Top Ten Highly Successful Bloggers In The World

As you guys know the blogging was just a hobby and most of the popular blogs was just casual and informal from their earlier ages. But now the blogging climate has been changed. Because old running blogs become super blog and their founders become rich. It was the fruit of continue work and intention on their blogs.

Blogging is now a business where no investment is required except a computer with Internet connection and small hosting to take start. Yes one thing I am missing to include, a smart brain. :)

Since yesterday I was Googling to collect few top bloggers and their earning from the whole world. And it was amazing statistics in numbers. They are really awesome blogs with awesome founders stories. Blogs are their life their passion and now their life time money.

Lets read below the top ten bloggers of the world statistics and the little description which I have found. I am sure these will inspire you.

1) BlogTechCrunch

Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington

  • Name – Michael Arrington
  • Age – 40 years
  • Earning - $8,00,000 per Month
  • Topics – Sillicon valley startups
  • Alexa Rank – 355
  • Launched2005
  • Visitors - 26 million page views per month
  • Twitter followers – 1.5 million
  • Advertising methods -Adsense , Banner Ads,Text advertising

About – TechCrunch was started by Michael Arrington in his backyard as a hobby . The problem with him was that he was gripped with silicon valley startups. He updated his blog with 20-30 posts every day giving minute details of each and every nice idea in the valley. He attended every seminars and presentations and inserted his head into the veins of budding entrepreneurs. His blog constantly rose up and now have become the larger technology blog in the world. His blogging team now comprises of 40 bloggers and he had extended his network of other tech blogs.

2. Mashable

Pete CashMore

Pete CashMore

  •  Name - Pete CashMore
  • Earning – $6,00,000 Per Month
  • Topics – Social media
  • Alexa Rank – 281
  • Age – 26 Years
  • Launched – 2005
  • Monthly Page Views25 million
  • Twitter Followers – 2 million


Pete Cashmore just started Mashable when he was 19 year old. Now Mashable is the most readable blog in social media. He have converted mashable into a multi author blog and is now its one of the hottest platform and source on the internet.

3. Perez Hilton

Perez Hilton

Perez Hilton

  • Name – Mario Lavandeira
  • Earning - $2,00,000
  • Daily Visits - 1 Million Visitors a day
  • Launched – 2005
  • Advertising methods – Banners
  • Topics – Celebrity Gossip

Mario Lavandeira is the man who earns a lot  by just spreading rumors and juicy gossips of celebrities. He writes 25-30 post everyday.  And blogging is successful way of earning for him.

4. Timothysykes

Timothy Sykes

Timothy Sykes

  • NameTimothy Sykes
  • Earning – $ 1,80,000
  • Age – 29 Years
  • Topics – Stocks
  • Revenue sources - From affiliate sales and his paid membership schemes.

Tim sykes making money from writing about affiliates systems and their secrets. He had written more than 2000 blog posts till date and give penny stock tips for everyone who can afford his membership area.

5. TutsPlus -

Collis Taeed

Collis Taeed

  • Name – Collis Taeed
  • Earning – $1,20,000
  • Topics – Tutorial covering design and tools.
  • Revenue Source – Membership

Coolis taood is a German web designer who has turned his blog into the most popular and useful tutorial blog on internet.

6. Gothamist

Jake Dobkin

Jake Dobkin

  • Jake Dobkin
  • Name – Jake Dobkin
  • Earning - $1,10,000
  • TopicsNewyork city life and events
  • Founded – 2003
  • Revenue source – Double Click
  • Page views – 3.6 Million per month

Almost 75% of the visitor to his blog comes from the high class of  NewYork and that’s the reason behind his high income instead of low visitor statistics.

7. VentureBeat

Matt Marshall

Matt Marshall

  • Name – Matt Marshall
  • Earning – $1,00,000
  • Started -2006
  • Topics – Venture Capital and Startups

Matt is MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University and holds a PhD in Government. Before start the blogging he was just a j0urnalist. later he shifted to online journalism and now he is successful.

8. Lifehacker

Gina Trapani

Gina Trapani

  • Name –   Gina Trapani
  • Earning – $1,08,000
  • Vistors – 0.3 million visitors per day
  • Founded – 2005
  • Topics – Downloads, software and tips
  • Alexa Rank – 689

Gina is a web developer and tech writer based in San Diego and She turned lifehacker into a collaborative money making source on internet.

9. Smashing Magazine

Vitaly Friedman

Vitaly Friedman

  • Name –  Vitaly Friedman
  • Earning – $1,50,000 per month
  • Topics – Web Design and development

Smashing magazine is the largest resource for web and design, Vitaly is amazingly benefited from this fact.

10. ReadWriteWeb

Richard MacManus

Richard MacManus

  • Name – Richard MacManus
  • Earning – $60,000
  • Topics – Social media and web trends

Richard Macmanus from New Zealand is the founder and co-author of ReadWriteWeb and is sharing one of the most profitable weblog in the space.

Conclusion of the post, do not wait and watch for any miracle, go ahead start your won blog to be a part of this top ten list. Believe me you will be a best one blogger soon.

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  • Web Fan

    Wow.. Just look at those earnings. Internet has been such a revolution in the technology in the whole world, that it has crossed all the boundaries of possibilities and innovation that a human being could do of his life.
    Just looking at these persons, just make me think of some geniuses, who have contributed their life in blogging, and gained a huge amount of success through it. I am a blogger myself, and I would really love to be in that list.. “Just Dreaming”, but I hope I could be a successful blogger myself as well. But why not, if you work with ambition and determination you surely can achieve it, but at the same time you must also use your brains, just to stand out from other bloggers :D