Northern Voice 2008: Tell Me How To Make Money On The Web

Hanging around Northern Voice for the last four years I have been to a few different sessions on how to put advertising on your blog in order to make some money.

One of my pet peeves about advertising on the web is most people I talk to obsess about the advertising an appear to forget the content they are attempting to create. If you have read this web site before, you will know that I love good content and things like advertising are secondary. When you find a voice for your blog the advertising revenue will come. (Sure, there are many things that you can do to improve how advertising works on your blog but those are the final touches and not our primary focus.)

James Sherrett of Adhack fame is doing what I would do - he is facilitating rather than professing any expertise (of which he has a whole lot!) in the session topic. There is no true final answer for how to make money with advertising as it is different for each individual blog and he acknowledges this at the very beginning by asking the audience what the answers are.

I will write more about this later but, right now, I am going to follow a bit more about what is being discussed.

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Shane Birley is a blogger, huge geeky nerd, web developer, poet, and creative writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is a partner at Left Right Minds, a web development, arts management, business blogging and on line marketing company.

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