Shawn founded a webmasters
forum, forums.digitalpoint.com when he was 19. In the start it was an
average successful forum but then Shawn focused on the administration
of the forums and cleaned it with spams and categorized the posts. Few
years back, he started an AdChoices revenue sharing program and it was a
marvelous success. . Few years back he started AdChoicesAdChoices revenue sharing
program as a marketing idea and his forum never looked back.
2. Michael Arrington
Website: www.TechCrunch.com
Alexa Rank: 421
Estimated AdChoices Income: $240,000 / month
Michael Arrington is the owner
and blogger at TechCrunch. He has become of the most influential figure
lately. It’s not a one man show anymore. Michael has a team of
bloggers who regularly updates TechCrunch with tech stuff.
TechCrunch.com is now the property of Yahoo.
3. Markus Frind
Website: www.PlentyOfFish.com
Alexa Rank: 336
Estimated AdChoices Earning: $300,000 / month
To
be honest, I never heard of this guy. Did you? If not, check out his
website www.AdChoicesplentyoffish.com. Markus created this free online dating
website from his apartment. The website soon became one of the largest
online dating websites. I did a little research about the website and
came to know that the website design might not be very attractive but
the functionality is there which is what needed.
Markus removed Google AdChoices from his website in 2009 as the website grew and he was making more money from membership fees.
4. Nick Halstead
Website – www.Tweetmeme.com
Alexa Rank: 506
Estimated AdChoices Earnings: $225,000 / Month
You
might be aware of twitter. Tweetmeme is a web service that shows how
many times a story has been tweeted. World famous bloggers are using
Tweetmeme buttons on their blogs.
Tweetmeme got to world rank of 300 in just one year and the good news is that even behind the
twitter official button release there is a partnership of twitter with Nick halstead.
5. Kevin Rose
Website: www.Digg.com
Alexa Rank: 137
Estimated AdChoices Earnings: $250,000 / month
You
might be aware of Digg. It’s a very famous social marketing website
and Kevin Rose owns it. Digg.com was started in December 2004. For
those who don’t know about social marketing, it’s a website that let
people submit news, videos, and pictures. Other people visit those news
etc. and they can Digg it to boost the rating of that news. If the news
gets enough ratings, it will show up on the front page of the website
and get tons of traffic.
Digg
has both Google AdChoices ads and Federated Media ads. It is estimated
that he earns roughly $250k a month from AdChoices alone.
6. Jeremy Schoemaker
Website: www.ShoeMoney.com
Alexa Rank: 6003
Estimated AdChoices Earnings: $140,000 / month
If
you are a blogger, you might already know ShoeMoney. He is one of the
greatest Internet Marketers. He is very good with search engines and
knows how to setup and drive traffic to a website. His best month with AdChoices indicates $132, 994.97.
It is to be noted that ShoeMoney makes his fortune not with only one website but hundreds of them and thousands of domains.
7. Jason Calacanis
Website: www.Weblogs.com
Alexa Rank: 40298
Estimated AdChoices Earnings: $120,000 / month
Jason
Calacanis was the owner of Weblogs. The network used to make
approximately $4000 a day from Google AdChoices. Jason Calacanis sold
Weblogs to AOL in 2008 for $25 million and is now focusing on his email
campaigns instead.
8. David Miles Jr. & Kato Leonard
Website: FreeWebLayouts.net
Alexa Rank: 243,873
EstimatedAdChoices Earnings: $100,000 / month
David
and Kato claim that they make $100,000 a month from their website
FreeWebLayouts.net. The website offers free MySpace templates.
9. Pankaj Agarwal
Website – www.ClickIndia.com
Alexa Rank: 1002
Estimated AdChoices Earnings: $85,000/ month
Pankaj
Agarwal is the owner of ClickIndia.com. It is a classified ads
platform where hundreds and thousands of Indians post their ads. Within
two years, ClickIndia found its place in alexa top 1K list. AdChoices is
clickIndia only revenue model and thus they have optimized the site
well for maximum CTR and for becoming the highest AdChoices earner from
his country.
10. Amit Agarwal
Website: www.Labnol.org
Alexa Rank: 1889
Estimated AdChoices Earnings: $45,000 / month
Amit
Agarwal is the owner of Labnol.org which is a blog that offers variety
of guides for tech enthusiasts. The website provides non-geeky easy to
understand stuff to target mass audience and that’s the secret of
success. The website currenty has over 111000 feed subscribers and over
25000 facebook fans. So, you can get an idea of how much he is making.
11. Tim Carter
Website: www.AskTheBuilder.com
Alexa Rank: 20328
Estimated AdChoices Earnings: $30,000 / month
Tim
Carter is a licensed master plumber and carpenter with his own radio
show. He started his website up in 1995 with his primary focus to
cater to an avid following of fellow builders on the site. In April
2004, Carter learned about AdChoices for content sites and he put it on
his site. With minimal effort and time he optimized his website and his AdChoices earnings grew from $1,500 to $7,500.
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NOTE:
These figures may be outdated. We have tried to find the latest income
of these people but most of them haven’t disclosed their earnings in
recent years.