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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. They were costing me money, and not just from me buying domain names and hosting. 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.)

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The Pros and Cons of Having Multiple Blogs

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But while are definitely benefits in having two well-established blogs, those benefits come at a cost. So this week I want to talk about both the benefits and the costs of having multiple blogs so you can decide whether it’s worth doing. My first blog. The rest of my blogs. It worked really well. In fact, most of it was pretty boring.

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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. The reason I began experimenting with monetizing was that my blogs were costing me money and taking up a lot of time. Google AdSense – Text based ads that I started putting on my blog. Let’s walk back in time to 2002.

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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. The reason I began experimenting with monetizing was that my blogs were costing me money and taking up a lot of time. Google AdSense – Text based ads that I started putting on my blog. Let’s walk back in time to 2002.

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PB150: How I Make Money Blogging – My Profit Streams Revealed

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AdSense – dPA has a large amount of traffic, so it pays to use AdSense along with other income streams. Back in 2002 when I first started blogging, and then over the next couple years started to make money for my blogs, the first question I would almost always be asked when I say to someone I ’ m a blogger. Sponsorships

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188: How to Build Two Successful Blogs (and the Pros and Cons of Doing so)

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I’m fortunate enough to have been able to build them up so that either one of them could be a full time venture which is great – but having two businesses to focus upon not only comes with some benefits – but some costs. Having two businesses comes with benefits but it also comes at a cost. That’s why I did it, it worked.

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188: How to Build Two Successful Blogs (and the Pros and Cons of Doing so)

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I’m fortunate enough to have been able to build them up so that either one of them could be a full time venture which is great – but having two businesses to focus upon not only comes with some benefits – but some costs. Having two businesses comes with benefits but it also comes at a cost. That’s why I did it, it worked.

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