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Ask HN: What are the methods you've used to monitize your technical blog?

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Re: Ask HN: What are the methods you've used to monitize your technical blog?

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I get what you mean, but in this case I think the risk is low because even though I have one native ad on my site, there are probably a dozen other advertisers that would love to take that spot. Thats the game :)

You are a living legend! :-) > I have one native ad on my site, Here https://contractrates.fyi ?

:D

No, unfortunately contractrates.fyi is not quite yet at the $4k mark! The site I am referring to I try to keep quiet because it is very niche and I'm without any competition.

But, hoping to take the things I know from that initial project and leverage what I know with contractrates. So far, so good.

Re: Ask HN: What are the methods you've used to monitize your technical blog?

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I started my programming blog mostly because it was one of the common recommendations for marketing ebooks (the idea was that you could share your blog posts on HN/Reddit/Twitter/etc and hopefully readers would get to know about the books).

I don't have analytics on my blog to know how effective that was. But, I did manage to write some posts that I'm really proud of.

Re: Ask HN: What are the methods you've used to monitize your technical blog?

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Really depends on the content of the blog. Here are a couple ideas 1. Sell courses. If it's a technical blog teaching people how to do things, you can sell an ebook or a video course that dives deeper than the blog itself. 2. Affiliate links. Is the blog teaching people to build websites? Why not strike a deal with Linode or some other hosting provider, and encourage your readers to use that service. In return, Linod…

Those are definitely great ideas. $4k/m is huge. Can you share link to your blog?
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