How much money can bloggers make in a month? – You will be surprised to know that some top-level bloggers are making more than world-class median CEOs.
Crazy right? – Yes, you don’t have to become a CEO of a multinational company to earn a six-figure dollar, you can earn that kind of money every month consistently by only blogging on the internet.
Even if you are a non-native English writer like Indian, you can make a luxurious living too by only blogging as some Indian bloggers are doing the same.
Pro Blogging is one of the most lucrative careers for 2021 in India as well as in the world. In this article, I will discuss only 21 bloggers among the top paid bloggers and their amazing earnings including some Indian bloggers so that you can get some practical proofs.
If you are an Indian and looking for a blogging career, this article will give you an in-depth knowledge of earning potentials and increase your confidence level.
How Do Top Bloggers Make Money by Blogging?
Blogging gives you multiple ways of earning opportunities. Here I will discuss only the 5 most popular types of income sources top bloggers often use.
5 Earning Patterns Top Bloggers Often Use
Affiliate marketing income:
In this pattern bloggers send their visitors to others’ products or services page and get a certain percentage of commission on each sale. Top bloggers always prefer recurrent revenue-generating products like SAAS (software as a service), monthly subscriptions.
Related topic: Top ways to earn money online.
Digital products:
Top bloggers create their own informational products like online courses, blueprint checklists, templates, eBooks, etc. according to their subject expertise and sell these products to visitors.
Physical products:
Bloggers also sell some physical products like health supplements, refrigerators, anything that can be physically held.
Advertisements:
In this pattern, bloggers allow to place ads on their blogs and earn money.
Sponsored content:
Bloggers make huge money from sponsored content. Companies pay an amount to post anything specific on their blogs.
Related reading: Best types of blogs that make money
Top 21 Bloggers and Their Boring (Ironically – Ha-Ha) Earnings
I have mentioned only a few of the top paid bloggers here and missed huge numbers as it’s countless. Remember, I haven’t taken any one-time or lifetime income here, I have only considered the earning which has been flowing into the blogger’s account consistently per month. ***Please note, this is based on a secondary research and an estimated figure. This blog is not endorsing anyone or have any audited financial data. ***
I have segmented this part into 2 stages –
At the first stage, I have discussed some international top paid bloggers and in the second stage, I have discussed some top paid Indian bloggers so that Indian or Asian people can get encouraged in blogging.
Some Top Paid International Bloggers
1. Alex Nerney and Lauren McManus
Alex and Lauren started their blogging journey with a health and wellness blog and failed. But they didn’t give up. They restarted again and began earning $ 10,000 per month.
They understood they can help others too and started teaching blogging others and their income reached over six figure (in USD).
Approximate income: They are earning over $100,000 per month consistently through blogging.
Main sources of blogging income: They are selling their own digital products on their blog. Other sources include affiliate marketing and advertising.
Main blog: You can check out their main blog Create and Go.
2. Jon Morrow
Jon Morrow is an inspiration for aspirant bloggers. He can’t move his whole body but only his head as he is paralyzed from the neck down.
Jon built a blogging empire using speech recognition technology. He helps writers how to succeed through writing. Jon also inspires and motivates others through different channels.
Approximate income: Jon earns more than $ 100,000 per month from his blogs.
Main sources of blogging income: Most of the income comes from affiliate marketing products and Jon’s own digital courses that help writers succeed.
Main blog: You can check out Jon’s Smart Blogger for writing career and Unstoppable for inspirational information.
3. Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak helps start-ups or entrepreneurs succeed online through his blog.
Approximate income: Yaro earns $ 40,000 plus every month approximately.
Main sources of blogging income: Yaro’s main income comes from selling his own digital products. But he also earns from some other sources including advertising, affiliate marketing.
Main blog: See his blog Yaro Starak.
4. John Lee Dumas
John Lee Dumas and his wife run a podcast-based blog to help entrepreneurs succeed. He publishes podcasts every single day including interviews with some super-successful entrepreneurs like Tony Robbins, Anthony Morrison, many more.
