If you have been following my blog for a while, you have already, probably noticed that once in a month I publish my personal dividend income report covering earnings from dividend stocks, peer to peer lending and cryptocurrencies.
There are two financial goals I'm looking to achieve. The short-term goal is to earn from dividend-paying stocks $100/mo in…
If you have been following my blog for a while, you have already, probably noticed that once in a month I publish my personal dividend income report covering earnings from dividend stocks, peer to peer lending and cryptocurrencies.
A year ago I decided to see, are there other financial bloggers, publishing their achievements on a monthly basis, and it turned out there are zillions of dividend income bloggers, there are many already established blogs and there are a lot of newcomers to Dividend Investment.
Last year I found 30+ dividend income blogs with their reports and created a simple table, see: Top 30+ Dividend Income Blogs October 2017
For this year I decided to take a look on the same blogs and their income reports a year later, to make some data manipulation and see growth. A few blogs from the previous years' report have stopped publishing new income updates, so I removed them. Also during the last year, I have found a great dividend blog leaderboard by DividendDriven.com, form which I have taken a couple of top blogs and included in this year's report.
| Rank | Name | October 2018 | October 2017 | Growth | Percentage |
| 1 | BAMF Money | $2,672.57 | $2,187.49 | $485.08 | 22.18% |
| 2 | The Money Commando | $2,516.23 | $1,560.41 | $955.82 | 61.25% |
| 3 | Dividend Hawk | $2,098.34 | $1,467.97 | $630.37 | 42.94% |
| 4 | My Road To Wealth And Freedom | $1,936.44 | $1,506.46 | $429.98 | 28.54% |
| 5 | Mr. Tako Escapes | $1,866.86 | $3,587.74 | -$1,720.88 | -47.97% |
| 6 | TawCan | $1,603.63 | $1,310.05 | $293.58 | 22.41% |
| 7 | Young Dividend | $1,430.02 | $1,212.68 | $217.34 | 17.92% |
| 8 | Humble FI | $1,320.40 | $528.04 | $792.36 | 150.06% |
| 9 | Passive Income Mavericks | $1,220.66 | $1,488.63 | -$267.97 | -18.00% |
| 10 | Dividend Quest | $1,040.42 | $870.33 | $170.09 | 19.54% |
| 11 | Lanny | $468.27 | $422.03 | $46.24 | 10.96% |
| 12 | My Dividend Dynasty | $429.12 | $378.72 | $50.40 | 13.31% |
| 13 | The Money Sprout | $338.61 | $105.22 | $233.39 | 221.81% |
| 14 | Dividend Income Stocks | $291.13 | $219.73 | $71.40 | 32.49% |
| 15 | Dividend Cake (Mom) | $235.18 | $434.23 | -$199.05 | -45.84% |
| 16 | Dividend Vet | $191.62 | $163.14 | $28.48 | 17.46% |
| 17 | Reinis Fischer | $168.10 | $72.97 | $95.13 | 130.37% |
| 18 | Dividend Magic | $143.40 | $288.77 | -$145.37 | -50.34% |
| 19 | American Dividend Dream | $122.93 | $120.37 | $2.56 | 2.13% |
| 20 | Dividend Cashflow | $98.57 | $80.72 | $17.85 | 22.11% |
| 21 | Stashing Dutchman | $96.62 | $39.26 | $57.36 | 146.10% |
| 22 | Polliesdividend | $80.61 | $70.97 | $9.64 | 13.58% |
| 23 | REVERSE THE CRUSH | $54.10 | $17.95 | $36.15 | 201.39% |
| 24 | Dividend Portfolio | $48.09 | $23.21 | $24.88 | 107.20% |
| 25 | The Frugal Cottage | $32.80 | $49.22 | -$16.42 | -33.36% |
| Total | $20,504.72 | $18,206.31 | $2,298.41 | 12.62% |
On the average, these 25 blogs have managed to increase their monthly dividend income by 12.62%.
Though the average doesn't tell here much, as each blog should be reviewed separately. There are blogs with a massive more than 200% YoY Growth (The Money Sprout, Reverse the Crush) and there are blogs with a negative growth (Mr. Tako Escapes, Passive income Mavericks, Dividend cake (Mom). Dividend Magic and The Frugal Cottage)
The Bottom Line
A year in dividend investing is a lot. I hope you have some overview now how much some (why not you) can increase the dividend in a year. For me, this was a great October, I managed to increase it by 130% or 95 USD YoY. Would love to make it again in a year. Who knows.