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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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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[NOTE: I wrote this in late Feb, as a followup to part 1 + part 2 and forgot to post it. I’ve updated it slightly.] Have you lost track of the number of blogs you’ve started? I have. Or more accurately, I’ve stopped counting, after giving up on several of them. Some never got past […]

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[NOTE: I wrote this in late February, as a followup up to part 1, and forgot to post it] After nearly 9 months of regular blogging, I’ve noticed a few things about my attempts to set up and maintain a mini-network of blogs. While it’s relatively easy for me to discuss a wide variety of […]

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Here are some of my blogging milestones for Jun 2006:
Jun 1: Yet another writing opportunity cropped up, but nothing definite yet.
Jun 3: Thanks to a couple of recent posts on a high-traffic site that I was invited to blog for, I cracked 850 pg views today. Most of it was on that site. My own […]

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Here are some milestones for May 2006, for my collection of weblogs and Squidoo lenses:

May 4: Squidoo reports that I have earnings of US$0.52, minus my fixed-percentage donations to charity, resulting in a total of US$0.44 into my pocket, paid via Paypal. Actually, that’s not bad considering that it took me far longer to make […]

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A number of discussions in the blogosphere right now are about whether blog networks will continue to merge, and whether small networks will really be competing with the giant ones. Personally, it doesn’t worry me (too much . I’ve been up against larger magazines when I published my own print mag. I still managed […]

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