Successful Websites Earning Money Online

Following from the success of my ‘Top 50 Earning Blogs!!!‘, today I wanted to look at the most valuable websites currently online.

The following list of 50 website are the most visited websites on the planet. I’m sure that you will recognise many of these sites, but you will also see some that you are not familiar with.

The value of these sites is calculated based on the web traffic that they receive. In essence this is the value of the domain name itself. It does not reflect the true worth of the company as a whole, taking into account all revenue streams.

	Website	Daily Unique Visitors	Daily Ad Revenue
1	Google	100,000,000	$3 Million	$2.19 Billion
2	Facebook	51,284,686	$1.5 Million	$1.1 Billion
3	YouTube	34,700,951	$1 Million	$736 Million
4	Yahoo!	26,301,190	$758,048	$553 Million
5	Blogger	21,213,499	$607,481	$443 Million
6	Baidu [Chinese]	17,796,274	$506,946	$370 Million
7	Wikipedia	15,340,254	$435,041	$317 Million
8	Windows Live	13,488,483	$381,052	$278 Million
9	Twitter	12,041,560	$339,020	$247 Million
10	QQ [Chinese]	10,879,276	$305,366	$222 Million
11	MSN	9,924,812	$277,809	$202 Million
12	Yahoo Japan	9,126,763	$254,829	$186 Million
13	LinkedIn	8,449,421	$235,372	$171 Million
14	Google India	7,867,201	$218,684	$159 Million
15	Taobao [Chinese]	7,361,286	$204,214	$149 Million
16	Sina [Chinese]	6,917,526	$191,545	$139 Million
17	Amazon	6,525,075	$180,362	$131 Million
18	WordPress	6,175,476	$170,417	$124 Million
19	Google China	5,862,040	$161,515	$117 Million
20	Google Germany	5,579,403	$153,500	$112 Million
21	eBay	5,323,214	$146,245	$106 Million
22	Google UK	5,089,909	$139,648	$101 Million
23	Yandex [Russian]	4,876,536	$133,622	$97 Million
24	Bing	4,680,632	$128,096	$93 Million
25	Google Japan	4,500,125	$123,011	$89 Million
26	Google France	4,333,259	$118,315	$86 Million
27	163 [Chinese]	4,178,536	$113,966	$83 Million
28	Microsoft	4,034,669	$109,927	$80 Million
29	PayPal	3,900,549	$106,165	$77 Million
30	Google Brazil	3,900,549	$106,165	$77 Million
31	Flickr	3,657,818	$99,367	$72 Million
32	Weibo [Chinese]	3,547,632	$96,285	$70 Million
33	Mail.ru [Russian]	3,444,004	$93,389	$68 Million
34	Google User Content	3,346,364	$90,663	$66 Million
35	Craigslist	3,167,074	$85,664	$62 Million
36	FC2 [Japanese]	3,167,074	$85,664	$62 Million
37	Google Italy	3,167,074	$85,664	$62 Million
38	Apple	3,084,569	$83,367	$60 Million
39	imdb	3,006,329	$81,189	$59 Million
40	Google Russia	2,861,379	$77,160	$56 Million
41	Google Spain	2,794,113	$75,293	$54 Million
42	Vkontakte [Russian]	2,729,994	$73,514	$53 Million
43	Sohu [Chinese]	2,668,803	$71,817	$52 Million
44	BBC	2,610,344	$70,197	$51 Million
45	Ask	2,554,436	$68,649	$50 Million
46	Tumblr	2,500,916	$67,168	$49 Million
47	Soso [Chinese]	2,353,234	$63,086	$46 Million
48	Youku [Chinese]	2,307,875	$61,834	$45 Million
49	go.com	2,264,263	$60,631	$44 Million
50	CNN	2,181,889	$58,360	$42 Million

It took me quite a while to put this list together, but I learnt a lot from doing it and found this list to be very interesting! Within a simple list of 50 most valuable websites, you can see what interests the global population!

There is no suprise that search engines dominate the list, with Google having 12 out of 50 of the top sites!

Social networking sites and comunity based sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. also feature highly.

Though the majority of the top 50 most valuable websites are English language based, an increasing number of foreign language sites are ranking highly. China  in particular has 10 of the top 50 sites, reflecting their emerging presence on the world stage.

I think, to summarize, a lot of inspiration can be taken from this list! Sites that plan to make the top 50 list in the future will be places that  people can communicate together and share information. More foreign language sites will emerge (I am thinking Chinese & Indian) as increasing amounts of  their population gain internet access.

This list is only an estimate of the true value of these websites! If you were to value them as fully formed companies, taking into account all revenue streams, then their value would greatly increase. Sites like Amazon and eBay for example, would be valued much higher when factoring in their huge  profits from the sales that it makes.

Disclaimer:- The websites featured in this top 50 most valuable websites list are only estimates and are not 100% accurate! This is just an indication of how well they are  doing regarding making money from their website. All of the ‘Daily Ad Revenue’ & ‘Value’ statistics were calculated using the free tool ‘SiteWorthChecher‘  which can be used to estimate the worth of a website.

What have you learned from this list? Do you think I have missed any sites out? Please leave your opinions below in the comments section.