ProBlogger

APRIL 4, 2024

In November 2002 I first heard the word blog after a mate e-mailed me a link and said I should consider starting one. It’s easy to go a bit stale and so reviewing the value that you’re adding is an important part of keeping things fresh. The post 18 Lessons I’ve Learned about Blogging appeared first on ProBlogger.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 23, 2020

I started blogging in late 2002. I discovered AdSense (Google’s advertising network), and started putting their ads on my blog. A lot of them were text-based ads, and about all you could do in terms of customising them was change the colours. I realized I could quickly increase my income by adding a second income stream. (It

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In today’s episode, I am going to walk you through the last 13 years of my life, and through the timeline of how I have added income streams over time. November 2002 – I get an email from a friend that says, check out this blog. Google AdSense – Text based ads that I started putting on my blog. Paid speaking.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 6, 2019

It’s like the “ad blindness” that came after banner ads were first introduced in 2004–05. For instance, back in 2017 on Digital Photography School we found that adding an exit pop-up boosted our sign-ups by 30–40%. When I started my first blog in 2002, it looked like 99% of the blogs on the internet.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In today’s episode, I am going to walk you through the last 13 years of my life, and through the timeline of how I have added income streams over that time. November 2002 – I get an email from a friend that says, check out this blog. Google AdSense – Text based ads that I started putting on my blog. Paid speaking.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 5, 2016

In 2002, then-CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer announced that the 80/20 rule was not only applicable to the company’s product features – it applied to bugs, as well. He added an opt-in form to the page and experienced a 446% increase in opt-in conversion. 80/20 in Today’s Life. Image credit: Live the 80/20 rule.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 23, 2011

In 2002 I started my first blog without even the hint that blogging would be anything more to me than a hobby. A couple of years ago I sat down to do some strategic thinking about my blogging and realised that I’d created something that resembled a house that had had many extensions added to it. Meet the Architect.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

I’ve explored many forms of communication over the years but when I stumbled across blogs for the first time in 2002 I knew I’d found something special. That changed through a series of events including starting a little digital camera review blog and stumbling across the brand new Google AdSense ad network.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 2, 2014

This week on my main blog – Digital Photography School – we launched our 24th photographic eBook ( a guide to post production of portrait images ) and it got me thinking back about some of the changes in my blogging since I started back in 2002.

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ProBlogger

MAY 4, 2014

Point of difference: Adding forums for your readers. As I’ve always been a lover of forums – joining my first in 2002 at 14, then being an administrator for another for over ten years – a forum was exactly what I was looking for. I find Twitter too fast paced and comments on blogs restrictive.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 15, 2011

November 2002 : I started my first personal blog almost nine years ago, without even the faintest suspicion that it’d be anything more than a hobby. Ad Sales: Gabrielle Green heads up ad sales on both ProBlogger and dPS. But first, let’s go back in time… (this full story can be found in ProBlogger the book ).

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ProBlogger

MAY 8, 2017

As I think back to 2002 and look at how blogs are today, what he’s highlighted are really some of the key changes that have taken successful bloggers to be successful business people. I remember seeing my first banner ads and I was fascinated by them, “Oh, what are these things?” There’s a rule distinction there.

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ProBlogger

MAY 8, 2017

As I think back to 2002 and look at how blogs are today, what he’s highlighted are really some of the key changes that have taken successful bloggers to be successful business people. I remember seeing my first banner ads and I was fascinated by them, “Oh, what are these things?” There’s a rule distinction there.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2020

In 2002 I started The Living Room, where I blogged about my experience of being involved in a new church (which was also called “The Living Room”). It was also the first blog I made money from by putting some Adsense ads on and referring people to Amazon with affiliate links. My first blog. The rest of my blogs. It worked really well.

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ProBlogger

JULY 16, 2020

As you may well know, I started blogging back in 2002. And looking at my ad revenue, the reviews were also earning about ten times as much. The post 9 Ways to Grow Your Blog Faster appeared first on ProBlogger. This post is based on episode 246 of the ProBlogger podcast. Some of them worked. Some of them didn’t. It got me thinking.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 21, 2017

One of the biggest changes that has happened in my blogging since I began back in 2002 is the technology I use. Adding images or video to my posts were not even something I considered as my internet speed was too slow and my computer not really powerful enough to do anything with them. Just adding in the events is easier.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

At first, it was a trickle, but it has now grown to 6000 ads places. Back in 2002 when I first started blogging, and then over the next couple years started to make money for my blogs, the first question I would almost always be asked when I say to someone I ’ m a blogger. On ProBlogger we have had the job board since 2006.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The platform’s annual revenues have climbed at an even sharper rate, with the vast majority of that money coming from ads: This has had inevitable consequences for marketers. As social networks focus more and more on increasing ad revenues, it’s become ever harder to grow an audience organically. Increase the Quality of Your Content.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 8, 2016

