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Bloggers Suffering From Banner Ad Bust

It’s hard out there for a blogger -- even Heather Armstrong, who The New York Times once dubbed, “The Queen of the Mommy Bloggers.” At least from a financial standpoint, the problem is that online business models have changed. “Like most other revenue-generating Web sites, [Armstrong’s site] Dooce for years made money on banner ads,” The Atlantic writes. Yet “People are increasingly absorbing the web through smartphones, where banner ads don’t look good.”
 

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