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blog advertising


Blog Traffic: Five super-simple ways to advertise

June 17, 2008

Want a steady flow of traffic to your blog? We all do. This means advertising. A wit once said that 50 per cent of all advertising was a waste of money – but you never know which 50 per cent. Therefore, set an advertising budget and stick to it. Without a budget, you can easily [...]

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Making money with your blog: the fuss about paid links

October 7, 2007

Once your blog gains some traction and gets readers, it becomes viable as a money-maker: you can sell ads on your blog, and this generates a monthly income. However, the search engines don’t like paid links, because it means that Web sites can buy their way to the top of the search engine results pages. [...]

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Make money by selling ad space on your blog

September 30, 2007

How much advertising is too much on your blog? You’re your own judge of that. Here’s a post to show you how top bloggers do it: How the top bloggers display their ads – Percentages and numbers says: “Blogging for money has become a million dollar business, top bloggers make thousands of dollars each month [...]

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Monetizing your blog with advertising 2: Get paid for product reviews on your blog

September 23, 2007

There are several companies online which pay you to write advertising posts on your blog, but you can take the process into your own hands and eliminate the middle man. All you need to do is add your own ad to your blog’s sidebar: Get Reviewed On This Blog From $50 to $250 Then, set [...]

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Blog advertising: get paid for traffic

December 4, 2006

How much money can you make from your blog? If you’re a blogging entrepreneur, who sells advertising on a blog, blog-money is all about traffic. In “Blogs to Riches” Clive Thompson describes the advertising fee structure of Gawker: According to Denton, the site received about 200,000 “page views” a day from readers. The site ran [...]

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Blogging your city: build a city blog, get advertisers

November 15, 2006

The latest trend among bloggers is to set up local blogs, either for their town or city, or for special interest groups in their location. The benefit of local blogging is that you’re in touch with the area: you know what’s happening, and can promote events by covering them, much as a journalist would. Consider [...]

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ReviewMe is live: get paid to write reviews

November 10, 2006

Click to enlarge ReviewMe is now live, and I’ve signed up with Angela Booth’s Writing Blog, and this blog. Signing up was VERY easy, and took just moments. When you’ve signed up, you wait for reviewers to contact you to review products and services. I’m intrigued by the service, and eager to watch it grow. [...]

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Bloggers paid to review?

November 3, 2006

Over the past year or so, there’s been considerable brouhaha in the blogosphere about bloggers being paid to review products. I’ve ignored the noise. After all, I’m a tech magazine software reviewer, with a monthly column in NetGuide, so reviewing is a non-story for me. However, I’m intrigued by ReviewMe, a startup. From the blog: [...]

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