Hi guys. Today I’m coming with a different approach as a lot of people who follow me usually consume digital marketing and internet marketing related posts for breakfast. I want to change this topic a little so you can get relaxed and focus on the simple things of life. Here’s a list of the top lifestyle blogs I’ve been reading lately.
I also wanted to build this list because a lot of people ask me regularly about the best niches to create blogs and my answer is always the same one: the niche you should create is the one you’re passionate about (unless you’re in just for the money, but more about that in a second).
The thing is you should care about your passion and your audience first and later you’ll realize there’s a ton of ways to monetize your blog traffic.
What is a Lifestyle Blog?
Lifestyle blogs focus on visuals and stories to showcase interests and activities, but more importantly, to show the way someone lives. It’s all about showing a style of living.
Don’t confuse lifestyle blogs with personal blogs though. While lifestyle blogs can be personal from time to time, not every personal blog is a lifestyle blog. Lifestyle blogs focus on interests, activities, and hobbies although they can become personal from time to time.
Lifestyle blogs can make money if you manage to build a fanbase that follows your life and passions, which is also another difference as many personal blogs don’t ever make money at all.
Best Lifestyle Blogs 2020
So, without further ado, here’s a list of the top lifestyle blogs I’ve been checking in the last few months without any order in particular:
1. A Cup of Jo
This is probably one, if not the most, famous lifestyle blogs listed online. Joanna is well known as the queen of the blogs and she covers a lot of things including fashion, food, beauty, travel, motherhood, and other related topics.
Jo connects to her audience in several ways based on her lifestyle and keeps a lot of readers coming back for more every single day. Also, it’s interesting to note the blog obviously struggled in its early days and took a few years to grow into millions of monthly visitors.
That’s something most people don’t understand when building a blog. You need effort, time, patience, and other qualities as pretty much every business does. Jo posts around 4 times per week.
This blog makes most of its money from advertising.
Estimated monthly visitors: 1.2 million
2. Barefoot blonde
Amber Fillerup lives in NYC and she’s the creator of Barefoot Blonde, a lifestyle blog where she gives advice about the things she loves including hair, beauty, fashion, fitness, and traveling with her husband and child although her main focus seems to be about hair.
With 1.3 million followers it’s easy to understand why her blog is so famous. Some artists or actors in the industry don’t have as many.
For some reason blogs founded by women tend to be more appealing for everybody, or is it?
Estimated monthly visitors: 60,000
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3. Gal Meets Glam
The motto of Julia Engel from Gal Meets Glam is to encourage her followers to add a little glamour to their everyday routines. I find this paradigm fascinating as a lot of people focus a lot on glamour and then there are people who barely care about it.
Adding just a bit of glamour could help people with their trust issues as well as develop other qualities like confidence according to each personality.
Julia lives in San Francisco (are you starting to see a trend on this USA based bloggers?) and has 1.1 million followers, so I guess she’s doing pretty well 🙂
Estimated Monthly visitors: 200,000
4. The Skinny Confidential
The name says it all. This blog managed by Lauryn Evarts is a lifestyle blog focused on beauty, fitness, and food. Lauryn has launched books, eBooks podcasts, and Youtube Channels as well as her own mobile app to grab attention from different internet channels.
Lauryn posts around 2 times per week and her stories can be very relatable, making it very interesting for her audience.
After all, who doesn’t want to have a better healthy living by being fit and eating the right stuff?
Estimated Monthly visitors: 95,000
5. Global Grasshopper
Traveling is one of my favorite niches as I love to discover and experience different cultures and places around the world. Global Grasshopper is an award-winning blog founded by Becky Moore, where she posts incredible photos from different locations we all dream to go visit.
Being a travel lifestyle blog, you can always find hotel recommendations and flights, which make it a very easy to monetize niche with the proper knowledge.
Becky has a small Instagram audience yet the quality of the photos will leave you dreaming about some magical places.
Estimated Monthly visitors: 65,000
6. The Blonde Salad
This blog was relaunched in 2015 by Chiara Ferragni and Riccardo Pozzoli and became a lifestyle magazine. If you think a blog can’t be a business think again. The Blonde Salad brought 8 million of revenue in 2015 and has a team of 16 people writing content with around 4 new posts per week.
This has obviously made brands catch attention (we’re in the era of influencer marketing) so we know how the Blonde Salad monetizes its traffic.