That was back in 2002 but since that time link sharing has gradually gone to other mediums more and more. That was back in 2002 when I first started blogging and to some extent that continues today, particularly in some niches. Embeddable content is great way of adding some different styles of content to your blog as well.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2017

To go back in time, 2002 is when I started my first blog. Back in 2002, it was very normal to have a blog that covered such a wide spectrum of topics. It worked really well, it’s actually the first blog that I began to make some money from by putting some Adsense Ads on and referring people over to Amazon with affiliate links.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I started in 2002, and I wanted to reflect on some of the lessons that I’ve learned and particularly how I’d go about it if I was starting out again today. Many of us start out with AdSense or an ad network or Amazon’s affiliate program, and these are great starting points, but don’t just be satisfied with, you know, doing it in one way.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2017

To go back in time, 2002 is when I started my first blog. Back in 2002, it was very normal to have a blog that covered such a wide spectrum of topics. It worked really well, it’s actually the first blog that I began to make some money from by putting some Adsense Ads on and referring people over to Amazon with affiliate links.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 16, 2021

You can also display the figure in your ads and on your website to draw readers in and gain their trust. Most of today’s top names in blogging and marketing started around the 2002-2005 mark. Adding contacts to your email marketing list can be accomplished through a number of strategies. Join Forces With Tomorrow’s Influencers.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2017

To go back in time, 2002 is when I started my first blog. Back in 2002, it was very normal to have a blog that covered such a wide spectrum of topics. It worked really well, it’s actually the first blog that I began to make some money from by putting some Adsense Ads on and referring people over to Amazon with affiliate links.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

The company controls China’s biggest mobile instant messaging service and its subsidiaries provide media, entertainment, the internet and mobile phone value-added services. in 2002, he was executive vice president of PayPal. He is the founder, president, chief executive officer and executive board member of Tencent Inc., com (NetEase).

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Started in 2002. It might be simply adding a category to your blog. Whilst I continued to write about the other things, adding something new stimulated that part of me and helped me not to be as bored with the topic that I had. Simply by adding a new ad network, I suddenly have this excitement.

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ProBlogger

MAY 14, 2020

As I mentioned in last week’s blog post , I started my first blog back in 2002. And when I started adding Facebook Live video links to the newsletter I got emails from people saying, “I don’t watch video”. But before we start talking about the future, let’s talk briefly about the past. The primitive web.

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Quick Sprout

JULY 19, 2022

This is not a Cisco product from 2002. Adding new users to a call should also be as simple as sending them a link to the conference “room.” Be aware that the free plan does cap calls at 50 minutes, which is still generous. It’s easy to share files, share screens, take polls, or pop into a breakout room. Webex is very user-friendly.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 3, 2023

Ad they then said ‘no, this has got a lot of human input.' And so then really sort of 2002, 2003, I guess. The Authors Guild has added to their example contract a clause prohibiting AI training usage. And I follow her on Twitter @icreatelife , as you know, her and her lawyers there. Was that in the 90s? That's true.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 8, 2017

In 2002, Darren read an article about “blogging.” In the past, advertisers threw out a bunch of radio, television, magazine and newspaper ads and hoped something would resonate with potential customers. If you take out an ad on Facebook, you’ll gain the ability to check statistics on the back end.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Disagree – you may not want to do this on every comment you leave but courteously disagreeing and then adding constructive reasons why can make a good impression. Not adding value to the Comments – Ultimately this one is what it is all about. If you’re adding value, you’ll get value back.

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ProBlogger

JULY 31, 2017

Back in 2002, I started a blog. ” As I looked at my free blogger template, which in 2002 was ugly, I think it was purple and orange, and big ugly fonts. They’re just trying to get people there for the moment because that loads another ad. The way you figure yourself out is by making things.”

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ProBlogger

MARCH 12, 2020

I wrote my first guest post back in 2002, before guest posting was even a thing. Back in 2002 I wrote a post for ProBlogger called Can You Really Make Money Blogging? [7 Later I turned the same slides into a video, added some music, and posted it on YouTube. (I They didn’t create that audience. Repurpose your best content.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 18, 2017

This is something that I certainly did a few years ago now to actually bring someone on to lighten the load a little bit with that content creation, whether that be helping you with proofreading and editing or whether that be actually adding a new voice into your blog and doing some writing as well. Great tips there from Brittany.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2018

Having said those things, I want to talk about these nine things that have helped me to accelerate the growth of my blogs over the years, things I wish I knew back in 2002 when I started out and I hope that that will help you in your journey as well. I started blogging in 2002. This is a picture of my first blog.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Firstly – and I saw this right from the beginning of my blogging – quotes actually were a big part of blogging back in 2002, when I started. If I’m adding a word or two to a quote, just to explain the context, I would always put that in brackets, so I usually use square brackets.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Firstly – and I saw this right from the beginning of my blogging – quotes actually were a big part of blogging back in 2002, when I started. If I’m adding a word or two to a quote, just to explain the context, I would always put that in brackets, so I usually use square brackets.

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