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Wednesday 28 August 2013

Top Influential Bloggers



There are a lot of Bloggers around the world wide web, but some Bloggers rule the Blogosphere by their views and writing, influencing the  Blogosphere at large. 

Here they are  


Gina TrapaniGina Trapani
She is the founding editor of Lifehacker, which was one of the first Blogs I started reading since its early days, and Gina has pushed LH to be one of the most popular blogs ever. It has a daily dose of everything from life hacks to your geeky adventures. Send her a tip, and wait for the news to circulate…


Age – 32 years

Earning - $3,00,000 per Month

Launched – 2004

Visitors - 22 Million Page Views per month

Twitter followers – 1.5 million

Advertising methods - Banner Ads, Text advertising



Lorelle van Fossen Lorelle Word Press 
When I switched from blogger to wordpress, one blog consistently guided me through my newbie wordpress steps. Meet Lorelle on WordPress, queen of wordpress, whose useful tips and tricks on everything WordPress will help you become a better wordpress blogger. Also blogging on BlogHerald.


Age – 26 years

Earning - $2,80,000 per Month

Launched – 2007

Visitors - 19 Million Page Views per month

Advertising methods - Text advertising, Affiliate



Jensense  Jennifer Slegg

She blogs infrequently, but when she does, it is the most authoritative analysis of contextual text advertising on the web anywhere. Wait for Google adsense or Yahoo Publisher Network to modify a policy… and await the JenSense take on the issue. I have never been disappointed, and learnt a lot about the finer clauses.


Age – 29 years

Earning - $2,00,000 per Month

Launched – 2006

Visitors - 18 Million Page Views per month

Advertising methods - Text advertising, Affiliate


Liz Strauss  
She is successfully blogging on the Successful blog and recognizing SOB’s (Successful and Outstanding Bloggers). Possibly the most influential relational blogger, by recognizing good content, she has a fan following of SOB’s. When this blog was taking its early stumbling steps, she inspired me to be worthy of the SOB award.



Age – 32 years

Earning - $1,00,000 per Month

Launched – 2008

Visitors - 16 Million Page Views per month

Advertising methods - Text advertising, Affiliate


Emily Chang 
You just need to keep track of eHub to know whats happening around web 2.0. For years, its continues as an amazing Web 2.0 resource regularly updated with the latest buzz. Follow ehub and you will never miss a new tool or service.

I know there are hundreds of wonderful women bloggers out there and many more influence us now. This is my personal list of 5 women bloggers who have influenced continued to inspire us since this blog started.



Earning - $1,00,000

Daily Visits - 1 Million Visitors a day

Launched – 2005

Advertising methods – Banners

Topics – eHub


 Other Bloggers World wide with Their Aprox Earnings



Do you know in World wide, all those Bloggers who are making Lakhs of US Dollare monthly by sitting at Home ? 

Well! If you know them, then you can also get Inspired and Make Big Money online through Selling Your Knowledge on Blogging.

These Bloggers are not any SuperHeroes. They are normal human beings like you and me who are making huge money only through Blogging.

The amount of money that they can make may runs into Lakhs. In fact, highly qualified Pilots, Doctors and Software Engineers do not make this amount of money.

 It takes years and years of hard work to become a successful Pilot, Doctor, Engineer or a Lawyer.

However, here these Bloggers are very young and still making money more than a Pilot, Doctor or a lawyer. To become like them you do not need any investment or money, you can start right from your desktop.



We all know Blogging is a Hobby and Many of us on Internet have a Blog. But do you know its becoming a Serious Profession, more Serious than you can ever Imagine. Do you know that there are some Bloggers in the world whose earnings sometime exceeds the earning capability of a large Corp where Thousands of people work. These are the people who have created a New Breed of Business.

A Business where no investement is required except a laptop and an Internet connection (sometime nominal hosting charges).

A Business  which anyone can start off but some can really make it BIG.

A Business which is location Independent .





1) Blog - TechCrunch

michael-arrington
Michael Arrington

Name – Michael Arrington

Age – 30 years

Earning - $6,00,000 per Month

Topics – Sillicon valley startups

Alexa Rank – 355

Launched – 2004

Visitors - 26 million page views per month

Twitter followers – 1.5 million

Advertising methods - 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 obsessed with silicon valley startups. He updated his blog with 20-30 posts every day giving minute details of each and every budding 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 best tech blog in the world. His blogging team now comprises of 40 bloggers and he had extended his network of other tech blogs.

Michael is now the 1400 character twitter for sillicon valley giving you the latest updates and crunching his bank balance with the huge money earned from advertising on his blogs.

2. Mashable

pete cashmore
Pete cashmore

Name - Pete CashMore

Earning – $5,00,000 Per Month

Topics – Social Media

Alexa Rank – 281

Age – 28 Years

Launched – 2006

Monthly Page Views – 25 million

Twitter Followers – 2 million



Pete Cashmore started Mashable when he was 18 year old. Now Mashable is the most read blog centered around social media. He have converted mashable into a multi author blog and is now one of the hottest geek on the planet.

3. Perez Hilton





perez hilton
Perez hilton

Name – Mario Lavandeira

Earning - $3,00,000

Daily Visits - 1 Million Visitors a day

Launched – 2005

Advertising methods – Banners

Topics – Celebrity Gossip

Mario Lavandeira is the man who earns so much by just spreading rumors and juicy gossips of celebrities. He writes 25-30 post everyday. Blogging have made him a celebrity and he regularly gets featured on talk shows and events.

4. Timothysykes

tim sykes
tim sykes

Name – Timothy Sykes

Earning – $ 1,80,000

Age – 27 Years

Topics – Stocks

Revenue sources - From affiliate sales and his paid memebership schemes.

Tim sykes make money writing about money. 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 its blog into the most powerful tutorial blog on earth.

6. Gothamist




Jake Dobkin
Jake Dobkin

Name – Jake Dobkin

Earning - $1,10,000

Topics – Newyork city life and events

Founded – 2003

Revenue source – Double Click

Page views – 3.6 Million per month

Almost 75% of the vistor in his blog comes from the richest part on earth (NewYork) and thats 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. Earlier to blogging he was a j0urnalist. Clearly he shifted to online journalism and shifted well.

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 has turned lifehacker into a collaborative money making machine 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 ultimate resource for web desing on web and Vitaly is hugely 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 newzealand is the founder and co author of readwriteweb and is sharing one of the most profitable weblog in the world.

The list is endless and i could have added more here but the point is that there is no point spending time reading about persons who made it big. I guess ten are enough.

Go on , choose a topic which suits you and start a blog.


























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