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

ProBlogger

he was particularly amazed by how certain government and police websites were combining their in-house data with Google maps to learn information on certain areas and citizens. Pete Cashmore never went to college; instead, he founded Mashable in 2005. It was founded in 2005 by the same person. Nice little story, right?

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Going from Free to Fee Part 2

Bare Feet Studios

Instant messaging has stuck around through the ages as a free service but most of those services are supported by bigger businesses making money in other ways (MSN, AOL, Yahoo…) Maybe Google should/could buy out Twitter. :) And then again, sometimes businesses simply fail.

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

ProBlogger

When I started my travel blog back in 2005, I never imagined I’d be selling it. Thanks to my business model (using Google for traffic and affiliate marketing for income), money was still coming in. Display advertisements using services like Mediavine or Google AdSense are a good option. Try that with three young kids.

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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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AdSense Turns 10 Years Old: Why I’m Grateful for it!

ProBlogger

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.

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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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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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