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

ProBlogger

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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Is Google becoming evil?

The Way of the Web

After all, in 2004, Joel Bakan described corporations in this way ‘As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognise nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others. Individuals can no longer have a basic sharing and following network within Google Reader. That’s entirely lost now.

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

ProBlogger

It worked really well, it’s actually the first blog that I began to make some money from by putting some Adsense Ads on and referring people over to Amazon with affiliate links. It must have been 2004-ish. And then I started ProBlogger, that was in 2004. I started ProBlogger in 2004. Was it the Athens Olympic Games?

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

ProBlogger

It worked really well, it’s actually the first blog that I began to make some money from by putting some Adsense Ads on and referring people over to Amazon with affiliate links. It must have been 2004-ish. And then I started ProBlogger, that was in 2004. I started ProBlogger in 2004. Was it the Athens Olympic Games?

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

ProBlogger

It worked really well, it’s actually the first blog that I began to make some money from by putting some Adsense Ads on and referring people over to Amazon with affiliate links. It must have been 2004-ish. And then I started ProBlogger, that was in 2004. I started ProBlogger in 2004. Was it the Athens Olympic Games?

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Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Based on my findings, Problogger started in 2004, Copyblogger started in 2006, Daily Blog Tips started in 2006, Steve Pavlina’s Blog started in 2004, and Entrepreneur’s Journey started in 2004. I am reluctant to start adsense and was curious about the comment on using it properly so it’s not offensive.

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11 Ways I Diversified Traffic Sources for My Blogs to Become Less Reliant Upon Google [With a Surprising Twist]

ProBlogger

Yesterday I shared the story of how back in 2004 I almost losing my business overnight. At that time the basket that all my eggs were in was ‘Google’ I was reliant upon Google for most of my traffic and most of my income (by monetising purely through Google AdSense). Social Bookmarking. Social Networking.

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