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How I Created My Profit Streams and Became a Full-Time Blogger

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AdSense – 8%. I discovered AdSense (Google’s advertising network), and started putting their ads on my blog. Amazon was just a bookstore back then, and I was earning 4–5% commissions on $10 books. I learned how tweaking things in AdSense (the number of ads, their sizes, their positions, etc.)

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Six First Income Streams Recommended for Bloggers

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Some income streams won’t really work at all with a small audience, particularly Google AdSense. Your Readers’ Location: If you have a lot of local readers, that can lead to specific opportunities such as selling advertising to local readers. 3: Join an Advertising Network. One popular option is Google’s AdSense network.

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198: 6 First Income Streams Recommended for Bloggers

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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. For example, Google AdSense. I saw people buying books.

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12 Blogging Income Streams [And the Story of My 10 Year 'Overnight' Success]

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My first experiments were with Google AdSense and the Amazon Affiliate Program. Over the coming months I continued to experiment with AdSense and Amazon. It was around this time that other Advertising Networks began to appear. The results weren’t spectacular but they were encouraging enough for me to keep trying.

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PB153: How I Diversified My Blogging Income and Became a Full Time Blogger

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Google AdSense – Text based ads that I started putting on my blog. I was mostly linking to books. Optimized AdSense – more ads, change size, change position and colors. Added other advertising networks. Yahoo and Chitika At first, I thought it would decease my AdSense, but it held study.

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PB153: How I Diversified My Blogging Income and Became a Full Time Blogger

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Google AdSense – Text based ads that I started putting on my blog. I was mostly linking to books. Optimized AdSense – more ads, change size, change position and colors. Added other advertising networks. Yahoo and Chitika At first, I thought it would decease my AdSense, but it held study.

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PB154: How to Grow Your Blogging Income

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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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