Advertising is a great way for anyone with a site to make money. This week we’ll be discussing how to use ads to monetize your blog. Many bloggers are hesitant about using ads on their site. We’ll address this by discussing the pros and cons of using ads and how to use them in the […]
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If you read my first update, you’ll know I’ve started a new authority site case study with both a site that I am building and one that my student is building. In my last update, I talked about the things we did first to get our sites off the ground. In this update, I’m focusing […]
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It often surprises people, especially bloggers, that niche sites can make money. Niche sites are simple sites. There is usually not too much to them and they don’t have all the bells and whistles that are found on blogs. They are usually small, stick to their niche and don’t have anything extra. But they can still […]
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If you read my last update, you’ll know I’ve started a new authority site case study with both a site that I am building and one that my student is building. In this update, I am going to go over what things we concentrated on first to get our sites off the ground. I’m also […]
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There are two ways I make money online – from blogging and from niche sites. I write about how to create income from both these avenues (and my experience of each) on this blog. There are a lot of similarities between these two types of sites and I’m often asked by readers whether they would […]
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There’s no point starting a blog now. It’s too competitive. Have you heard this? Have you thought it too? It’s perhaps a convenient excuse, but that’s all it is. It’s simply not true. What about, I don’t have enough time to build a successful blog. What if I said you don’t need to work as […]
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One of the most popular ways to make money from blogging, yet one that is not talked about very openly, is sponsored posts. Particularly sponsored posts with the main goal of getting a link from your blog to a client. Sponsored posts are one of the easiest and most effective ways to make money from your […]
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Page speed. We all know it’s important from many different perspectives from keeping readers on your sites to ranking well in Google. However, I don’t think I am the only one who wants to put their fingers in their ears and start singing loudly whenever this topic is mentioned. I know it’s important, I knew […]
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One of my favourite social media platforms is Pinterest. Outside of Google, Pinterest is my biggest traffic driver to my travel blog. Too many bloggers underestimate the power of Pinterest. They instead work at increasing engagement on platforms like Twitter and Facebook, which I think is a mistake. Unlike other social platforms, Pins can become […]
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Not many! I know. In 2017, I have launched 3 products with great success. Can you guess the number of people that look at this site per month? Only 3,000! You really don’t need many hits on your blog to make good money from products. The key to this is working out what your audience […]
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