Ask HN: How to monetize a technical blog without bloating it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12636198

by robschia • 10 years ago

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kiloreux• 10 years ago

Besides the obvious choices (advertisement), you could look for sponsors to sponsor your posts (if you have enough visitors).

fuqted• 10 years ago

Affiliate and eproducts. A lot of bloggers are against monetizing right off the bat, but if you can drive an audience to your blog then you should be able to drive them to click buy every once in a while.

GFischer• 10 years ago

Usually, technical blogs are vehicles to sell a product or service, or promote the author.

I'd prominently add how to contact the author for consulting opportunities. That's certainly going to give you orders of magnitude more business than any ad.

Or is it a more generic site?

meir_yanovich• 10 years ago

I think the best thing is to offer information products as i call them .

ebooks , tutorials , source code , video lessons , related apps.

this is what your Target Audience are probably looking for .

Ask HN: How to monetize a technical blog without bloating it

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