People started blogging to express their views and connect with their users. It gave them an emotional outlet that allowed them to speak or express their mind on any subject they loved. But this was all happened a decade back but today as time changed blogging has become an important component of SEO. Blogging are done for various reasons companies do it to promote their product and services, individuals do it to express their thoughts and help others. You may know that there are millions of bloggers worldwide but you may not know that few of these bloggers earn millions of dollar through their blogs. Below are the lists of top bloggers who are champion in terms of their net-worth.
1. The Huffington Post:
The Huffington Post was founded by four talented people Kenneth Lerer, Arianna Huffington, Andrewe Breitbart and Jonah Peretti. It is a blogging website that covers various subjects ranging from News, Entertainment, Business, Technology and much more interesting stuff. The Huffington Post was launched in May 2005 and successfully raised couple of rounds of funding making it one of the successful blogging websites. But in year 2011, The Huffington Post was acquired by AOL for a whooping $315 million. The net-worth of Arianna Huffington as of 2012 is $35 million.
2. TechCrunch:
TechCrunch is a blog which covers more of a technology related information and News. It was founded in 2005 by Michael Arrington. Today this website is affiliated with various other websites which has helped it to stay economically viable. Michael Arrington sold TechCrunch to AOL for an amount of $25 million and his current net-worth is $15 million. He is so much passionate about blogs that he launched another blog called UnCrunched.com
3. Mashable:
Mashable is a news blogging website started by young Pete Cashmore in 2005. It is regarded as one of the best social media blog in the world. It was sold to CNN news for around $200 million in 2012. This Scotland based teenager Pete Cashmore is today worth $95 million.
4. Business Insider:
Business Insider is a business and entertainment based blog founded by Kevin P Ryan in the year 2009 and is today it is one of the most trusted sources of business information. With investors and advertisers on their sides Business Insider today is one of the most successful blogs. They get almost 5 million hits every month making them highly popular. The net-worth of Kevin P Ryan is $3 million.
5. Engadget
Engadget is one of the best technology blogs of today founded by Peter Rojas that covers latest electronics and technological gadgets. It appeared in TIME magazine in 2010. The net-worth of the owner of this financially successful blog is around $3.2 million.
