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Boost Your Blog #3: Optimize Your Advertising Page
Continuing our discussion of things you could be doing right now to improve your blog, today’s tip is: 3. Optimize your advertising page When I mentioned I was writing this post on Google+ (connect with me here), Nick Roshon suggested auditing your advertising page. If monetization through selling advertising is ...more
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Advertising Your Blog: Go Viral on a Blogger’s Budget
This guest post is by The Blog Tyrant. Until now you’ve been relying on organic methods to grow your blog’s traffic—search engine rankings, guest posts, social media and word of mouth. But now you are thinking about stepping into the league of the the big boys (and girls) and spending ...more
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Is Advertising Revenue Dead as a Blogging Income Stream?
Earlier in the week I observed a conversation between two Internet marketing bloggers on Twitter which grabbed my attention. The topic of conversation? Monetizing blogs by selling advertising directly to advertisers. Their conclusion on the topic? It’s a dead and obsolete method of making money. It was a fascinating conversation ...more
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Improving Your Ad Clickthrough Rate: the Definitive Guide
This guest post is by John Burnside of Money in 15 Minutes. Those people who have been using the Internet as a business platform since it began will have noticed that there has been a significant drop in clickthrough rate of ads over the years. During the birth of this ...more
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How I Monetize Mobile Traffic on My Blogs
Over the last few days, I’ve been experimenting with monetizing my blogs for mobile readers who view mobile versions of my sites. Those who read ProBlogger on an iPhone, Android phone, Palm, or Blackberry Storm will know that you’re given the option to view this blog within a theme designed ...more
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How To Use Inception Marketing on Your Blog
This guest post is by Tommy Walker, Online Marketing Strategist and owner of Tommy.ismy.name. Have you seen Inception yet? For those who haven’t, all you need to know is that it follows a team of thieves who access dreams in order to steal information for their clients. The term “inception” ...more
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Newsletter Readers Do Click Ads
I recently attended an event where a presenter talked about the reasons that they didn’t use email marketing as part of their online business. One of the main reasons that he presented was that he didn’t think that people coming from a newsletter would click the ads on his site. ...more
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How I Got Some Paying Sponsors Without Really Meaning To
A guest post by Josh Hanagarne. World’s Strongest Librarian was about four months old when I got interested in sponsors. I’d read the articles about how to do it, and none of them sounded that plausible for me and my situation. For one, my traffic wasn’t impressive, certainly not to ...more
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The Parable of the Lemonade Stand: Is AdSense Costing you Money?
A guest post by Kevin from BeginnerBloggerTips.com (with some comments from me below too). Image by Shawnson. My journey into affiliate marketing. Before I start, I’d like to make two disclaimers: I don’t hate google or AdSense—this article isn’t a rant against either. I recognize that every blog is different—what ...more
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