A list of some top earning blogs

Some  Blogs That Make A Lot Of Money Online

 

Rank	Website	Owner	Monthly Earnings	Main Income
1	Techcrunch	Michael Arrington	$400,000	Advertising Banners
2	Mashable	Pete Cashmore	$560,000	Advertising Banners
3	Perez Hilton	Mario Lavandeira	$450,000	Advertising Banners
4	Timothy Sykes	Timothy Sykes	$150,000	Affiliate Sales
5	Tuts Plus	Collis Taeed	$110,000	Membership Area
6	Gothamist	Jake Dobkin	$110,000	Pay Per Click
7	The Huffington Post	Arianna Huffington	$2,330,000	Pay Per Click
8	Car Advice	Alborz Fallah	$70,000	Advertising Banners
9	Venture Beat	Matt Marshall	$62,000	Pay Per Click
10	Slash Gear	Ewdison Then	$60,000	Pay Per Click
11	Life Hacker	Nick Denton	$60,000	Advertising Banners
12	Smashing Magazine	Vitaly Friedman	$190,000	Advertising Banners
13	Dooce	Heather B. Armstrong	$50,000	Pay Per Click
14	Steve Pavlina	Steve Pavlina	$45,000	Pay Per Click
15	TPM	Josh Marshall	$45,000	Pay Per Click
16	Talking Point Memo	Joshua Micah Marshall	$45,000	Advertising Banners
17	Problogger	Darren Rowse	$40,000	Advertising Banners
18	JohnChow	John Chow	$35,000	Affiliate Sales
19	Kotaku	Nick Denton	$32,000	Advertising Banners
20	Shoemoney	Jeremy Schoemaker	$30,000	Private Advertising
21	Coolest Gadgets	Allan Carlton	$30,000	Advertising Banners
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	Noupe	Noupe	$8,000	Advertising Banners
29	Retire at 21	Michael Dunlop	$5,000	Affiliate Sales
30	Uber Affiliate	Paul Bourque	$4,500	Second Tear Affiliates

Blogging For Profit

The majority of bloggers have advertising or another method of revenue generation on their blogs. On average, professional and corporate bloggers are more likely to include search ads, display ads, and affiliate marketing. One in four bloggers uses three or more means of advertising.

Do you have advertising on your site, or receive cash or products through the following means?

Among bloggers who have advertising on their blogs, two in three have contextual ads (such as Google AdSense). One-third of bloggers have affiliate advertising on their blog. One in five negotiate directly with advertisers and one in ten sell advertising through a blog ad network.

How Bloggers Manage Advertising

Ad clutter, lack of interest, and low traffic numbers are the top reasons why bloggers do not have advertising on their blogs. Among the 48% of bloggers who currently do not have advertising on their site, the most common reason is lack of interest. One in five bloggers don’t feel like they have a critical mass of traffic to their blog. Other reasons that bloggers do not have any advertising on their blogs include:

Reasons why Bloggers do not have Advertising on their Blog

Other (12%) reasons why bloggers did not have any advertising on their blogs included:

“I could only endorse something I was really passionate about that might benefit one of my causes.”

“I haven’t made much from it in the past.”

“I live in a country which has impossible tax rules.”

Average Annual Revenue is more than $6,000

The average annual blogger revenue is more than $6,000. However, this is skewed by the top 1% of bloggers who earn $200k+. Among active bloggers that we surveyed, the average income was $75,000 for those who had 100,000 or more unique visitors per month (some of whom had more than one million visitors each month). The median annual income for this group is significantly lower — $22,000.

Bloggers with advertising invest an average of $1,800 annually in their blogs. U.S. bloggers earn an average of $5,000, though bloggers in Asia earn 50% more on average and European bloggers earn an average of 75% more than U.S. bloggers. High revenue bloggers skew the mean revenue. The median revenue for U.S. bloggers is $200 annually (and the median annual investment is only $50).

