Top 10 Money Earning Bloggers

1. The Huffington Post

Owner: Arianna Huffington
Income: about $30,000/day
Alexa Rank – 2155
Daily visitors: 5 446 680
Daily pageviews: 11 056 761

At roughly double the income of the number two blog, The Huffington Post made a name for itself as a decidedly left-leaning political aggregate site in the vein of Drudge Report – but with a healthy, Internet-friendly sprinkling of cat videos and other Internet oddities driving clicks.

2. Mashable

 Daily visitors: 1 611 911
 Daily pageviews: 2 724 129
 Alexa Rank: 1486
 Owner: Pete Cashmore
 Income: about $15,000/day

Mashable’s focus is on social media news with a dash of tech here and there, but like so other top earning blogs, over time it has adapted to include viewer-friendly content like viral videos and feel-good opinion pieces.

3. Techcrunch

Daily visitors: 1 693 014
Daily pageviews: 2 895 055
Alexa Rank: 1022
Owner: Michael Arrington
Income: about $14,000/day

One of the more focused blogs in the top ten, Techcrunch does an admirable job monetizing with just its hard tech industry focus by being bar none the best in the industry. A wide variety of tech and science news is covered, along with profiles of startup companies and new gadgets that give avid readers an edge on all but the most informed members of the tech industry.

4. Engadget

 Daily visitors: 1 651 483
 Daily pageviews: 3 236 906
 Alexa Rank: 722
 Owner: Peter Rojas
 Income: about $10,000/day
 

Yet another high-earning tech blog, this time with a focus on gadgets (as the name suggests), Edgadget does especially well with a more magazine-like editorial format as well as substantially more international and multilingual support than comparable sites.

5. Smashing Magazine

Daily visitors: 294 160
Daily pageviews: 411 824
Alexa Rank: 5051
Owner: Vitaly Friedman
Income: about $6,000/day

Smashing is a blogger’s blog – or to be more precise, a resource for any web developer and website designer. Featuring examinations of typography, graphic design, layout, and more, Smashing is a rare example of a site with limited appeal to the layman that still managed to foster a huge audience and large paydays.

6. Tuts+

 Daily visitors: 815 650
 Daily pageviews: 1 207 163
 Alexa Rank: 1889
 Owner: Collis Taeed
 Income: about $5,000/day
 

Unlike most blogs, Tuts+ doesn’t make its money from advertising. Instead, it offers a premium membership to gain access to a huge array of courses and educational materials on website design and development. Their blog features posts in this same vein that help funnel readers to the premium section.

7. Lifehacker

Daily visitors: 1 683 711
Daily pageviews: 2 323 522
Alexa Rank: 746
Owner: Nick Denton
Income: about $5,000/day

Lifehacker’s published content, oddly enough, centers on “life hacks,” or small shortcuts and productivity tricks that encompass all walks of life. It also regularly features software or gadgets that accomplish a similar end, such as a program to de-blur a blurry photo.

8. Gizmodo

 Daily visitors: 1 913 258
 Daily pageviews: 3 386 466
 Alexa Rank: 645
 Owner: Attila Talos
 Income: about $4,000/day
 

Gizmodo is a blog that focuses on technology and design. Seeing a pattern here? It, too, also includes the occasional internet-pandering or interesting article only tangentially related to the main focus of the blog, but with updates roughly every hour, it keeps readers satisfied with plenty of content.

9. Perez Hilton

 Daily visitors: 173 174
 Daily pageviews: 329 032
 Alexa Rank: 5881
 Owner: Mario Lavanderia
 Income: about $3,600/day
 

After a string of seven blogs related to the internet or tech in some way comes Perez Hilton, the infamous gossip who makes his living revealing the dirty details of celebrities’ private lives. Whether you agree with what he does or not, that people want to read what he writes – and the success it brings him – is undeniable.

10. Joystiq

Daily visitors: 534
Daily pageviews: 534
Alexa Rank: 7531709
Owner: AOL
Income: about $1,700/day

Joystiq is AOL’s general gaming blog. Video gaming has many straight-up media news sites and a couple more gossip-type blogs, but Joystiq carves its niche directly between the two, offering a more casual and editorial take on what happens in the industry while keeping it more professional than some of its competitors.

How much money can I make from AdSense with 1000 visitors per day ?

Google Adsense has been a primary revenue model for many Bloggers and Internet Marketers. The best thing about Adsense is that they don’t have any traffic requirement and accepts almost all the blogs/websites that abide by their TOS. However, most of the Bloggers are not aware of the fact that you don’t start earning money if you have an Adsense account. You need traffic and that too targeted high-quality traffic. Let me explain you what that means;

How Adsense Revenue Actually Works?

Adsense has both CPC and CPM-based revenue model. Now let me explain the terminology that we use on Adsense first;

1. CPC – Cost Per Click – Varies anywhere between $0.02 to $1 (Max. it can go up to $100 as well but in very rare cases.)
2. CPM – Cost per 1000 Impressions.
3. RPM – Revenue per 1000 Impressions.
4. CTR – Click Through Rate – Clicks per 100 impressions. Varies anywhere between 1% to 10% based on your niche and ad placement.
5. The other terms like Pageviews, Impressions and Earnings; which I guess are pretty much straight forward.

CTR = (Number of ad clicks * 100) / Number of page views

If my blog has 10,000 pageviews per month and 800 AdSense ad clicks, then my CTR is 0.8%.

CTR = (800 * 100) / 10000 = 0.8%

Most of the ads on Google Adsense are Cost Per Click based. That means you get paid whenever a visitor clicks on your ads(You are not allowed to click on your own Ads, it might lead to a permanent BAN). There are very few ads that are CPM based that means you get paid even though a visitor doesn’t click and just view the ad, but these ad formats are very less, and most of the advertisers avoid these ad formats.

How much money can you actually make from Adsense?

It depends on a lot of factors and out of all these the primary factors are CPC and CTR. CPC varies from niche to niche and also depends on the geographic location of your audience. If you are getting traffic from Tier-1 countries like US, UK, Canada, Australia, etc, then your CPC is likely to be high. But if in case you are receiving traffic from Tier 2 and Tier 3 countries CPC would be low.

CPC also depends on the keywords that you are targeting. If you are targeting keywords related to Gadgets, Health, etc., the CPC tends to be high because there is a lot of competition among advertisers in those sectors. So, if you are in a less competitive niche like the entertainment or education, that too in India then obviously your CPC will be very less.

So, lets suppose you have good CPC, and that doesn’t end there. You need a good CTR as well; that means you want more people to click on your ads. This depends on a lot of factors like Ad Placement, Source of Traffic, Web Page Loading time and a lot many other factors.

It all depends on these two factors. Combing these two a simple term is used to understand how well our ads are performing and its called RPM.

Page RPM = (Estimated earnings / Number of page views) * 1000

Estimated Earnings = CPC * Total Number of Clicks

= CPC * CTR*100

Ops, don’t panic. Am not teaching you any formula, and you don’t need any. You just have to look at the RPM.

Lets suppose like your RPM is $2 then you must be making around $2/1000 pageviews.

Then if you are receiving about 10,000 page views you should be able to make $20.

So, if your RPM is $5, then you would make $50 for every 10,000 page views.

If in case your blog is receiving an average of 10,000 pageviews per day which means 3,00,000 pageviews per month at an RPM of $3, the calculation goes as follows;

Total Revenue = RPM * Pageviews/1000 = 5*300 = 1500.

You should able to make about $1500 per month. So, now I hope you understand how to calculate the earnings.

Note: All the earnings may varies from country to country.

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