Making Money Blogging?

As I delve deeper and deeper into marketing I was bound to keep stumbling on some really interesting sites that have turned me upside down. On ProBlogger, Darren Rowse discusses how he has made some pretty good coin off of his blog by partnering with an e-book publisher and using affiliate marketing. Interesting stuff but does this cross the lines of what blogging should really be? The mreo we get into ad-related blogs, aren't we taking away a key component of blogging? i.e. the credibility of content that is supposed to come from the heart? I guess that is long gone.

Chad H.

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