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9 Blogging Hurdles I’ve Faced as a Blogger and How I Got over Them

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When I first started blogging back in 2002 I was a technological Luddite. And some had me blocked at the point between writing a draft and publishing it. (I Well, at one point I was running 20 of them at once, and trying to publish new content on them all every day. You don’t even need to publish every day.

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How I Created My Profit Streams and Became a Full-Time Blogger

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I started blogging in late 2002. I discovered AdSense (Google’s advertising network), and started putting their ads on my blog. Advertisers were now starting to target my site, to the point where the same advertisers were on my site all the time. Starting from scratch. And in my first year I earned… nothing. Not at all.

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PB153: How I Diversified My Blogging Income and Became a Full Time Blogger

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November 2002 – I get an email from a friend that says, check out this blog. Direct ad sales – Advertisers were targeted my site. I knew Google took a cut, so I reached out directly to advertisers. $20 Added other advertising networks. ProBlogger Book Published by Wiley. Let’s walk back in time to 2002.

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Should Your Blog Have a Static Homepage (Whatever That Means)?

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In the podcast episode on 3 Key Things Bloggers Do to Grow Their Blogs into Businesses , I talked about how blog homepages have evolved over the years – from the long list of full posts that was standard when I started in 2002, to the portal-like static homepages that are becoming increasingly common today. Absolutely. 1: Go to Settings ?

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PB153: How I Diversified My Blogging Income and Became a Full Time Blogger

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November 2002 – I get an email from a friend that says, check out this blog. Direct ad sales – Advertisers were targeted my site. I knew Google took a cut, so I reached out directly to advertisers. $20 Added other advertising networks. ProBlogger Book Published by Wiley. Let’s walk back in time to 2002.

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The Team Behind My Blogs: From Solo Blogger to Business

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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. September 2005: I published a post here on ProBlogger talking about how I’d reached the “six-figure&# level of income from blogging. Blogging: from hobby to job.

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PB150: How I Make Money Blogging – My Profit Streams Revealed

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On dPS we offer sponsorships to advertisers who want to work directly with our audience. 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. Sponsorships . Almost everyone asked it.

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