When Friends and Family Don’t Understand Problogging

This site covers how to start a blog, build traffic and make money blogging. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve been actively blogging for over 5 years now, and by “active” I mean that at one point I generated well over 20 blog entries […]

Make More Money With LinkWorth

When it comes to companies that pay bloggers to blog, it’s no secret that LinkWorth is by far my favorite. With the variety of ways bloggers can make money with them, they tend to be one of my largest sources of online income each month. Some of you have told me that you aren’t receiving […]

The Key To Amazon Affiliate Linking

In the three months since I first wrote about how to use Amazon’s Quick Links on your blog I’ve been pleased to see my affiliate income grow. No doubt part of the reason is that I’m linking Amazon products more often — using the quick link script just makes it so darned easy. Multiply that […]

Problogger Book Shares Secrets Of Making Money

Darren Rouse of ProBlogger is known for being not only a high-earner, but also a generally nice guy.
So nice, in fact, that he’s now sharing the secrets behind making a six-figure income by blogging in his new book, authored with Chris Garrett, that’s coming out on April 28.
Amazon’s offering a 5% discount for […]

Beware Social Spark’s Banner Ads

If you happen to be one of those bloggers participating in Izea’s hyped Social Spark reinvention, which is set for a mid-April launch, beware their blog sponsorship banner ads.
(And note, their “example blog” of what it looks like no longer features their banner at all.)
Sure, it looks at first like a quick way to make […]

Get Free Advice About Blogging

So, are you’re curious how much money I make blogging? Do you want to know why you don’t see tons of reviews on this site that’s all about making money blogging? Or are you’re just curious why someone obviously interested in problogging would offer free advice without trying to sell you one damn thing?
Well, […]

Day In The Life of a A ProBlogging-Homeschooler

It seems quite a few money-making bloggers have been sharing what a day in their lives look like. Lori wrote about juggling motherhood and problogging, as did Hyder and John Cow.
I figure, now that I’m running 5 blogs that have paid off my cars and are now paying my mortgage, I qualify for the whole […]

AdSense Policy Change

If you’ve been using Google AdSense to monetize your blog, you need to be aware of recent changes in the program’s requirements. Specifically, AdSense publishers are now required to provide a transparent privacy policy informing users that third-party advertisers may use cookies and/or web beacons to collect info and serve targeted ads.
JenSense has a detailed […]

My Surprising Lesson About Making Money Blogging

On the surface it makes sense that blogging more frequently brings more traffic, and more traffic means making more money blogging, right? That is, after all, what the big guys like Darren Rouse seem to think when they write that infrequent blog updates ruin Adsense earnings.
Until this past week, I’d bought that hook, line […]

Writing Paid Entries With Value

In the time that it took you to brush your teeth this morning, roughly 120 new blogs were launched. By this time tomorrow, another 86,400 will have joined the fold. There’s a new blog born every second, and you can bet the overwhelming majority of new bloggers would jump at the chance to earn money […]

Manage Affiliate Links With WordPress Affiliate Pro

There are, ultimately, two ways to make money with your blog:
1. By writing your little heart out; and/or
2. Through advertising.
The key to making #2 work is, ironically enough, doing #1 since writing your little heart out will bring traffic, and traffic’s essential to making money through advertising.
I’ve been writing my little heart out for a […]

Why PPC Banner Ads Don’t Make Bloggers Money

I confess I’ve never been much of a fan of banner ads at the top of blogs. I consider them an impediment to readers — visual clutter, if you will, between a reader and what they came looking for.
Interestingly, you won’t find them at the top of the truly big money-making sites like ProBlogger or […]

What Do You Think You’re Worth?

If you’re happy making $5 here and $7 there, you probably won’t even read this. If you think it’s too risky to pass by that guaranteed money today in favor of investing time and effort in the hope of making far more a few weeks from now, well, you probably won’t read this, either. […]

Cleaning Out Old Paid Entries

As most of us know by now, Google doesn’t like paid links that don’t invoke the rel=”nofollow” tag. Many folks who’d been blogging for the money saw their PageRank reduced (or taken away completely) during the last two PR updates. More than a few have decided — as I did — to completely sever all […]

5 Steps To Make Your Blog Attractive To Advertisers

So, you’re serious about blogging for the money. You’ve signed up with one or more of my recommended companies and now you’re waiting for the opportunities to roll in… and waiting… and maybe waiting some more.
“Why does So-and-So make so much with them, but I don’t?” you may wonder. “What’s So-and-So’s secret???”
Well, let me […]

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