Starting a blog? Anyone here has any
Does anyone here have their own blog?
What do you talk about?
What blogging service do you use?
Are you making any money?
What does it take to monetize your blog?
Seems like everyone and their cats have blogs these days and are making money, just curious on what it would take.
What do you talk about?
What blogging service do you use?
Are you making any money?
What does it take to monetize your blog?
Seems like everyone and their cats have blogs these days and are making money, just curious on what it would take.
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As far as what service I'm using, I'm using Squarespace since it's easy. I started sticking adsense on there and probably make about $100/month off it. Not much but it pays for my crazy tshirt fund
More than just advertising bucks, I get name recognition - a LOT of people at conferences walk up to me and say they've seen my blog - and one day when I write a course and sell it, people will probably buy it just knowing my style of teaching from my blog.
Blog: www.network-node.com
Those things said, I would agree with her that it can be useful. The blog certainly helped me to get my current job in technical marketing because it allowed my hiring manager to see how I write, how I explain technical concepts, and just to get a sense of my personality. I had a few entries explaining weird Juniper stuff like inet.3 and he liked that. I can tell you as a hiring manager myself, if someone links a blog in their resume or LinkedIn profile, it's a guarantee I will read it carefully.
As for monetization, I don't bother. I do it for personal reasons. In fact, since it's hosted, I pay for it. However, Iristheangel's post it making me reconsider. I don't think I'd get her volume of traffic but if I even made a small amount, hey why not...
As far as monetization goes, not that much. I have a single Amazon ad on the site, and it brings in very little. I do it for fun, not for the income. But, that little bit does help every so often.
I've gotten some recognition for it both at work and from Microsoft (from Microsoft, it was one of several things). I don't really advertise it at work, but my boss stumbled on it and said he's been there several times. I had a Windows 8 keyboard shortcut guide that ended up on the corporate help pages.
Never bothered with visitors and promotion, don't even have google analytics installed. Still, I cover only unique topics nobody else covers, so properly constructed search queries will land you there for sure...
Like with the CCIE above, 99% of my visitors are spambots judging by comments. I guess monetizing it would be totally futile, I never been a popular personality so it's too late to attempt being one, I guess, plus, I don't enjoy writing. I have quite a few pretty unique topics/approaches nobody else in the whole world uses yet, just don't have motivation to write about it...
I use WordPress with several plugins.
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Didn't help that I changed companies, and the one that I went to explicitly blocked blogging platforms and social media (not that I would have been spending much if any time blogging at work, but that is where my working notes are).
I am going to start posting some of my code samples to maybe GitHub and may have some accompanying blog posts to go along with that, but that will be the extent of it.
Recent: 11/2019 - RHCSA (RHEL 7); 2/2019 - Updated VCP to 6.5 (just a few days before VMware discontinued the re-cert policy...)
Working on: RHCE/Ansible
Future: Probably continued Red Hat Immersion, Possibly VCAP Design, or maybe a completely different path. Depends on job demands...
+1 to starting one and just not keeping up with it...
Going off topic, but just saw your avatar and its the same poster I put up in my cube a couple weeks back! Well sorta I got this water color version of it. The 18x24 one
https://www.etsy.com/listing/241944519/office-space-milton-watercolor-funny
Edit: tried clicking on my link and it sometimes go to a different page... But when I copy and paste it in it goes to the page I meant to.
In the end, I ended up deleting them.
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