[Beginners] Are you a blogger running Google Adsense on your website(s)? If you haven’t already done so, you should seriously consider linking your Adsense account to your bank chequing (checking for Americans) account. It means you get your money nearly immediately after Google “pays” out, instead of waiting weeks.
For example, I just checked my bank […]

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Every once in a while, I’ll have an epiphany while writing. The one I had this morning was a vision of how to build traffic on a website: ride a wave of popular topics. The fact is, if you’re not writing about the topics people are interested in, you just are not going to get […]

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If you define a “problogger” as being someone who makes the their entire income from blogging, then I’ve finally become a problogger. A couple of weeks back, I got my first payment that exceeded the monthly earnings of my previous part-time job. [I’ve been freelancing for several years now, since the recession of late 2001, […]

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If you read this blog (or have stumbled across it) and don’t know about Performancing, get your digital butt over there. Nick and Chris and the Performancing boys have set up two new sections: Exchange and the Exchange blog. The first section is aimed at helping bloggers find blogging jobs or for publishers to sell […]

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Mashable reports that Google has a new version of Blogger.com blogging platform available for testing. This new version has loads of new features, including collapsible archive navigation, customizable nav and page layout create-new-post link from webpages (just if you’re logged in already), and more.
The page layout control panel has draggable elements and loads of options […]

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Pat McCarthy of Conversion Rater has a great ten-point list of options for monetizing your weblog and your blogging. I’m summarizing the list below in point-form, and adding a bit of commentary later. There are other opportunities for monetizing your skills as well. Here are Pat’s 10 points:

Contextual advertising
Display advertising
Targeted advertising
Text link advertising
Affiliate links
Selling your […]

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[beginner-intermediate bloggers] It’s funny how some people talk about making $150/mth on their weblog as if there was no effort put in. Now, I’m not putting down the amount - it’s fine, maybe even great for a young weblog. Rather, I’m pointing out that what’s probably more important is the Return On Investment, or ROI, […]

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Adsense, or ads in general, are not the only way to turn your blogging into a profit. Here are a few sites I’ve come across recently which give bloggers a leg up in earning some cash from their blogging content, whether writing or photography, and even indirectly from their own skills. Have a good conversational […]

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Here are some of my blogging milestones for Jul 2006:

Sat July 15: I cracked 50+ posts in a single week for the first time. This includes the 29-30 posts I get paid to write weekly, as well as posts for my own sites and those I’ve been invited to write. Not all of these posts […]

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