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How I Diversified My Blogging Income Beyond Having All My Eggs in the AdSense Basket

ProBlogger

Back in 2004 when I almost went under, I not only was too reliant upon traffic from the Google Search Engine – I was also very reliant upon Google’s AdSense Ad Network as the main source of income for my business. My first experiment was to try to find another advertising network that might work like AdSense.

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Six First Income Streams Recommended for Bloggers

ProBlogger

For instance, bloggers writing about spirituality or politics often find advertising doesn’t work so well. If they’re on your site because they want information, it might make sense to sell them an information product. If they’re on your site to connect with others, they might instead be willing to subscribe to a membership community.

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Chitika Settles with FTC Over Behavioral Ad Targeting

Bill Hartzer

Chitika offers a search-targeted advertising solution to web publishers. Many web publishers (web site owners) consider Chitika an alternative to the Google AdSense program. The company believes the agreement will help it continue to place a premium on privacy as its advertising network continues to expand.

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The Pros and Cons of Running Advertising on Your Blog

ProBlogger

The post The Pros and Cons of Running Advertising on Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. In fact, people often start monetizing their blogs this way using an ad network such as Google AdSense. So in this post I’ll be taking you through some of the key advantages and disadvantages of running advertising on your blog.

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How to Hit Content Scrapers Where it Hurts

ProBlogger

You see, content scrapers are stealing your content for two basic reasons—to make money off it, or to build a site for links and/or traffic with it. If you’ve found their site, you will usually see some type of monetization, like AdSense. . As such, to really hit them where it hurts, you need to hit them at these basic levels.

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198: 6 First Income Streams Recommended for Bloggers

ProBlogger

For example, I found talking to many bloggers who blog about spirituality of different faiths or politics that advertising doesn’t always work so well on some of those, particularly advertising with advertising networks like Google’s AdSense. The question is why are readers on your site? Commission Junction.

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PB154: How to Grow Your Blogging Income

ProBlogger

I did this right from the start, I had AdSense and Amazon Affiliate Program. Along the way, you heard me tell how I added a second ad network. That was a really important moment for me where I added Chitika on top of my AdSense earnings. Advertising networks, that was my first one. Google AdSense, Chitika.

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