5 Types of Blogs That Make Money

• About 15% of bloggers make a full-time income from blogging ($30K ayear).
• About 31% of bloggers make a decent side income from blogging ($6K ayear).
• 6%–10% of bloggers make over $10K amonth.
• You can realistically make $25K–$50K in your first year of blogging.
• The most successful blogs make over $100K amonth.

Looks like professional blogging may actually be a good idea. You can make a full-time income or a decent side income. You can even own several blogs, hire copywriters, and multiply your earnings.

But like in every other business, nobody can guarantee your blogging business will work out. It usually takes years to be financially independent through blogging. Your first step is deciding on the type of blog you want torun.

With that said, here are the five types proven to makemoney.

Probably the most popular type of blog created with the purpose of making money. This kind of blog will take a deep dive into a particular niche or theme to cover as many topics as possible (to maximize traffic) or just the ones that are fit for the blog’s angle.

Topics are usually picked by the criteria of:

• Traffic potential (mostly organic traffic from search engines).
• The ability to monetize traffic (for instance, some topics will earn only from ads while others will also be a good fit for product placement).
• Popular requests from readers.
• Trends.

Here are some profitable blog niches with a list of...