If you’re looking for blog examples to take inspiration from, you’re in the right place. In this blog post, I’m going to cover the most unique and popular blog examples around. Most of the blog examples I’ll feature are built with WordPress while a few are made with Squarespace.
Rather than focusing on big blogs run by major companies, I’m going to take a different approach. This post will feature the best blog examples of blogs run by one person. This is to show you that it’s possible to create a popular blog all on your own.
I divided these blog examples into 4 main blog categories. Take note of these topics, because while you can create any type of blog you want, but not all blog niches are profitable.
So, are you ready for the best blog examples to inspire you? Let’s start the list!
Personal finance blog examples
If you want to start a blog and gain an audience, why not start a finance blog? You don’t have to be a certified financial planner, a CPA, or any type of financial advisor. You just need a passion for money.
Many of the personal finance bloggers below are self-taught money experts who share their tips and tricks with their audience.
You can write about credit cards, debt, retirement, side hustles, or just chronicle your journey to financial freedom. Here is my list of the best blog examples in the personal finance niche.
The Penny Hoarder
While The Penny Hoarder is now owned by a media company, it all started as the personal blog of its founder, Kyle Taylor. Started as a blog to share his money-saving tips, it has now become one of the major players in the personal finance space.
What I like about TPH is that you won’t see big, annoying ads on this site. This blog makes money from affiliate marketing, or in other words, by recommending products to their audience they believe in.
https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/
Making Sense of Cents
Michelle, the creator of Making Sense of Cents, started her blog to chronicle her struggles with student loan debt.
Once she grew a large audience, she started to monetize by promoting products to them and earning a commission on every sale.
After Michelle mastered the art of affiliate marketing, she transitioned into becoming an online course creator. She now makes a six-figure income teaching others how to make money with affiliate marketing too.
https://www.makingsenseofcents.com/
Busy Budgeter
Rosemarie started her blog to help people manage their budget and bring sanity to their home life.
On her blog, she writes about home organization, 15-minute recipes, life hacks, but above all how to stick to your budget and organize your personal finances.
To monetize her blog, she relies on brand ambassadorships and affiliate marketing. She now also promotes a 90-day budget bootcamp to help people struggling with debt take back their lives.
https://www.busybudgeter.com/
Get Rich Slowly
The story of Get Rich Slowly is an interesting one. J.D. Roth, the owner of this blog, started it way back in 2006 to document his journey to “get rich slowly.” After finding success as a blogger, he cashed-out big and sold his site in 2012, only to buy it back in 2017.
What’s this blog about? Get Rich Slowly’s tagline says it all, “personal finance that makes cents.”
After graduating from college, he found himself with $35,000 in credit card debt. He then made a 3-year plan, stuck to the vision, and ultimately paid back every cent of debt he owed.
Something to note here about J.D. is that he doesn’t have any formal training in finance. He writes from his own personal experiences (what he calls the school of hard knocks) in dealing with finances.
https://www.getrichslowly.org/
Afford Anything
Paula from Afford Anything has turned her little blog into a powerhouse. She now has an online course, a book, and a podcast in addition to her blog.
This just goes to show you that your blog can be the launchpad for bigger and better things.
Her blog focuses on making smart decisions about money by aligning your daily habits with the lifestyle you want to have.
https://affordanything.com/
Fun, Cheap, or Free
The personal finance niche is huge, and a part of that niche is the frugal living space. Jordan started her blog by posting coupons and the occasional good deal. She has turned her hobby blog into a full-time income, blogging her way to financial freedom.
This blog is a perfect example of a blog that monetizes through ads. Rather than selling products, Jordan monetizes her blog via ads from the Mediavine ad network.
She is very upfront with her audience, though. As she puts it, blogging is all about pageviews, as she tells her audience she needs their clicks to make money with her blog.
https://funcheaporfree.com/
Mom blog examples
Mom blogs are all the rage. These types of blogs are very popular on Pinterest, which is a great traffic source for bloggers.
Wellness Mama
Wellness Mama is a health and wellness blog for moms run by Katie Wells. Her blog is committed to making sure kids grow up in a healthier world.
