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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. 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. AdSense seems to like our site as well. AdSense makes up about 8% of our total income.

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

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Pete Cashmore never went to college; instead, he founded Mashable in 2005. 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.

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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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The Team Behind My Blogs: From Solo Blogger to Business

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By no means was it a “job&# (not even a part-time one), but I was earning $6 a day and was starting to get an inkling that there could just be some potential if I could only keep the earnings from my AdSense ads trending up each month. December 2004 : We made a decision that things were at a level I could go full-time as a blogger.

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248: 6 Places to Find Writers to Hire for Your Blog

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Advertising: Use tips and tricks when looking to hire by advertising on the ProBlogger Job Board. I want to share with you the five places that I found writers for free without having to advertise for them at all. And yet, it was doing reasonably well in terms of traffic and revenue from AdSense.

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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. Boy, were they ugly!

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Case Study: What Happens When You Want to Sell Your Blog?

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When I started my travel blog back in 2005, I never imagined I’d be selling it. Display advertisements using services like Mediavine or Google AdSense are a good option. After all, I just wanted to tell my family and friends what I was up to. I had no idea it would become a business that supported my family.