ProBlogger

MAY 16, 2019

Back in 2004, when I’d been blogging for about 18 months, I started experimenting with AdSense and Amazon’s affiliate program. But I found I could go further than that by positioning the ads better, changing the design of the ads, and so on. I also started adding other income streams.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 15, 2019

It took me two years of blogging to get to my income goal ($36,000 USD/year) where I could focus on blogging full time (in 2004). Direct advertising. You could also sell ads on your site to niche advertisers on a monthly basis. To make $30,000 a year you’d need to sell around $2,500 worth of ads each month.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2015

Even a simple idea like Michael Malice’s Overheard in New York , where people submit posts of things they’ve heard somewhere in New York, earns about $9,000 a month from private advertising revenue, such as banner ads placed on the site. Personally, I have been making money online since 2004.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 10, 2018

presidential election, and NASCAR dads, which became a target audience in the 2004 elections, are closer to personas, though too thinly described. The experience was fascinating to me because, inherently, advertising is about stereotyping. Are those stereotypes or personas? The soccer mom designation, which came of age in the 1996 U.S.

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ProBlogger

JULY 25, 2016

Today I’m going to make some suggestions on how to set those goals based on how I did it back in 2004 when I began to monetize my blog. In 2004, I started to experiment with AdSense ads and Amazon’s Affiliate program. I also started selling ads directly through advertisers and using other networks like Chitika.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 15, 2012

In 2004, when he was only 19 years old, Pete Cashmore started blogging from his parents’ home in Aberdeen, Scotland. The ad factor: Once Pete managed to create a huge community of loyal readers, he went for the big profit makers: advertisements. Find self-serve ad platforms that cater to long-tail publishers’ needs.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

On dPS we offer sponsorships to advertisers who want to work directly with our audience. At first, it was a trickle, but it has now grown to 6000 ads places. The most common thing that people guess at is something like, “ You make money like a newspaper from ads? ” On ProBlogger we have had the job board since 2006.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 20, 2013

After all, with huge monitors, smart phones, tablets, and the bevy of other ways people can access your content, who’d want to print it out on a piece of paper like it’s 2004? For the code-skittish, there are some special tools and plugins you can use to help get your print-ready blog set up, and we’ll get to those shortly.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 15, 2011

By no means was it a “job&# (not even a part-time one), but I was earning $6 a day and was starting to get an inkling that there could just be some potential if I could only keep the earnings from my AdSense ads trending up each month. December 2004 : We made a decision that things were at a level I could go full-time as a blogger.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 28, 2012

In addition to its regular pay-per-action affiliate program, the company also offers a convenient PayPerCall program to help affiliates “ensure they get paid commission for the leads they generate, thus further monetizing existing ad placements and having the opportunity to expand their promotional…online and offline campaigns.”

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Neil Patel

MARCH 10, 2021

Using it in your paid ad campaigns is a powerful way to catch people’s attention or appeal to their emotions. With this creative ad, HP saw a 26 percent increase in revenue from the previous 12-week average. If you can identify the right music for your ads, you can evoke the right emotions from your targeted audience.

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 5, 2023

Facebook was created in 2004, and since then, it’s consistently annoyed sections of its user base with every change in function or policy. WT.Social WT.Social calls itself “the non-toxic social network,” due to it’s ad-free format. The social network doesn’t sell your data to advertisers, so ads don’t influence your feed in any way.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 13, 2017

I’m going to talk about 3 income streams in particular – AdSense Ad network (although this will be relevant to other networks too), Affiliate promotions and selling our own products. AdSense New Ad Placement Guidelines. One of them is AdSense, the Google’s Advertising Network. Number two is about our AdSense.

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ProBlogger

MAY 8, 2017

If you think back to 2004, 2005 on the Internet, the big cool thing back then was banner advertising. I remember seeing my first banner ads and I was fascinated by them, “Oh, what are these things?” Google AdSense was starting to put all these text ads around the internet. I think it went up 30% or 40%. They were experts.

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ProBlogger

MAY 8, 2017

If you think back to 2004, 2005 on the Internet, the big cool thing back then was banner advertising. I remember seeing my first banner ads and I was fascinated by them, “Oh, what are these things?” Google AdSense was starting to put all these text ads around the internet. I think it went up 30% or 40%. They were experts.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 13, 2017

I’m going to talk about 3 income streams in particular – AdSense Ad network (although this will be relevant to other networks too), Affiliate promotions and selling our own products. AdSense New Ad Placement Guidelines. One of them is AdSense, the Google’s Advertising Network. Facebook Group.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Founded in 2004, the e-commerce platform now reports an annual gross merchandise volume exceeding $61 billion and has over 500,00 merchants. The Printful Shopify app advertises itself as your print-on-demand solution. Kit helps you build easy, effective Facebook and Instagram ads. Features of This Shopify App.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 11, 2017

We actually sell advertising in some of the emails that we do, particularly on Digital Photography School. When I started doing email, I think it was back in 2004, 2005, there weren’t really that many tools. If you’re monetizing your blog with advertises, you do wanna get them over to your blog. That’s where we’re headed today.

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Backlinko

JANUARY 4, 2024

Then you, the expert, can step in and flesh out the details, adding the unique insights and depth that only a human touch can provide. It even looks like Google might be its own biggest competition if it gets SGE right, especially if Google is able to figure out how to adapt the advertising business to SGE. Take E-E-A-T.