What started as a personal blog has now grown to include a team of researchers and medical advisors. On the Wellness Mama blog, you’ll find health, parenting, and natural living tips for moms to help make your life better.
https://wellnessmama.com/
What Moms Love
What Moms Love, run by Aly B., is a parenting blog for the modern, savvy mom that has 300,000 subscribers eager to get her newest blog updates. On her blog, she works to make the lives of busy moms easier by sharing her personal recommendations.
She makes money with her blog via sponsored posts, ads, and Amazon’s affiliate program.
https://whatmomslove.com/
Love Taza
Naomi, aka Taza, is an influencer/blogger who blogs at LoveTaza.com. On her blog, she shares life’s adventures, which include motherhood, family, travel, food, and the simple joys of living.
When she first started her blog back in 2007, it was a private, personal blog intended for her friends and family. Since then, she’s gone on to grow her blog exponentially and even wrote a book.
https://lovetaza.com/
Thrifty Nifty Mommy
Family, pregnancy, baby, food, and everything “mom” is what Janessa blogs about on Thrifty Nifty Mommy. After the birth of her first child in 2010, she started her blog as a place to share product reviews and recommendations for moms like her.
After becoming successful with her blog, she added a team of writers to help her with the day-to-day blogging. You’ll find everything from craft ideas for kids to recipes to gift guides on Thrifty Nifty Mommy.
https://thriftyniftymommy.com/
Vegan Momma
Cathleen, the founder of Vegan Momma, created her blog as a resource for vegan pregnancy and raising vegan children.
Her blog is geared toward moms who want to raise their children with a plant-based diet. On her website, you’ll find valuable tips for moms-to-be about raising vegan kids, recipes, and more.
She makes money with her blog by recommending products and earning a commission, as well as selling her own recipe book.
https://www.vegan-momma.com/
Are Those Your Kids
Diedre Anthony started her blog to document her experiences raising biracial children in today’s world. On her blog, she covers a variety of topics, including motherhood, parenting, and marriage.
She makes money selling a curly hair guide ebook where she offers insight into her hair and skincare tips for and recommendations for kids.
https://arethoseyourkids.com/
Food blog examples
With a food blog, you can share your favorite delicious, healthy recipes. You can expect to get a lot of traffic with a food blog. Directly monetizing an audience who just wants the recipe, however, can be a challenge. Here are the best food blog examples I could find.
100 Days of Real Food
Together with her husband Jason, Lisa started 100 Days of Real Food after realizing her family wasn’t making healthy food choices. What she thought was healthy food was actually highly-processed foods being passed as healthy.
On their blog, you’ll find plenty of healthy recipes made to make healthy, unprocessed meals at home. She monetizes her blog by selling a cookbook and meal planners.
https://www.100daysofrealfood.com/
Pinch of Yum
Lindsay, along with her husband Bjork, are the duo behind the popular food blog, Pinch of Yum.
When Lindsay started her blog back in 2011, she was a 4th-grade teacher and eager to try something new. She wanted to see if she could make money with a food blog.
Her first month netted her $21.97, but by the end of the first year, she was making $277.19. That was only the beginning. She grew her blog income exponentially until she was making nearly $100,000 per month.
Pinch of Yum is huge on social media, with 360k fans of Facebook, 1 million on Instagram, and another 1 million on Pinterest.
https://pinchofyum.com/
Smitten Kitchen
Deb’s kitchen is where it all goes down. It is there where Deb Perelman experiments with new and unique recipes that she then shares on her blog.
From her tiny kitchen in New York City, Deb has grown her small blog to become one of the best examples of a food blog around. She serves as writer, cook, and photographer of her food blog, all while raising a family. She really is a rockstar.
Smitten Kitchen is monetized via ads and book sales.
https://smittenkitchen.com/
Rainbow Plant Life
Rainbow Plant Life is a beautifully designed blog built with Squarespace. Nisha, a lawyer-turned-foodie, started her blog to teach women how to master vegan cooking at home.
