Top 50 Earning Blogs

Successful Blogs Earning Money Online

For today’s post, I wanted to look at some of the most successful and profitable blogs that are currently online.
For many people that are just starting blogging, it is hard to know how much you can potentially earn. In the initial stages of setting up a blog, it can be tough to keep motivated to keep going when you’re not making much money, but given time and lots of effort a blog can take off in a big way. The best examples that you can look at are the blogs that are at the top. It certainly inspired me to learn just how much money some of the top blogs make on a daily basis.
The following list of 50 blogs are considered the best in the business. I often get inspired by these blogs, urging me on to put in the work to make my own site the best that it can be. I hope that this inspires you as well!

	Website	Owner	Daily Income	Value	Main Income
1	The Huffington Post	Arianna Huffington	$29,896	$21.82 Million	Pay Per Click
2	Mashable	Pete Cashmore	$15,781	$11.52 Million	Advertising Banners
3	Techcrunch	Michael Arrington	$14,816	$10.82 Million	Advertising Banners
4	Engadget	Peter Rojas	$9,861	$7.2 Million	Advertising Banners
5	Smashing Magazine	Vitaly Friedman	$6,382	$4.66 Million	Advertising Banners
6	Tuts+	Collis Taeed	$5,068	$3.7 Million	Membership Area
7	Life Hacker	Nick Denton	$4,821	$3.52 Million	Advertising Banners
8	Gizmodo	Attila Talos	$3,918	$2.86 Million	Advertising Banners
9	Perez Hilton	Mario Lavandeira	$3,645	$2.66 Million	Advertising Banners
10	Joystiq	AOL	$1,752	$1.28 Million	CPM Advertising
11	Problogger	Darren Rowse	$1,751	$1.28 Million	Advertising Banners
12	Kotaku	Nick Denton	$1,599	$1.17 Million	Advertising Banners
13	Six Revisions	Jacob Gube	$1,587	$1.16 Million	Advertising Banners
14	Noupe	Noupe	$1,400	$1.02 Million	Advertising Banners
15	Venture Beat	Matt Marshall	$1,251	$913,721	Pay Per Click
16	CopyBlogger	Brian Clark	$1,184	$864,861	Affiliate Sales
17	Abduzeedo	Fabio Sasso	$983	$718,239	Advertising Banners
18	Talking Points Memo	Joshua Marshall	$887	$647,750	Advertising Banners
19	WPBeginner	Syed Balkhi	$692	$505,420	Affiliate Sales
20	Matt Cutts	Matt Cutts	$0*	$488,944	Twitter
21	Steve Pavlina	Steve Pavlina	$664	$485,024	Pay Per Click
22	Slash Gear	Ewdison Then	$621	$453,999	Pay Per Click
23	Smart Passive Income	Pat Flynn	$607	$443,406	Affiliate Sales
24	John Chow	John Chow	$555	$405,242	Affiliate Sales
25	Freelance Switch	Collis Ta’eed	$533	$389,517	Membership Area
26	Shoemoney	Jeremy Schoemaker	$485	$354,112	Private Advertising
27	Gothamist	Jake Dobkin	$452	$330,022	Pay Per Click
28	Entrepreneurs Journey	Yaro Starak	$389	$284,170	Affiliate Sales
29	IncomeDiary	Michael Dunlop	$382	$279,505	Affiliate Sales
30	Chris Brogan	Chris Brogan	$371	$271,147	Affiliate Sales
31	Matts Marketing Blog	Matt Carter	$302	$220,834	Affiliate Sales
32	ClickNewz	Lynn Terry	$239	$174,873	Affiliate Sales
33	Dooce	Heather B Armstrong	$229	$167,580	Pay Per Click
34	Coolest Gadgets	Allan Carlton	$227	$166,069	Advertising Banners
35	Tony Robbins	Tony Robbins	$193	$141,526	Affiliate Sales
36	Just Creative Designs	Jacob Cass	$185	$135,497	Advertising Banners
37	David Risley	David Risley	$137	$100,588	Affiliate Sales
38	Car Advice	Alborz Fallah	$127	$92,886	Advertising Banners
39	Sizlopedia	Saad Hamid	$118	$86,842	Pay Per Click
40	Gary Vaynerchuk	Gary Vaynerchuk	$88	$64,744	Affiliate Sales
41	PC Mech	David Risley	$82	$59,955	Affiliate Sales
42	Timothy Sykes	Timothy Sykes	$81	$59,284	Affiliate Sales
43	Joel Comm	Joel Comm	$75	$55,408	Affiliate Sales
44	Tyler Cruz	Tyler Cruz	$74	$54,736	Affiliate Sales
45	Chris Garrett	Chris Garrett	$67	$49,327	Affiliate Sales
46	Money Dummy	John Paul Aguiar	$65	$48,093	Affiliate Sales
47	Retireat21	Michael Dunlop	$65	$47,487	Affiliate Sales
48	Revenews	ReveNews, LLC	$64	$47,122	Affiliate Sales
49	StandOutBlogger	Thomas Sinfield	$59	$43,633	Affiliate Sales
50	BlogBareFoot	Carrie Wilkerson	$37	$27,390	Affiliate Sales

[* - Matt Cutts has stated (see comments section) that he doesn't actually earn any money directly via his blog. Instead he utilizes Twitter to promote various products and merchandise to his many followers. Still a viable blog to feature on this list though, as it shows that other methods can be used to make money online.]

This list is only an estimate of the true worth of these sites. If anything, these are probably UNDERestimates, as many of these sites have many streams of income. Check out our ‘30 Ways Your Website Can Earn You Money‘ to learn of other ways in which you can monetize your website.
It took me quite a bit of time to research this ‘Top 50 Earning Blogs‘ list. I learnt a lot from doing this and found loads of interesting sites and bloggers. I believe that this list helps to illustrate the ladder of success that we all strive to climb up.

I follow a lot of these inspirational bloggers on Twitter (@matt_oit) and have made my own ‘bloggers‘ list which you make like to follow yourself. You can find it @matt_oit/blogger
OnlineIncomeTeacher.com doesn’t feature on the list YET, however I will strive to work hard to achieve a place amongst these outstanding names. I hope you feel as inspired as I do!

Disclaimer:- The website’s featured in this top 50 list are only estimates and are not 100% accurate! This is just an indication of how well they are doing regarding making money from their blog. All of the ‘Daily Income’ & ‘Value’ statistics were calculated using the free tool ‘SiteWorthChecher‘ which can be used to estimate the worth of a website.

If you believe that you deserve a place on the ‘top 50 earning blogs’ list, or know of any blogs that should, please comment below!