Approximate income: John is very transparent and shows his income report every month on his website. He earns $ 195,000 and more every month.
Main sources of blogging income: John earns 30% of his total income from his own digital products, 35% from sponsorship, and 35% from affiliation programs.
Main blog: John named his podcast blog Entrepreneurs on Fire.
5. Pat Flynn
Pat Flynn focused to help businesses set up multiple online passive incomes. He covers almost everything needed to set up an online presence.
Approximate income: Pat earns $ 200,000 and more each month consistently.
Main sources of blogging income: 50% of his income comes from selling his own digital courses and products, 40% comes from promoting others’ products, and 10% from other varieties.
Main blog: Pat’s main blog is Smart Passive Income.
6. Sarah Titus
Sarah Titus made her blogging empire by helping moms work from home. In most of her blogs, she shares emotional stories.
Approximate income: She makes $200,000 plus per month.
Main sources of blogging income: She sells printables (physical products) and does affiliate marketing.
Main blog: If you are interested in a mom-related niche, you should follow Sarah Titus’s blog.
7. Jeff Rose
Jeff Rose teaches people how to get financial freedom by managing money smartly.
Approximate income: Jeff earns more than $138,000 per month.
Main sources of blogging income: He disclosed his earning details very transparently. He makes 33% of his total income from financial services, 33% from affiliate marketing, 20% from selling his own digital products, and the rest 14% from sponsorship and advertising.
Main blog: If you want to get financial freedom, you can check out Jeff’s blog Good Financial Cents.
8. Chiara Ferragni
Chiara Ferragni works on fashion, beauty, and lifestyle.
Approximate income: Chiara earns a minimum of $ 200,000 per month.
Main sources of blogging income: Most of her income comes from affiliate marketing and sponsorships.
Main blog: You can check her blog The Blonde Salad.
9. Ryan Robinson
Ryan’s blog is about personal finance. He teaches people how to make online side hustles.
Approximate income: Ryan earns $ 50,000 and more per month.
Main sources of blogging income: About 90% of his income comes from affiliate marketing and 10% from selling his own courses.
Main blog: If you wanna make online side hustle, you should definitely read Ryan’s blog.
10. Alborz Fallah
Alborz is very passionate about cars and he converted his passion into the profession through his blog. He promotes several car brands on his website.
Approximate income: Alborz makes about $ 125,000 per month from his blog.
Main sources of blogging income: His total earning comes from sponsors and advertising.
Main blog: Interested in cars? Check out Alborz’s Car Expert for crazy car information.
11. Heather and Pete Reese
Heather and Pete Reese run a travel and family-life-related blog.
Approximate income: Reese’s family makes about $ 170,000 per month.
Main sources of blogging income: They earn 60% of their total income from affiliate marketing and sponsored content. The rest income comes from selling their own courses and products.
Main blog: Reese’s family blog is called It’s a Lovely Life.
Some Top Paid Indian Bloggers
12. Deepak Kanakaraju
Deepak is basically a civil engineer based in Bangalore. He started his blogging career with the biking niche. But he turned his blogging career into digital marketing later.
Approximate income: though Deepak earns much more, as per the disclosed data on several online channels he makes INR 200,000 per month from his blog.
Main sources of blogging income: Deepak’s most portion of income comes from selling his own digital marketing-related courses. Other incomes include affiliate marketing, consulting.
Main blog: Deepak named his digital marketing blog as Digital Deepak.
13. Harsh Agarwal
Harsh Agarwal also holds his blogging position at the top paid level. He teaches people how to succeed in blogging.
Approximate income: Harsh earns about $ 45,000 per month.
Main sources of blogging income: Most income comes from affiliate marketing and advertising. Others include his own digital products like online courses, e-books, and sponsored content.
Main blog: If you wanna learn how to blog, you can visit Harsh Agarwal’s website Shout Me Loud.
14. Faisal Farooqui
Faisal Farooqui founded India’s largest review platform blog. He set up his blog to review different types of consumer products.
