{"id":345,"date":"2006-01-09T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2006-01-09T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T13:19:00","slug":"blogging-for-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/01\/09\/blogging-for-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging for profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think about getting paid for blogging? I mean, most bloggers I know would jump at the chance (me included, of course). It&#8217;s the holy grail of blogging, a paid gig.<\/p>\n<p>But at what price? I&#8217;ve been wondering about blog ads like AdSense. Have you ever thought about signing up? With more than 100 hits a day, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;d make at least a dime, maybe even a quarter, each month. Actually, I have no idea what the rates are, but it can&#8217;t be too much because even my favourite bloggers don&#8217;t seem to be all that much closer to the retirement chalet in Provence.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of those ads? I have to admit, when I see a blog has ads it immediately knocks my opinion of the blog down an infinitessimal amount &#8211; nothing that interesting stories well written wouldn&#8217;t overcome. But, I am a bit of a snob that way.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, I&#8217;m also not independently wealthy, and a part of me wonders why I wouldn&#8217;t want to have a few extra pennies each month. Anybody have any experience, pro or con, with blog ad programs? I really don&#8217;t know much about them at all.<\/p>\n<p>And what do you think of blogging for profit? Do those ads change your opinion of a blog?<\/p>\n<p>Speak, for I have nothing worth saying today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think about getting paid for blogging? I mean, most bloggers I know would jump at the chance (me included, of course). It&#8217;s the holy grail of blogging, a paid gig. But at what price? I&#8217;ve been wondering about blog ads like AdSense. Have you ever thought about signing up? With more than &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/01\/09\/blogging-for-profit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blogging for profit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}