Look how much the top bloggers make
Businessweek features a very inspiring article titled “Bloggers Bring in the Big Bucks” by John Tozzi. I would say it is very inspring to read the successful stories of the top bloggers , how they started and how they grew.
Here I would like to include some of the mentioned top blogs and their income. Let’s get inspired together.
“If you hit a niche and you can build a community, you might not have a $1 million idea, but you might have a $10,000 or a $100,000 idea,” says Nakagawa, who gave up his job as a software developer to play Cheezburger full-time.
Launched: January, 2007
Revenue: $5,600 monthly
Frequent posting—the four authors update the site 20 to 40 times each day—drives high traffic to the blog, which Mark Frauenfelder and his wife, Carla Sinclair, started as a print zine in 1988, to write about comics, science fiction, computers, and technology.
Launched: January, 2000
Pageview: 22 million page views from 2.6 million unique visitors in one month
Revenue: Over $1 million / year
The site’s core audience, Friedman says, is young women and gay men—tastemaking groups that advertisers covet. Although Overheard brings in cash, he says, “I’ve always approached it more as a community than a business. I want to make enough so we can invest more to grow. I’m not trying to build a Web 2.0 company that I can sell for millions of dollars.”
Launched: July, 2003
Revenue: $8,100 a month
4. kottke.org
As one of the earliest blogs, with a committed audience interested in design, Kottke attracts advertisers looking to reach Web professionals and creative types. And he wants to keep his niche appeal, rather than try to maximize profits by littering the site with ads, and changing the content to boost traffic.
Launched: March, 1998
Revenue: Estimated $5,300 monthly
Arrington began blogging about startups two years ago. The blog has since spawned a network of spin-offs for gear, mobile technology, and sites for Britain, France, and Japan.
Launched: June, 2005
Revenue: $200,000 a month
Last year, this blog, devoted to ridiculing celebrity fashion, made enough money through ad sales that its two authors, Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, quit their television industry jobs so they could mock full-time.
Launched: July, 2004
Revenue: $6,240 a month
7. mashable.com
Pete Cashmore started Mashable two years ago, to write about the emerging trend of mashups, which he defines as “the fusing of multiple Web services.” Now it’s more than a full-time job. “Bloggers don’t get much sleep,” he says.
Launched: July, 2005
Revenue: $166,000 a month
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article how much the top bloggers make, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.