme zip file and then upload - it's as simple as that, back when I first started we had to do it manually which took hours, so there's no excuses!
If you bought your theme from Woothemes, then you can play around with all their really cool settings by logging in to your Wordpress Admin and scrolling down to the bottom of the sidebar and click the name of your theme. We recently interviewed the founder of Woothemes about the importance of great blog design, check it out by clicking here.

Wordpress Changes

One major thing I see a lot of new blogger's do is not make their website URL's search engine friendly which is the easiest source of traffic. If you look at your first blog post URL, it will be Domain.com/?p=1 when you really want it to say Domain.com/how-to-make-your-links-seo-friendly. You want your URL's and blog post titles to be what you expect people to be searching in Google, not something that always sounds good, a mix of both usually goes down well!
To make your links search engine friendly like I just said, go to your Wordpress Admin and click Settings and then Permalinks on the left side. Change the settings to Custom Structure and use the code /%postname%/ - This will now make your blog post link's SEO friendly.
Another important SEO change is your page title and description, I personally use a FREE plugin to do this called All in One SEO Pack but as you guys are just starting, you may just want to edit these details from your Wordpress Admin by clicking General under Settings. It is really important to choose the right page title, if you look at Retireat21.com you will see the title is "Young Entrepreneurs Making Money Online" - it says what the website is about and it has my 5 more important keywords and you should do the same. If your domain is 55street.com and is about Street Dancing, then you don't want your title to be 55street but instead Learn to Street Dance.
You also have a Blogroll on your blog, this is a great way to start building links and traffic to your website. Find 5 to 10 blogs just like yours and ask them to link to your site and you will do the same for them. You can add or edit your blogroll by clicking Links in the sidebar of your Wordpress Admin. It is also important to have a SEO friendly link, so instead of getting them to have the link as "55street" ask them to put the text as "Learn to Street Dance".
If you are interested in learning more about Search Engine Optimization, then check out this interviewthat we did with a leading SEO expert!

RSS Feeds and Building Your List

A RSS Feed is basically a reminder for regular readers to alert them when you have a new blog post, this is one of the most important parts of a blog. I use Feedburner to manage all our feed updates, sign up and create a code and update your RSS link to the feedburner one. Feedburner also has an email update script that you can use, when you are logged in at Feedburner.com click Publicize and then Email Subscriptions, they will give you some code and then you can add it as a widget on your blog. To edit your RSS widget is really simple, login to your Wordpress Admin again and click Appearance and then Widgets, then click on RSS and paste your email code in and then save the changes. Your readers will now be able to subscribe for updates, when you add a new post and they will get an email or RSS message alerting them to check your blog out.
Ask any Problogger what their biggest blogging mistake, they will tell you they wish they started building a list sooner! Creating a list is so powerful and a great way to make money online. Say you had 100 people visit your site a day, you want to get around 10 of them to sign up for your list, that means you can promote your website and products to them in future. What I do is create an auto responder series which automatically sends them an email every day to encourage them to work harder and make more money online - then I will promote them a product or two. Don't be scared to promote products to them from day one, after all you only want people who are willing to spend money on your list.
I have built my lists to over xx,xxx now and my number one tip for getting readers to opt-in is to offer them something, for example "7 Ways Your Can Use Outsourcing To Save Your Company a Lot Of Money" - anyone on an outsourcing website will want to read that and would happily give you their email address to get it. My friend has built a list for his blog and every time he needs money he will find a product he likes and send his list an email about it and he will earn thousands of dollars! For those of you who will be using your blog to earn money I recommend you look at getting yourself an auto responder to do this. I personally recommend Aweber and iContact which both have a great service! If this is something that interests you, then set up your Aweber today and I will show you in the following emails how I make thousands of dollars from my mailing list.
Tomorrow will be a big day, so make sure you have everything ready and I will share my secrets with you ;-)
To our success in 2010,
Michael Dunlop
PS. If any of this has gone straight over your head, then feel free to hit the reply button and ask me a question!
PPS. Look out for tomorrow's email for how I monetize my blogs which will earn me $xxx,xxx this year!
PPPS. I am not saying you should buy everything I recommend, I am just showing you what tools I use to earn 6 figures a year online.

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How to Start Blogging Day-1

Before we can get started and I can show you how to make money online, we need to sort the essentials out, that means we have to get you online! Today I will show you how to build your first blog, which is surprisingly easy!

Make sure you take action as you read through my emails or you will find yourself a month down the road and you still haven't started! If you do have any troubles with the eCourse, then hit the reply button and I will be happy to respond to your email.

