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How I Earn a Living as a Blogger from ProBlogger and Digital Photography School

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AdSense revenue. My third-highest income stream (8%) comes via Google’s AdSense program. This was the first income stream I ever tried (somewhere around 2003–2004), and it still works for me. I don’t have to split the money with anyone, and because AdSense has already taken its cut there aren’t too many direct expenses.

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How Small Blogs Became 6-figure Income Generators (and How You Can Do the Same)

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The ad factor: Once Pete managed to create a huge community of loyal readers, he went for the big profit makers: advertisements. He subtly included Google AdSense’s banner ads throughout Mashable and reaped his revenues automatically every month. Nowadays she works with Google’s AdSense and DoubleClick platforms.

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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. On dPS we offer sponsorships to advertisers who want to work directly with our audience. Up until 2009, pretty much most of my income came from either affiliate marketing or working with advertisers or ad network.

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AdSense Turns 10 Years Old: Why I’m Grateful for it!

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This week Google’s AdSense program celebrated its 10 year anniversary with a post on their blog and a G+ Hangout. While they launched AdSense in June of 2003, I first began to experiment with it on 7th October that year. So I signed up as an AdSense publisher and set up my first ad to put on my blog.

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The Team Behind My Blogs: From Solo Blogger to Business

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December 2003 : By this point, I’d started to experiment with making money from my blogs (I had a couple by this point). While we do use some more automated ad solutions (like AdSense) on dPS, we’re also growing the number of ads we are selling directly to advertisers—both banner ads and newsletter ads.

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5 Crucial Questions to Ask Before Deciding to Blog in Another Language

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Personally, I discovered the Web in 1999, learned everything I could in English (and still do every day), started my online business in English, and left my day job in 2003. But then I decided to take a 180-degree turn and build an online presence in French, and it works very well.