How much do you make per hour from your blog? Have you wondered about how much other bloggers make per hour? This article breaks this down for you.

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This article covers three techniques you can use to get the most out of the pictures you decide to use in your posts. Finding the picture, as I mentioned previously, is only part of the story. You have to work the image into your article so that it can help drive the story home with the serious reader and catch the eye of the casual viewer.

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If you’re wanting to use images in your post like I’ve been doing here on OpTempo recently you may be wondering about where you can find images. In this article I take a look at some sources, paid and free, where you can find photos, clipart and other images you can use to enhance your posts.

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My series on blog monetization options wraps up with a look at how you can use do-it-yourself methods to develop a steady income of $100 to $200 a month from your blog. This article takes a look at selling your own ad space, creating a blog store, selling your services through your blog and building blogs for resell.

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This series of articles is dedicated to seeking out ways that a small time blogger can use to build a steady income of $100 to $200 a month with their blog. This part examines paid review brokers. Like paid links, this method was one of the best ways for a blogger with very limited traffic, but decent PageRank, to make money before the Google crackdown on paid links. In the post-crackdown world, are paid reviews still an option for you to make money on your blog?

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In this series I’m seeking ways for the small time blogger to develop a modest cash flow of $100 to $200 a month with their blog. In this part, we’ll examine paid link brokers. This once moderately lucrative way for a small blogger to make money has been the subject of a massive Google crackdown on paid links in recent months. Is it still a viable money making option or is it best to simply forget about making money this way with your blog?

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In this series I’m seeking ways for the small time blogger to develop a modest cash flow of $100 to $200 a month with their blog. We know the big time A Listers rake in a lot of cash but what can those of us toward the bottom of the list do to monetize effectively? In this part, I’ll be looking at affiliate offer programs, including Commission Junction, ClickBank and Azoogle, and what I’ve observed about them so far as making money on blogs goes.

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In the second part of my series on blog monetization options, I’m going to look at a few popular programs that provide widgets where you can earn commissions based on product sales or aggregated product sales. How do these widgets perform on low to mid volume traffic sites? Do they produce as well as Adsense or worse? This article examines these questions.

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One of my objectives on OpTempo is to promote this blog by promoting other people’s blogs. Here are five ways I’m doing this and how you can participate in it:
 
 
 
 
1. Free Blog Reviews
So far I’ve done 10 reviews so far and I have 3 more in the queue as of this writing. It’s always helpful to get […]

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A few months ago I had read an article on Blue Hat SEO about creating a video blog web site. I selected a niche I knew well, guitars, and started building a blog based around guitar videos. Unfortunately, I found it not to be that fun of a project and I didn’t concentrate on building […]

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