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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. A lot of the time I was just rehashing news from camera and printer manufacturers and trying to get as much traffic and as many AdSense clicks as I could.

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

ProBlogger

Pete Cashmore never went to college; instead, he founded Mashable in 2005. It was founded in 2005 by the same person. Nowadays she works with Google’s AdSense and DoubleClick platforms. Pete had an interest in new technologies and how social media was increasingly changing the way people related to one another. How did he do it?

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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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Going from Free to Fee Part 2

Bare Feet Studios

Is this going to last indefinitely, or is it a temporary “parents are away so let’s party&# mindset that will eventually give way to sustainable business models beyond AdSense? And yeah, Shane and I pay a lot for our iPhones but the increase in productivity and sheer user pleasure makes it very worthwhile.

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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. Boy, were they ugly!

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