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The Best (and Worst) Ways To Make Money In Affiliate Marketing

Although I own and operate a successful website for marketing the best credit cards, it took a lot of trial and error to find out what works and what doesn’t in affiliate marketing. Here are 5 important things I learned along the journey. Part One: Your Industry The worst mistake I made earlier on was promoting [...]

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Easiest way to make affiliate income from blogging

I discovered a super easy way to help bloggers monetize their content and wanted to share the news.  The concept of affiliate marketing is not new.  I have pretty good success as an affiliate for various theme makers and hosting providers over the years.  A new company has sprung up to take that concept and [...]

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How to Make Money with Your Blog Posts in 2012

How to Write Blog Posts that Make Money The odds are high that you started blogging because you had a particular passion, area of expertise or something else that you wanted very much to share with others around the globe. The odds are probably equally high that you also wanted to make a little bit [...]

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Poll: Why do bloggers not click ads?

If you blog in the blogging niche, I am sure that you are not surprised by me saying that Adsense ads kind of suck as a way to make money blogging .  I have experimented with various placements and various sizes and colors over the last 6 months or so and have come to the [...]

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What makes someone an expert at blogging?

I am hoping you can all help me out with this in the comment section because I really have no answer to this and would love to hear your thoughts. I have been thinking about this all night and it is based on this “snarky” comment I received on my last post which was about [...]

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the most important tip you need to know to make money blogging

There are thousands of blogs that focus on blogging tips and how to make money blogging .  I am sure you have heard that content is king and social media is the wave of the future and hundreds of other blog tips along those lines.  I was thinking about what separates bloggers and why some [...]

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MyLikes – another way to make money on Twitter (and blogging)

Most bloggers are familiar with Sponsored Tweets and Ad.ly as they are the top two advertising companies that have sprung up to take advantage of the rise in the popularity of Twitter.  In my quest to make money through blogging and social media, I have tried out both services and have come to the conclusion [...]

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pay you to blog sites that I use

Many of you noticed that I threw in a paid post a couple of days back.  I have done this a couple of times over the last month or so as I have been stepping up my blog monetization strategy.  When I first started this blog 7 months ago I told myself that the first [...]

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Monetize Your Blogroll – Do you?

I was recently thinking about the importance of a blogroll.  When I first started blogging 2 years ago, bloggrolls were a big deal.  It seems that some bloggers are not really utilizing their blogroll.  I am about 6 months into this blog and I have really neglected my blogroll section.  I have a total of [...]

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Is Social Spark ripping off bloggers?

Did I grab your attention with that heading? A month ago I signed up with Social Spark as a way to gain an additional source of revenue for this blog.  I am going to post my evaluation after spending 30 days with the company.  For those of you that are unfamiliar with social spark, they [...]

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