First thing you need is a Domain Name

I'm always creating blogs because you can literally set them up in a hour, one of the fundamental things you need to have is a good domain name. For those of you are aren't quite sure what a domain is, it's one of those .Com URL's you type in your web browser to visit websites.

 

It's super important to choose a good domain, I often see long winded domains like, RobertSmith4CentralOregonHomes.com? For a start It's really long, boring and has so many words you will spend so much time just typing the domain that you will give up. When coming up with a domain name I have a little test I use, basically you have to be able to tell someone on the street your domain and then a hour later when they get home they must be able to remember it. This basically means, make it simple, no .Net .Co.Uk .Info domains, no dash's in between words and try to keep it to a 3 word maximum. 

 

Here's what I do, I put a twist to my domains to make them more interesting, for example, I could of had YoungEntrepreneurs.com instead of Retireat21.com, but the name Retireat21 is really catchy and something no one forgets, its even a speaking point for a lot of people. It's all about being creative and not trying to get every keyword under the sun in your domain. Another way you can come up with new domain names is by putting the benefit and your keyword in a domain. My friend was creating an outsourcing website and was thinking of domains like OutsourcingDistrict.com but it doesn't stand out to you and say what's its about, I advised him to buy the domain, SaveTimeOutsource.com, it tells the reader straight away the benefit of Outsourcing and why you should use the site.

 

When buying a domain you want to use a big company so that you know they will look after your domain and give you the support you may need. For all of my domains I use a company calledGoDaddy, they are the largest domain registrar in the world and that's for a reason! I was able to get moneymakersdiary readers 10% off any order if you use the coupon code "cjcsave10".

 

If you don't want to take my word for it and use GoDaddy, then you should check out this page to find a selection of other domain registrars.

Hosting your Domain

The most important thing about running an Internet Business is that you have a reliable host, without one, you are wasting your time. I recommend to everyone always to use HostGator, it's cheap, reliable and I have never heard a bad word said about them. If you do decide to go TRY find a better deal then please research who you are getting hosting with, the worst thing is to find your website goes offline and they don't have a recent backup of your server. I have personally lost some really big website's due to hosts who just don't seem to care for their customers. Another thing to remember is that the faster your website is, the better it ranks in Google, it is also proven that people buy more on a faster website.

If you do decide to use HostGator then use the coupon code Retireat21 and you will receive $9.94 discount which is a no brainer! For those of you who are paying monthly, this will allow you only to pay 1 cent for the first month hosting, basically making it risk free!

 

If you have any trouble with your Domain or Hosting, check out our Just Starting Page.

Connecting your Domain and Host

To host your domain on the Internet is really simple, login to you GoDaddy account and click Domains > My Domains and then click on your domain. Now click on the Nameservers Icon and change the custom nameservers to the ones HostGator would of emailed you, they would have been something like:

NS1.HostGator.com
NS2.HostGator.com

Once this is done, you will now be able to upload and install your blog!

Installing Your Blog

Now to show you how to install Wordpress using Fantastico which will allow you to save a lot of time trying to do it manually. Please remember: Not all hosts have Cpanel and Fantastico but if you are using HostGator like I recommended, then this wont be an issue!

So to start, go to YourDomain.com/cpanel and login with the admin details your host provided, scroll to the bottom and click Fantastico. Now on the left hand side is a link to Wordpress, click that and click New Installation, fill in the form and then click Install Wordpress and you are done, now go to your domain and your blog will be installed.

I created a short video for you guys just to make it even easier for you. In this video, I show you exactly how I installed my blog and it takes only a fraction of the time you would spend doing it if you had to do it manually.

To view the video: http://www.screencast.com/t/9LPIHl2f

Adding Posts To Your Blog

If you now go to your blog on the right hand side of your blog, there will be a link called Login (yourdomain.com/wp-login.php), click that and now login with your username and password. You will be presented with the Wordpress Dashboard, on the left side you will have a link to Add New under Posts. Click this and you will be able to add your first blog post.

Tomorrow I will show you how to add a theme to your blog to make it look "nice" and will show you around the blog admin. I will also show you a few tricks I use to get the most out of my blog and making money!

Harry Bansal

PS. If you really want to create a blog but just don't have the time to do all this "technical" stuff, then perhaps you should check out my "Done-For-You-Service". I'll talk more about that after the next few days!

PPS. If you are not going to take action right now and follow this email then you can scroll down and unsubscribe, I only want to help people who want to make money today!

PPPS. Still not convinced? Check out these 30 blog's I read regularly and see how much they are making!

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