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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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Find Readers for Your Blog Through Commenting and Relationships. 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. Since 2004, I’ve been full time pretty much the whole time.

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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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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. How to Find Readers for Your Blog Through Commenting and Relationships.

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The Pros and Cons of Having Multiple Blogs

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It was also the first blog I made money from by putting some Adsense ads on and referring people to Amazon with affiliate links. I even started a blog on the 2004 Olympic Games being held in Athens. Let us know in the comments. The rest of my blogs. My first niche blog was a camera review blog I started in late 2003.

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How to Grow Your Fitness Blog to 100,000 Monthly Visitors in Less than a Year

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The website makes money from Adsense. At some point, I did try to test other ways to make money by creating my own products (related to dieting) and through affiliate marketing but at the end I found that Adsense performs better. Share you own story or questions in the comments, I would be more than happy to answer them.

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How to Start a Blog When You’re Not an Expert: 11 Ways to Make it Work

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When I started ProBlogger in 2004 I’d been blogging for a couple of years, but hadn’t been making money from blogging for very long (less than a year). For instance, fairly early in the life of ProBlogger I wrote a series of posts on how to monetize your blog using Adsense. 4: Write About What Others Are Doing.