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How to Make Money Blogging – What We Wish We Knew

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I dabbled in making websites about 25 years ago (5 years before I started my first blog in 2002) and blogged for a full year on a personal blog before even considering that I could make money from blogging or starting blogs on any focused topic. And that certain niches can therefore never, ever be profitable with Adsense!”

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How I Created My Profit Streams and Became a Full-Time Blogger

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AdSense – 8%. I started blogging in late 2002. I discovered AdSense (Google’s advertising network), and started putting their ads on my blog. I learned how tweaking things in AdSense (the number of ads, their sizes, their positions, etc.) But while they bringing in revenue, I knew Google AdSense was taking a cut.

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18 Lessons I’ve Learned about Blogging

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In November 2002 I first heard the word blog after a mate e-mailed me a link and said I should consider starting one. I look over at the poll I’m running this month and see that 27% of bloggers who responded are making $10 or less a month from Adsense and I know it sounds so little.

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PB153: How I Diversified My Blogging Income and Became a Full Time Blogger

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November 2002 – I get an email from a friend that says, check out this blog. Google AdSense – Text based ads that I started putting on my blog. Optimized AdSense – more ads, change size, change position and colors. Yahoo and Chitika At first, I thought it would decease my AdSense, but it held study.

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PB153: How I Diversified My Blogging Income and Became a Full Time Blogger

ProBlogger

November 2002 – I get an email from a friend that says, check out this blog. Google AdSense – Text based ads that I started putting on my blog. Optimized AdSense – more ads, change size, change position and colors. Yahoo and Chitika At first, I thought it would decease my AdSense, but it held study.

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The Pros and Cons of Having Multiple Blogs

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In 2002 I started The Living Room, where I blogged about my experience of being involved in a new church (which was also called “The Living Room”). It was also the first blog I made money from by putting some Adsense ads on and referring people to Amazon with affiliate links. My first blog. The rest of my blogs. It worked really well.

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9 Blogging Hurdles I’ve Faced as a Blogger and How I Got over Them

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When I first started blogging back in 2002 I was a technological Luddite. At one point I was making good money from AdSense. And so hopefully you’ll be able to get over them (or perhaps around them) without them slowing you down too much. So let’s start with the first hurdle I faced…. Not understanding the technology.

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