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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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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[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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[Beginner-Intermediate] There are many ways that you can present the contents of your blog posts, all of which depend on the blogging platform that you are using. And the display pattern you choose may make the difference between repeat visitors or having just search engine referrals.
With free platforms, the entire content of each entry is […]

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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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Here are some milestones for April 2006, for my collection of weblogs. There weren’t many, so I actually forgot to post this on May 1st.

Apr 23 - It’s Apr 22 when I’m writing this, but Apr 23 marks the 1-year point since I first installed Google AdSense on my hubsite, Chameleon Integration.

That site has undergone […]

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One visitor to this blog used the title of this post as a search phrase. I’m guessing, but he or she probably is running, or plans to run, a site with more than one writer contributing. As a former publisher, editor-in-chief, and copyeditor, I’ve done my fair share of pissing writers off with my brutal […]

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