Must Use Self Serve Ad Networks

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As an affiliate marketer, or even just a blogging, the end goal is to bring new traffic to your landing pages, sites and blogs. What is changing, is how you can advertise and bring in a new flow of traffic to your target points. No longer do you have to blindly create ad campaigns on … [Read more]

WordPress.com Announces WordAds for Making Money with Your Blog

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Back in October, WordPress.com and Federated Media announced a partnership to help bloggers make money from advertising revenue on their blog. They’re ready to open up the doors and announced today their service called WordAds. It’s taken WordPress quite awhile to make something like this available and they say it’s because what they had seen … [Read more]

Infographic: What is Google AdWords?

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I’ve experimented with Google AdWords over the 8+ years I’ve been working online and it has definitely seemed like a little bit of a mystery to me. I remember receiving a bill a time or two and thinking “Wow, did this help my ranking or web traffic at all?” If you’re new to the world … [Read more]

How to Avoid Scaring Advertisers Away

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See what I did with the title? Because it’s Halloween??? I’m so clever… Advertising isn’t the right profit route for every blog. In fact, if you’re selling products and services of your own, adding advertising to your sidebar or posts can actually take away from your income potential. But for some bloggers, it’s a great … [Read more]

Three Books Written For Bloggers by Bloggers

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I’ve really been into reading books about blogging lately and have snatched up some good ones I think you should know about. Two are geared specifically for mom bloggers and one is for anyone who blogs. As bloggers, I truly believe we should continually be educating ourselves about this ever-changing industry. Allison gives us some … [Read more]

Federated Media Publishing More Focused on Quality of Blog Than Numbers

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A couple of weeks after acquiring Lijit Network, Federated Media Publishing is opening their ad network to more bloggers. FM and Automattic reached an agreement to provide advertising representation rights to the WordPress.com community, which consists of 24 million blogs. WordPress.com bloggers will now have the option to opt-in to the Federated Media advertising program. … [Read more]

Creating Culture In A Virtual Business

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Session: How to Not Do Everything Yourself Speaker: Laura Roeder In my talk at BlogWorld LA, How Not To Do Everything Yourself I’ll be discussing how an online business can move from being a one-man show to creating a team of dedicated, proactive people that you love to work with. One of the most important … [Read more]

Ten Simple (but Costly) Blog Mistakes

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Sometimes, the difference between a profitable blog and a blog that doesn’t make any money isn’t major. In fact, it can boil down to just a few simple mistakes. Of course, every blog is going to be different, with different goals and meeting different reader needs, so not every tip is right for every person. … [Read more]

Stop Thinking Like A Blogger In Order To Make Money

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… by David Risley (BlogWorld LA Monetization track leader) The blogger mindset is one which I like to affectionately call “the blogger hamster wheel”. It goes something like this… Write some stuff. Then write some more stuff. Check your traffic. Send some tweets. Write more stuff. Read some other blogs and post comments. Figure out … [Read more]

A Beginner’s Guide to Blog Monetization Basics

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I’ve already written A Beginner’s Guide to Twitter Basics and A Beginner’s Guide to SEO Basics, and someone much smarter than me wrote about podcasting basics, so today I wanted ton continue this theme and write about monetization. Now, there are people who write entire blogs about monetization, so believe me when I say that … [Read more]