ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

I dabbled in making websites about 25 years ago (5 years before I started my first blog in 2002) and blogged for a full year on a personal blog before even considering that I could make money from blogging or starting blogs on any focused topic.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2024

On some levels I was at the right place at the right time—I got into blogging early (in 2002 … although I felt I was late to it at the time) and have been fortunate enough to have started blogs at opportune times on the topics I write about.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 2, 2018

As I consider the question of why someone should start a blog in 2018, I can’t help but return to the beginning of my own blogging journey in 2002. Things have changed since 2002. Of course, monetizing blogs through advertising, affiliate marketing and selling virtual products is just one way to make money from blogging.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 23, 2020

I started blogging in late 2002. I discovered AdSense (Google’s advertising network), and started putting their ads on my blog. Advertisers were now starting to target my site, to the point where the same advertisers were on my site all the time. Starting from scratch. And in my first year I earned… nothing. Not at all.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

November 2002 – I get an email from a friend that says, check out this blog. Direct ad sales – Advertisers were targeted my site. I knew Google took a cut, so I reached out directly to advertisers. $20 Added other advertising networks. Let’s walk back in time to 2002. I just did it because I enjoyed it.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 8, 2017

Use SpyFu to check advertisers’ spending on a niche that you wish to tackle. If advertisers or merchants are spending big money on that industry, it means there is money to be made. For example, advertisers are paying $5.60/click Are there any advertisers in the mix? Advertising statistics. 4- Impact Radius.

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ProBlogger

MAY 22, 2018

In the podcast episode on 3 Key Things Bloggers Do to Grow Their Blogs into Businesses , I talked about how blog homepages have evolved over the years – from the long list of full posts that was standard when I started in 2002, to the portal-like static homepages that are becoming increasingly common today. Absolutely.

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ProBlogger

MAY 21, 2020

When I first started blogging back in 2002 I was a technological Luddite. As it turns out that advertising model didn’t disappear. And so hopefully you’ll be able to get over them (or perhaps around them) without them slowing you down too much. So let’s start with the first hurdle I faced…. Not understanding the technology.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 2, 2014

This week on my main blog – Digital Photography School – we launched our 24th photographic eBook ( a guide to post production of portrait images ) and it got me thinking back about some of the changes in my blogging since I started back in 2002. The Biggest Lesson I’ve Learned In Selling eBooks.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

November 2002 – I get an email from a friend that says, check out this blog. Direct ad sales – Advertisers were targeted my site. I knew Google took a cut, so I reached out directly to advertisers. $20 Added other advertising networks. Let’s walk back in time to 2002. I just did it because I enjoyed it.

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ProBlogger

JULY 31, 2017

He was working in an advertising agency and doing quite well for himself. He has advertisers paying him money to appear on his blog. Back in 2002, I started a blog. ” As I looked at my free blogger template, which in 2002 was ugly, I think it was purple and orange, and big ugly fonts. He’s an authority.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

On dPS we offer sponsorships to advertisers who want to work directly with our audience. Back in 2002 when I first started blogging, and then over the next couple years started to make money for my blogs, the first question I would almost always be asked when I say to someone I ’ m a blogger. Sponsorships . Almost everyone asked it.

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ProBlogger

MAY 1, 2013

The year was 2002 and a couple of hours after reading my first blog, I was ready to start my own. It was messy , particularly when I began to try to grow my readership and start talking with potential advertisers for my main blog – the camera review blog. Let me run through a few: 1. Not Getting My Own Domain Name.

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ProBlogger

MAY 8, 2017

As I think back to 2002 and look at how blogs are today, what he’s highlighted are really some of the key changes that have taken successful bloggers to be successful business people. If you think back to 2004, 2005 on the Internet, the big cool thing back then was banner advertising. There’s a rule distinction there.

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ProBlogger

MAY 8, 2017

As I think back to 2002 and look at how blogs are today, what he’s highlighted are really some of the key changes that have taken successful bloggers to be successful business people. If you think back to 2004, 2005 on the Internet, the big cool thing back then was banner advertising. There’s a rule distinction there.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 5, 2015

Heather needs little introduction – she’s a Trivial Pursuit answer , Queen of the Mommy Bloggers , an author , a speaker , a consultant, and a gal who’s come a long way from that day in 2002 when she was fired for what she wrote on her blog about her workplace. How do I even sum that up? Now it’s why you start one.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 15, 2011

November 2002 : I started my first personal blog almost nine years ago, without even the faintest suspicion that it’d be anything more than a hobby. While we do use some more automated ad solutions (like AdSense) on dPS, we’re also growing the number of ads we are selling directly to advertisers—both banner ads and newsletter ads.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

On some levels I was at the right place at the right time—I got into blogging early (in 2002 … although I felt I was late to it at the time) and have been fortunate enough to have started blogs at opportune times on the topics I write about. Most of these bloggers are full-time (or well on the way to being full-time bloggers).

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2013

On some levels I was at the right place at the right time—I got into blogging early (in 2002 … although I felt I was late to it at the time) and have been fortunate enough to have started blogs at opportune times on the topics I write about. Most of these bloggers are full-time (or well on the way to being full-time bloggers).

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 18, 2017

That helps you to grow it faster, it helps you to attract new advertisers, to think about new revenue streams, and those types of things as well. I remember that day in 2002 when I started my blog and I wrote my first blog post. Lastly, that advice from Brittany, just bring it for new bloggers particularly. That is so true.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2018

Having said those things, I want to talk about these nine things that have helped me to accelerate the growth of my blogs over the years, things I wish I knew back in 2002 when I started out and I hope that that will help you in your journey as well. I started blogging in 2002. This is a picture of my first blog.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

I started blogging in 2002, 2004 for ProBlogger, of course things have changed. It’s really practical teaching, and again you can check out the agenda there at problogger.com/success. I look back on the early days of ProBlogger and I look at the first posts I wrote and they were all text, there was no images in them at all.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 18, 2016

One of the things that I’ve noticed since 2002 is that my incoming email has just exponentially grown almost every year on year on year to the point where literally thousands of emails come into my business every week. Number three, there’s an option there I’d like to advertise on Digital Photography School.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 18, 2016

One of the things that I’ve noticed since 2002 is that my incoming email has just exponentially grown almost every year on year on year to the point where literally thousands of emails come into my business every week. Number three, there’s an option there I’d like to advertise on Digital Photography School.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

” Now, I started blogging in 2002. It was a mind-blowing question to be asked because everything has changed in my blogging since 2002 except for the fact that a blog is pretty much the same thing. There’s lots of things have changed since 2002. The way we’ve been in 2002 is changing.

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