Many of us probably have fairly similar blogs - code snippets, conference notes, our thoughts on programming, etc.<p>Are any of you earning income through your developer blog? Not just by finding contract work, or by writing an ebook, but some other method. Maybe selling your libraries, doing training, paid access to "the good stuff".<p>If you are, can you share what you're doing, how you decided what to do, and how successful it's been?
I am not monetizing my blog but the eBook/ad routes seems to be the most successful way to do it. For example Dayle Rees writes blog posts on the PHP framework Laravel [1] and then compiles them into eBooks [2][3] that he sells.<p>[0] <a href="http://daylerees.com/" rel="nofollow">http://daylerees.com/</a><p>[1] <a href="http://laravel.com/" rel="nofollow">http://laravel.com/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://leanpub.com/codehappy" rel="nofollow">https://leanpub.com/codehappy</a><p>[3] <a href="https://leanpub.com/codebright" rel="nofollow">https://leanpub.com/codebright</a>
In addition to blog posts, I write short reviews [1] for technical books that I've read and use Amazon Affiliate links (a single link to the book).<p>It works out to between $20-$50 a year for my blog [2]. Nothing major but it covers a couple "free" Kindle books or a nice steak dinner :)<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.mdswanson.com/writeup/2013/11/13/how-to-fail-at-almost-everything-and-still-win-big.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mdswanson.com/writeup/2013/11/13/how-to-fail-at-a...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://gist.github.com/swanson/4711006" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/swanson/4711006</a>