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Ben Settle

JANUARY 20, 2024

And each time I dig some new insight, idea, or inspiration from it that leads to something I never would have done otherwise – and many of them are things that have added the most success to whatever it is I am applying it to. And then I’ll go through it once or twice a year after that in a lot of cases.

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Backlinko

JUNE 27, 2023

This is best reflected by cost-per-click (CPC), which can be found on the right side of the Keyword Overview tool, shown here: This metric shows how much advertisers are currently bidding on this keyword. A high CPC is normally indicative of a popular keyword that multiple advertisers are bidding on to appear in the SERPs.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

The company has enjoyed almost unparalleled revenue growth from 2004 to 2020 — $8 billion to $2,274 billion. Rethink the Need for Advertising. It’s tempting to drop lots of cash on PPC ads with Google or Facebook when you want to increase your sales revenue. Apple is one of those brands for me. That’s astounding.

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Smart Blogger

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Bob’s blog dates back to 2004 and continues through 2018. Among others, she analyzes David Ogilvy’s famous Rolls-Royce ad, Raymond Chandler’s novels, and Ibram X. Copywriter John Carlton says he’s “the most ripped off writer on the web” because so many people use his methods to write stellar ad campaigns that make them lots of money.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Back in 2004 when I almost went under, I not only was too reliant upon traffic from the Google Search Engine – I was also very reliant upon Google’s AdSense Ad Network as the main source of income for my business. Other Ad Networks. Note : Chitika ads don’t work perfectly on every blog.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 19, 2013

So I signed up as an AdSense publisher and set up my first ad to put on my blog. I had no idea what I was doing and so put the ads at the top of my right hand sidebar to see how they would perform. I began to experiment with placing a few more ads on the page and tweaking the design and colours I used. Boy, were they ugly!

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Here are two very effective Facebook advertising tactics you can try: 1. Revive Old Post Carousel Ads. Below is a carousel ad I did recently to promote my evergreen blogging tips. The ads cost less than 50 cents per click, and I am drawing hundreds of visits per week to my blog. This is just the beginning…. A geek dad.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Here are two very effective Facebook advertising tactics you can try: 1. Revive Old Post Carousel Ads. Below is a carousel ad I did recently to promote my evergreen blogging tips. The ads cost less than 50 cents per click, and I am drawing hundreds of visits per week to my blog. This is just the beginning…. A geek dad.

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ProBlogger

MAY 28, 2013

This has been a recurring theme here on ProBlogger, since I started the blog in 2004. Work hard to maintain their income streams (whether that be by liaising and working with advertisers or developing and launching products). Work hard on promoting their blogs and finding new readers. Build relationships with other bloggers.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 12, 2018

Which means 92% of my income from my Google AdSense Ads, from my Amazon affiliate accounts, from my other affiliate income, 92% of that income is really dependent upon my archives. You’ve got the potential for new readers that you could hook into your newsletter list, you’ve got potential at advertising revenue as well.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 16, 2021

Marketers, particularly B2C marketers , rely on several channels to drive leads to their businesses and boost their conversion rate: SEO paid ads social media email landing pages. He also added a must-read section on his sidebar, which is important if you want people to find your best content the moment that they arrive at your blog homepage.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I can think of two occasions where I’ve done this and I’ve published a post on ProBlogger back in 2004 and I’ll link to the post in today’s show notes so you can see them. Ninety-percent of my income streams, even the ad networks, that’s a collaboration. I’m partnering with AdSense, we sell ads directly to sponsors.

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ProBlogger

JULY 31, 2017

He was working in an advertising agency and doing quite well for himself. He has advertisers paying him money to appear on his blog. They’re just trying to get people there for the moment because that loads another ad. He immigrated from the UK to Sydney and now, I think, he’s gone along to New Zealand.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2018

Advertisers want to advertise on blogs that have engagement. Since 2004, when I started ProBlogger, I can see that there have been spikes of activity over those years: spikes in traffic, spikes in engagement and spike to profit as well. Over the last three years, we’ve added another 18,000 viewers.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

I started blogging in 2002, 2004 for ProBlogger, of course things have changed. It’s really practical teaching, and again you can check out the agenda there at problogger.com/success. I look back on the early days of ProBlogger and I look at the first posts I wrote and they were all text, there was no images in them at all.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 13, 2023

Quick Snapshot Headquarters: Menlo Park, California, USA Founded: 2004 Monthly Active Users : 2.74 Billion Standout Features & Functionality Audience Insights gives small businesses the power to leverage Facebook’s massive pool of aggregated data to help them reach their ideal audience with Facebook ads. Who Shouldn’t Use WeChat?

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Backlinko

AUGUST 1, 2023

Raven Tools was founded in 2004 and it was acquired by TapClicks in 2017. Plus, it offers plenty of integrations with email accounts, social media accounts, and ad campaigns for comprehensive data analysis. Link Manager Once you’ve added your links, you can go into the Link Manager tool to get them nice and organized.

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Moz

AUGUST 16, 2020

In more “things that are hard to remember clearly,” at the time of Google’s IPO in 2004, very few people expected Google to become one of the most profitable companies ever. In the early days, the founders had talked of their disdain for advertising, and had experimented with keyword-based adverts somewhat reluctantly.

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