Approximate income: Faisal manages to earn about $ 50,000 per month.
Main sources of blogging income: His income sources include affiliate marketing, paid advertising.
Main blog: You can check out Faisal’s review blog Mouth Shut to see huge reviews on consumer products.
15. Amit Agarwal
Amit Agarwal is another top-rated Indian blogger. His blog is technology-related.
Approximate income: Amit earns about $ 60,000 per month from his blog.
Main sources of blogging income: Major contributors of his income include affiliate marketing, advertising.
Main blog: You will get the latest technology trends information on his blog Labnol.
16. Shradha Sharma
Shradha Sharma founded her blog for sharing stories of entrepreneurs. She interviews most successful leaders to inspire upcoming entrepreneurs and start-ups.
Approximate earning: She earns about $ 30,000 per month.
Main sources of blogging income: Her major sources of income include advertisements, digital products.
Main blog: Check out her blog Your Story to learn entrepreneurship.
17. Varun Krishnan
Varun Krishnan is one of the top paid Indian bloggers. His blog is technology-related especially smart phones’ reviews.
Approximate earning: He makes about $ 22,000 per month.
Main sources of blogging income: Major earning sources are advertising and affiliate marketing.
Main blog: Varun’s blog is known as Fone Arena.
18. Anil Agarwal
Anil Agarwal is a SEO professional and blogger. He shares his SEO and blogging-related knowledge on his blog.
Approximate income: His average earning is $ 10,000 per month.
Main sources of blogging income: Major contributors to his earning include affiliate marketing and selling e-books.
Main blog: Anil’s main blog is Bloggers Passion.
19. Ashish Sinha
Ashish Sinha is an IIT and IIM graduate. He talks about the entire technology and marketing ecosystem on his blog. He covers the latest technology and marketing trends on his blog.
Approximate income: He earns about $ 18,000 per month.
Main sources of blogging income: Major earning comes from advertising and selling his own products.
Main blog: His main blog is called Next Big What.
20. Kulwant Nagi
Kulwant Nagi is another name among the highest-earning bloggers in India. He focused on affiliate marketing on his blog since its inception.
Approximate income: As per several channels, his earning is about INR 10,00,000 per month.
Main sources of blogging income: His main sources of income include affiliate marketing and selling his own online courses.
Main blog: He shares affiliate marketing-related knowledge on his blog Blogging Cage.
21. Pradeep Kumar
Pradeep Kumar is an online business expert. He shares online business-related topics like e-commerce, social media networking.
Approximate income: He makes around $ 5000 per month.
Main sources of blogging income: Major income sources include paid advertising and affiliate marketing.
Main blog: His main blog is called Hell Bound Bloggers.
30 Blogs that make a lot of money online: Highest paid blogs
- HuffPost: $500 million per year.
- Engadget: $47.5 million per year.
- Moz: $44.9 million per year.
- PerezHilton: $41.3 million per year.
- Copyblogger: $33.1 million per year.
- Mashable: $30 million per year.
- TechCrunch: $22.5 million per year.
- Envato Tuts+: $10 million per year.
Year: 2020. See more below –
Top 10 Best or Most Inspiring Blogs & Bloggers Globally.
- Blogger Pat Flynn @SmartPassiveIncome.com.
- Blogger Brian Clark @Copyblogger.com.
- Blogger Andrew Sullivan @thedishdaily.com.
- Blogger Harvey Levin @TMZ.com.
- Blogger Michael Arrington @TechCrunch.com.
- Blogger Tim Ferriss @Fourhourworkweek.com/blog.
- Blogger Timothy Sykes @TimothySykes.com.
- Blogger Darren Rowse @Problogger.net.
Final Words:
These are only a few among the top paid bloggers and the actual number is countless. The earnings mentioned here purely depending on disclosed data, but the actual earnings are likely much more. Our blogging guide will explain you how to start a blog in detail.
Our digital marketing course will help you build a blogging career even if you’re a complete beginner in this field. Who can say that you won’t be one of the top paid bloggers in the coming future?
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