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

ProBlogger

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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The Pros and Cons of Having Multiple Blogs

ProBlogger

It was also the first blog I made money from by putting some Adsense ads on and referring people to Amazon with affiliate links. And by 2005 the number was up to around 30 blogs. And back then I was doing pretty much all of it – the writing, the promoting, the comment moderation, the partnerships and the monetization.

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Going from Free to Fee Part 2

Bare Feet Studios

You may want to read Part 1 and the associated comments here. What has not been specifically addressed though was suggested in the comments (want vs need ) is business vs pleasure use. Leave a Comment Additional comments powered by BackType Previous post: Going From to Free to Fee, Consciously: Yes We Can?

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The Team Behind My Blogs: From Solo Blogger to Business

ProBlogger

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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PB150: How I Make Money Blogging – My Profit Streams Revealed

ProBlogger

AdSense – dPA has a large amount of traffic, so it pays to use AdSense along with other income streams. Our third income stream, third highest income stream is AdSense. Google ’s AdSense program. I know AdSense doesn ’ t work with everyone and every type of blog. AdSense seems to like our site as well.

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

ProBlogger

Readership/Commenters: Look at the comments people leave on your blog, and contact the writers who know a lot about the topic, are genuinely helpful, and are well written. In fact, I think it was probably around 2005 that I hired my first blog writer and she also became an editor for one of my early blogs.

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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. By 2005, I think I had about 30 blogs including that network of blogs that I was involved with at that time. I did that with some friends over in New Zealand.

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