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  Health and fitness advice for nerds and ordinary, everyday people. Steve Kamb started Nerd Fitness nearly 10 years ago when he noticed that there were a ton of health and fitness blogs, but nothing catering specifically to him. So he decided to build it himself. Instead of targeting anyone and everyone, his blog was directly for… nerds! The interesting part is that the definition of the term “nerd” evolved as the site grew. At first, his audience consisted of people like him – nerds who played computer games and just wanted to get fit. Today, his brand has grown into a massive community of regular people who just want to learn how to get fit and have fun doing it. What they do well:  Differentiating themselves from all the other health blogs by going extremely specific in their audience targeting.

  A travel blog with strong personal branding. There are a ton of travel blogs on the internet. Most are personal blogs. They write about their travels and build up a small audience over time. Nomadic Matt also started as a personal blog about his own travels. Today, he’s built up a HUGE resource with everything you need to know about travelling. What’s crazy is that it’s still a personal blog with only one main author. Even to this day, he writes most of the content himself. And he ranks for nearly every keyword based around travel you can think of. There aren’t many single author blogs out there that grow to this size. It takes an incredible amount of time, focus, and persistence to continue pumping out content like he does. What they do well:  Diversifying income streams by creating and selling their own products. Staying small, lean, and extremely profitable.

 A giant affiliate site that dominates SEO in the personal finance niche. To build a website like Nerd Wallet is every affiliate marketer’s dream. They are the leading example of a successful SEO blog that crushes affiliate marketing, and they’re doing so in one of the most profitable (and competitive) industries in the world – personal finance. Nerd Wallet reviews everything from credit cards, mortgages, insurance, and all things finance. The affiliate commissions for financial products like these can get into the hundreds of dollars per referral, which is why they’re worth over $500M. What they do well: Understanding search intent and creating the best TYPE of content and user experience depending on the keyword.

 A health and fitness blog backed by science. Greatist is a blog that I’ve followed deeply over the years. Their focus on creating only the highest quality, science-backed health and fitness articles for millennials has paid off greatly. On the surface, they’re a regular health and fitness blog. Behind the scenes, they’re a full-blown media startup with over 10 million visitors per month and an estimated yearly revenue in the 8-figure range. They make this money through ads and by selling sponsored content. What they do well: Creating reputable, trust-worthy health content backed by science. This is hard to come by in an industry full of misinformation

 Subscribe Sign In Forbes Tech 10 Wildly-Successful Blogs That Earn Outlandish Incomes R.L. Adams Former Contributor Click to save this article. You'll be asked to sign into your Forbes account. Got it Mar 2, 2017,07:39am EST Updated Dec 10, 2021, 09:41am EST This article is more than 7 years old. 10 Wildly-Successful Blogs That Earn Outlandish Incomes Image via Shutterstock In an astounding feat of bits and bytes, the internet buzzes with activity, teeming with thousands of terabytes of digitized information flowing every minute. It is a spectacle of data whizzing around the globe, invisible to the naked eye, but conveyed in the digital algorithms and lossless-compression systems that allow us to instantly see, chat and discover the world and communicate with our friends in real-time. It is a system of machines that stretches across from continent to continent, digitally snaking its way into our phones and lives through some magical ether that not many can digest. Yes, the interne...