What is your annual estimated revenue from advertising on your blog?	Annual revenue from blog (US$)
	MEAN annual revenue	MEDIAN annual revenue	MAXIMUM annual revenue
U.S. bloggers with advertising	$5,060	$200	$350,000
European bloggers with advertising	9,040	200	324,000
Asian bloggers with advertising	7,440	120	250,000

Bloggers are enjoying CPMs on parity with large publishers

Active bloggers receive CPMs for advertising on their site on par with large online media publishers (although the median is considerably lower). Some very targeted blogs are enjoying double-digit CPMs.

What is the average CPM that you receive for advertising on your site?	CPM US$ (cost per thousand impressions)
	MEAN CPM	MEDIAN CPM	MAXIMUM CPM
U.S. bloggers with advertising	$4.20	$1.20	$30
European bloggers with advertising	3.31	0.55	50
Asian bloggers with advertising	6.21	1.30	55

High Revenue Bloggers

The top 10 percent of blogger respondents earned an average of $19,000 annually. Three-quarters of these successful bloggers are male, and four in ten are self employed (twice as high as the average blogger). They are also more likely to be professional or corporate bloggers. Overall, the high revenue bloggers are more sophisticated in terms of the tools that they use, their usage of readership events, and advertising platforms. They also invest far more resources (both time and money) in their blogs.

5 Alternative Ad Networks to Boost Your Blogging Income

You may think that online advertising requires the use of the popular networks operated by Google, Amazon, and eBay, but you may be limiting yourself. Alternatives to the big online players exist that may offer even better ways to earn revenue from your blog. Here you will learn how to use 5 alternative ad networks to boost your blogging income.

1. Criteo: operates an innovative advertising network that emphasizes “retargeting.” When visitors browse your website, they often do not buy right away: they move on to other websites where they continue to browse. Criteo will personalize the advertising directed toward your prospects to bring them back to your site. In fact, the prospects that left your website are six times more likely to return as a result of the Criteo retargeting process than with an ordinary banner. This higher click-through ratio means that you can make more sales. With fully customizable options, you can adjust your advertising campaigns as necessary to get the measurable results you need. Criteo isn’t just for advertisers, it also pays guaranteed CPMs for your ad space, so you are certain to gain revenue from the services you provide.
2. Buy Sell Ads: with more than 1,000 bloggers on board, Buy Sell Ads (BSA) provides a great platform to display your ads on other sites or to display ads on your site. With plenty of advertisers enrolled in the service, you have a fantastic opportunity to earn good money using by serving their ads. Unlike many advertising networks, BSA allows website owners complete control over the areas on your website used for advertising while taking the guesswork out of your revenue share. Even better, BSA code doesn’t slow down your site as visitors arrive, increasing the odds that they will stay long enough to see your ads and create revenue.
3. Chitika: offers local ads, search-targeted ads, and mobile ads giving advertisers and publishers alike a tremendous opportunity to earn money. Pioneering the world’s first local advertising exchange, Chitika is at the leading edge of marketing technology. The service also has the ability to easily import your Google advertising campaigns, saving you time while providing superior results.
4. Federated Media: bases its advertising services on conversational media by developing dialog between marketers, designers, and their audiences and by delivering revenue to you. With more than 50 million users at its fingertips, Federated Media offers advertisers the ability to configure high touch marketing campaigns that feature the sites most likely to help advertisers achieve their marketing goals. Because Federated Media uses only the most influential websites to deliver clicks to advertisers, your hard work you invested to make your site the go-to place for your niche pays off well with great compensation for use of your ad space.
5. The Deck: Whether you seek creative customers in design, print, or other markets, The Deck delivers the clicks you want from the most well recognized sites, assuring advertisers of a good ROI on their campaigns. Because ads served by The Deck are highly concentrated (appearing as the only ads on their pages), website owners can expect excellent revenue potential from their ad space while advertisers targeting the creative world can expect extraordinary high value results. With over 100 million monthly impressions, this site to the most prestigious creative sites, advertisers and webmasters have a lot to gain.

Your online income does not depend on the players with the biggest names in the advertising business: you have impressive choices available that can benefit you whether you are and advertiser, a publisher, or both. Use these 5 alternative ad networks to boost your income to increase your earnings and your peace of mind.

Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!