Chiara Ferragni is one of the top paid bloggers in the world with more than 8 million Instagram followers. Yeah, you read that right! In fact, if you’re an Instagram user you might have seen her photos or videos thanks to her wide reach as well as sponsored posts.
Her goal is to inspire people around fashion, trends, beauty tips, and lifestyle tips.
Estimated monthly visitors: 110,000
7. Happy Fit Mama
This is one of the lifestyle blogs that motivate everybody about being fit no matter their age. Angela Bekkala founded this blog with the pure goal of making exercises fun and enjoyable.
Angela covers yoga, running, workouts, and fitness overall in her blog as well as some recipes to help you with your new year’s resolutions.
Happy Fit Mama posts about 3 times per month, but this hasn’t stopped her from building a big audience.
Estimated monthly visitors: Unknown
8. Cupcakes and Cashmere
This lifestyle blog focuses on fashion and baking (yeah right!). Emily Schuman launched this popular lifestyle blog after a high profile career and now she also carries her own line of clothing.
Emily prefers to focus on the domestic lifestyle as this appeals to a lot more people (a lot of women stay at home without being millionaires traveling around the world). Sometimes she speaks about motherhood issues as well, which can be very relatable for her audience.
Her blog as around 400,000 subscribers and growing.
Estimated monthly visitors: 380,000
9. Menswear Style
First blog dedicated to men? Yay!
Well, to be honest, it’s easy to understand why women are more popular in the lifestyle blogosphere. But besides fitness or gym, man can also enjoy Men’s swear Style.
Managed by Craig Landale, this blog helps men keep up with the latest trends of the male fashion industry. This is the go-to place for anything about clothing for men although there are a ton more out there if you know where to search.
Estimated monthly visitors: Unknown
10. Conscious Lifestyle Magazine
This is more of a lifestyle magazine focused on improving mental health as well as physical health. If you’re into meditation, sleep, medical sound, and other mental health practices, this blog is for you.
As bloggers, we tend to be a ton of hours in front of our computers, so reading tips on how to keep both a healthy body and a healthy mind should be a no brainer.
This blog seems to have an Asian philosophy and also helps people understand their lives.
Estimated monthly visitors: 1.25 million
My opinion
As mentioned before, I eat, sleep, and dream about digital marketing all the time. My second hobby is technology, so I read a ton of tech-related blogs on a weekly basis as well as follow a ton of YouTubers.
I wanted to write this post for people looking forward to improving their lives as that has been one of my main goals since last year. I want to be a healthy person and have a lifestyle based on my needs.
Besides that, I decided to include a bit of data about their posting habits, their traffic, and monetization methods. Next time you ask yourself how to monetize a blog in any niche, remember there are people talking about their lives and interests and making a killing as well with that.
Have you already looked into the happyblog from Wiesbaden, Germany called “Farbenfreundin” (www.farbenfreundin.de) – whichs means colorfriend, because the content is mixed. Check this out! First a bloger, now an author… so cool
It’s in German and I normally check English websites only 🙂
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I am loving all things blogging right now and found Gal meets Glam through this list. Such a beautiful account to follow.
I started my blog last year and I’m still working on it. Doing some research I came across this list and I loved the list. I’m hoping to get to this list one day . Thanks so much!
Thank you sir.
please servando silva am a young boy who really wants to own a blog (mostly nerdy stuff like anime and comics) and make a business out of it too but the problem is that I hate been a failure (I said this because I failed a lot on my blogging journey and spent quiet a sum but still got nothing in return) I don’t want to create a blog only to receive 1k visits daily. I have been following your website stream-seo and seeing results you post in your articles. I want to create a blog, promote it with adcash and monetize it with adsterra. So I have one important questions:
* if I advertise with adcash with only $100, using your tutorial on adcash can I get like 4-5k visits from tier2 country at least and make $200 a month from adsterra
It would really mean a lot to me if you reply this email, I really need your help on this i don’t want to waste money anymore. Thank you hope you see this.
I answered this question in the email you sent to me buy to be short and concise, I don’t think you will make money spending $100 on one network and trying to get $200 with another network.
That’s called arbitrage and it takes months to learn the ropes and a few thousand spent.
While it’s possible, for somebody new it’s almost not going to happen, so I just want you not to have unrealistic expectations.
Loved the list. They are really some of the best lifestyle blogs. Do you have a list of travel blogs?
