By : Blogging is one of the most attractive fields in the present days and many youth are getting attracted towards it. Of course, the ultimate goal for any task on this plane is a financial benefit. Many uses blogging as their lifestyle, and also as their livelihood. As our topic is to know about the top ten richest bloggers in the world, this article is going to focus mainly on the lifestyle of those bloggers and how they reached peaks in blogging.
Isn’t it interesting that nearly 33.9 million blogs are being created every month and there are more than 60,328,496 blogs on certain sites like WordPress.com and blogger.com. Alright, here are the top, then richest bloggers in the blogging-sphere.
10. Ewdison Then, ‘Slash Gear’: $60,000 – $80,000 per month
Ewdison is the co-founder and executive editor of consumer electronics and tech news site R3 Media LLC. He is working as media publisher for the same blog.
SlashGear is a blog that works on tech gadgets. Edwison puts all the latest updates related to technology and gadgets in his blog and that’s where he gets succeeded. He updates with all types of technology and gadgets consistently.
Then get’s more income from pay-per-click advertising and his blog is based on the WordPress platform. Interestingly, he has a less staff IE,. Only 13 people.
9. Matt Marshall: $50,000 – $100,000 per month
Matt Marshall is a notable journalist before reaching to the top in blogging. His blogging career started in 2006 in the niche of world wide technology. He founded VentureBeat, an informative blog that covers a wide range of topics, and has many other technology specialized websites.
The main scope of VentureBeat is to cover topics in technology and also in money, finance and investment fields. Marshall provides valuable info for his readers that includes various commercial techniques to earn huge bucks from your investments and helps the startup.
8. Gina Trapani: circa $110,000 per month
Gina Trapani will be the woman at the top of the list of bloggers from her gender in terms of earnings. Gina is not only a CEO and founder of Lifehacker, but also an active member of the social media community. Lifehacker always encourages its followers to share the latest trends, tips that helps the day to day life easier. That’s the main reason behind the success of Gina Trapani.
7. Collis Ta’eed: $55,000 – $120,000 per month
Collis Ta’eed is the owner of TutsPlus blog, an informative site to build skills and tutorials, lectures and many other teaching methods that informs about application software and numerous designing tools. His tutorials help you to download a font to master an application.
6. Jake Dobki:$80,000 – $110,000 per month
Jake Dbokins is the reason on the famous blog Gothamist.com which makes him a pretty handsome income. Gothamist.com is a newsy site that covers the genres of food, events, and art around the world. If you’re planning to explore and want to know about the cuisines available in a particular location, then I suggest you Gothamist.com to have a look at for the best results for your search. It has expanded to cover 13 cities worldwide, that includes Toronto, London and Shanghai.
The interesting thing is that Dodkin was an amateur photographer.
5. Timothy Sykes: Monthly Income: $150,000 – $180,000 per month
If you want to know how Timothy Sykes makes money through blogging, then you must read this.
His articles include various niches like investment, finance, stocks, and similar ones. Sykes is an awesome website when we count for stocks. Timothy is an expert and makes around 2 million dollars for a month from various stock operations.
4. Vitaly Friedman: $150,000 – $190,000 per month
Vitaly Friedman is the founder and CEO of Smashing Magazine, a blog meant for web designers. Vetaly also started Smashing Network in 2009 to curate the best of the design blogs. Most of the income of Vitaly Friedman comes from advertising banners and none from affiliate revenues. His smashing magazine is the most popular in the field of web design and development. If you want to be a master in this field, then you must follow Smashing Magazine as it can help you with its inspiring articles and updates you with the latest tips and also guides you.
3. Mario Lavanderia, ‘Perez Hilton’: $200,000 – $400,000 per month
Mario Lavanderia, aka Perez Hilton has been a powerhouse blogger since 2005. His blog mostly covers news about celebrities, scandals and such stories. You can see the stuff related to Lindsay Lohan and Justim Bieber here. Not only them, it will be covering all the information related to celebrities all over. So, if you want to know about any celebrity, better have a look at Perez Hilton at a glance.
2. Pete Cashmore:$560,000 – $600,000 per month
Pete Cashmore is the founder and CEO of the world popular blog Mashable that covers anything from technology to business to social media, entertainment and lifestyle. It is the largest independent site and also the most influential one. Mashable is noted as the most read and the most favorite destination for social media and technology resource and news.
Mashable was established in the bedroom of Cashmore in Scotland when he was just 19. Pete Cashmore is the youngest and one of the richest bloggers in the world.
1. Michael Arrington: $500,000 – $800,000 per month
Do you love writing the content related to technology? Then TechCrunch is the perfect place for you. It’s founder Michael Arrington is the creator of this one which is the destination for technology related news. Michael is famous with the name of “prophet of Silicon Valley”.
Arrington is the most reputed and influential person in technology. The updates from his site is most consistent and you can get a minute to minute news. So, hence, if you will surely love Arrington if you’re a technology lover.
