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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. This was the first income stream I ever tried (somewhere around 2003–2004), and it still works for me. 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.

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The Pros and Cons of Having Multiple Blogs

ProBlogger

My first niche blog was a camera review blog I started in late 2003. It was also the first blog I made money from by putting some Adsense ads on and referring people to Amazon with affiliate links. That being said, you should definitely grab the domain names and social media accounts as soon as possible.).

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

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Pete had an interest in new technologies and how social media was increasingly changing the way people related to one another. Social media exploded in the early 2000s and Pete was there to ride the wave. Pete Cashmore tapped social media networking at a time when it was making its world debut.

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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. 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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The Team Behind My Blogs: From Solo Blogger to Business

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December 2003 : By this point, I’d started to experiment with making money from my blogs (I had a couple by this point). Social media : I do the bulk of my own social media marketing, but in the last month or so Simon has also become more involved in this for dPS. social media (mainly on ProBlogger).

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247: How to Create a Blog on a Topic You’re Not an Expert In

ProBlogger

When I first started writing on that topic and that was back in 2003 on a very early blog, I was reviewing cameras. I wrote a whole series of posts on how to monetize your blog using Adsense. I probably wouldn’t even recommend you go back and read them today because Adsense changed a lot. This is how I started out.

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

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The first one I did was a camera review blog which I started late in 2003. 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 was about a year after I started blogging.

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