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Re:Show HN: My Technical Blogging book for hackers and found... by jgrahamc on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @10:17AM (#3022057)

That's quite a bit more than 'side income'. How many page views are you getting? What ad systems etc.?

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Re:Show HN: My Technical Blogging book for hackers and found... by acangiano on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @10:26AM (#3022095)

I don't get a huge deal of pageviews (on average), but I squeeze every dollar out of those I do get. Combining my handful of major blogs, I'd say about 100,000-200,000 per month.

In the book I explain in detail how I go about monetizing blogs and what exactly I do to maximize each revenue stream. However, in short: Amazon Associates, other affiliate offers, sponsorships, Ad Networks, AdSense. In that order.

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Re:Show HN: My Technical Blogging book for hackers and found... by jgrahamc on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @10:45AM (#3022177)

Thank you. That's very useful and I will be getting a copy of the book. My site (jgc.org) gets something like number of monthly page views, so it would be very interesting to understand how I might increase my personal income!

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Re:Show HN: My Technical Blogging book for hackers and found... by acangiano on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @10:49AM (#3022193)

Awesome. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.

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Re:Show HN: My Technical Blogging book for hackers and found... by dhimes on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @11:24AM (#3022335)

I just bought it. A couple of notes on the process (I haven't received it yet): I paid with PayPal (yeah, I know, but I figured I would probably be the only one in this crowd who would do that for you) and it was weird because after I paid I was asked for "billing information" (notably email address, etc.). I was wondering if my payment had been registered.

Secondly, in my "profile", I elected to take advantage of your delivery to my wi-fi Kindle. However, my email account for delivery is not @free.kindle.com, but just @kindle.com

Will I get it?

EDIT: The download link landed in my spam box. Still haven't received the wifi download. Not giving up on it just yet.

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Re:Show HN: My Technical Blogging book for hackers and found... by acangiano on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @11:35AM (#3022381)

Sorry to hear about your trouble, and thanks for buying my book. For delivery issues, I would recommend you get in touch with PragProg's support here: http://pragprog.com/contact

Please let me know if the Kindle issue isn't resolved.

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Re:Show HN: My Technical Blogging book for hackers and found... by dhimes on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @12:08PM (#3022514)

OK got it. You have to allow @pragprog.com to be one of your "allowed senders" on your Amazon Kindle management website. @free.kindle.com is set up automatically, so that wasn't the problem.

EDIT: BTW, hadn't heard from support when I found the fix.

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Re:Show HN: My Technical Blogging book for hackers and found... by acangiano on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @12:33PM (#3022639)

I'm glad it's sorted out.

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Re:Show HN: My Technical Blogging book for hackers and found... by adestefan on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @03:26PM (#3023319)

Everyone has both an @kindle.com and @free.kindle.com account. With a wifi-only Kindle there's really no difference. If you have a 3G Kindle, then your Kindle will only receive things sent to the @free.kindle.com address when it's connected via wifi. When you do this you don't have to pay for the 3G delivery fee.

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