While Nisha is a lawyer and graduate of Harvard Law School, she writes about cooking, veganism, wellness, productivity, and photography on her blog.
Aside from having a successful blog, she’s also an author and boasts a YouTube channel with 335k subscribers, an Instagram with 519k followers, with another 23k followers on Pinterest.
https://rainbowplantlife.com/
Our Food Stories
After discovering she had food allergies, Laura Muthesius and Nora Eisermann started a blog together. Today, they share their creations with over 1 million Instagram followers and blog readers.
Their blog is a mixture of gluten-free and vegetarian recipes, interior design, and travel stories.
https://ourfoodstories.com/
Cookin With Mima
With a background in criminal justice, you wouldn’t expect Cookin With Mima founder Mariam Ezzeddine to run a food blog. But she has managed to create a popular blog that’s helping people create easy-to-make, delicious, family-friendly meals.
She has a ton of recipes on her blog, everything from pasta, soups, salads, desserts to kid-friendly healthy recipes.
As with most food blogs, Cookin With Mima monetized via display ads and brand ambassadorships.
https://www.cookinwithmima.com/
Health blog examples
Who doesn’t want to get healthy, look fit, and live a longer life? There’s a reason health and fitness blogs are so popular! Here are some great blog examples in the health and fitness niche.
Blogilates
After creating a popular YouTube channel, Cassey Ho launched Blogilates to house her amazing content. On her blog, you’ll find her recipes, workout videos, challenges, and printables.
What I find most important about her story is that her blog wasn’t what propelled her, it was YouTube. But she felt the need to create a blog as a hub for her content and projects.
She also focused on starting an email list to communicate directly with her audience. This has undoubtedly led to higher-paying brand partnership opportunities.
https://www.blogilates.com/
Nerd Fitness
Steve Kamb, founder of Nerd Fitness, started this website as a blog. I’m sure even he can’t believe what his blog has become. He started a blog to build a space where nerds can learn about health and fitness while chatting about gaming and comics.
Nerd Fitness now has 25 team members helping people transform their lives through at-home workouts and private coaching.
https://www.nerdfitness.com/
Love Sweat Fitness
In 2014, Katie Dunlop started Love Sweat Fitness to change what living a healthy lifestyle looks like for all women.
More than just a blog, LSF is a community of like-minded individuals who care about fitness and nutrition. In addition to a blog, Katie has an app, meal plans, challenges, and a shop for workout essentials.
https://lovesweatfitness.com/
Born Fitness
Adam Bornstein started Born Fitness to create solutions for losing weight, gaining muscle, living longer, and eating healthier.
With the creation of the Born Fitness blog, he wants to make sure his readers don’t have to stress about their health, fitness, or nutrition. By identifying the best diet and workout plans, he aims to make his audience feel better about themselves and live a stronger and longer life.
https://bornfitness.com/
The Fit Foodie
Can you be a foodie and be fit? Sally O’Neil, founder of The Fit Foodie, certainly thinks so. While most diets are low-calorie, she doesn’t shy away from higher-calorie foods.
On her blog, The Fit Foodie, she finds the perfect balance between her passion for food and living a healthy lifestyle. Her blog has grown to include a podcast and YouTube channel. She monetizes by selling books and online courses like her photography workshops.
https://the-fit-foodie.com/
Fit Bottomed Girls
Fit Bottomed Girls is run by two pioneers of the body-positive movement, Jennipher Walters and Erin Whitehead, who were looking for a no-diet approach to living a healthy life.
Way back in 2008, Fit Bottomed Girls was launched as a blog. That blog quickly grew to include a book and a podcast.
On this blog, you’ll find a different tone than most blogs run by certified fitness professionals, one that nurtures body positivity.
https://fitbottomedgirls.com/
Wrapping it up
Alright, we just looked at a ton of blog examples to give you some inspiration. Did any catch your eye?
If these average every-day people can start a blog and make money with it, you can too. There is nothing inherently special about them other than a strong desire to succeed.
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Until next time,
Edwin, DoSixFigures.com
