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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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236: 5 Areas to Focus on to Grow Your Blogging Income

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Back in, I think it must have been 2004, I’ve been blogging for a couple of years by this point, and for the first year I didn’t even know you could make money from your blog. I hadn’t made any money and then the second year, I started to dabble with some Google AdSense ads on my blog, some Amazon affiliate income.

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How to Grow Your Blog’s Traffic and Income by Setting Goals

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Back in 2004, when I’d been blogging for about 18 months, I started experimenting with AdSense and Amazon’s affiliate program. I did something similar with my income, which at the time was largely from AdSense. I realized that if I could increase my traffic by 10% every month my AdSense income would generally go up by 10% too.

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How to Make a Full-Time Income From Your Blog

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It took me two years of blogging to get to my income goal ($36,000 USD/year) where I could focus on blogging full time (in 2004). Direct advertising. You could also sell ads on your site to niche advertisers on a monthly basis. You could also sell ads on your site to niche advertisers on a monthly basis. Adsense = $200.

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PB135: How to Grow Your Blogs Traffic and Income by Setting Goals

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Today I’m going to make some suggestions on how to set those goals based on how I did it back in 2004 when I began to monetize my blog. In 2004, I started to experiment with AdSense ads and Amazon’s Affiliate program. I also started selling ads directly through advertisers and using other networks like Chitika.

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184: 2 Blog Monetization Strategies that Have Increased My Blogs Earnings by over 40%

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I’m going to talk about 3 income streams in particular – AdSense Ad network (although this will be relevant to other networks too), Affiliate promotions and selling our own products. AdSense New Ad Placement Guidelines. One of them is AdSense, the Google’s Advertising Network. Number two is about our AdSense.

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Make Money Blogging for Real: 3 Must-Know Factors

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How does AdSense work? Even a simple idea like Michael Malice’s Overheard in New York , where people submit posts of things they’ve heard somewhere in New York, earns about $9,000 a month from private advertising revenue, such as banner ads placed on the site. Personally, I have been making money online since 2004.

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