I don’t but I might work on one now that you mentioned it 🙂
Heya great blog! Does running a blog like this take a large amount of
work? I’ve virtually no understanding of computer programming however I had
been hoping to start my own blog in the near future. Anyhow, should you have any ideas or tips for new blog owners please share.
I understand this is off subject nevertheless I just needed to ask.
Thank you!
Hello Ima.
It depends on how much you want to work, running a blog could take from a few hours per month to perhaps several hours per day.
No programming skills needed if you use a CMS such as WordPress, but a basic understanding of how to browse the web or use a computer are recommended 🙂
Good Job Servando! keep posting on. So many people search online for latest lifestyle and fashion, surely it would be very helpful for them.
Nice article 👌 sir
I am loving all things blogging right now and found Gal meets Glam through this list. Such a beautiful account to follow. New to the blogging world, these accounts serve as such amazing inspiration.
Great blogs for sure! Personal fan of cupcakes and cashmere!
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Your blog is so good and interesting, but I don’t know what should I blog because my life is not so interesting. can you suggest what niche to grow on easily.
Blog about your hobbies or anything that interests you. If not, you’ll quit because it won’t be interesting for you.
Awesome blogs! All these blogs those you shared in this blog are very informative about how can we stay healthy, fit and touch with fashion. Thanks for sharing these with us.
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Thank-you for posting this Servando! I’ve been really struggling to try and keep not only motivated but also organized.. These sites will hopefully help me with both..
Thank-you again!
Thank you so much for this detailed article. FAQ’s that you have mentioned in this article gives valuable tips that bloggers can use in their blogs. Thanks, SERVANDO SILVA for putting it together.
Awesome post, Their posts are super informative, well-researched. Thank you
Nice article and great info. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I am really impressed by your blogs. Great work 🙂
hey….!!!
Really Very Interesting your Blog about Lifestyle.
Your blog inspired me a lot fashion because now a days the will be change according to the session or festival.
Thank you so much for putting it all together. 🤗
Great list for inspiration. The truth is that today to make money blogging needs to invest money. Competition is so much that you can easily be lost in the webspace no matter how good or passionate blogger you are.
I was blogging for brands before blogging for myself, I try my best to read as many as I can. As someone who has been doing this over 10 years now, I highly agree with your remark about ‘having a passion’, most who get into this thinking it’s a fast buck burn out fast.
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Great post to make someone thinking of starting a blog. there are a few things here I wish I had done to have an idea of what content to write – even having 5 posts of content upfront. Great ideas.
Thanks for sharing this blog
Really Very Interesting your Blog about Lifestyle.
Hey 🙂
Thanks for that list! I found one blog for me to read – A Cap of Jo 🙂
This is very useful post thank for share your post this is great post
Hello!
I started a lifestyle blog too, but I did not know how to go about. At least from this your article I have an Idea what I can blog about.
Thanks so much.
Glad we could help 🙂
Well, very inspiring article for beginners. Motivation and inspiration are the most important things required with understanding of digital marketing.
Good luck everyone, love!
I was just looking for some nice blogs for inspiration. Great list. Thanks for putting it all together
seems like you have done a really great work. going to follow most of them as they all are amazing. thanks for sharing this information
Good job on this Servando, really enjoyed reading through your blog and gave me lots of inspiration for my new topic to writ on in my blog!
Personally Cup of Jo is my favourite! 😉
Hey….!!
I am Amit,
I am daily reader of your blog
Your blog inspired me a lot about the 2019 lifestyle fashion bcoz now a days the will be chang according to the session or festival
Thankyou…
For sharing your views with us it helps alot
Glad you liked the list. Hope it inspires many people more.
Hi, I came across this post to see what the views of successful bloggers are! Quick and great read, thanks for sharing this information!
Loved this list! As a lifestyle blogger myself, I LOVE seeing the others out there, and I totally agree with what you said about following your passion! It’s what I teach to all of my lifestyle blogging students!
Hi Jessica! Your blog looks great!
Glad you liked this article.
I am happy yo see this article, since I intend to make lifestyle soon.
It could be the references to build new one then .. 😀
Thanks
Glad you liked it!
I like to read them because they have a nice website design too.
Glad to see there was one for men in there. I could use some more tech blogs and lifestyle blogs for men. Any more recommendations in those spaces?
I love tech blogs so I’ll make a list soon about that 🙂