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Blogging has become a mainstream activity in the last five years and the blogosphere today has more than 50 million blogs.  Although most people do not blog for money, many of these blogs have been monetized.  The great majority of bloggers make less than $100 per month from their blogs, but a few bloggers are able to generate an enviable revenue stream from their blogs.  Very few blogs, when looked at as a revenue generating business, can be valued at over one million dollars.  We call their owners Millionaire Bloggers.

Here at Worldwide Success, we would like to congratulate these bloggers for their financial achievement.  Therefore, we would like to present them with a placement in a dedicated page called the Millionaire Bloggers Hall of Fame under the section "Blogs Subjectively Valued at One Million Plus" .  In order to qualify, the blog must be valued at $1,000,000 or more.

To calculate the value of a blog, we assumed a price multiple similar to the way stocks are valued.  The average price multiple of the S&P 500 stocks (also known as the Price / Earnings or PE ratio) is currently about 15.  We will use this same PE ratio to valuate these blogs.  You could argue that this value should be higher or lower.  Some people might say that a blog should be valued at a higher PE because of its growth potential.  Others may argue that it should be lower because a blog is not as liquid as an S&P 500 stock.  We feel that for the purposes of this exercise a PE of 15 is a reasonable value, but we know that this is very subjective.

In order to be valued at $1,000,000 or more, using a PE of 15, a blog must generate a minimum of $66,667 per year, or $5,556 per month.  To select the blogs that qualify for the Millionaire Bloggers Hall of Fame we chose blogs that have publicly disclosed their blogging revenues and we took their reported values in good faith.  For blogs that report revenues on a monthly basis we took the last reported revenue and annualized it (multiplied by 12).  No future growth potential was taken into account.  We also assumed that expenses were negligible, so revenues equal earnings.  All values were rounded to the nearest thousand.

Without further ado, here are the bloggers that have qualified:

Steve Pavlina of stevepavlina.com

Estimated Blog Value: $5,475,000 $7,200,000

Estimated Annual Revenues: $365,000 $480,000

Source of revenue estimate: How to Make Money From Your Blog Confessions of a A-List Blogger

Al Carlton of coolest-gadgets.com

Estimated Blog Value: $2,308,000

Estimated Annual Revenues: $153,921

Source of revenue estimate: Revenue Sources For a $10,000 a Month Blog

John Chow of johnchow.com

Estimated Blog Value: $2,106,000

Estimated Annual Revenues: $140,431

Source of revenue estimate: Making Money On The Internet – April 2007

Jane May of careerramblings.com

Estimated Blog Value: $1,866,000

Estimated Annual Revenues: $124,465

Source of revenue estimate: How To Make $100 Per Day

Darren Rowse of problogger.net

Estimated Blog Value: > $1,800,000

Estimated Annual Revenues: > $120,000 (Darren has not disclosed his exact revenues but has acknowledged publicly that he makes more than $120K per year)

Source of revenue estimate: Blogger Earnings – How Much Money Can Bloggers Earn?

Jeremy Shoemaker of shoemoney.com

Estimated Blog Value: $1,800,000

Estimated Annual Revenues: $120,000

Source of revenue estimate: Bloggers Face-Off: Darren Rowse vs. Jeremy Shoemoney

Tyler Cruz of tylercruz.com

Estimated Blog Value: $1,397,000

Estimated Annual Revenues: $93,184

Source of revenue estimate: About Me

Yaro Starak of entrepreneurs-journey.com

Estimated Blog Value: $1,178,000

Estimated Annual Revenues: $78,594

Source of revenue estimate: How I Make Money Online Part 4 - Blogging

Everton Blair of connectedinternet.co.uk

Estimated Blog Value: $1,155,000

Estimated Annual Revenues: $77,020

Source of revenue estimate: MyBlogEarnings for April 2007

Special thanks to Paula Mooney who did extensive research and published the post Paula’s List of Blogger Salaries.  You will notice that not all individuals in Paula's list made the cut.  This is because we wanted to limit this list to people that made their revenues from blogging, and not from other types of web related activities.  We sometimes used sources that show the blog’s revenues that are different from Paula’s because we felt that the sources listed here are more accurate.

If we missed anyone that should have been included in the Millionaire Bloggers Hall of Fame please send us an email (info@ww-success.com) with the post showing the qualifying revenues.

Before you leave, please make sure to visit the Millionaire Bloggers Hall of Fame page.  Then tell your friends about it.

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