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Recently I gave a presentation on monetizing blogs. I talked about how developing your own products to sell to readers can be an effective way to build a blogging income. During a question-and-answer segment of the presentation, one blogger stood up and said: “My readers don’t want to buy products! ...more

This guest post is written by Matthew Kepnes of Nomadic Matt’s Travel Site So you want to be a travel writer? So do a lot of people. In fact, I can’t think of one person who wouldn’t love to get paid to travel. To try, lots of people start travel ...more

This guest post is by Josh Mullineaux, co-founder of Highlighter.com and Unique Blog Designs. Over the past four years, my business has completed over 500 custom blog projects and through that experience, we’ve learned the ins and outs of a what contributes to a successful blog design. Today, I wanted ...more

The SEO vs. social media debate is one that has been going on for a number of years now, and it hasn’t abated. A recent guest post here on ProBlogger titled Why Social Media is a Better Investment than SEO sparked some interesting commentary on Twitter after going live. Social ...more

This is a guest post by Joshua Noerr of JoshuaNoerr.com. It’s clear that social media, specifically blogging, is about so much more than making money. Sure, we all want to be compensated for our time and our talents, but if the only goal was to make money, blogging would certainly ...more

This post was written by the Web Marketing Ninja—a professional online marketer for a major web brand, who’s sharing his tips undercover here at ProBlogger. Curious? So are we! There are many less-respectable professions than internet marketing, but even today I get a glare—“so you’re one of those guys”—when I’m ...more

This guest post is by Scott McIntyre of Vivid Ways. You’ve just launched a shiny new blog and you’re buzzing with excitement about sharing content and building an audience. At first, it requires a lot of time and effort to get things off the ground, but your confidence is sky-high ...more

At a conference this year, I presented some tips on affiliate marketing in one of the sessions I ran on monetizing blogs. One of the most powerful affiliate marketing concepts—one that can make or break an affiliate campaign—is summed up in this slide: The key is to find the overlap ...more

This guest post is by the Blog Tyrant. $100,000 a year? $500,000 a year? A million? These are figures I bet most of us think about from time to time. But I’m here to tell you a sober truth—something that you probably won’t like the sound of. Your blog is ...more