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Arfan Chaudhry's Blog: Making Money by Blogging

  • Colourful Money · 7 months ago
    I've used Kontera before and found it to be counterproductive. A lot of bloggers seems to hate it too because it just dilutes the article.

    The other suggestions are great though. Thanks for sharing.
  • Aman@BullsBattleBears · 7 months ago
    I agree with CM, the Kontera ads are annoying from a readers perspective. There was a business blog that I used to frequent, but since the start of this month, they have added those randome text link ads and I cannot bare going to that site anymore. If my mouse touches something, a random ad box opens up...I know people are trying to find the right balance for monetization and esthetically pleasing. But some just fail to take the latter in place or the readers thoughts.

    The rest of the points are def great!
  • Arfan Chaudhry · 7 months ago
    Yes Aman and ColourfulMoney I find it pretty annoying so I have not installed it myself but it is a good source of income if you are trying to squeeze every single dollar out of your blog like JohnChow is hahaha.
  • Dino · 7 months ago
    I am currently looking at MarketLeverage, they seem to be very promising indeed! You might want to check them out too.

    Regards
    Dino
  • MLDina · 7 months ago
    You're already several steps ahead if you're blogging primarily because you enjoy it. It's so much easier to monetize a site you enjoy working on, rather than finding a trend that you think will make money and building a site around it. Good luck, and let us know if there's anything we can do to help.

    @Dino- Thanks! Seeing you everywhere lately.
  • Arfan Chaudhry · 7 months ago
    Hey I still haven't heard back from you we talked on Twitter and also sent an email why my application got rejected But I will email you again =)
  • Home Biss · 7 months ago
    Your first two recommendations might get bloggers into a lot of trouble with Google. Take note that buying/selling links (unless links are 'nofollow' are risky and Google has the habit of penalizing link brokers. :)
  • Arfan Chaudhry · 7 months ago
    I will agree you can get in trouble but many people use them still I personally use them on some blog just for sole purpose of making money out of them with the high page rank of the domain.
  • Forexfires.com · 4 months ago
    I read a post similar to this a few weeks ago, but I think this makes more sense
  • Franklin · 3 months ago
    How long did it take you to write this blog.