6 Health Blog Success Stories [2023]
A health blog covers ways to live a healthier lifestyle through proper dieting and general information on common health conditions.
To start a health blog, choose a blogging platform that offers customizable templates and pick a reliable hosting platform. Since health is a wide area, you may choose a particular niche or opt to generalize your blog. Then, select a relevant blog name and register the domain.
Finally, brainstorm blog topics, create an editorial calendar, and start writing your first blog. You can earn money through affiliate marketing or promoting your health-focused merchandise or products.
Here are some real life success stories of starting a health blog:
1. Fit Healthy Momma ($240K/year)
From burned out freelance writer to making $200+ a day in affiliate sales ... all in less than a year. That’s Tami Smith's story. Tami was writing affiliate content for clients when she had a “why don’t I try that?” moment. Starting in late 2019, Tami went from watching clients make money from th…
Tami Smith (from Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States) started Fit Healthy Momma over 3 years ago.
Tami Smith started Fit Healthy Momma in late 2019. She writes blogs about the latest fitness and wellness-based brands to help her readers make informed choices and live a fit & healthy life!
Through her website, she aspires to create a space for real, legitimate information on reviews of the best D2C fitness and health brands. In less than a year, she went from being a freelance writer to earning more than $200 per day from affiliate sales.
Tami moved from watching her clients profit from the articles she wrote to earning her own affiliate commissions on a website. She is doing an incredible job with Fit Healthy Momma, and it combines two of her passions: fitness and writing.

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2. WebMD
The leading source for trustworthy and timely health and medical news and information. Providing credible health information, supportive community, and educational services by blending award-winning expertise in content, community services, expert commentary, and medical review.
- Website traffic: 152M/month
- Business rank: #447
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Learn more about starting a health blog:
Where to start?
-> How much does it cost to start a health blog?
-> Pros and cons of a health blog
Need inspiration?
-> Examples of established health blog
-> Marketing ideas for a health blog
Other resources
4. Health.com
Get energizing workout moves, healthy recipes, and advice on losing weight and feeling great from Health.com. Find out how to manage diabetes and depression, prevent heart attacks, and more.
- Website traffic: 9.79M/month
- Business rank: #6.52K
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5. EverydayHealth.com
Everyday Health inspires and empowers people to live their healthiest lives, every day, through trusted, medically reviewed information and expert health advice from the nation's leading healthcare providers and patient advocates. Learn more about health
- Website traffic: 16.8M/month
- Business rank: #6.72K
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